Generali Foundation

The Generali Foundation was founded in 1988 as a non-profit art association of the Generali Group Austria for the promotion of contemporary visual arts, based in Vienna.

Mission Statement

With the establishing of the Generali Foundation in 1988, Generali Versicherung AG has been committed to cultural and social responsibility in an internationally outstanding manner for more than three decades. In its exhibitions, the Generali Foundation consequently addresses controversial socio-political topics and has established itself as a forum for artists who promote critical discourse. This debate is reflected in the collection policy, research and publication activities. In doing so, the Generali Foundation pursues the classic tasks of a museum: exhibiting, collecting, preserving and communicating art and culture.

Exhibiting

Every year, four to five exhibitions from the Generali Foundation Collection are shown in the exhibition rooms of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg (Mönchsberg) and study and archive exhibitions in the Generali Foundation Study Center at the Altstadt site (Rupertinum), accompanied by events such as lectures, talks and performances.
The program actively refers to the collection. Works from the collection are continually re-contextualized in exhibitions and, conversely, exhibitions are conceived with works whose acquisition is of interest to the collection in mind. The exhibitions are based on extensive research and are an important tool for the further development of the collection.

The Generali Foundation Study Center is a multifunctional research, reading and retreat space on art from classical modernism to the present and is open to the public for free use. It combines the libraries of the Generali Foundation and the Museum der Moderne Salzburg with currently around 48.620 titles as well as archive, text and media collections. With the Mediathek, the Generali Foundation additionally makes available audiovisual works of art from the collection and other materials.