EIGENSINNIG – Schauraum für Mode and Fotografie Sankt-Ulrichs-Platz 4 1070 Vienna T +43 1 890 66 37 E eigen@eigensinnig.at www.eigensinnig.at Opening hours: Tue.–Fri. 11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. Sat. 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. EIKON – International Magazine for Photography and Media Art quartier21 / MuseumsQuartier Kulturbüros, 1st floor Museumsplatz 1 / e–1.6 1070 Vienna T +43 1 597 70 88 F +43 1 597 70 87 E office@eikon.at www.eikon.at The Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art Laudongasse 15–19 1080 Vienna T +43 1 406 89 05 F +43 1 408 53 42 E office@volkskundemuseum.at www.volkskundemuseum.at Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz Treitlstrasse 2 1040 Vienna T +43 1 521 89 33 F +43 1 521 89 1217 E office@kunsthallewien.at www.kunsthallewien.at
© Matt Stuart
© Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art
© Darek Gontarski
EIGENSINNIG – Schauraum für Mode and Fotografie
EIKON – International Magazine for Photography and Media Art & The Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art
Marcello Farabegoli
CLOSING EVENT
Exhibition “Matt Stuart shoots people” Friday, 22 November 2013 7:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m. Matt Stuart is definitely one of the most fascinating contemporary street photographers. EIGENSINNIG – Schauraum für Mode and Fotografie features works by the London-based artist and member of the British “In-Public” Street Photography collective in his first solo exhibition in Austria. Stuart shows people in humorous, mundane situations and settings in everyday life. His use of perspective creates the impression that the pictures are an illusion of reality, but actually all photographs are candid snap-shots that instantly burn into the beholder’s memory and make him chuckle. “The lovely thing about Street Photography is (…) that the best stuff there’s absolutely no way you can stage, or even think of. It just like (…) happened, and isn’t that weird? Then it’s gone.” Matt Stuart EXHIBITION
“Matt Stuart shoots people” 9 October–22 November 2013
PANEL DISCUSSION
“Bebilderte Welt. Dokumentarische Formen des visuellen Berichtens in Kunst, Ethnografie and Fotojournalismus” Thursday, 21 November 2013 6:00 p.m. The Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art In German
Photojournalists, ethnographers and artists have various strategies of dealing with the world on a visual level; their ways of capturing the world in pictures are just as diverse as the forms of the captured subject. So what are these forms? And where do the fields of art, ethnography and photojournalism overlap? What methods do they apply in their respective fields? What image of the world can art, ethnography and photojournalism conjure up in a visually dominated world; what channels do they use? And finally: what narratives and counternarratives do they present us with? Panelists: Reinhard Braun, director and publisher of “Camera Austria”; for other panelists, see www.eikon.at A collaboration between The Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art and EIKON
SHOW
“The Club of Polish Failures” Tuesday, 19 November 2013 7:00 p.m. Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz In German
The show of the Germanophile Poles Adam Gusowski and Piotr Mordel, founders of the legendary Club of Polish Failures in Berlin, is a satire on complicated neighborly relations. Whether one thinks of the Battle of Vienna under John Sobieski or Reinhold Messner’s encounter with a Yeti – the boundaries between success and failure, truth and projection are redrawn over and over again. The Club of Polish Failures is a Slavic island of ill success, a Polish haven of failure amidst the Germanic landscape of perfection. What worlds have we created in Central Europe? Gusowski’s and Mordel’s tour de force includes shows at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, the Grosse Sendesaal at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, the state theaters in Frankfurt, Bremen, Hanover and Leipzig, but also performances at clubs and old people’s homes. Their presence in the media is enhanced through TV gigs like their appearance on Alfred Biolek’s talk show together with Britney Spears and Jürgen Flimm, and by their book “Der Club der polnischen Versager”, published by Rowohlt Verlag. For further information, go to: www.marcello-farabegoli.net and www.polnischeversager.de
75