Photography in the form of books is gaining more importance within exhibition spaces. FROM THE BOOKS presents a special collection of photobooks and the most interesting pictures found in them. The exhibition shows highlights from the books Drive Style by Horst Friedrichs, Side Effects by Kacper Kowalski, Just the Two of Us by Klaus Pichler, The Unseen Seen by Reiner Riedler, Kitchen Stories from the Balkans by Eugenia Maximova, The City of Brides by Alena Zhandarova, City Lives by A…

A month long, the work of different national and international, well-known and emerging artists of the gallery will be shown. Whether documentary, narrative or abstract, old or new techniques, unseen or famous, it is an exhibition in between.

REINER RIEDLER: SWEAT For his latest project, Reiner Riedler works with a completely new “camera-less” technology. His negatives are made of cotton cloth that is treated with sensor dyes. The material is thus reactive: when in contact with sweat, a chromatic process is set in motion and the background changes color from pink to yellow. The fabric is placed either on top or underneath the sweaty bodies for a few minutes and there is only one attem…

»west« by Regina Maria Anzenberger (Editor) The development toward a globalized world has progressed inexorably during the past 20 years - with borders blurring and countries and cultures converging. This makes it virtually impossible to identify the "Western world" anymore in any geographic sense. Is the West then only a dream? The photography book WEST looks for answers to this question, in the process revealing the multilayered facets of the phenomenon of globalization. Gathered together …