The 20th anniversary of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg on the Mönchsberg and the 10th anniversary of the Generali Foundation at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg will be celebrated with a major exhibition of the collection on two levels.
For the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, the year 2024 will be marked by major anniversaries. Twenty years ago, the extraordinary location of the museum on the Mönchsberg was opened and became a new landmark for the province and city of Salzburg. Ten years ago, one of the most important internationally oriented private art collections in Austria, the Generali Foundation Collection, came to Salzburg and has been a productive player here ever since. To mark these anniversaries, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg is organizing a year-round "Festival of Collections" next year. For the first time, these collections will be viewed from a common perspective in a year-round, dynamic program. A diverse program of exhibitions and events will present special highlights and rarely shown treasures. The artistic spectrum ranges from classical modernism of the 20th century to the pressing issues of the present in art and society. Central works and groups of works by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka, by VALIE EXPORT, Hans Hollein, Walter Pichler and Franz West, by Dan Graham, Martha Rosler and many other artists will be examined from connecting thematic perspectives.
The exhibition program is divided into two levels of the museum and has different focal points. Under the motto "Open Score", exhibition level 1 focuses entirely on the themes of play, movement, interaction and participation. Here, the museum becomes an active, moving organism dedicated to playful, creative thinking and action, but also to the question of rules and the absence of rules. On exhibition level 2, works and projects are presented that deal with the topic of "social spaces". Here, the museum sees itself as a social organism in which social issues relating to ecology, democracy and equality are negotiated.
February 2, 2024 to February 2, 2025
