Opening Debt. Annual Exhibition 2024

13.12.2024, 20:00
Opening
Debt. Annual Exhibition 2024
Curated by Hana Ostan-Ožbolt-Haas.

Reception:
Gerda Ridler, President of the Salzburger Kunstverein

Opening Words:
Mirela Baciak, Director of the Salzburger Kunstverein
Hana Ostan-Ožbolt-Haas, Curator

Followed by drinks.

21:00 Performative readings by Miriam Stoney and Frank Wasser

22:00—24:00 Money Doesn’t Matter Tonight. Curated Playlist at AppendiX

Debt is a broad concept that can be examined from various perspectives, including its emotional, social, historical, and economic dimensions. Symbolically, it represents any form of imbalance. It can also be understood as the distortion of a promise. Contemporary society is shaped by promises—of security, community and care—often dictated by economic contracts, historical injustices and societal expectations. Debt functions both as an ‘investment in the self’ and as a mechanism closely tied to control and discipline, as well as to responsibility, obligation and guilt. Between the fragility and persistence of the (power) structures that bind us together, the exhibition responds to the topic in its material—largely sculptural—written and spoken forms.