With Baselitz. Now!, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg offers a focused look at the work of one of the most important contemporary artists. In the exhibition, Georg Baselitz's unmistakable visual language and his ongoing search for artistic identity enter into a direct dialogue with the present.
The exhibition Baselitz. Now! brings together key works from Georg Baselitz's multifaceted oeuvre and allows visitors to experience the radical power of his language: expressive, physical, often provocative, but always characterized by intense visual energy. Baselitz, who has been one of the most influential figures in the international art scene since the 1960s, has had a lasting impact on 20th- and 21st-century painting and sculpture with his work. In Salzburg, visitors have the opportunity to experience the diversity of his artistic practice—from early, still representational works to striking figurative paintings and more recent compositions in which cultural-historical references meet contemporary issues.
Baselitz's imagery is characterized by an idiosyncratic translation of figurative representation: his figures and forms appear as transformed traces of experience, in which identity, memory, and physicality converge. In many of his works, perception and representation themselves become the subject, for example when traditional visual concepts are deconstructed and transformed into a new, immediate visual logic. This process gives rise to images of great expressive power, which unfold their immediate presence in the exhibition space of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg.
Baselitz. Jetzt! zeigt, wie zeitlos und zugleich aktuell Baselitz’ künstlerisches Denken ist. Die Ausstellung lädt Besucherinnen und Besucher dazu ein, nicht nur die visuelle Kraft seiner Arbeiten zu erleben, sondern sich auch auf die impliziten Fragen einzulassen, die seine Bildsprache aufwirft: Was bedeutet Gegenwart in der Kunst? Wie artikuliert sich Identität im Bild? Und wo beginnt die Grenze zwischen Form und Bedeutung? Diese Schau macht erlebbar, wie ein künstlerisches Werk im Hier und Jetzt verhandelt werden kann — als intensives, sinnliches und intellektuelles Erlebnis.
1. April bis 18. Oktober 2026
