Vienna goes photo!
A new, exciting format in Vienna! For four weeks the extensive photo festival is dedicated to national and international photographers with numerous programme items and a total of over 130 programme partners. In addition to numerous exhibitions, tours, studio visits, talks, workshops and much more are offered. The festival headquarters are the Otto Wagner Postsparkasse and the Kunst Haus Wien.
The programme ranges from the examination of historical photography, analogue and digital photographic technology, to architecture or film in photography.
There will be tours, studio visits and daily picture reviews at the festival headquarters (Österreichische Postsparkasse, Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna) or at the 130 programme partners such as museums, exhibition houses, galleries, archives, photography institutions, art universities, artists' initiatives and off-spaces.
"With the new festival FOTO WIEN we would like to put artistic photography in Vienna at the centre of attention. Together with our programme partners, we will show the diversity and productivity of the local scene as well as international positions and invite a broad audience to get enthusiastic about the medium". (Bettina Leidl, Director of FOTO WIEN)
About life in the country, 23.03. - 24.08.2019
When people talk about life in the country, the most diverse images appear in the mind's eye. The exhibition About life in the country at KUNST HAUS WIEN subjects current life in the country with a focus on Europe and the USA to a photographic and artistic analysis. More info here
Address:
KUNST HAUS WIEN
Untere Weißgerberstraße 13
1030 Vienna
In this exhibition, the curators of the EMOP European Month of Photography have dealt with the theme of the staging, instrumentalization and representation of the human body in contemporary photography. More info here here
Adress:
FOTO WIEN Festival headquarters
Österreichische Postsparkasse
Georg-Coch-Platz 2
1010 Vienna
Well-known Austrian and French photographers such as Sabine Bitter/Helmut Weber, Mohamed Bourouissa, Valérie Jouve, Aglaia Konrad, Claudia Larcher and Lise Sarfati were invited to examine the phenomenon of the city and to fathom the spheres of life in urban spaces. More info here
Adress:
FOTO WIEN Festival headquarters
Österreichische Postsparkasse
Georg-Coch-Platz 2
1010 Vienna
In the exhibition Meet Us In The Desert, the artists Sissa Micheli and Borjana Ventzislavova enter into a mutual dialogue via the media of photography, video and text. Common themes are desert and volcanic landscapes of an environmentally polluted neoliberal world in which they intervene artistically. More info here
Adress:
Galerie Michael Sturm & Bäckerstrasse
Kohlmarkt 9/2/5
1010 Vienna
Hanna Putz opens with her fotografischen work the question, what still deserves our confidence in view of today's Informationsflut. In the exhibition Everything else is a lie, which coincides with her publication of the same name published by PAMPAM Publishing, the artist searches for answers in the everyday and her familiar: On the street or in the private sphere, in clubs, at sports or in her own circle of friends findet she uses her pictorial motifs. More info here
Adress:
Salon No 5 Schwarzenbergplatz
Schwarzenbergplatz 10/2, Top 6
1040 Vienna
Monsanto: A Photographic Investigation, 21.03.- 06.04.2019
The exhibition is a photographic documentation of the research of the French photographer Mathieu Asselin on Monsanto (US seed producer). Asselin has been intensively involved with Monsanto's activities for five years. More info here
FOTO WIEN Festival headquarters
Österreichische Postsparkasse
Georg-Coch-Platz 2
1010 Vienna
Valérie Jouve deals with those intermediate areas when office workers leave their work and cross different spheres of the private and the public, in which the camera's gaze is directed at the emotions and thoughts that arise when entering urban zones. More info here
Adress:
MuseumsQuartier Wien
Museumsplatz 1/5, inner courtyard
1070 Vienna
Which things do we pick up and which do we give away? This is not only determined by the practical or emotional value of an object, but also by the space available for storage - especially in the city, where storage space in one's own home is becoming increasingly scarce. More info here
Adress:
Wien Museum MUSA
Felderstraße 6-8 (beim Rathaus)
1010 Vienna
© OPENING, 20.03.2019 at 20:00 clock, starting from 22.00 Party with DJ Elsa Okazaki.
Address:
FOTO WIEN Festival headquarters
Österreichische Postsparkasse
Georg-Coch-Platz 2
1010 Vienna
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