Selected Exhibitions

Curator: Christiane Kuhlmann, Curator Photography and Media Art, with Christina Penetsdorfer, Assistant Curator
Guest Curator: Christinge Frisinghelli
In cooperation withCamera Austria

For over forty years, Camera Austria has been an artists’ run photography space in Graz, a forum for debates, a gallery, a publishing house, an archive, a library, and a platform for workshops and symposia. In this exhibition, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg spotlights Camera Austria’s influence on the Austrian photography scene and the networks and relationships its initiatives have helped foster. (…)

The exhibition is organized in eight chapters that present artists associated with Camera Austria in its early years side by side with recent positions. Visual discourses on photography come into view that emerged in the club’s orbit since the 1980s and have lost none of their relevance today. Rather than a retrospective, the show is an opportunity to reconsider aspects of Camera Austria’s history in a contemporary perspective. “Topography & Landscape,” “Image & Identity,” “Living Environment & Representation,” “Composition & Deconstruction,” “Picture & Politics,” “Research & Archive,” “Visual Politics & Science,” and “Privacy & Public Image” are the thematic fields in which dialogues between thirty-nine artists from eleven nations unfold. Audio and video recordings from the symposia organized by Camera Austria set the ideas and art promoted by its activities in Austria and abroad in their larger context.