CAMERA AUSTRIA INTERNATIONAL

LABORATORY FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AND THEORY

Since 1974, Camera Austria has played a vital role in the Austrian photography scene and this unprecedented retrospective pays tribute to the pioneering achievements of this artist-run project and its related gallery-and-journal’s activities.

Divided into eight chapters, this exhibition presents 37 photographers from 11 countries associated with Camera Austria in its early years side by side with contemporary ones. It highlights the untiring efforts of Camera Austria’s founders, Manfred Willmann and Christine Frisinghelli, to put together exhibitions, symposia, and publications. To this day, Camera Austria is an indispensable platform for debate, gallery, publishing house, archive, library, and venue hosting workshops and symposia, connecting the international and Austrian scenes.

In this sense, the exhibition also highlights an important chapter in the history of art and photography in Austria, which took a different course, than, say, in Germany, the Netherlands, or the United States.