Come & See!
The Generali Foundation’s Film and Video Collection

  • export_GF0000228_15 VALIE EXPORT, Syntagma, 1983, film, 16mm (color, sound), 18 min, Generali Foundation Collection—Permanent Loan to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, © Photo: Werner Kaligofsky, Bildrecht, Vienna, 2023
  • bechtold_GF0001819.00_005 Gottfried Bechtold, Trigon 71, 1971, film, 16mm (black-and-white and color, sound), 23 min, Generali Foundation Collection—Permanent Loan to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, © Photo: Werner Kaligofsky, Bildrecht, Vienna, 2023
  • GF0003088_A Sanja Iveković, Osobni rezovi, 1982, video (black-and-white and color, sound), 3:40 min, Generali Foundation Collection—Permanent Loan to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, © Still: Sanja Iveković
    From 12/01/2023 to 09/15/2024
    Curators: Stefanie Grünangerl, Jürgen Tabor

    Venue: Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Rupertinum, Generali Foundation Study Center

    Since its founding, the Generali Foundation has assembled one of the most important collections of media art since the 1960s, comprising many important Austrian and international positions. The focus is on media-reflective film and video art, political film, and feminist and performance-based video works. The media library in the Generali Foundation Study Center makes a large part of these films and videos accessible to all interested visitors on site at any time. In this way, the museum underscores the importance of free access to artistic film and video archives as an integral part of the cultural memory of the more recent past.

    The exhibition Come & See! provides an in-depth and commented insight into the full range of this film and video collection on the basis of selected topics. In addition, a changing special program presents films and videos by Gottfried Bechtold, Sanja Iveković, VALIE EXPORT, and Harun Farocki in detail: four artists whose works are characterized by a particular media-artistic and sociopolitical relevance.

    • December 1, 2023 – February 4, 2024: Gottfried Bechtold
    • February 6 – April 1, 2024: Sanja Iveković
    • April 20 – Jun 30, 2024: VALIE EXPORT
    • July 1 – September 15, 2024: Harun Farocki