Exhibitions
CURRENT: 8.3.–18.5.2025
Susanne Kriemann
Ray, Rock, Rowan
(Being a Photograph)
Susanne Kriemann, in her radically expanded conception of photography, researches geological periods and challenges the politics of visibility: What could it mean to understand the world as a giant recording system, as a photograph? Camera Austria’s exhibition space in the Eisernes Haus (Iron House) forms the backdrop for the project Hey Monte Schlacko, dear Slagorg […]
Events
11.3.2025, 6.30 p.m.
Film Screening and Artist Talk
Veronika Eberhart: 9 Is One and 10 Is None
Two enigmatic verses from a witchcraft manual draw attention to the figure of the witch. In an abandoned woodworking shop, alongside running machinery, the four performers, who all come from queer-feminist contexts, work with a choreography of gestures derived from former working practices, early modern witch poses that have been passed down, and elements of […]
Magazine
published on 5.3.2025
169 | 2025
Our conceptual preparations for the present issue of Camera Austria International played out as a reaction to Austria’s election results in the fall of 2024, yet before the announcement of Germany’s early federal elections in mid-December 2024. (. . . ) The spread and acceptance of right-wing populism, treatment of the legacy of fascism, isolation […]
Magazine
published on 11.12.2024
168 | 2024
Delving into the space of images and objects from quotidian and popular culture—analyzing, appropriating, and recontextualizing them—is an approach favored by many artists. In fact, when preparing this issue, we were surprised at what a compelling effect (American) pop culture continues to exert, even in this age of war and crisis, and a United States […]
Exhibitions
7.12.2024 – 9.2.2025
Destroying Photography
Working with or in photography moves between the poles of technical perfection and the attempt to break away from the line of vision, the rectangle, the material. The destructive characteristics of photography are thus not only of a content-related or formal nature, but the prerequisites of photographic processes are based in many respects on extractive […]
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Events
28.1.2025, 6 p.m.
Book Presentation
Elias Holzknecht: Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf Micheldorf
A folding map of Upper Austria marked with notes led Elias Holzknecht to the town of Micheldorf for the first time in 2021, where he has since traveled several times to photograph the people there and their everyday lives. He quickly realized that the seemingly ordinary allows deeper insights into regional and social structures. Interested […]
Events
26.11.2024, 6 pm
Lecture
Axel Straschnoy: How to Photograph the Invisible
The European Spallation Source (ESS) is set to become the world’s most powerful accelerator-driven neutron source, capable of producing groundbreaking images and data. However, these experiments occur deep underground, hidden from view, embodying a paradox: an apparent stillness that belies the immense power driving profound transformations. What does it mean to “see” under such conditions? […]
Exhibitions
14.9. – 17.11.2024
Ana de Almeida & Huda Takriti
(In)verso. Between the Lens and the Archive
This dual exhibition interweaves parallel strands of two artistic research projects dealing with subjective, image-based approaches to migration and memory in a joint spatial installation. Taking her cue from the private photo archive of her father, who lived between 1978 and 1987 as a young Portuguese university student in Prague, Ana de Almeida examines contrasting […]
Books
published on 24. October 2024
Sandra Schäfer: Contested Landscapes
Contested Landscapes is dedicated to different rural regions—their landscapes, their producers, and their work. The paths of the family of the artist Sandra Schäfer and those of the famous German photographer August Sander cross in the Westerwald, a rural area in Germany shaped by farming and mining. A hundred years ago, the photographer August Sander […]
Magazine
published on 12.9.2024
167 | 2024
In her 2019 book Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay uses the term in the main title to describe strategies that aim to subvert the established, usually Western historical narrative by employing counter-narratives and not-yet-considered perspectives, using them to enable a revised reading of the past. The artists presented in Camera Austria International No. […]
Events
1.10.2024, 5 p.m.
Presentation and Artist Talk
Graz Residency for International Photographers 2024: Ida Nissen
It is our pleasure to announce Ida Nissen as the fellow for the Graz Residency for International Photographers (GRIP) 2024. This scholarship, which was initiated by the Kulturvermittlung Steiermark in collaboration with Camera Austria in 2022, is organized for the third time now, with the aim of offering artists a stay in Graz in order […]
Events
11. – 13.10.2024
MISS READ 2024
MISS READ: The Berlin Art Book Fair & Festival 2024 takes place from October 11 to 13, 2024, at HKW – Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, and hosts over 340 exhibitors from more than 50 countries. Thus it is considered as one of the largest and most diverse art book fairs worldwide and […]
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
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 […]