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Museum Der Moderne Salzburg History and Status Museum der Moderne Salzburg History and status quo The Museum der Moderne Salzburg was founded with the "Schenkung Press Welz", a collection of modern prints, and opened in 1983 in the early Mönchsberg 32 baroque palace of the former seminary "Collegium Rupertinum" in the old 5020 Salzburg town of Salzburg as "Modern Gallery and Graphic Collection - Rupertinum". Austria Founding director Otto Breicha (1983―1998) expanded the collection by T +43 662 842220-601 buying Austrian photography. In this part of the collection, known as the F +43 662 842220-700 "Austrian Photo Gallery", holdings of the federal government are also [email protected] administered. Under the direction of Director Peter Weiermair (1998―2001), www.museumdermoderne.at the program of the Rupertinum has become more internationally oriented. In the 1990s, spectacular plans for a Guggenheim Museum Salzburg in the rock of the Mönchsberg were forged, which were ultimately not realized. Finally, a new building for a "museum of modernity" was erected on the Mönchsberg, where the Café Winkler was previously located. In 2004, under the direction of Agnes Husslein (2000―2005) opened the Museum der Moderne on Mönchsberg. In the 2000s, the house was brought closer to contemporary art, which has for some time been the focus of the program. Under director Toni Stooss (2005―2013), a prominent painting by Gustav Klimt was restituted to the rightful owners. With a portion of the sales proceeds generously donated by the owners, the former water tower on Mönchsberg was upgraded. Since 2014, the significant building, henceforth referred to as the "Amalie-Redlich-Turm", is operated as a center for art education with an artist studio apartment. Director Sabine Breitwieser (2013―2018) successfully re-profiled the museum. Large solo exhibitions have been dedicated to important female artists, and non-Western artists have been increasingly included in the program. In 2014, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg was able to enter into a comprehensive partnership with the Generali Foundation, and its long- standing international and high-quality collection was won on permanent loan. With the partial renovation of the Rupertinum 2016 and the construction of the new art storage unit in 2017, important improvements to the infrastructure of the museum were realized. Since September 2018 Thorsten Sadowsky is the new director of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg. He defines the museum as a discussion forum that draws its legitimacy from a critical location of past and present. The exhibition spectrum ranges from classical modernity to conceptual art, light and sound art to media art and to current positions in non-European art. The Museum der Moderne Salzburg is to be positioned in the sense of a comprehensive pictorial scientific term as an international competence center for art, photography and visual cultures. Museum der Moderne – Rupertinum Betriebsgesellschaft mbH FN 2386452 1/1 Press Kit History and status quo Firmenbuchgericht Salzburg Museum der Moderne Salzburg Activities Exhibitions Press Twelve or more exhibitions each year convey the content and forms of Mönchsberg 32 modern and contemporary art as well as their significance for society in 5020 Salzburg general. Covering an area of around 3,000 square meters, the Museum der Austria Moderne Salzburg presents exhibitions on classical modernism, art since the T +43 662 842220-601 end of the Second World War and the present day. In addition, a number of F +43 662 842220-700 catalogs are published annually covering the collections and exhibitions, [email protected] among them standard works with a high academic standard. www.museumdermoderne.at With the largest and most unique collections of photography, including the Austrian Federal Photography Collection, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg is also the competence center for photography in Austria. The extensive collection holdings entrusted to the museum comprise a total of around 61,000 works. Among them are 30,000 prints, 30,000 photographs, 800 paintings and 200 sculptures. In addition to its own collection owned by the Province of Salzburg, it manages a number of collections in the form of permanent loans. In 2014, the Generali Foundation's collection was entrusted to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg as part of a comprehensive partnership for an initial 25 years on permanent loan. This collection, one of the most important private collections in Austria, is characterized by a high international format and a multiplicity and entanglement of artistic disciplines and media. The focus of the Generali Foundation Collection is on feminist, conceptual and critical artistic positions of the 1960s and 1970s. Since 2014, works of the Generali Foundation Collection have been exhibited in a specially dedicated area of the Museum on the Mönchsberg all year round in dialogue with other museum collections. Publications During its thirty years of existence, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg has already published a series of catalogs on its collections and exhibitions. Under the current management, it is increasingly important to publish standard works with a high scientific standard, with which the museum can distinguish itself. Information about the publications can be found on the website. Art Education A special focus of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg is on the art education, which has been established at the museum relatively early on. Different programs address a wide range of audiences, especially young museum visitors. The Art Education Department has two Ateliers in the Rupertinum and the Amalie-Redlich-Turm. Museum der Moderne – Rupertinum Betriebsgesellschaft mbH FN 2386452 1/1 Press Kit Activities Firmenbuchgericht Salzburg Museum der Moderne Salzburg Collections The Museum der Moderne Salzburg is responsible for diverse and extensive Press collections, totaling around 55,000 works, ranging from the 19th and 20th Mönchsberg 32 centuries to the present, that originally focused on graphics and 5020 Salzburg photography. Together with the works owned by the province of Salzburg, Austria the Museum der Moderne Salzburg also looks after the Austrian Federal T +43 662 842220-601 Photography Collection with around 12,000 titles alone. Another prominent F +43 662 842220-700 collection entrusted to the museum since 2014 is the internationally oriented [email protected] Generali Foundation Collection with around 2,100 works in various media www.museumdermoderne.at and a focus on conceptual, media and performance-based art. All in all, around 31,000 works on paper, 22,000 photographs, 800 paintings, 700 sculptures and installations as well as 800 film and video works including installations using electronic media are in the custody of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Focus Within the holdings of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, works on paper, in particular modern graphics, occupy a high place. Furthermore, since the founding of the museum in the early 1980s, a collection of Austrian photography of the post-war period has been continuously developed. From the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, 13 of the 14 portfolio works by Max Klinger, some important drawings by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele as well as a 450-sheet compilation by Alfred Kubin are represented. Works of both early German and Austrian Expressionism as well as Neo- Expressionism of the 1980s form another focus. The collection also contains the almost complete printed œuvre of Oskar Kokoschka with a total of 550 leaves. A specifically Austrian variant of the expressive realism of the 1960s to the 1980s documents the roughly 300 works compilation of works by Georg Eisler. Important positions of Austrian contemporary art, such as Erwin Wurm or Heimo Zobernig, have also found their way into the collection. In recent years, these have been expanded internationally through acquisitions of larger works and groups of works, for example by Kader Attia, Andrea Geyer, Renée Green, Nilbar Güres, Dorit Margreiter or Paulina Olowska - artists who distinguish themselves through a critical-reflexive examination of art. The Museum der Moderne Salzburg acts as the competence center for Austrian photography after 1945 and is responsible for the extensive holdings of the in-house collection and the Austrian Federal Photography Collection, which have been entrusted to the museum for many years. Among the prominent early examples are photographs by Inge Morath, Ernst Haas and Franz Hubmann. The Viennese Actionism with Günther Brus, Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler forms a thematic complex of the 1960s. Works by Renate Bertlmann, VALIE EXPORT or Friederike Pezold open up feminist perspectives of this time. For the period from the mid-1970s, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg has extensive series of artists of the so-called author photography such as Elfriede Mejchiar, Museum der Moderne – Rupertinum Betriebsgesellschaft mbH FN 2386452 1/4 Press Kit Collections Firmenbuchgericht Salzburg Press Michaela Moscouw, Cora Pongracz and the architectural photographer Margherita Spiluttini. In addition to the estate of Kurt Talos are extensive T +43 662 842220-601 F +43 662 842220-700 collections of Heinz Cibulka, Seiichi Furuya, Leo Kandl, Günther Selichar, Ingeborg Strobl and Manfred Willmann in the collection. In addition, there are [email protected] artists in the sense of image-analytical photography, who study photography www.museumdermoderne.at in the medium itself. They question the relationship between image and reality and
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