Mirela Baciak
Mirela Baciak serves as director-curator at the Salzburger Kunstverein. Previously curator at steirischer herbst festival in Graz and Public Art Munich, she has developed new artistic commissions and performative formats that question political imaginaries. She has held fellowships and residencies across Europe and Asia, and is a board member of the Austrian Association of Curators.
Exhibitions
Curated solo exhibitions
2025 Esben Weile Kjær: thousands of small explosions at the same time, Salzburger Kunstverein. Mikołaj Sobczak: Moon, Sun, Mercury, Salzburger Kunstverein.
Tania Gheerbrant: Social Insecurity, Salzburger Kunstverein.
2024 Vasilis Papageorgiou: Sunseekers or Dimming the Sun or, Salzburger Kunstverein.
Curated group exhibitions
2025 The Museum of (Non)Restitution, Salzburger Kunstverein in cooperation with Salzburg Museum (co-curated with Katja Mittendorfer-Oppolzer & Susanne Rolinek).
2024 The Color of Energy, viennacontemporary; Salzburger Kunstverein.
The Myth of Normal. Chronic Contradictions, Salzburger Kunstverein, conceptualized with Kunstverein Hannover.
2023 Suspension of Disbelief, TANK Shanghai.
Publications
Baciak, Mirela, "Traveling Nostalgia: On the Sculptural Praxis of Luīze Nežberte", in: KUNSTHALLE Wien Prize 2025, Vienna, 2025.
Baciak, Mirela, "The Calculus of Disposability", in: Debt, ed. Hana Ostan-Ožbolt-Haas, Distanz & Salzburger Kunstverein, Berlin / Salzburg, forthcoming 2025.
Interview with Esben Weile Kjær, in: AUTRE Magazine, AUTRE Editions, Los Angeles, 2024.
Baciak, Mirela, "Institutional Hospitality and Care Against All Oddities", interview in: PW Magazine, 2024.
Brachzetis, Alexandra, "Don’t We Look A-Like, text on Notebook", in: Tanzquartier Wien Online Journal, Vienna, 2024.
Baciak, Mirela, "Are We Under the Same Sun?", in: Vasilis Papageorgiou: Sunseekers or Dimming the Sun or, Mousse Publishing & Salzburger Kunstverein, Milan / Salzburg, 2024.
