Exhibitions
Opening December 6, 2024, 6 pm
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]