Magazine
published on 12.6.2024
166 | 2024
Despite political aspirations to enable people from all social and economic backgrounds, regardless of residency status, to gain equal access to education—and thus also to cultural and economic capital—studies show that in reality this promise is never totally fulfilled. Against this backdrop, Camera Austria International No. 166 is introducing artistic positions that deal with the […]
Exhibitions
CURRENT 8.6. – 18.8.2024
Anouk Tschanz: Actinism
Anouk Tschanz, in her work, delves into the process of seeing and perceiving the world around us, and of reproducing it through photographs. Amid a visual culture characterized by accelerated digital image generation, Tschanz purposely employs the elaborate technique of analogue black-and-white photography, with the aim of training the focus on the perception of each […]
Events
25.6.2024, 6 p.m.
Book Presentation
Susanne Miggitsch: Heating up the seat
Over a period of three months, during a scholarship program for art photography, Susanne Miggitsch traveled through London mainly by bus. She meticulously recorded on paper, pen in hand, the conversations and noises in the background, the announcements by the bus driver, and so forth. Since her focus was on the loudest sound, sometimes meaning […]
Events
20.6.2024, 6 p.m.
Book Presentation
Julian Slagman: Looking at My Brother
The central element in Julian Slagman’s photography is transience, an emotional look at the impermanent existence of a state, a moment, a person. In his book Looking at My Brother, released in May 2024 by Disko Bay (Copenhagen, DK), Slagman compiles pictures of his two younger brothers Mats and Jonah taken over the past ten […]
Magazine
published on 22. April 2024
165 | 2024
Camera Austria International no. 165 takes its point of departure from the bipartite exhibition Exposure / Double Exposure, which in September 2023 kicked off the program of Camera Austria’s curator Anna Voswinckel. In two group exhibitions, which flowed seamlessly into each other and at times overlapped, artists presented works reflecting the concept of “exposure” that […]
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Events
10.5.2024, 4 pm
Lecture
Vera Tollmann: View from Above
“We bring to our gaze habits and conventions,” noted the author and art critic John Berger in the early days of his legendary BBC television series Ways of Seeing (1972). The three-part series deals with the conditions that prevail when we look at art: What role do venues, reproduction techniques, and viewing habits play in […]
Exhibitions
2.3. – 12.5.2024
Alexandra Leykauf
Prospect
Based on extensive research into imagery, Alexandra Leykauf develops site-specific exhibition concepts, taking as her point of departure the particular (art-)historical contexts of cities in order to trace questions related to the gaze, visual relationships, and their physical localization. In doing so, the artist works with different photographic imaging processes in order to probe the […]
Blog
published on 05. March 2024
OPEN CALL – Graz Residency for International Photographers (GRIP)
OPEN CALL – GRAZ RESIDENCY for INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS An initiative by Camera Austria and Kulturvermittlung Steiermark Place of residency: GRAZ, AUSTRIA We are delighted to announce the third round of a scholarship that Camera Austria and Kulturvermittlung Steiermark are collaboratively offering in the fall of 2024. The scholarship is intended as an opportunity for photographers […]
Events
11.4.2024, 5 p.m.
Exhibition tour “Alexandra Leykauf: Prospect” with Ulrich Becker
It is our pleasure to cordially invite you to an exhibition tour with Ulrich Becker, curator Cultural History Collection, who will be in dialogue with Anna Voswinckel, curator of the exhibition Alexandra Leykauf: Prospect, on April 11, 2024, at 5 p.m. For her first solo exhibition in an Austrian venue, the artist draws on research […]
Magazine
published on 8.11.2023
164 | 2023
The impending climate disaster is making an examination of the ecological conditions of photographic production more topical than ever, as is currently reflected by countless exhibitions, publications, and discussions. Hence, light is being shed in recent times on the contexts surrounding the production of photographs, and on the environmental harm associated with the medium’s development, […]
Exhibitions
25.11.2023 – 28.1.2024
Double Exposure
In the context of the exhibition, the image of “double exposure,” borrowed from the field of analogue photography, serves as a metaphor for processes of memory politics that are explored and transformed through randomly found images or specific viewings of archives. What does it mean to expose oneself repeatedly to inscription? Four very different artistic […]
Events
2.2.2024, 6 pm
Artist Talk: Sara-Lena Maierhofer and Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
As part of discourse on the restitution of cultural assets and the new orientation of European institutions collecting artifacts, Sara-Lena Maierhofer’s series Kabinette (2018–19) examines the role of photography as an archival medium that, in historical terms, is closely associated with the colonial perspective. Against this background, and from a white European perspective, how can […]
Events
17.1.2024, 6 p.m.
The Constellation: Private Heritage, Public Exhibiting
Rebekka Bauer in Conversation with Christina Natlacen
Rebekka Bauer’s installation Die Aufstellung (The Constellation, 2020–ongoing) brings together hundreds of self-fashioned metal objects from her grandfather’s estate, a collection of private photographs from the period of National Socialism, and her own family photos from various decades. By creating a display rich in associations, the individual items from a private family context are newly […]
Events
12.12.2023, 17:00
Book presentation
Seiichi Furuya: Our Pocketkamera 1985
We are pleased to invite you to the presentation of Our Pocketkamera 1985 by Seiichi Furuya, which has recently been published in the Edition Camera Austria. Next to autobiographic texts by the artist, the book comprises a selection of photographs that his late wife Christine Furuya-Gössler had taken with a Kodak Pocket Instamatic camera given […]
Events
7.12.2023, 4 pm
Misalignments – Online artist talk between Sim Chi Yin and Gabrielle Moser
An investigation of colonialism’s complex, transnational political entanglements and its traumatic effects on (family) biographies forms the starting point of Sim Chi Yin’s ten-year project One Day We’ll Understand. Inspired by research into the life of her grandfather, who was deported by the British colonial authorities to China in 1949—where he was executed shortly after—the […]
Events
25.11.2023, 4 pm
Lecture Performance
Oliver Husain and Kerstin Schroedinger:
DNCB—A History of Irritation
DNCB stands for Dinitrochlorobenzene. It is used in the development of analogue color film. From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, the substance was also employed as a treatment in alternative AIDS clinics around the USA and Canada. Its actual benefits were never scientifically studied. Around the same time in Germany a study of the flowering […]