ABOUT

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)