Lecture Performance "The Distribution of Luck" - 1. Hans Sebald Beham "Misfortune", n.d.. Engraving on laid paper, 78 × 51 cm. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Charles Pratt, 57.188.16.

2. Representing fortune. Heliogravure after S. Beham, 1541. Wellcome Collection. Photo: Wellcome Collection.

Gernot Wieland and Harun Morrison

The Distribution of Luck #1
5. 8. 26, 8:30 p.m.

In August, Salzburger Kunstverein joins forces with the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts to present The Distribution of Luck. Co-curated by Mirela Baciak and  Denis Maksimov, this program brings together four lecture performances by Gernot Wieland, Filipka Rutkowska, Harun Morrison, and Urok Shirhan, artists exploring the topics of love, class, money, and identity, respectively.

Denis Maksimov curates and teaches contemporary art, global histories and interdisciplinary humanities. He is a Curator of Art and Programmes at Pushkin House, London, a Lecturer at the Joseph Backstein’s Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow, and a founder of Lecture Performance Archive and Avenir Institute. He is based in London and Athens.

Venue
Salzburger Kunstverein
Date
5. 8. 26, 8:30 p.m.

Gernot Wieland

Gernot Wielands solo exhibitions include Times, New York; The Pill, Paris; Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne; Phileas, Vienna; KH Künstler:innenhaus Bremen; Argos, Brussels; Belmacz, London; Kindl – Centre of Contemporary Arts, Berlin; Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen; Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg; Quartz Studio, Turin; Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; Maumaus, Lisbon. Group exhibitions at 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art; 3rd Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de America del Sur, Buenos Aires; 9th Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, Oslo; Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles; Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn; Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz; Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei; Centre d´art Pasquart, Biel; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn.

Harun Morrison

Harun Morrison is an artist and writer based in London and a former associate artist with Greenpeace UK on the project Bad Taste. Last year Harun showed work in the Brent Biennial 2025: Bones, Stones and Calling the Four Elements. He recently presented work in the group show, SOIL: The World at Our Feet. In 2024, he participated in the two person show, DONO, at Somerset House Studios project space G31 alongside Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom and the solo show Conjunction at VOLT, Devonshire Collective in Eastbourne. His forthcoming novel, The Escape Artist will be published by Book Works.