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Francisco CarolinumATErwin WurmPhotographic Sculptures 7 Mar – 7 Sep 2025Erwin Wurm is one of Austria’s most internationally renowned contemporary artists. With its photographic works, FC Linz shows a part of its oeuvre that has rarely been seen before. In the 1980s and 1990s, the artist began to rethink the concept of "sculpture." Wurm's ironic deconstruction of art-historical certainties ultimately led to a conception of sculpture that includes the processual, the temporary, the ephemeral, and the performative. Media such as photography and video play an essent… more Francisco CarolinumATAnna BreitThese Days I Think a Lot About the Days that I Forgot 14 Mar – 17 Jul 2025Anna Breit (*1991 in Vienna) is a photographer whose work is at the interface between documentary, applied and artistic photography. Her working method is characterized by a profound examination of interpersonal relationships, which she captures with a precise eye and great sensitivity. She often places people from her immediate environment at the center of her works, creating an intimate reflection on closeness, identity and connection. As part of her extensive exhibition at the Francisco Carol… more Francisco CarolinumATMarius GlauerWait a Minute 14 Mar – 17 Jul 2025A shell found on the beach. Splashes of water between it and our gaze. The shell's surface, its grooves, reveal its age. The past time becomes a phenomenon of the surface. In the work of Marius Glauer (*1983 Oslo), it is this resonant relationship between surface, materiality and temporality that can be described as the artist's central interest. The medium in which the artist works, photography, has always had a particularly complex relationship to the concept of surface. In the era of analog f… more Francisco CarolinumATŠejla KamerićYOU, WHO CAN FLY 14 Mar – 17 Jul 2025The exhibition "YOU, WHO CAN FLY – ŠEJLA KAMERIĆ" presents various groups of works by the artist from the last decades with current installations developed for the presentation in Linz. The multi-layered network offers an insight into the artistic self-image and the political and social intentions and hopes of the artist, who was born in 1976 in Sarajevo in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The exhibited self-stagings for photographic recordings, the self-portraits, which … more Francisco CarolinumATMadame d'Ora (Dora Kalmus)Elegance and eccentricity Eleganz und Exzentrik5 Dec 2024 – 9 Mar 2025Dora Kallmus (1881–1963), also known as Madame d'Ora, is one of the most important photographers of the early 20th century. From 1907 onwards, she ran a studio in Vienna under the brand name d'Ora, which was frequented by illustrious personalities from the aristocracy, art and society, and quickly became the first address for artistic portrait photography. Inspired by art photography around 1900, she created images that radiate elegance and individuality and reflect the prevailing zeitgeist. … more Francisco CarolinumATSigurdur GudjonssonScopes of Inner Transit 30 Aug 2024 – 9 Feb 2025Under the title Scopes of Inner Transit, the Francisco Carolinum is presenting the first solo exhibition in Austria devoted to the Icelandic artist Sigurður Guðjónsson. Guðjónsson achieved international recognition when he represented Iceland at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022 with his installation Perpetual Motion (curated by Mónica Bello, CERN Geneva). In Linz, Perpetual Motion will be shown together with three other recent works by Guðjónsson that likewise explore the fabric of space… more Francisco CarolinumATJustin AversanoINTRO-SPECTIVE - Trust the Process 4 Sep 2024 – 26 Jan 2025Justin Aversano is a mixed media artist merging conventional art mediums like photography with cutting-edge technologies such as blockchain and AI. "INTRO-SPECTIVE" serves not only as an artist introduction in the art world but also as an invitation for visitors to join him on his personal journey. The exhibition strives to redefine the concept of retrospective, transforming how viewers engage with and perceive exhibitions, while providing a comprehensive insight into the evolution of the arti… more Francisco CarolinumATART OF PUNK 4 Sep 2024 – 26 Jan 2025CryptoPunks are a collection of 10,000 unique, 24 x 24 pixel punk heads from 2017, which are stored as non-fungible tokens (NFT) on the Ethereum blockchain. Originally available for free, the CryptoPunks have become coveted collector's items that are now traded for large sums. What began as an experiment has developed into a cultural phenomenon. CryptoPunks are not only works of art, but also status symbols that signalise identity and belonging in the digital world. They have become icons that e… more Francisco CarolinumATAUTOCHROME Fascination with colour: A look into the pioneering days of colour photography26 Apr – 6 Oct 2024Hans Frank (1908-1987) is considered a key figure in the history of the Upper Austrian State Museum's photo collection, which is largely due to his passion for collecting and expertise. By founding the first Austrian photography museum in Bad Ischl, he realized his visionary ideas by continuously enriching an exquisite collection, which today forms the cornerstone of Upper Austria's historical photography collection. The inauguration of the Hans Frank Gallery on the ground floor of the Francisco… more Francisco CarolinumATAdrian SauerTruth Table 14 Mar – 28 Jul 2024Digital images can display a maximum of 16,777,216 colors. This fact is not noticeable in everyday life, because in the visual perception the individual color pixels form into motifs, color gradients, outlines and shapes. However, in Adrian Sauer's artistic work they themselves become thematic. Like other parameters of photography, they serve the basic photographic research that the artist has been conducting for 25 years. In Sauer's work, each of these colors is represented by a pixel in a hue … more Francisco CarolinumATElfie SemotanElfie Semotan 14 Mar – 28 Jul 2024Elfie Semotan born in 1941 in Wels, Upper Austria, is a renowned photographer who has created an extensive body of work over the past 50 years. Her ability to dissolve the boundaries between art history, fashion, advertising campaigns, and the everyday using the means of photography has become a defining characteristic of her work. The exhibition showcases a cross-section of her work, beginning with the series "o. T. (Birkenwald), New York, 1999," in which blurry silhouettes move t… more Francisco CarolinumATMargaret Courtney-ClarkeDust on the Wind 22 Mar – 28 Jul 2024Margaret Courtney-Clarke is a multi-award winning Namibian photographer. The exhibition at the Francisco Carolinum presents works from over 40 years of work and shows what the artist first brought into the public eye: South, West and North African indigenous women in their domestic environment. Another focus of the artist is on the dark history of those people who historically lived in the Namib and Kalahari deserts. The long-term relationships and friendships she has built over the years not o… more Francisco CarolinumATZofia KulikRhythms of Power 22 Mar – 28 Jul 2024"Zofia Kulik – Rhythms of Power" is the Polish artist’s first survey exhibition in Austria. Besides large-format photographic works and the self-portrait The Splendour of Myself, the presentation includes parts of Kulik’s diploma project that were created between 1968 and 1971, towards the end of her studies at Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. For decades, Kulik has been archiving thousands of photographic negatives and compiling a huge collection of visual phenomena. Th… more Francisco CarolinumATExtensions of Self An Exchange of Human and Artificial Intelligence6 Sep 2023 – 4 Feb 2024The title of the exhibition "Extensions of Self" refers to a conversation between artist Stephanie Dinkins and the Black social robot Bina48, who asks her if robots should be considered an extension of human existence. What are the inherent rights of a chatbot like Bina48 and why should it have them or not? Eleven international positions negotiate how artificial intelligence relates to us humans, whether we understand its underlying systems and logics, and what our own authorship is… more Francisco CarolinumATKenny SchachterKeep Hope Alive 6 Sep 2023 – 4 Feb 2024Kenny Schachter is a New York-based artist, curator, lecturer, and critic who is deeply involved in crypto art and NFTs. In his column at "artnet News," Schachter also likes to question the traditional art establishment. His artistic work is multi-layered, using a host of physical and digital materials such as drawings, sculptures, videos, memes, and digital collages to impressively illustrate current social phenomena. The title of the exhibition Keep Hope Alive refers to an Irish … more Francisco CarolinumATEric AsamoahForever Lasts Until It Ends 4 May – 10 Sep 2023Eric Asamoah (*1999) is a photographer living in Upper Austria who traveled to his parents' country of origin, Ghana, for his latest project Forever Lasts Until It Ends. The images, taken in the north of the West African republic, show adolescents in seemingly tranquil settings and in their relaxed togetherness, resting, reading or making music, with a sense of contemplation embedded in the picturesque landscape of Talensi and Tongo. Community, a collective sense of growing up and independen… more Francisco CarolinumATMichaela MoscouwPresent Absent Anwesend Abwesend10 Feb – 14 May 2023How does one write about someone who is absent? Someone whose work is present only in a fragmentary sort of way, because destroying it was part of the artistic process? We have not heard much recently about the photographer Michaela Moscouw (b. 1961). She has turned her back on the art market and lives in seclusion in Vienna. She is not available for interviews. Exhibitions are held without her. And yet her works, the result of incessant image production across the decades, have nevertheless s… more Francisco CarolinumATKurt BuchwaldAsymmetry of vision / Asymmetrie des Sehens 1 Feb – 30 Apr 2023Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was no artist in East Germany who used photography to conduct a more provocative and extensive media, political, and ego exploration. From the very beginning, media and cultural self-doubt is palpable in Kurt Buchwald's work. He did not consider either photography itself or the GDR as a state entity to be enlightened marvels - but neither did he consider Western capitalism, as he tried to make clear immediately after the fall of the Wall. Interpreting li… more Francisco CarolinumATMicha Brendelin the flesh / leibsaftig 1 Feb – 30 Apr 2023Micha Brendel works in the artistic fields of photography, painting, performance, installation, object and text. A large part of his photo-based artworks can be seen as the result of a multi-layered work "in the material". Brendel's apparatus of attack includes photographic structural investigations as well as object alienations by means of experimental manipulations. What the artist achieves aesthetically on the basis of mechanical and chemical attacks against the photographic material or th… more Francisco CarolinumATErich-Wolfgang HartzschSecond skin / Zweite Haut 1 Feb – 30 Apr 2023Erich-Wolfgang Hartzsch (born 1952), painter and media artist, was an important representative of the oppositional nonconformist art scene in the GDR. He studied painting and graphic arts in Chemnitz, took part in numerous actions and performances, and from 1980 was a member of the music group "Kartoffelschälmaschine" (Potato Peeling Machine) alongside Andreas Hartzsch, Frank Raßbach, Gitte Hähner-Springmühl and Klaus Hähner-Springmühl. His broad inter- and multimedia work includes painti… more Francisco CarolinumATHeidi HarsieberHand.Camera 14 Dec 2022 – 19 Mar 2023Heidi Harsieber (b. 1948) first apprenticed as a photographer and then took courses at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna. When she embarked on her career, she was the youngest professional photographer in Austria. In addition to doing commercial photography for tableware producers and industrial enterprises, she began to develop an independent body of artistic work as early as the 1960s and early 1970s. From 1977 to 2001, she taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Ha… more Francisco CarolinumATHerbert W. FrankeVisionary / Visionär 30 Mar – 3 Jul 2022On the occasion of the 95th birthday of the media art pioneer Herbert W. Franke, the Upper Austrian Landes-Kultur GmbH is honouring his life and extraordinary work with an exhibition. Herbert W. Franke is a pioneer in many worlds, a border crosser between art and science who made very early and decisive achievements in numerous disciplines. As a computer artist of the first hour, he first experimented with generative photography in 1952, but as early as 1954 he first used an analogue computer an… more Francisco CarolinumATAnna EhrensteinTools for Conviviality 16 Oct 2021 – 6 Mar 2022Anna Ehrenstein (b. 1993) found inspiration for her Tools for Conviviality during extended stays in Dakar in 2018 and 2019. In the Senegalese capital the artist met Saliou Ba, Donkafele (Mandé Mory Bah and Thibault Houssou), Nyamwathi Gichau, Lydia Likibi, and Awa Seck, all of whom would become her friends and artistic collaborators. Ehrenstein’s own migration experience between Germany and Albania sensitized her to the living conditions of her collaborators, who all migrated at … more Francisco CarolinumATGeta BrãtescuThe Woman and the Bird 29 Oct 2021 – 20 Feb 2022With the exhibition "Geta Brătescu – The Woman and the Bird" the Francisco Carolinum is the first museum in Austrria, offering an insight to the work of the Romanian artist. Geta Brătescu was born in 1926 in Ploiești, Romania. She developed an impressive understanding of playful, artistic freedom in her work during the period of communist Stalinist dictatorship (1965 to 1989) under Nicolae Ceaușescu. She not only witnessed the revolution against the regi… more Francisco CarolinumATHE YunchangThe Golden Sunshine kuratiert von Ai Weiwei12 Oct 2021 – 20 Feb 2022He Yunchang (*1967 in Kunming, Yunnan) is one of the most important performing artists in China. He studied painting at the Yunnan Art Institute and moved to Beijing in the 1990s, where his first performative works were created. Over the past two decades, he was best known for a series of radical actions. For instance, he had his hand cast in concrete for 24 hours, tried–hanging from a crane–to divide a river in half with his own blood, burned the clothes he was wearing, he ventured to stay … more Francisco CarolinumATGina PaneAction Psyché 29 Oct 2021 – 20 Feb 2022With her spectacular actions, pushing her body to its bearable limit, Gina Pane (1939-1990) is considered as one of the most radical performance artists of the 1970s. She studied painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Influenced by the social upheavals and student protests in Paris in May 1968, she developed a performative oeuvre characterized by self-harm in the short spell between 1970 and 1978. Her "actions" targeted what she considered a devastatingly desolate poli… more Francisco CarolinumATNatalia LLTHE MYSTERIOUS WORLD 14 Apr – 26 Sep 2021Polish artist Natalia LL has gained international success since the 1970s with the picture series "Consumer Art" and "Post-Consumer Art". The series depict young women licking and sucking foods like bananas, sausages, and pudding with relish. These works were appropriated by feminist art from the beginning. To this day, they are presented in many exhibitions on corporeality, gender, and sexuality. The exhibition at the FC - Francisco Carolinum displays examples of these s… more Francisco CarolinumATRoger BallenTHE PLACE OF THE MIND RETROSPEKTIVE14 Oct 2020 – 21 May 2021Roger Ballen’s errily beautiful photographs are populated by outsiders, animals, and enigmatic objects. With his photographic stagings, which create a strange and perplexing atmosphere, Roger Ballen dives into the abysmal depths of the human psyche. Born in New York in 1950, Roger Ballen is one of the most important and influential international art photographers of today. For more than 40 years, he has been living and working in Johannesburg, South Africa. With his both fascinating and… more Francisco CarolinumATAneta GrzeszykowskaFAMILY SKIN 28 Oct 2020 – 5 Apr 2021For more than 15 years, Polish artist Aneta Grzeszykowska (*1974) has been reflecting on fundamental questions of identity and self-understanding in her works. Her subject of focus is the human body, particularly that of women, in its role as a projection screen and construction. Family Skin addresses the wide range of methods, products, creams, gels, masks, massages and plastic surgery procedures for enhancing, perfecting and self-optimising the skin. The exhibition is set against the backdro… more Francisco CarolinumATLuo YangYOUTH, GIRLS Selected Works21 Oct 2020 – 28 Mar 2021The Chinese photographer Luo Yang (born 1984) is one of the most internationally recognised artists* of her generation. After completing her studies in graphic design at the renowned Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang, she turned to photography. Numerous exhibitions in China in recent years, and latterly more frequently in Europe also, are proof of the international interest in her work. The presentation at FC-Francisco Carolinum of works from the series GIRLS and YOUTH is Luo Yang's f… more |
