Exhibitions
The FOTOGALERIE WIEN currently exhibits seven shows a year including: one Werkschau, one Solo, three exhibitions dedicated to an annual theme of focus, and two other exhibitions curated independent of the theme of focus and Werkschau
Theme of Focus: exhibitions dedicated to a specific topic in photography, takes place throughout the year, includes one catalogue compiling the artists’ contributions and summarizing the exhibitions at the end of the year
Solo: This series of exhibitions is to serve as a platform and springboard to artists who are at the beginning of their career, once a year
Werkschau: a retrospective for a well-known Austrian photography artist,once a year, accompanied by a catalogue
Exchange exhibition (dedicated to the annual with galleries abroad)
Current exhibition:
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Display Cabinet No. 5: ANNA LERCHBAUMER
10. March 2026 — 10. October 2026
Opening: Saturday, 7 March, 7 p.m. Finissage and publication presentation: Saturday, 10 October 2026, 7 p.m. DISPLAY CABINET is an exhibition situation created in 2023 in the entrance area of FOTOGALERIE WIEN. Every six months, installations or interventions will take place in the space. The fifth intervention will be designed by the artist Anna Lerchbaumer. […]
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17. March 2026 — 25. April 2026
Our society has long since entered a post-narrative world. In place of the grand, identity-forming narratives of modernity, we are exposed to a ceaseless “tsunami of information” (Byung-Chul Han). The manic accumulation of data and the incessant noise of communication have taken the place of narrative as a constitutive force of community. NARRATIVE II: Present Forms brings together artistic works that take up these phenomena of our digital reality, critically examine them, but also turn them on their head. As counter-models to our mediatized everyday world, they possess an inherent poetic power capable of producing new narrative forms. […]