Nilbar Güreş Escaping Cactus, 2014 Fabric, metal construction, flowerpot, dirt Total dimension 90 x 95 x 190 cm Museum der Moderne Salzburg—Aquisition with the gallery subsidy from the Federal Government Photo: Marcos Gorgatti
In collaboration with the Generali Foundation, whose collection is on permanent loan to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg and which sponsors the displays on floor [2] of the museum’s Mönchsberg branch, the museum presents a new thematically focused exhibition of art from its collections. Featuring more than sixty works, the show sheds light on the poetic potential almost thirty artists discover in processes of social, cultural, and political change.
The new collection presentation points up the poetic aspects of conceptual art, which critics even today often unfairly describe as lacking aesthetic or pictorial qualities. The selected works show artists responding to transformative processes that tie in with changes in the environments of our daily lives, shifts affecting their own identities, and innovations in art history, as well as proposals for change with a view to an alternative future.
