In a sense not only our cars, but all the machines that we build are mirrors of our own desires and of the ways in which we think about ourselves and our relationship to the world. While we seem to be making progress, the cars we make are becoming safer, more artificially intelligent, more autonomous, and increasingly networked, and above all they are becoming exponentially more numerous, just as is humankind itself. In a way, automobiles are the ultimate stereotype for the promise of capitalism. This is a promise of a dream come true, with a potential nightmare following on its heels.
The aim of the exhibition AUTOFOCUS_FOCUS AUTO #2 is to illuminate this means of mass transportation in all its facets, critically and ironically, in as many layers as possible. AUTOFOCUS_FOCUS AUTO #2 follows on from an exhibition with the same title from 2010*, which focused on the automobile in photography/film on the occasion of the European Month of Photography.
Opening: 7.11.2023, 6-9 pm
Duration: 8.11.-20.12.2023
Artists:
GOTTFRIED BECHTOLD
ANDREAS FOGARASI
PETER GARMUSCH
CHARLOTTE GASH
ANNE GLASSNER
SIGGI HOFER
XENIA LESNIEWSKI
ANNELIESE SCHRENK
FABIAN SEIZ
* AUTOFOCUS, FOCUS_AUTO Cars in Contemporary Photography, 12.11.2010 – 15.1.2011. European Month of Photography 2010. Artists: GOTTFRIED BECHTOLD PIRMIN BLUM OLAFUR ELIASSON / BMW ART-CARS SISSI FARASSAT BERNHARD FUCHS PETER GARMUSCH G.R.A.M. ERIK STEFFENSEN ERWIN WURM
Projektraum Viktor Bucher
“I see myself as a kind of “talent scout” and my mission since the founding of the projektraum (project room) more than 20 years ago is to filter out some “outstanding artistic positions with impact and quality” from a multitude of possibilities and to install them in an international environment position. Artists such as JULIE HAYWARD, MARLENE HAUSEGGER, CANAN DAGDELEN, ALFREDO BARSUGLIA, ALDO GIANNOTTI, MICHAEL SCHRATTENTHALER, HADRIEN DUSSOIX or MICHAIL MICHAILOV have also gained international success.
Right from the start I made a conscious decision to use the term “projektraum” (project room) and not gallery, as this term allows me more opportunities in the selection of artistic positions.”
AUTOFOCUS FOCUS_AUTO #2
8 Nov 2023 - 20 Dec 2023
Praterstraße 13, 1020 Wien, Österreich
Anneliese Schrenk “Behind glass” (OH LORD WON`T YOU BUY ME …), 2020 Autoscheibe, Ölfarbe, Nägel. Text: Janis Joplin 42 x 28 x 2 cm © Anneliese Schrenk
