Photo Center for Arsenal Wien, Austrian images and lens-based media, XIX. The exhibition of the 19th century military complex will open in a new space, with Felix Hoffmann, a former director of C / O Berlin, as its artistic director.
The group behind the center are the organizers of Photography Biennial Photography. He financed the city government, photo Arsenal Wien Sister organization was Kunsthalle Wien, the main hall for contemporary art. He will present and explore a contemporary photo of Austria and beyond ten exhibitions a year.
“We will not be a traditional institution, a site, but a melting pot,” says Hoffmann, for the scheduled programming that expands contemporary photography. C / O in Berlin includes the shows entered Unusual known: figures of panic (2011), Last image: Photography and death (2019) and Send me image: From postcards to social media (2021), and each made a photo without archives, archives or attractions of its axis.
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Last month, before opening a new exhibition space, Foto Arsenal made an event with the provocative Valie Exportar artist, a feminist voltage next to the Vienna action movement. Hoffmann also had an instrumental to Berlin from Berlin to bring his work backward. It is among his most popular works Tapp and test picture (Tap and tap Film), running on the streets of Munich in 1968. The voice invited his hands to put his breasts surrounding his breasts for 12 seconds. As they are grabbed, they had to look into the eyes. This performance work received threatening letters and phone calls.
Vienna, Hoffmann stated that it has been the warmth of radical art for centuries, in Belle Epoque and for a long time. Heritage says he continues today, he says. “There are so many interesting boosts in the city, but they are not transported from the country, so they are sometimes not very impressive on the international stage,” he noted.
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Foto Arsenal Opening show, Magnum: A world of photographyIt seems a little more conservative and now examines the creates, distribution, and archiving images of Magnum Photo Agency members. Hoffmann said the show will be objectively focused on “documentary” documentaries of documentaries that have brought remote news “to photographers” about documentaries about the documentaries of “documentaries” documentaries.
Hoffmann is committed to being relevant to the photos of photos, for a generation that can be a Renaissance photos of Magnum. “This means promoting the media literacy beyond the exhibition,” he noted. The second half of the institution will be offered to interactive education strategies, especially for younger generations, in fact, to explore how the “collective culture of images” will affect how holistic.
“Usually, some privileged groups of children will be able to come to a place like ours,” Hoffmann said. “It is important to create an outreach program for people with people, so our image is related to the world in society in the 21st century?