16 May — 18 May 2025
Fünfzigzwanzig, Salzburger Kunstverein, Initiative Architektur, all in Salzburg;
Schloss Linderhof, Ettal in Bavaria

*international research festival featuring a symposium, workshops, performances,
music sets, excursions, and exhibition openings.

*programme

Friday, 16 May 2025

Fünfzigzwanzig
5 pm – 8 pm
*opening of wild thinX
*welcome by Karolina Radenkovic (Director Fünfzigzwanzig)
6 pm, Tangerine
*performance by Göksu Kunak (artist, Berlin)

Salzburger Kunstverein
8 pm – midnight
*opening of Mikołaj Sobczak: Moon, Sun, Mercury and Tanja Gheerstand: Social InSecurity
*welcome by Gerda Ridler (Chairwomen Salzburger Kunstverein), Mirela Baciak (Director Salzburger Kunstverein), Nico Weiß (Chairman Chamber of Architects)
9 pm, Anti-fascist Art Manifesto
*performance by Mikołaj Sobczak (artist, Warsaw)
10 pm Dose of Pleasure
*music-set by Alvin Collantes (artist, Berlin)

*admission is free.
*all events are in English language.

Göksu Kunak (Ankara, 1985) is an artist, researcher and writer based in Berlin. Göksu’s interest lies in especially chronopolitics and hybrid texts that deal with the performative lingo(s) of contemporary lifestyles as well as non-Western/unorthodox dramaturgies. As a non-native English writer, their texts play with multilingualism and syntax. Influenced by Arabesk culture and late modernities, Göksu imagines new situations out of real encounters that point out the problematics of hetero-patriarchal structures. Orientalism, self-Orientalization (the perception of the 'Eastern', and how the Eastern sees themselves through this construction), as well as camouflage, self-censorship and science fiction are other interests of Göksu. Recently Göksu has been working on score-based performances and installations that focus on simulacrum and muscle as an object, body-as-sculpture.
In 2025, Göksu received the Akademie der Künste Kunstpreis (The Berlin Prize for Art) for Performing Arts and was previously nominated for the Dieter-Ruckhaberle-Förderpreis.

Mikołaj Sobczak (*1989, Poznań) lives and works between Warsaw and Düsseldorf. Working primarily in painting and video, Sobczak incorporates performative elements, creating surreal, collaged narratives that reimagine history with queer activists as central figures. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, he also studied at Kunstakademie Münster and is an alumnus of the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. His exhibitions include Ludwig Forum Aachen, HKW Berlin, Bozar Brussels, Kunsthalle Münster, MoMA Warsaw, and Whitechapel Gallery, London.

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