26.07.2025 – 14.09.2025
Esben Weile Kjær’s work, which includes sculpture, video and performance, draws on the history of pop culture and pop music to explore themes such as nostalgia, authenticity and generational anxieties. In an attentive yet unconventional visual language, he sheds light on today’s event economy, often focussing on marketing strategies and the aesthetics of the entertainment industry – above all to question the relationship of art to the cultural industries that surround it. In this sense, his work seeks not only to imitate other cultural forms of performance (such as parties, protests, press conferences or ballets), but to become performative pop culture itself – often through interventions in public and commercial spaces using props such as podiums, confetti cannons, fences and party lasers. The exhibition is designed as a changeable stage, a sculptural scenario in which freedom is staged both as a performance and as a reality characterised by spontaneity and uncertainty. Esben Weile Kjær creates a platform for ongoing negotiations and invites visitors to rethink the concept of nostalgia in relation to the past and the future.
Esben Weile Kjær
26.07.2025 – 14.09.2025
Salzburger Kunstverein
Hellabrunner Straße 3
5020 Salzburg
www.salzburger-kunstverein.at
