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200 Years: Almost Now – Contemporary Approaches in Instant Photography (ZRNO Festival travelling exhibition)
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The Intimate and The Political – Female Self-Reflections From Ukraine
Where the Anthropocene is so often visualized through images of sublime devastation – vast, distant, authored by no one in particular – the works in this group exhibition insist on intimacy, on self-re flection through the gaze of the self-portrait, on care, and on the question of who specifically bears the weight of our world […]
Coming Back
“coming back” is a practice of reconnecting and thinking together. Rather than returning to a fixed point of origin, it is about moving forward collectively. The past is revisited, reconsidered and carried forward. The exhibition reflects a shared journey and a sense of togetherness that has grown over time, bringing individual works into dialogue and […]
Offene:s Studio Kwada
Open Studio at Studio Kwada. Analog photography techniques meet crafts(wo)manship. A space for exchange and networking. Artists from the studio collective are exhibiting their work. Dark room tour. Mini-workstations for cyanotype and phytography About The non-profit association Kwada aims to promote art and cultures, as well as their practical practice. It serves as an interface […]
Cloud Women – A Premonition?
“Wolkenfrauen / cloud women – a premonition?” uses the camera-less cyanotype process to support mythological creatures out to light through experimental methods and plants. Will the goddesses of vengeance from antiquity pursue those who are responsible today for the destruction of landscapes? There is probably no escape About the artist: Karin Weinhandl – As aphotographer, […]
Shared Exposures
Light does more than revealing: it records how bodies inhabit and transform the world. Bringing together mostly analog photography by Eva Petrič, Olha Vinichenko and Polina Shcherbyna, “Shared Exposures” explores the image as a physical trace and a space of negotiation. Petrič merges the imprint of the body with satellite views; Vinichenko examines human-made environments […]
BETWEEN MATTER AND IMAGE: Emotion, Materie und experimentelle Fotografie
How can emotional states take shape? Andrea Kurtz’s ongoing series “Shaping Emotions” explores how abstract feelings become physically perceptible through material, texture and structure. Sculptural works and reliefs translate qualities such as tension, density, movement and softness into physical forms. “Between Matter and Image” extends this exploration into experimental photography. Through printing, collage, drawing and […]
Microcosmos Stephansdom — From St. Stephen’s Cathedral to Otto Wagner Areal
“Microcosmos Stephansdom” is part of Sabine Maier’s long-term project, developed since 2011. For this work, dust samples and particles were collected from the deepest point of the catacombs to the roof of St. Stephen’s Cathedral and preserved as glass slides through an analog photographic process. The installation brings two forms of the same material into […]
Protest/Observation
This exhibition in the new photo Gallery f/43 brings together the works of nine artists from REFLEKTOR, a community of committed photographers and photobook lovers from all photographic genres and photographic endeavours. Reflektor is a label that places self-published photobooks under a common name and offers them a „home“. For ROTLICHT, our images are now […]
Portraits of Macedonian Artists
A selected series of around twenty portraits of renowned Macedonian artists, as well as young artists emerging on the art scene in Macedonia, made on wet collodion plates, scanned and printed in large format. Sasho Alushevski carefully selects and positions the artists in front of his camera, and then allows the untamed nature of the […]
Pictures in The Dark | This Is Desire
To mark the ROTLICHT Festival, Marko Zink is presenting his new series “Pictures in the dark | this is desire” at Vienna’s oldest adult cinema, the “Fortuna”. In this analog series featuring cooked film, the female and male elements blur, much like the anima and animus. According to C.G. Jung, these symbolise our souls and […]
Eve’s Dreams
“technique is art and… art is technical…” “Eve’s features, the characteristics of femininity, are actually revealed, exploring the whole range of tonal suggestions from the firmness of metallic shines to the angelic delicacy of uncertain transparencies, from the legible drawing of a fragment of the woman’s body to its total dissolution, from the definite presence […]
A Window To Dream
The exhibition features photograms of round obsidian discs from Mexico. On guided tours in Teotihuacán, it is said that the Aztecs used obsidian discs, consisting of lava glass, to observe the sun. Inspired by this story, I drew a parallel to the photographic lens, a tool through which the world can be viewed. So I […]
Crushed Berries
Kranj Foto Fest brings “Crushed Berries” by Slovenian photographer Peter Fettich to ROTLICHT as part of an exhibition exchange partnership between the two festivals. “Around the end of May 2025, I developed a sore on my tongue. Not suspecting anything serious, I went to see my GP, who immediately referred me to the emergency room, […]
[un]Fortunate Cookies
How do we move through a world we keep reshaping — and how does it shape us in return? Taking the Anthropocene as a starting point, we explore the entanglement of people, built environments, and what grows within them. ”[un]fortunate cookies” upends the expectation of finding a message meant for us. Understanding the walk-through installation […]
“Vielleicht verfahre ich mich auf dem Weg zur Arbeit und biege ab zum Meer”
“Perhaps I’ll take a wrong turn on my way to work and head off towards the sea”. Images of longing, many of the sea, of time out and relaxation… an escape from everyday life, all captured in analog photography, as if to cling to the memories of beautiful, carefree, free and wild times. Photographs as […]
Currently not available in your country or region
“Currently Not Available in Your Country or Region” is a participatory curatorial project that explores migration through the intimate and material perspective of personal objects. Understood not only as fear, but as a structural condition of the present—the project approaches migration as an experience in which instability becomes materialized, displaced, and given new meanings through […]
Falsche Wahrheiten
Since its invention, photography has existed in the tension between truth and deception. The exhibition “FALSCHE WAHRHEITEN” traces the history of photographic manipulation from the medium’s beginnings to the present day: from retouching, double exposure, and photomontage to staged documentary photography, political propaganda, and AI-generated image worlds. Historical examples of deliberate image manipulation and disinformation […]
The Starry Heavens Above Me
In this book by Karin Schmuck, starry skies and new visions of the cosmos take form on emulsified paper and fabrics, hence the title, taken from a philosophical citation by Immanuel Kant at the end of his Critique of Practical Reason: “Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the […]
The Anthropocene Illusion
This year’s main exhibition at our festival headquarters, presents “The Anthropocene Illusion” by British photographer Zed Nelson. This long-term project was created over six years across four continents. Nelson’s work has been widely exhibited and published and is represented in prestigious collections, including those of Tate Britain, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the […]
What Remains: Between Analog Origins and Digital Transience
In December 2026, Wolfgang Rabenstein will present a multimedia spatial installation at Kunstschaufenster.at, weaving media-archaeological questions with the permanence of photography. The visual core is formed by analog black-and-white photographs that have been digitized and processed into photo paintings. These enter into a direct dialogue with both digital and sculptural objects. “The Anthropocene Illusion” describes […]
A colour shines in its surroundings
Imagine a world after us, engulfed by the death of artificial light, its offices, dormitories, social housing and villas slowly decaying. Houseplants become migrants, pets run towards an incomprehensible freedom, and traces of human presence linger like ghosts. “A colour shines in its surroundings”, wrote Ludwig Wittgenstein A colour is never alone; it exists through […]
Around : Blank
The art project “around:blank”, initiated by toZOMIA, is a mobile micro-laboratory that explores analog approaches to collaborative art practice and raises questions about new forms of urban resistance. How can one gain an overview, imagine the future and make a spatial exploration tangible where visibility, access and participation are denied? The fence, which encloses the […]
Eyes Opening 1982 – Reloaded 2026
The exhibition project is based on the work of Brigitte Aloise Roth (1951–2018), who shared a deep and joyful connection with ONA B.: conversations, art, endless laughter, experiments, successful out comes, mutual friends—St. Pölten, Vienna, New York. Time spent together. Photographic series from Roth’s estate (jointly man aged by Susanne Kompast and basis wien) are […]