SALVATORE VIVIANO
- Visual and Performance Artist
- Teacher
- Curator
- Project Manager
I studied art, history, anthropology and literature at the University of Palermo, Italy, where I was born. After living in Paris for 10 years, working in the fashion, cinema and TV industries, I moved to Vienna in 2010. Since then, I am actively working in the field of contemporary art as visual artist, teacher, curator and project manager for Austrian and international art projects.
CV (selection)
2022 16th Lyon Biennial – Project Manager (Philipp Fleischmann’s participation); viennacontemporary art fair, Vienna – Curators Programme Project Manager
2021 Curated by, The (Divine Comedy), Raum mit Licht Gallery, Vienna – Curator; 34th São Paulo Biennial – Project Manager (Philipp Fleischmann’s participation)
2020-2022 Phileas, a fund for contemporary art – Visitor Programme Officer, Outreach & Special Projects
2021-2019 KINESIS, International Performance Festival, Palermo – Art Director (Project cancelled because of the Covid 19 pandemic); Murder Kino and The Demoniacs, directed by Scott Evans, Vienna – Performance (ongoing)
2019 Performance, Anyone?, APA (A Performance Affair), Brussels – Curator & Performance; Gelitin & Liam Gillick Stinking Dawn, Kunsthalle Wien – Performance
2018 The One Work Gallery Diary, published by Harpune Verlag, Vienna – Author; Bregenz Biennial – group show; Manifest Dance, John Gerrard & Simon Preston Gallery party, Manifesta12, Palermo – Producer; Like a perfect film!, Friedl Kubelka Film School, Vienna – Lecturer
2017 Mad Cow, Scag Contemporary Gallery, Vienna – Curator; Night Train Revolutions Dinner, TBA21 Augarten, Vienna – Art Director; Alpenglühen – 100 years of Ettore Sottsass jr, Belmacz Gallery, London – group show; Instructions for Happiness, Belvedere 21, Vienna – Group Show
2016 Instructions for Happiness, Lekka & Perikleous, Athens – Group Show; Untitled (Marcel), with Christoph Meier, Belvedere Museum, Vienna – Two Person Show; Whatever Happened to Gelitin, directed by Angela Christlieb – Performance;Away, a project around residencies, Former Post & Telegraph HQ, Vienna – Group Show & Performance; Opera Publica, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna – Group Show; Salvatore does Sigmund, Sigmund, Vienna – Solo Show & Performance; Caritas Auction 2016, Dorotheum, Vienna – Curator
2015-ongoing Art University of Linz – Teacher
2014-2017 One Work Gallery, Vienna – Founder, Director, Curator
Education Università degli studi di Palermo, Italy – Studies in Art History, Literature, Philosophy, Anthropology
Languages Italian (native), English (bilingual), French (bilingual), German (basic), Spanish (basic)