The Distribution of Luck

In August, Salzburger Kunstverein joins forces with the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts to present The Distribution of Luck. Co-curated by Mirela Baciak and  Denis Maksimov, this program brings together four lecture performances by Gernot Wieland, Filipka Rutkowska, Harun Morrison, and Urok Shirhan, artists exploring the topics of love, class, money, and identity, respectively.

5 August 2026 8:30 PM
Lecture Performances by Gernot Wieland and Harun Morrison.

12 August 2026 8:30 PM
Lecture Performances by Filipka Rutkowska and Urok Shirhan.

Curated by Mirela Baciak & Denis Maksimov.

Co-produced with the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg.

Denis Maksimov curates and teaches contemporary art, global histories and interdisciplinary humanities. He is a Curator of Art and Programmes at Pushkin House, London, a Lecturer at the Joseph Backstein’s Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow, and a founder of Lecture Performance Archive and Avenir Institute. He is based in London and Athens.

Image: A winged woman holding a palm branch in her right hand and a spinning wheel with a small man perched on top in her left, walks past a globe, while a ship with billowing sails is passing by in the background; representing fortune. Heliogravure after S. Beham, 1541. Wellcome Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection.