Residency Programs at Salzburger Kunstverein

AiR Residency Programs at Salzburger Kunstverein

Residency programs are of great importance to Salzburger Kunstverein in order to promote cultural exchange and support the professional development of artists, curators, and writers at all stages of their career.

• International Artist-in-Residence Program

In collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Art and Culture, Salzburger Kunstverein offers this program, which supports emerging international artists not only with studio space but also with scholarships.

The artists receive an opportunity to further develop their own projects and working methods. Selected artists also have the chance to present their work in a public lecture or discussion, or to showcase their final projects during an open studio day. These events are actively promoted by the institution. This opportunity is by nomination only. Each each three invited professionals nominate and select artists for the residency.

• Writer-in-Residence Salzburger Kunstverein 

Initiated in 2024, this program is aimed at writers who want to develop their projects and practices further or conduct research in connection with the exhibitions of Salzburger Kunstverein. This program is also supported by the Federal Ministry of Art and Culture. Each year we collaborate with a different magazine. In 2024 it was Ocula Magazine, while in 2025 Spike Art Magazine. The writers are selected via an open call. 

• Additional AiR Programs by the City and State of Salzburg

In addition to its own programs, Salzburger Kunstverein utilizes two further residencies organized by the City and State of Salzburg, offering studios at Salzburger Kunstverein. These are part of a well-established and well-positioned exchange program for artists known as AIR artists-in-residence, which has been in existence for 30 years.

More information can be found on the program website: https://www.stadt-salzburg.at/kultur/internationale-kontakte/artists-in-residence-air/

• Curator-in-Residence in collaboration with the City of Salzburg

In collaboration with the Residency Program of the City of Salzburg, Salzburger Kunstverein offers a one-month program every two years aimed at promoting curatorial research and discourse in Salzburg. Curators have the opportunity to use time and space to develop independent projects and pursue their individual interests. This program takes place biennially and is managed by Salzburger Kunstverein. Information on participation and application is regularly announced via the newsletter and social media channels of the Salzburger Kunstverein.

• Professional Integration Hub – Internship Program for Ukrainian Professionals in Austria

Salzburger Kunstverein is a partner in the "Professional Integration HUB" program, a long-term internship program for Ukrainians residing in Austria due to Russia's aggression against Ukraine. The aim of the program is to promote the professional development of Ukrainian professionals by integrating them into the European professional environment. In addition, the experience gained through the program will make a significant contribution to the reconstruction of Ukraine after the war and to the integration of the country into the EU. The program is initiated and funded by the ERSTE Foundation and implemented by the European Center for Freedom and Independence.

For more information, visit the program website:

www.professionalhub.at

If you are interested in supporting our residency programs or in exploring the possibility of developing an exchange program with your institution, we warmly invite you to get in touch with us.

November - December 2025
 

Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino (*1989, Buritizeiro, BR) lives in and works  in Berlin. They hold a Bachelor of Laws degree from the Federal Fluminense University Law School and have completed a postgraduate artistic residency program at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig. Celestino’s work on language, institutional critique, and objecthood is particularly recognized for its precise formulation of contractual propositions. Among their 2025 projects are solo and group exhibitions at Kunstraum Leuphana, Between Bridges Foundation (Berlin), Haus der Kunst (Munich), Palais Populaire (Berlin), Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Kunst Raum Mitte (Berlin), Bonner Kunstverein (Bonn), Kunsthaus Baselland, and Bonniers Konsthall (Stockholm). They have given talks, workshops, and lectures at several educational institutions, particularly in universities in German-speaking countries, including the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg, and the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Basel.

September - October 2025

8 October, 6:00 PM
Films by Rayane Mcirdi
Followed by a Q & A with Mirela Baciak.

Rayane Mcirdi (*1993, Paris) is a graduate from the École des Beaux-Arts in Angers and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His work has been shown in several group exhibitions, notably at the Magasins Généraux (Pantin), Fondation Pernod Ricard (Paris), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Passerelle art center (Brest) and the Sharjah Biennial (United Arab Emirates). He had his first solo exhibition in 2021 at the Galerie Edouard Manet in Gennevilliers, followed by a second one at the Galerie Anne Barrault in Paris in 2022. That same year, his film Le Jardin was shown at the Palais de Tokyo as part of the screening “L’ami intérieur” curated by Stéphanie Cottin. In early 2023, the Centre Pompidou organized a special screening of his films. 

On the new Nîmes triennial La Contemporaine, curated by Anna Labouze and Keimis Henni, Rayane Mcirdi presented a new film at the Le Sémaphore cinema in Nîmes in 2024. His short film Après le soleil was then included in the official selection of the 56th edition of The Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2025, Rayane Mcirdi’s work was exhibited at the CRAC Alsace in Altkirch and in the exhibition Banlieues Chéries at the Palais de la Porte Dorée. He is currently working on a new film to be exhibit on his upcoming show at the FRAC Ile de France.

During his residency, he will be working on the script for his first feature film—a love story and a wedding, set in the 2000s during the Raï music boom in France.

May 2025

Tania Gheerbrant’s (*1990, Paris) work, based on long-term research, mainly takes shapes in installations, videos and prints. She is particularly interested in the history of psychiatric institutions and the anti-psychiatry movement. By developing a filmic, visual and graphic practice she leads her research on listening and care into plastic forms. She has shown her work in various institutions, including Palais de Tokyo, Frac Bretagne, Bally Foundation, Salon de Montrouge, Cité internationale des Arts and Panacée MoCo. 

As part of her residency, Tania Gheerbrant realized her exhibition Social Insecurity.

April 2025

Charles-Arthur Feuvrier (*1997, Frankreich) currently lives and works in Marseille. He is a French-Mauritian artist who employs media, proto-technological devices and sculpture to deform and re-imagine the myths that accompany both his region of origin - the Mascarene Islands and our online lives. Made from artificial and poor materials, his sculptures give a hyperreal form to online discourses and digital imagery. By engaging with entertainment content, he delves into our shifting perceptions of reality in a world of post-truth and conspirituality. With equal amounts of humour, satire and material fragility, Charles-Arthur creates epic hallucinogenic narrations.

January - February 2025

26.2.2025 18:00
Hauntologies (WT)
Film-in-progress by Edona Ademi
Screening followed by an artist talk at AppendiX

Edona Ademi (*1994) is a Berlin-based artist and filmmaker whose work centers on storytelling through installations and moving images. Employing elliptical and fragmentary narrative strategies, she explores themes of haunting and longing, framing the personal space as inherently political. Her practice involves tracing the specters of the past and interrogating how power structures influence contemporary relations and representations. Ademi's works have been showcased at prominent venues such as Manifesta in Prishtina, the Westfälischer Kunstverein, nGbK in Berlin, the Autostrada Biennale, the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, and Nowe Horyzonty in Wrocław. She holds a degree in Migration and Diaspora Studies from SOAS, University of London, and is currently a member of the directing department at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb). 

November - December 2024

Through installation, performance and text, Rafael Moreno proposes fictional narratives around the relationship between the human body, technological developments and current socio-economic contexts. She often works with found objects chosen for their symbolic value. The collage and manipulation of these symbols enable her to open up and develop spaces for reflection that aim to deconstruct relationships of cultural domination.

Rafael Moreno (*1993, Colombia) currently lives and works in Paris. She studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris and then at L’EHESS. Her work has recently been shown at the June Art Fair (Switzerland), Treize (Paris), Établissement d’en Face (Brussels), Bains Douches (Alencon) and Galerie Gaudel de Stampa (Paris).

June 2024

Anna Witt (*1981, Wasserburg, Germany) lives and works in Vienna and Berlin. Her artistic practice is performative, participatory, and political. Witt creates situations that reflect interpersonal relationships and power relations as well as conventions of speech and action.

As part of her residency, Anna Witt has conceived and directed the performance The Roof Is On Fire  at the Salzburger Kunstverein on 6 July 2024.

June 2024

Liesel Burisch (*1987, Copenhagen, Denmark) is an artist, writer, and birth activist/worker. Burisch’s interest currently lies in hybrid gatherings around healing and celebration. Influenced by their work around birth and post-partum, Burisch explores the reconstruction, recontextualization and reinterpretation of rest as a form of collective healing from trauma and austerity.

As part of her residency, Liesel Burisch has conceived and performed the How to Care Summit at the Salzburger Kunstverein on 29 June 2024.

April-Mai 2024

Priyageetha Dia (she/her, *1992, Singapore) works with time-based media and installation. Her practice is braided between plantation ecologies, postcolonial memory(ies), migration politics, and the production of labour and data economics. Structured through fieldwork and archival research, she engages in nonlinear and speculative processes as a practice of refusal against dominant narratives.

Recent exhibitions include Frieze Seoul (2023); Singapore Art Museum (2023); Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala (2022–2023); La Trobe Art Institute, Australia (2022); National Gallery Singapore (2020); and Art Science Museum, Singapore (2019). She was an artist-in-residence at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore in 2022 and the SEA AiR—Studio Residencies at the Jan van Eyck Academie in the Netherlands in 2023. She lives and works in Singapore.

January-March 2024

Vir Andres Hera (*1990, Yauhquemehcan, MX) is a filmmaker and time-based media artist. They conceive their projects as research fields plowed with the complicity of a community of artists and production sites oscillating between video installations, moving image(s), sound and text pieces. Questioning the multiple relationships between reality and memory, they interrogate vernacular and scholar H/history to invent emancipatory narratives and redefine the weight of colonial history. They graduated from Mo.Co. Art School, from Le Fresnoy Studio National, and is pursuing a PhD at the University of Quebec in Montreal. They have held residencies at La Casa de Velazquez, Triangle-Asterides, among others, they are part of the editorial board of Qalqalah قلقلة and teach at the Experimental School of Annecy-Alps. During their residency at Salzburger Kunstverein, Vir Andres is focusing on the writing and research that will result in a new video installation. Their mobility project is also funded by the European Union, the Goethe-Institut. 

International Artist-in-Residence Program in cooperation with the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts and Culture is managed by the Salzburger Kunstverein. It enables approx. six artists a year to come and spend dedicated time in Salzburg, gain fresh perspectives, develop new or continue existing work. An international jury of experts, headed by the director of the Salzburger Kunstverein, nominates the artists, which are selected in a joint jury meeting at the end of each year for the following year.

Artists until 2023 include Helin Alas, Keith Boadwee, Pamela Breda, Tatjana Danneberg, Matthew D’Arcy, Pierre Descamps (SpallArt Salzburg Prize 2019), Bruce Emmett, Omer Fast, Carsten Fock, Giorgi Gagoshidze, Rahima Gambo, Zohar Gotesman, Assem Hendawi, Erika Hock, Carl Johan Högberg, Jaliya The Bird, Eszter Katalin, Aarthiee Kushwaha, Anastasiya (Nastya) Kuzmina, Stépanie Lagarde, Lise Lebleux, Maria Legat, Elliott Mickleburgh (SpallArt Salzburg Prize 2021), Marit Mihklepp, Bady Minck, Harun Morrison, Gareth Moore, Jonathan Penca, Christiane Peschek, Nelmarie du Preez, Khairullah Rahim, Nicola Röthemeyer & Annika Sailer, Megan Rooney, Hoda Rostami, Vanina Saracino, Libby Scarlett, Ashley Hans Scheirl, Luise Schröder (SpallArt Salzburg Prize 2020), Hayley Silverman, Dan-Armand Stancu, Tadáskía, Amalia Ulman, Gernot Wieland, Markus Wilfling, Anna Witt, Etienne Zack, Daniela Zeilinger, and Michel Zózimo.