03.07.2026 – 04.10.2026
Georg Baselitz, a painter, sculptor and printmaker, was one of the most influential figures in contemporary art. His career spans almost seven decades of international exhibition activity; he has received numerous prestigious awards for his artistic work. Since 1969, through a radical reversal of his motifs, he has subverted the conventions of vision and shifted the focus from the content of the image to painting itself. The Museum der Moderne Salzburg is re-examining his work from a contemporary perspective – in all its aesthetic and intellectual sharpness. The exhibition was conceived in collaboration with the artist. In the early 1960s, Baselitz made a conscious decision to embrace figuration – a move that was perceived as provocative at a time when abstract art dominated. In doing so, the artist not only broke new ground in painting but also established himself in art history as a pioneer of post-war art. The exhibition at the Rupertinum, curated by Barbara Herzog, Harald Krejci and Tina Teufel, focuses on the early graphic works in which the artist explored German history, identity and the artist’s self. In doing so, he combined classical pictorial traditions with a powerful visual language often perceived as raw and unsettling. For the first time, the thematic structure is based on the four manifestos the artist wrote in the 1960s.
BASELITZ MANIFESTS
03.07.2026 – 04.10.2026
Museum der Moderne, Rupertinum
Wiener-Philharmoniker-Gasse 9
5020 Salzburg
www.museumdermoderne.at
