In ihrer ersten Themenausstellung eröffnet die neue Direktion des Museums der Moderne in Salzburg eine Diskussion über eine der zentralen Aufgaben des Museums: die Konstituierung von Geschichte anhand von Artefakten. Dabei richtet sich der Blick auf Kunstwerke, die Geschichte, zeitgeschichtliche Ereignisse und ihr eigenes Involviertsein reflektieren.

»Unter dem Titel "Kunst/Geschichten" werden Mittel und Methoden vorgestellt, mit denen sich Künstler des historischen Erzählens annehmen und so unter anderem einen Perspektivwechsel einläuten könnten.«Art Magazin

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Sabine Breitwieser Since October 2010 she is Chief Curator for Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. She is Secretary and Treasurer of CIMAM the International Committee of ICOM (International Council of Museums) for Museums and Collections of Modern Art. From 1988 until 2007 she was the (Founding) Director and Curator of the Generali Foundation in Vienna for which she has built the institution, the program and an important collection published in the volumes Exhibitions 1989-2007 (2008) and in Occupying Space (2003). She has curated numerous projects and edited as many publications on artists.

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How is history written? Whose mission is it to write it? Which tools are used to examine and evaluate historical events and to disseminate knowledge about them? How objective is current scholarly research, and the historic documents on which it is based? A painting by Jörg Immendorff and Felix Droese from 1974 is entitled "New War - New Art". Indeed, the recent troubles in crisis regions have inspired and generated a new wave of contemporary art with innovative ways of portraying history. Art / Histories presents art and artists engaged with history in a broad historical framework, including those looking back and those depicting the harsh realities of the present.