Polaroids
In 1978, equipped with a Polaroid-camera, Leo Kandl visited night cafés, wine-houses, run-down pubs as well as railway stations. There he met a multitude of social outsiders such as suburban drifters, leftovers, harddrinking revellers, people who wanted to escape their loneliness, foreign workers, ex-prisoners, night owls and people without shelter. He approached people he didn’t […]
Blurred Boundaries
Blurred Boundaries explores the duality between »the gentle« and »the hard« through analog photography and handmade tin frames. The soft, blurred images reflect moments of impermanence and transience, inviting viewers to discover beauty in the fleeting. The frames, with their hard lines and metallic spikes, protect the fragile images and create a tension between hard […]
Outsiders Expanding Boundaries
As part of our contribution to this year’s Rotlicht Festival, we present five diverse artists who engage with the themes »Outsiders« and »Expand Boundaries«. Various practices and media are employed in their exploration. The spectrum ranges from analog experimental and documentary films to a photo essay, and extends to experimental approaches with photochemistry and expanded […]
Die Stadt als Ressource – Mitmach Austellung
What does the city have to offer? Which resources can be found? Can plants develop photos? These questions and more will be explored and discussed with young people on a walk in Vienna’s 3rd district as part of the project The city as a resource – photo walk and workshop. The works will be presented […]
Staunen Machen Staunen Machen
In its latest exhibition, the open photo lab Lumen X explores the theme of amazement. Four photographers explore the question of what makes them marvel and want to pass this feeling on to visitors. Amazement is often dismissed as a childish, even naive quality. For the artists of Lumen X, the following applies: photography begins […]
The Stranger Staring Back
Charlie Casanova is a multimedia artist known for her experimental approaches to contemporary art. With a background in classical piano and live illustration, she merges painting, film and performance, often focusing on social and cultural themes. Casanova engages with issues of identity, society, and power structures, utilizing both traditional and unconventional materials. Her works are […]
Nothing really
goes away
The group exhibition Nothing really goes away by three female artists explores questions of belonging, memory, the fragility of life, and identity. It is often said that time heals all wounds, but is that really true? The artists, each with their own aesthetic approach, show in their photographic works that while the passage and fluidity […]
Animal Absurdity
Roger Ballen is considered one of the most important contemporary photographers. The exhibition we present offers a thematic cross-section of his extensive body of work, where animals often play a central role. In series such as Outland or Asylum of the Birds, animals appear as an integral part of the worlds he depicts. They live […]
Masters of Ljubljana Photography School: 60 Years of Fotogrupa ŠOLT
The exhibition includes works of seven photographers who were awarded the title of »Master of Photography« by the Photographic Association of Yugoslavia due to their high artistic and technical perfection and international success
BODY SYNTHESIS
The artists present a series of aesthetic nude photography in a natural setting between water, forest and sand.
Soul-Blind-Date
Through the use of black and white Polaroids, the exhibition celebrates the slow and careful art of photography.
Roots & Waltz
The artist conveys moods with her painted-over, drawn-on photographs, augmented with found objects.
Von fernen Landschaften und nahen Körpern
Contemporary works are juxtaposed with older ones from the Fritz Simak photo collection.
Paparazzi!
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Dreams of Kharkiv
This series is an attempt to trace my memories and feelings, depicting a borderline state between the past and the present which is hard to accept.
Heliophilia – Extended Time
The exhibition visually reflects on analog approaches to a situational art practice, which in the process raises questions about new urban behaviors.
Die Entdeckung des Unsichtbaren Corona Wunderkammer – ein Quarantäneprojekt
You can’t always see everything in a negative light, and you have to keep your sense of humor.
Der Grazer Gehfotograf
This exhibition not only offers a comprehensive insight into everyday life in Graz in the 1920s and 1930s, but also a unique cross-section of Graz society.
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Rolling Rough
On hard surfaces, loud stories are written: tales featuring unique individuals, scraped elbows, sweaty nights, and cold beer. ROLLING ROUGH is a project that provides a glimpse into the world of skateboarding. It offers a view of a sport, subculture, lifestyle, a love that connects people across all boundaries.
Outdoor exhibition
In this outdoor exhibition, we will show different artistic positions of winners from this year’s Open Call on a total of four large-scale billboards.
Group Exhibition
This group exhibition at the Masc foundation features the work of six artists.
Spirit of time
Dmytro Kupriyan was born in Kiev in 1982. Worked on topic of torture, violence in wide meaning of it. Did projects about war in Ukraine (projects »Fragments of War«, »Banality of Aggression« and »WHEN THE WAR IS OVER«). Later on he moved to the topic of dialogue in society as a reconciliation.
ZEIT.WÄRTS
»The ring held out circles to you, and you jumped through them one by one, hop, hop; now it’s a square. Tomorrow??? See to it that the nag you ride does not pass under your buttocks, and your nose lies in the dirt.« [from the manifesto Vitalbau – Raumstadt – funktionelle Architektur by Friedrich Kiesler] […]
Time-Maze
Lorenzo Castore (*1973) Florence, long-term photographic projects focused on personal experiences, memories and the relationship between small details, history and present.
The Future is present
Aleksandra Kołodziejczyk (*1982) writes, photographs, makes films, does radio work and is active in the realms of development aid policy, women’s rights and feminism.
Karl Wratschko (*1978) works as a curator, filmmaker and artist.