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The Salzburger Kunstverein is a leading organisation for producing and exhibiting international and Austrian contemporary art. Founded in 1844, the Salzburger Kunstverein owns and is housed in the historic Künstlerhaus building, which is located in the city center of Salzburg. Our exhibitions range from large-scale, monographic shows to international, touring projects to thematic group exhibitions

, to projects by upcoming artists as well as by artists in residence. All forms of contemporary art are explored here: new media, film and video installations, conceptual art, public art, photography, painting, sculpture, drawing and other cross-disciplinary practices. We also delivers dynamic content in the form of artist talks, screenings, lectures, symposia, and publications, and aims to encourage interpersonal dialogue and collaborative forms of mediation with audiences. The exhibition areas of the Salzburger Kunstverein are a total of 500 m². In addition there are 21 studios for artists and art initiatives in the Künstlerhaus. Der Salzburger Kunstverein versteht sich als eine führende Institution für die Produktion und Ausstellung internationaler und nationaler zeitgenössischer Kunst. 1844 gegründet ist der Salzburger Kunstverein im historischen Künstlerhaus im Stadtzentrum von Salzburg beheimatet und wird vom Iro-Kanadier Séamus Kealy geleitet. Unsere Ausstellungsformate bewegen sich im breiten Spektrum großer, monografischer Präsentationen über internationale, tourende Projekte bis hin zu Schauen junger, aufstrebender Künstler_innen sowie Präsentationen von Artist-in-Residence Künstler_innen. Alle Formen zeitgenössischer Kunst können bei uns erfahren werden: neue Medien, Film- und Video-Installationen, Fotografie, Malerei, Skulptur, Zeichnung, Konzeptkunst, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum als auch andere multi-disziplinären Praktiken. Unser Programm vermitteln wir auf vielfältige Weise: in Form von Künstlergesprächen, Screenings, Vorträgen, Symposien oder Publikationen. Unser größtes Anliegen ist es, unser Programm partizipativ zu vermitteln und einen persönlichen Dialog mit unseren Besucher_innen herzustellen. Der Salzburger Kunstverein verfügt über insgesamt 500 m² Ausstellungsfläche, das Künstlerhaus im Besitz des Salzburger Kunstvereins beherbergt weiters 21 Ateliers, in denen Künstler_innen und Künstler_innenkollektive vor Ort arbeiten. Der Eintritt zu allen Ausstellungen und Veranstaltungen ist frei.

16/06/2026

Some exhibitions are difficult to understand.

Some are difficult to pronounce.

Bot on Bot Crime: How to Vibe Compute in the Trenches of Memetic Warfare ☑️

For an actual introduction to the current exhibition by freakygreenfish and an interview with the artist visit our website!
> salzburger-kunstverein.com>exhibitions>video 🌞

14/06/2026

Sound on.

Thank you for this beautiful experience in the lower corridor; we are happy to share a trailer of the piece

mіssᥱძ 𝗍᥆ᥒᥱs (іᥒ 𝗍һᥱ ᥴ᥆rrіძ᥆r) by 𝕯ᥱ᥎ᥲ 𝕾ᥴһᥙᑲᥱr𝗍

for digital posterity.

Missed tones… by Deva Schubert with Chichi Araki is xo-produced by Salzburger Kunstverein and SZENE Salzburg in the framework of CAPTCHA Realism and Szene Festival 2026.

12/06/2026

mіssᥱძ 𝗍᥆ᥒᥱs (іᥒ 𝗍һᥱ ᥴ᥆rrіძ᥆r) by 𝕯ᥱ᥎ᥲ 𝕾ᥴһᥙᑲᥱr𝗍

One more chance to see it on Friday 12.06.2026 at 21:00 in the lower corridor of Salzburger Kunstverein.

Concept / performance: Deva Schubert
In collaboration with performer: Chihiro Araki
In dialogue with: Lotta Beckers
Costume: Maria Magdalena Emmerig
Curated by: Mirela Baciak and Angela Glechner

Video shooting: İpek Hamzaoğlu
Video editing: Mirela Baciak

Music excerpt: Georgia Koumará, Trickster’s Shenanigans, 2019

Co-produced by Salzburger Kunstverein and SZENE Salzburg.

𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 (𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗼𝗿)10.06.2026, 8:00 PM12.06.2026, 9:00 PMAfter Show Party with DJ Rova12...
08/06/2026

𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥

𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁
𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 (𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗼𝗿)

10.06.2026, 8:00 PM
12.06.2026, 9:00 PM

After Show Party with DJ Rova
12 June, 10:00 PM at AppendiX

Free entry.

𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗧
Please enter from the river side of Salzburger Kunstverein. The performance takes place in the basement corridor, and this entrance leads you directly there.

Schubert’s new piece is conceived as a voice and body score for two performers in the basement corridor of Salzburger Kunstverein. The performance begins with a sound somewhere ahead, around a corner, slightly out of sight.

The vocal material oscillates between the technical and the animalistic, the mechanical and the other-worldly. Clicks, breaths, glottal interruptions, tonal fragments, pulses that resemble malfunctioning systems or non-human calls.

Concept/performance: Deva Schubert
In collaboration with performer: Chihiro Araki
In dialogue with: Lotta Beckers
Costume: Maria Magdalena Emmerig
Curated by Mirela Baciak and Angela Glechner

Commissioned and produced by Salzburger Kunstverein and SZENE Salzburg.

We are happy to share documentation photos of  freakygreenfish’s „Bot on Bot Crime: How to Vibe Compute in the Trenches ...
05/06/2026

We are happy to share documentation photos of freakygreenfish’s „Bot on Bot Crime: How to Vibe Compute in the Trenches of Memetic Warfare“, currently on view in the Studio.

The exhibition reflects the digital sphere as a system governed by computational propagation. At the centre of the work is a content farm run by the mysterious collective GEN.E.SYS. Usually associated with manipulation, spam, profit, and reactionary influence, the content farm here becomes a contested artistic infrastructure. It seeks to oppose right-wing narratives by intervening at the level of circulation.

The viewer is confronted with information that is composed of users, scripts, platforms, affects, and algorithmic selection.

Commissioned and produced by Salzburger Kunstverein for CAPTCHA Realism and curated by Mirela Baciak

Photos by

We are content to share documentation photos of Agnes Scherer’s  exhibition “Three Wicked Games” that we are currently p...
03/06/2026

We are content to share documentation photos of Agnes Scherer’s exhibition “Three Wicked Games” that we are currently presenting in the Grand Hall.

In the exhibition context the “wicked” is not theatrical evil, but something recursive, charming, and hard to leave. A realism of the unreal structures that organise contemporary life. What kind of ghost is produced when the soul becomes a consumer profile?

Taking Goya’s Blind Man’s Bluff and El Pelele not as monuments but as starting points, Scherer reads their Rococo scenes of leisure as already charged with blindness, and submission. The exhibition turns these games toward our own present: a world of wellness rituals, crypto speculation, self-optimisation, luxury skincare, smartwatches and all these things that promise agency but produce submission.

Scherer’s figures are embodiments of a society caught in a loop of consuming, optimising, gambling, desiring, and displaying. The question who moves whom, who imagines themselves free, and who is held by a string they cannot see.

The exhibition is commissioned and produced by Salzburger Kunstverein and curated by

Exhibition photos by

We are excited to welcome Nnenna Onuoha as our current artist-in-residence and we are excited about the project she is d...
29/05/2026

We are excited to welcome Nnenna Onuoha as our current artist-in-residence and we are excited about the project she is developing during her stay in Salzburg! 🫶

Nnenna Onuoha is a Ghanaian-Nigerian researcher, filmmaker and visual artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her work, which explores the histories and afterlives of colonialism across Europe, West Africa and the United States, has shown at the Museum Folkwang, the Modern Art Museum Shanghai, and Johannesburg Art Gallery, as well the Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg, and the London Short Film Festival. Nnenna is currently a binational doctoral researcher in Media Anthropology at Harvard University and Global History at the University of Potsdam, as well as a research associate in the Provenance Lab at Leuphana University Lüneburg. During her time in Salzburg she has been developing two installative projects around the digitisation of colonial-era cultural heritage in Lower Saxony.

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♡ Welcome, 𝒪𝓁𝑔𝒶 Hohmann ♡ Our second writer-in-residence in collaboration with  has arrived in Salzburg, and we are very...
28/05/2026

♡ Welcome, 𝒪𝓁𝑔𝒶 Hohmann ♡


Our second writer-in-residence in collaboration with has arrived in Salzburg, and we are very happy to have her with us.

Olga Hohmann writes essays, prose miniatures and meandering texts that are intended to be read aloud. In an almost musical form, she combines more or less fictional narratives with found footage, which combine to form a rhythmic murmur.

She recently performed at Schinkel Pavillon Berlin, Fondation Beyeler, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Julia Stoschek Foundation Düsseldorf, Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster, Kunstverein München, K21 Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Roter Salon Volksbühne Berlin, Archivio Conz and was part of Mangrove Sunset at Martin Groupius Bau Berlin (2023). She also performed in the framework of Texte zur Kunst at Berlin’s Silent Green.

In 2022 The Overview Effect was released in collaboration with Textem Verlag Hamburg. In 2023 she gave her prose debut with Korbinian Verlag Berlin: In deinem rechten Auge wohnt der Teufel. In October 2024 she presented Stressed/Desserts in collaboration with Windpark Verlag Frankfurt.

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♡ Welcome, 𝒪𝓁𝑔𝒶 Hohmann ♡Our second writer-in-residence in collaboration with  has arrived in Salzburg, and we are very ...
28/05/2026

♡ Welcome, 𝒪𝓁𝑔𝒶 Hohmann ♡

Our second writer-in-residence in collaboration with has arrived in Salzburg, and we are very happy to have her with us.

Olga Hohmann writes essays, prose miniatures and meandering texts that are intended to be read aloud. In an almost musical form, she combines more or less fictional narratives with found footage, which combine to form a rhythmic murmur.

She recently performed at Schinkel Pavillon Berlin, Fondation Beyeler, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Julia Stoschek Foundation Düsseldorf, Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster, Kunstverein München, K21 Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Roter Salon Volksbühne Berlin, Archivio Conz and was part of Mangrove Sunset at Martin Groupius Bau Berlin (2023). She also performed in the framework of Texte zur Kunst at Berlin’s Silent Green.

In 2022 The Overview Effect was released in collaboration with Textem Verlag Hamburg. In 2023 she gave her prose debut with Korbinian Verlag Berlin: In deinem rechten Auge wohnt der Teufel. In October 2024 she presented Stressed/Desserts in collaboration with Windpark Verlag Frankfurt.

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Thank you to everyone who joined us last Friday for the opening of Agnes Scherer’s  “Three Wicked Games” and freakygreen...
25/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us last Friday for the opening of Agnes Scherer’s “Three Wicked Games” and freakygreenfish’s “Bot-on-Bot Crime: How to Vibe Compute in the Trenches of Memetic Warfare” at Salzburger Kunstverein. It was a truly beautiful evening.

Two exhibitions speaking very different aesthetic languages, yet meeting exactly where contemporary reality starts to glitch; between algorithm and propaganda, myth and memetic warfare.

The exhibitions are now up and running until July 12.

Come back and linger longer.

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