Fotogalerie Wien

FOTOGALERIE WIEN, founded in 1981, is a non-profit gallery and constituted as an association: “Verein zur Förderung künstlerischer Fotografie und neuer Medien”.

It sees itself as an information gallery that operates independently of the dictates of the commercial mainstream. The gallery’s objective is to show contemporary photographic art, interdisciplinary projects and new media as well as to react directly to current, controversial topics and issues.

Curatorial activity is an essential feature of the gallery. Together, the collective, which currently consists of 11 artists and theoreticians, develops thematic exhibitions that are put together from submissions and collected ideas.

KUNSTZELLE

The KUNSTZELLE, a former telephone booth from the 1960s, is prominently located in the courtyard of the WUK cultural and workshop centre and has been a site for artistic installations and interventions since 2006. Removed from its original context, it becomes an interface between art, everyday life and the public sphere.

Curated by initiator Christine Baumann together with Pablo Chiereghin, the program approaches the KUNSTZELLE as an open site that is continually revisited and re-examined. Artists repeatedly explore the possibilities of the space in new ways, developing site-specific works. Every three years, the program is expanded through selected projects by students of the TransArts class at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

kex—kunsthalle exnergasse

kunsthalle exnergasse postions itself as an exhibition space and platform for experimental, contemporary art in all its different forms, and attaches great importance to local and international collaborations.