The building “Künstlerhaus,” owned by the Salzburger Kunstverein, houses exhibition areas (total 500 m²) and 21 ateliers for artists and creative industries. It is a place where current trends in contemporary international art are presented, where artists can meet and be met, and where art, art theory and cultural policies can be analysed and discussed.
Since 1992 the program has been elaborated and organised by the respective director (1992 Hildegund Amanshauser,1993-1995 Silvia Eiblmayr-maternity leave, 1996-2004 Hildegund Amanshauser, since 2005 Hemma Schmutz) and aims to meet international standards. By means of exhibitions, symposia, lectures, workshops or networking projects with other institutions the concept aspires to discover new forms of promoting art. In 2008 the Salzburger Kunstverein was rewarded with the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Award for its excellence in exhibition work and educational activity (together with the Westfälischen Kunstverein Münster).
Great significance is attached to the involvement of the local public and local artists. The association has about 550 members, of which 350 are artists.
Since 1998 the program of exhibitions and events has been given a dominant theme which changes annually.
1998 Architecture, Town Planning and Urbanism
1999 Living conditions
2000 inner space / outer space
2001 Collaborations
2002 Narrations
2003 Focus on Eastern Europe
2004 The anthropological aspect of day to day life
2005 Fanciful World of Image
2006 Sentiments
2008 Picture Politics
2009 Performing the East
2010 Participation
2011 Sense and Sensibility
