review exhibitions

SPIRIT: Exhibition by the internationally renowned media artist Dieter Huber. SPIRIT deals with the big questions of meaning in an artistic way.

The Residenzgalerie Salzburg exhibits highlights from the baroque Dutch and Flemish collections, together with masterworks of 19th century Austrian painting.

Around 20 exhibits, including nativity scenes, paintings and sculptures, interpret the birth of Christ and the adoration of the shepherds and kings imaginatively.

An Exhibition to mark the 400th Anniversary of the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg

Masterworks from the Salzburg Residenzgalerie collection

The exhibition in the Cathedral Museum uses pictures and sculptures to tell the Christmas story from the Annunciation to the flight to Egypt and the offering in the Temple.

A simple enough topic, but enormously diverse in its rendering – Austrian landscape painting in the 17th and 18th centuries: a comprehensive exhibition in the Salzburg Residenzgalerie.

An exciting journey of discovery through two centuries of music history with Biber, Muffat, Caldara, Michael Haydn and Mozart father and son, in the very places where their works were originally performed.

"To mark the anniversary of the beatification of the Bohemian martyr, the Cathedral Museum is showing objects belonging to the Nepomuk tradition, selected from the Museum collection."

In 2020, the Salzburg Festival celebrates its centenary. The Salzburg Residenzgalerie, three years its junior, represents a second main focus – the visual arts.

Rome is regarded as the birthplace of the Baroque, the last art movement to spread throughout Europe. It was to be powerful, classical and impressive – and an eloquent ambassador for Catholicism. The Rossacher Collection includes some sketches for paintings that were to become key works of this period. Curator Dr. Regina Kaltenbrunner Illustration Allegorie der…

The painting of the great Dutch masters, with its outstanding quality and distinction, never loses its fascination.

The creative act begins with the choice of material.

Emperor Franz Joseph's youngest brother and his Kleßheim Palace No comprehensive biography of Archduke Ludwig Viktor (1842–1919) – considered the enfant terrible among the Habsburgs – has yet been published.

350 years ago, on July 30th 1668, the Cathedral Chapter elected Maximilian Gandolph Graf von Kuenburg, originally from Graz, to become the Salzburg Archbishop. The coat of arms and inscription on many buildings such as the Cajetan Church in Salzburg, the Abbey in Seekirchen and the Maria Plain Pilgrimage Church attest to his role as founder and constructor.

The appeal of most of the small artefacts from the golden age of the princely "cabinets of curiosities" has always lain in the sheer inventiveness and artistic virtuosity of their creators.

2017 sees the 400th anniversary of Prince-Archbishop Wolf Dietrich's death on 16 January 1617.

Artists include Elias van den Broeck, Pompeo Calvi, Albert Christoph Dies, Anton or Gabriel Joseph Faistenberger, Gregorio Fidanza, Kaspar Memberger the Elder and August Theodor Schöfft.

Residenzgalerie collection is one of the most valuable art treasures of the Province of Salzburg.

Dance, music, gaming, hunting and sumptuous banquets .

Artistic Experiments on Controversial Issues in a Historic Context.

About Traveling Benedictine Monks.

Let Christmas and Marian depictions from the collections of Salzburg’s Residenzgalerie ring in Advent and Christmas.

The Cathedral Museum shows highlights of Gothic illumination from the holdings of the Salzburg University Library in the Northern Oratory.

Exemplary works illuminate seducers and the seduced, as well as the objects of temptation. The often deadly consequence of such passionate encounters is of central importance.

The clothes of Jedermann’s (Everyman’s) Paramour have always been objects of great curiosity and attention. The sumptuous textiles are created at the Salzburg Festival’s workshops, documenting a piece of Festival history.

It is not rare to find valuable pieces of jewellery used in monstrances, pieces which were donated to the churches. The exhibition unites monstrances, jewellery and portraits of the former wearers of the jewellery.

This exhibit focuses on five major centres of art in Baroque Europe: Italy, France, Holland, the Austrian Netherlands and Austria.