Stefanie Moshammer’s ongoing series We Love Our Customers plays with our perception of today’s consumer and brand culture. In a humorous and perceptive way, the artist examines our relationship to garments between tradition and the present, between appreciation and mass product.
Intensive farming, large-scale soil sealing, global warming and flora and fauna exploitation, are causing a rapid loss of habitat. For his site-specific installation Claudius Schulze conflates two epoch-defining trends: the loss of biodiversity on the one hand and the creation of new life forms through artificial intelligence and bionics on the other.
Provocative, flirtatious, inviting – the exhibition title can be read as both a question and a statement, and refers to aspects of observing as well as being observed. This group exhibition assembles positions by artists who work with depictions of the female body and gender representations using photographic and filmic self-representation.
The group exhibition features five positions showcased by international artists which explore intimate moments and personal experiences through photography. Photography acts as a medium for remembering a particular period of time, individual emotions or group affiliations.
The symbolic shots of overcrowded boats, barbed wire and waiting crowds of people have become part of our everyday media life. They remind us of the continuing drama of the situation, but at the same time fix the border as a de facto and fateful barrier. What can artistic photography add to this depiction?
A leaning coat stand, yesterday’s newspapers, an old satellite dish or a chair with a broken backrest – things thrown away by others – that’s what Edson Chagas is interested in. For his photo series Found Not Taken the Angolan artist walked the streets of Luanda, London and Newport to find discarded objects and photograph them.
During the Eyes On – Month of Photography Vienna, a former metalworking shop in Vienna’s 15th district is transformed into an exhibition venue for contemporary photographic art. Present within the medium only in the form of a trompe-l’oeil, the photographic space is expanded by installation and sculptural art.