published on 20. March 2026
OPEN CALL5th Graz Residency for International Photographers (GRIP)
An initiative by Camera Austria and Kulturvermittlung Steiermark Place: Graz, Austria We are delighted to announce the fifth round of a scholarship that Camera Austria and Kulturvermittlung Steiermark are collaboratively offering in the fall of 2026! The one-month Graz Residency for International Photographers (GRIP) residency offers artists focusing on photography and lens-based media an opportunity […]
CURRENT: 14.3. – 17.5.2026
Platform Wars
The group exhibition Platform Wars explores how centralized online platforms—Instagram, Facebook, X, and TikTok—have developed from channels for exchanging texts or images into powerful political and economic infrastructures. In no way are these platforms neutral places for saving user-generated content, for they in fact exert enormous influence on our everyday lives through algorithmic curation, invisible […]
published on 4. 3. 2026
173 | 2026
Camera Austria International no. 173 brings together artists and written contributions that revolve around coexistence in (urban) communities and around artistic approaches to engaging with human-designed spaces and landscapes in flux.
23.3.2026, 5.30 – 6.30 p.m.
Online Talk S()fia Braga: Platform Workshippers
Join us for an online conversation with S()fia Braga who will present her work Platform Workshippers (2023–25), that is currently on view in the group show Platform Wars at Camera Austria. Braga’s installation explores the logics of centralized platforms, self-marketing, and digital labor—from daily vloggers and NPC streamers to WIII-GRWM creators—and connects these practices to […]
21.3.2026, 4 p.m.
Screening & Artist Talk S()fia Braga: Speculative Futures – Agency in the Present
As a spin-off to the exhibition Platform Wars, the Italian artist S()fia Braga presents her AI-generated short films The Artificial Conjuring Circle (2023) and Third Impact (2025). Eva Fischer, curator of Civa Festival, Vienna, will lead through the screening. S()fia Braga (b. 1991) is an Italian transmedia artist and a leading voice in AI-driven cinematic […]
6.12.2025 – 15.2.2026
Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt The Space Between
The Space Between by Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt questions the role of the image in addressing the fractures of late capitalist democracies and the systems of knowledge they are based on. By investigating the interstitial, the in-between, and the minor, and by suggesting unexpected connections between historical facts and present contingencies, the artist duo’s […]
published on 10. 12. 2025
172 | 2025
The winter issue of Camera Austria International takes as its starting point the act of making relations of societal, (auto)biographical, historical, and political nature visible and understandable. The focus here is on different approaches that may originate from photography, yet move beyond photography again and again.
27.1.2016, 6 p.m.
LectureErëmirë Krasniqi: In Review. The First Decade of Video Art in Kosovo
It is our pleasure to invite you to a presentation by Erëmirë Krasniqi, the current Writer-and-Researcher-in-Residence of the 2025 Styria-Artist-in-Residence (St.A.i.R.) program. During her stay in Graz, Krasniqi is being hosted by Camera Austria, where she has access to the institution’s library. This annual exchange of an artist/researcher from Kosovo and Graz is facilitated by […]
9.12.2025
Workshop & Artist talk Annotation Fever! Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt with Francesca Lazzarini
This event is part of a series of workshops called “Annotation Fever!” Developed by the artists Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt, together with media theorist Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, the format is meant to explore the practice of annotation, foundational to the creation of datasets for generative AI. Building on Källström & Fäldt’s two-decade-long collaboration, marked […]
Award ceremony on 5. December 2025
Jakob Ganslmeier & Ana Zibelnik
The Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz, which is awarded biennially, will be bestowed on Jakob Ganslmeier & Ana Zibelnik (b. 1990, Munich, DE, and 1995, Ljubljana, SI, both live and work in Den Haag, NL) in 2025. “The jury was profoundly moved by Jakob Ganslmeier & Ana Zibelnik’s empathetic […]
published on 3. 9. 2025
171 | 2025
At a time when basic shared values that seemed steadfast for decades are being called into question, the qualities of togetherness, exchange, and collaboration are more relevant than ever, as is the act of making mutual stories and experiences visible. With this in mind, our fall issue is devoted to forms of collaboration that open […]
8.11.2025, 3 p.m.
Performative Reading Luzie Meyer: Towers
In this performative reading by Luzie Meyer, the artist uses various textual vignettes and electroacoustic accompaniment to speak about the role of two towers and their influence on perceptions of space and time. Taking the Simon Loschen lighthouse in Bremerhaven as a point of departure, which features in her video Cyclic Indirections (2022) that is […]
13.9. – 9.11.2025
Repeatedly failing to align with light
A photograph that was produced for the film Blade Runner but never used functions as a memory implant. Someone is looking for something invisible under the furniture in a house. A lighthouse is climbed to confront it with its notion of orientation. Irena Haiduk, Marietta Mavrokordatou, and Luzie Meyer penetrate spaces, reveal hidden dimensions and […]
11.10.2025, 3 p.m.
Lecture Performance Irena Haiduk: Camera Viva
Irena Haiduk’s work is invested in the oral image. She uses the oral image to produce a singular, variable, imaginative space that no one can own but everyone can use. Haiduk’s exhibitions coalesce aesthetic and economic inquiry to function as a camera in the original, physical sense of the word, a chamber, a studio (not […]
7.10.2025, 6 p.m.
Book Presentation and Conversationwith Julia Gaisbacher and Christine Frisinghelli
In 2022 and 2023, Julia Gaisbacher visited Hanne Darboven’s studio buildings, took hundreds of photographs, and shot a film about this ensemble of buildings in the Hamburg neighborhood of Rönneburg, located in the Harburg district. The two-part group of works Hanne Darboven: Am Burgberg will be presented at Camera Austria during this evening event and […]
16.9.2025, 6 p.m.
Artist Talk Davide Degano: Do-li-na
Do-li-na embraces the untold stories of Friuli and its cultural minorities, shedding light on their oral histories, mythologies, and traditions. Home to Slovenian, German, and Friulian linguistic minorities, Friuli and its people have endured the impact of fascist ideology, which sought to erase their cultural identities. Degano’s connection to these histories stems from his grandmother, […]
published on 11. 6. 2025
170 | 2025
In the summer issue of our magazine, we are presenting the artists Karimah Ashadu, Olena Newkryta, Heiko Schäfer, and Mayram Jafri that deal with manifestations of the postcapitalist working world through projects involving film, photography, literature, and installation. In so doing, these artists shed light on the social, economic, and individual challenges of current labor […]