Category: documentary photography
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The Eternal Question: Art’s Take on Mortality
The Dom Museum Wien’s latest exhibition “Sterblich sein” (being mortal) is a poignant exploration of mortality, art, and the human condition. This thought-provoking showcase delves into the intricate interplay between life and death, offering a visual narrative that transcends time and cultural boundaries. From contemporary responses to the pandemic, such as Günter Brus’ “Young Death,”…
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All the empty (drama) spaces
Especially in cities, there are often entire streets of abandoned ground floor stores and workshops that have not managed to assert themselves in our online consumer society or against large chains. Spaces that have been empty for years. What happens to such spaces in our cityscape? Well, sometimes drama happens there. In empty ground floor…
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Back to analogue – Part 7: testing my “new” Exakta Varex IIb
Back when my analogue passion was reignited, for the Seven Sisters exhibition I was originally lent an Exakta Varex V. After bringing it to Hamburg and very carefully exposing a film with it (or so I thought) I was totally frustrated to find out on return that the film had not been properly transported and…
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Iconic photography at the Semper Depot
Today I went to see the special exhibition of one hundred of Steve McCurry´s photographs from around the world at Vienna´s Semper Depot. This exhibition had previously hung in Graz, Styria, and I had missed it there, so was really pleased that they decided to show it in Vienna as well. Steve McCurry is one…
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Back to analogue – Part 6: on tour with the Contax IIIa
This was my most “should I really?” purchase when I got the “back to film” bug: A Contax IIIa with a Zeiss Sonnar 1:1.5 50mm lens and leather case, all in near pristine condition. I had spotted it on Ebay after buying “Das Contax Buch”, a really old and really wonderful book, from which incidentally…
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Back to analogue – Part 5: Vienna Pride with the Praktica B200
When I was working on my portrait project for the “17 Sisters” analogue exhibition at Fine Art Galerie Traismauer with Reinhard Prenn´s Yashica Electro 35, the analogue bug got me and I went a little bit crazy and began accumulating a whole bunch of old cameras (bought cheaply on a used goods platform or inherited)…
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Datafication Narratives
In the age of datafication, our world is increasingly mediated by algorithms and machine learning. These technologies have the power to shape our understanding of the world, but they also raise important questions about the nature of knowledge and truth. One lust run before the WERK X-Petersplatz theater closes for the summer and goes on…
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No place to hide
As summer takes hold, the WERK X-Petersplatz theater in Vienna debuts its latest production, “Hideaway – Love and Other Radicalities,” in collaboration with the visionary collective Bauer + Baum. It is a story of nostalgia for a long ago past, when we danced to records, allowed our skin to burn to a crisp in the…
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Painted with colour and light
Next Friday is THE day to visit Gumpoldskirchen, which is not only a charming small vineyard town with delightful wineries and a beautiful landscape, reachable from Vienna by Schnellbahn, but also becomes a venue for beautiful art at the gallery [Weinhauerhaus]KUNST on 12 May from 7 p.m.: the joint exhibition of Francisco Claure Ibarra and…
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Seventeen Sisters
Rediscovering photo history through analogue lenses: The Fine Art Gallery and Music space in Traismauer just opened a new exhibition, curated by Reinhard Prenn: “Seventeen Sisters“, featuring 17 analogue cameras from different historical periods. These cameras offer unique ways of seeing and photographing, and Reinhard Prenn had the fabulous idea of lending out his cameras…
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