Public Art
Also known as Spirit of Mozart Salzburg
A light installation on the Staatsbrücke by Serbian-American performance and installation artist Marina Abramović (2004). Walk of Modern Art #3. Abramović, known for work that tests physical endurance and the boundaries between performer and audience, brought to Salzburg an installation that transforms the bridge’s nocturnal atmosphere. The work casts Mozart not simply as a historical composer but as a living cultural presence whose spirit the city both venerates and commercially exploits.
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These experiences include this place in their authored route.
1.5 - 2 hours
Daily guided walking tour of Salzburg's Altstadt. Tip-based, no fixed price: join free, pay what you think it was worth. Meets at the Spirit of Mozart and covers the essential old town from Mirabell to Mozartplatz in about ninety minutes. Run by Free Walking Tour Salzburg, Gerhard Reus's own brand.
The Walk of Modern Art is a self-guided trail of 17 permanent public sculptures installed across Salzburg by the Salzburg Foundation since 2002.
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artistb. 1946
The godmother of performance art. Marina Abramovic's Spirit of Mozart (2004) is a stainless-steel chair sculpture at the northern bridgehead of the Staatsbrucke, a tall central chair ringed by smaller ones for quiet contemplation, honouring the city's most famous son through an artist whose practice is built on presence, duration, and the invisible.
