This program offers in partnership with the City of Salzburg’s Artist in Residence Program
a studio-apartment in the historic Künstlerhaus in central Salzburg to curators for one month.
The aim of this residency program is to spur curatorial research and discourse in Salzburg. Resident curators are provided time and space to develop independent projects. He or she may conduct research or writing pertinent to their interests. Networking opportunities, including studio visits and meetings with professionals, will be offered. A stipend is provided along with the fully equipped studio-apartment.
The Curator in Residence Program hosted the following artists so far:
2018
Caterina Avataneo (*1989, Turin) is an independent curator based in London. She holds an MA in architecture (Politecnico di Torino 2015) and an MA in curating (London MET and Whitechapel Gallery 2017). Her curatorial projects have appeared in institutions and galleries including Arcade, Zabludowicz Collection, Kunstraum, White Crypt and Gossamer Fog (all London). In 2017 she was awarded the NEON curatorial award by Neon Foundation and Whitechapel Gallery. Currently she is Associate Curator at Arcade Gallery, London and Assistant Curator for the Golden-Lion winning Lithuanian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale.
2018
Eleni Michaelidi (*1983, GR) is a contemporary art historian, editor and curator. She studied art history and archaeology in Athens and Berlin, and holds an MA in media art histories from the Donau University, Krems. Her research interests encompass experimental time-based media, sound art, and the history of the exhibition form. She has worked as senior archivist, coordinator and editor for the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, and was curatorial advisor for the residency project ‘in ατhεns’ - Austrian Artist Residency, a project by Antonia Rahofer in partnership with Kunstverein Extra, Vienna, and Snehta Residency, Athens.
2017
Yara Sonseca Mas is a Spanish-born Curator and Art Historian. Between 2006 and 2015, she was Director of Exhibitions at La Casa Encendida, Madrid. She has curated institutional exhibitions including solo and site specific projects and has commissioned artworks by emerging artists as well as coordinated various other exhibitions. In 2016 she curated the exhibition Amie Siegel: Double Negative at Museum Villa Stuck, Munich. She has edited publications on Antonin Artaud, John Cage, Louise Bourgeois, Arthur Rimbaud, Joseph Kosuth, Andy Warhol, among others.