Magazine
erscheint am 10. 12. 2025
172 | 2025
The winter issue of Camera Austria International—and the works by Johannes Raimann, Maithu Bùi, Akosua Ada-Sanyah sowie dem Duo Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt—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, […]
Exhibitions
CURRENT: 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 […]
Camera Austria Award
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 […]
Events
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 […]
Magazine
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 […]
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Events
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 […]
Exhibitions
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 […]
Events
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 […]
Events
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 […]
Events
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, […]
Magazine
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 […]
Exhibitions
CURRENT: 14.6. – 17.8.2025
Paul Albert Leitner’s Photographic World (over 4 decades of obsession and more . . .)
For four decades now, Paul Albert Leitner has been working on a photographic oeuvre that combines a wide variety of genres. Here, still lifes, architectural photographs, self-portraits, and city and landscape photographs stand side by side on an equal footing. In addition, there are countless collages that show Leitner as a careful and perceptive chronicler […]
Events
4.7.2025, 6:30 p.m.
Book presentation in Berlin Susanne Kriemann: Being a Photograph
We are delighted to present the publication Being a Photograph by Susanne Kriemann in Berlin on Friday, July 4, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. The book will be introduced in a conversation between the artist, designer James Langdon, and Lisa Rosendahl, one of its authors. The English-language reader proposes a shift from the noun “photography” to […]
Events
1.7.2025, 5 p.m.
Film screening & artist talk Die Welt sehen. Der Fotokünstler Paul Albert Leitner
It is our pleasure to invite you to the screening of the film Die Welt sehen: Der Fotokünstler Paul Albert Leitner on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, at 5 p.m. An artist talk with Paul Albert Leitner will follow the screening, taking place in his solo exhibition which remains on show at Camera Austria until August […]
Books
published on 13. May 2025
Susanne Kriemann: Being a Photograph
The exhibition Susanne Kriemann: Ray, Rock, Rowan (Being a Photograph) is accompanied by the reader Being a Photograph, published in the Edition Camera Austria. Here, Susanne Kriemann proposes a shift in the understanding of photography from the noun “photograph” to an active form and focuses on photography as a figure of thought to engage with […]
Events
17.5.2025, 4 p.m.
Book Presentation and Artist Talk Susanne Kriemann and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou
The exhibition Susanne Kriemann: Ray, Rock, Rowan (Being a Photograph) is accompanied by the reader Being a Photograph, published in the Edition Camera Austria. Here, Susanne Kriemann proposes a shift in the understanding of photography from the noun “photograph” to an active form and focuses on photography as a figure of thought to engage with […]
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 […]