Exhibition: still – The Still-Life on Contemporary Photography

Opening: 20.10.2015, 7 pm
curated by: Peter Weiermair
Duration of the exhibition: 21.10. – 28.11.2015

The motive of the still-life was an important topic from the very first invention of photography because static objects accommodated the technical deficiencies. What was fascinating in the photography of the early 19th century and also interests contemporaries is the precise rendition of reality and its material outer skin, particularly of a world of glasses, blossoms or fruits.

The exhibition “still” is intended to present a selection of photographs beyond the borders of Lower Austria that show the media breadth as well as expansion in content of the iconography of the still-life today. Each artist is represented by an image that is characteristic of him or her. 40 examples from contemporaries document the experience of transience, and are however documents of a sensual dialogue with our reality that is ever more strongly retreating from the immateriality of visual communication. Besides the nude, the portrait, the landscape and the genre, all original topics of painting, still-life has become a central motive of photography as art.
Peter Weiermair

with:
Azt, Jihye Baek, Giovanni Castell, Heinz Cibulka, Daniele de Vitis, Marilú Eustachio, Sabine Groschup, Robert Gruber, Albano Guatti, Robert F. Hammerstiel, Matthias Herrmann, Bill Jacobson, Will Light Johnson, Leo Kandl, Rolf Koppel, Robert Kozma, Angelika Krinzinger, Paul Albert Leitner, Branko Lenart, Peter Loewy, Omar Lorenzoni, Ann Mandelbaum, Pasquale Martini, Elfriede Mejchar, Brigitte Niedermair, Annelies Oberdanner, Laura J. Padgett, Agnes Prammer, Christian Roeck, Anja Ronacher, Fabrizio Sacchetti, Stefano Scheda, Elfie Semotan, Ingeborg Strobl, Mathias Swoboda, Davide Tranchina, Martin Walde, Shen Wei, Robert Zahornicky, Michael Ziegler