Meet our Curator-in-Residence 2017: Yara Sonseca Mas

ara 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. She has edited publications on Antonin Artaud, John Cage, Louise Bourgeois, Arthur Rimbaud, Joseph Kosuth, Andy Warhol, among others.

The Curator-in-Residence is a new programme by the Salzburger Kunstverein. Yara Sonseca Mas was awared the Curator-in-Residence out of 46 international applications. In partnership with the City of Salzburg’s Artist-in-Residence Programme, this programme offers a studio-apartment in the historic Künstlerhaus in central Salzburg to curators for one month. The aim of this residency programme is to spur curatorial research and discourse in Salzburg. Resident curators may develop a project in partnership with the Salzburger Kunstverein and / or Salzburg City, or conduct research or writing pertinent to their interests. A stipend is provided along with the fully equipped studio-apartment.

Geoffrey Farmer & Gareth Moore (29.07 – 01.10.17)

Geoffrey Farmer and Gareth Moore have paired up to develop a collaborative, site-specific installation for the Salzburger Kunstverein. Farmer, who represents Canada at the Venice Biennale this year, and Moore, who is Salzburger Kunstverein summer artist in residence, have worked together to convert the main gallery into a large pond with various relating components, including coins taken from a turtle’s stomach, a cannon carried across the country by car, a lightbulb, a foggy morning and naturally, fountains.