AUSTRIA - Photography 1970 till 2000
The strange familiar : Austria in the focus of the native lens at Albertina Museum in Vienna.
Landscapes, spaces, identities and social environments, disappearing or already disappeared peculiarities of the country have been in the focus of numerous currents of Austrian photography in the years between 1970 and 2000.
Photographers like Valie Export, Peter Dressle, Johannes Faber or Brank Lenart, all in all 22 important protagonists of Austrian documentary and artistic photography are on display in this exhibition, curated by photography expert Walter Moser. There are works from the Albertina’s own collection as well as works from the collection of the Museum of Modernism in Salzburg.
The basic question of the exhibition is: What makes Austrian Photography Austrian? Historical investigation, the humorous view on the home country, the investigation of the past, the poetry of the periphery, every visitor will come to his own conclusion here. The political and social changes of these 30 years are latently present in this show in the column hall of the Albertina.
Country life with buckets of slaughter waste , views of launch tables with typical Austrian dishes by Robert Hammerstiel, portraits of country folk (Bernhard Fuchs), or village squares photographed over 20 years – in the course of the partly ethnographic, partly documentary gaze on the home country, these views are sometimes deconstructed, like in the case of Valie Export who made a collage of a flak tower out of several photographs and perspectives, or Friedl Kubelka with his images of Vienna reminding of jigsaw puzzles. Seiichi Furuya, a Japanese photographer living in Vienna, made pictures of the iron curtain and the region bordering Hungary.
Besides tendencies of photography between 1970 and 2000 becoming evident, the real appeal of the exhibition is actually the exploration of the country and its inhabitants.
In the words of curator Walter Moser, « the photographers that are on display in the exhibition investigated the notion of the home country and showed us and new, alternative reality of Austria. With their subjective exploration they initiated the de-coding of manifest imageries. » (written by Cem Angeli)
Albertina, until October 8. Daily 10am–6pm, Wed until 9pm
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