Filipka Rutkowska and Urok Shirhan
The Distribution of Luck #2
12. 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
- 12. 8. 26, 8:30 p.m.
Filipka Rutkowska
Filipka Rutkowska—Warsaw-based artist, writer, actress—uses her own life as method. Moving between stand-up, monodrama, manifesto, and assemblage, s/he approaches queerness not as identity but as a strategy—for escaping bodily limits, for social change, for comedy. Her practice sits at the intersection of Polish critical art and queer performance, where emancipation means confronting reality, not transcending it. Shown at MoMA Warsaw, Gothenburg Biennale, and Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris; recipient of the Ongoing Art Center Award in Tokyo. In 2026, s/he participates in Manifesta Ruhrgebiet as part of Mauczki collective, presents her first institutional solo at Galeria Studio, Warsaw, and debuts her first book with HELA PRESS.
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Urok Shirhan
Urok Shirhan is an artist, researcher, and DJ working across performance, visual arts, and critical theory. Her practice explores the politics and poetics of sound, image and speech in relation to power and affect, often drawing on her family’s history of political struggle and migration. Working with documentary strategies and sonic autofiction, she explores how sound—and the voice in particular—shapes collectivity, dissidence, and belonging.
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