Venues:
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
Residenzgalerie, Salzburg, July 25 – September 1, 1990.

Curators:
Heinrich Klotz and Thomas Krens.

Artist:
Hans Hollein.

Exhibition description:
This show was a response to the initiative of establishing a Guggenheim museum in Austria. In 1989, an architectural competition for the building of a new museum in Salzburg took place. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation was considering the possibility of operating an exhibition facility in that city. Should the museum have been realized, the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation would have collaborated in developing a program of contemporary art exhibitions. Hans Hollein’s project had won the architectural design competition to develop the proposed museum. This exhibition was the presentation of his project. Since the museum was to be located in the historical centre of Salzburg inside the Mönchberg.

Catalogue:
Klotz, Heinrich and Thomas Krens. The Guggenheim Museum Salzburg: A Project by Hans Hollein. Das Guggenheim Museum Salzburg: Ein Projekt von Hans Hollein. Austria: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, and Resindez Verlag, 1990.

Bilingual catalogue, in Italian and German. Includes acknowledgements by Heinrich Klotz (Direktor, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe) and Thomas Krens (Director, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation), essays by Thomas Krens and Wieland Schmied, and a project description by Hans Hollein.

Library location: GUGG PGC 1990 .01, UFFICO 28 0010, RARI B 000 0043