Offline
OFFLINE is a visual journey born out of a time of upheaval – a dive into the streets of Southeast Asia and New York. Between neon lights, fleeting encounters, and handwritten notes, fragmentary memories emerge – raw, powerful, and unfiltered. The photographs feel like pages from a travel diary, telling of disorientation and the longing […]
Oh, for material’s sake!
Materiality, process, manipulation, investigation: these terms were the starting point for the Analog Photography Workshop project, which was conceived and developed as part of a course with students from various departments at the University of Applied Arts. The fundamentals of analog photography form the starting point for nine individual approaches that explore the materiality and […]
Oh, for material’s sake!
Materiality, process, manipulation, investigation: these terms were the starting point for the Analog Photography Workshop project, which was conceived and developed as part of a course with students from various departments at the University of Applied Arts. The fundamentals of analog photography form the starting point for nine individual approaches that explore the materiality and […]
about:blank___friction lines
How can a photographic approach to an urban vacant space be developed performatively and analogously as part of a collective activation in the form of an art action? What intermediate zones and dimensions of slowness, movement, and disappearance in space and time can be revealed? The project »about:blank___friction lines«, initiated by the Expanded Garden collective, […]
about:blank__friction lines
How can a photographic approach to an urban vacant space be developed performatively and analogously as part of a collective activation in the form of an art action? What intermediate zones and dimensions of slowness, movement, and disappearance in space and time can be revealed? The project »about:blank___friction lines«, initiated by the Expanded Garden collective, […]
Co-existence to be or not to be?
In the cross roads of analog and digital, human cooperation and power systems, the daily and the unique, a small piece of each will take something away from the other, but yet in the meeting, while some thing disappears, something else appears About the artist: Albin Ljungqvist: photographer based in Helsinki, focusing on experimental photography, […]
The Eloquent Silence Of Light
Kamil Varga’s photography is imbued with a mysterious magic—a specific perception of the world as an entire universe in which the energy of one’s own subconscious, mysticism, and Eastern philosophies play a central role. They form the artist’s “private universe,” in which he formulates theories about doubt, searches for answers, perhaps truths about himself. He […]
Kunst in der Tankstelle
»Kunst in der Tankstelle« brings together twelve artistic positions dedicated to analog photography as a contemporary practice. In a time defined by digital excess, the exhibition views the analog image as a site of resistance and deceleration, presented as part of the ROTLICHT Festival. Working with film, light, and chemistry reveals a slower relation to […]
Oleksandr Glyadyelov
This year’s „Festival Selection“ artist is icon of Ukrainian contemporary documentary photography, Oleksandr Glyadyelov, ROTLICHT is welcoming an exceptional artist and his work, in cooperation with Cyberlab, the exclusive partner of this event.
Life in dystopia / Leben in der Dystopie
This group exhibition at the Masc foundation features the work of six artists from Ukraine.
The Lives of Women
The American photographer Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015) is one of the most important representatives of humanist, committed photography in the 20th century. From the 1960s onwards, she portrayed the lives of people on the margins of society with great sensitivity and empathy. Her groundbreaking reportages, which she published in magazines such as Life, Rolling Stone and Stern, usually […]
Winners of open Call »Outsiders«
478 photographers from 48 countries participated in our Open Call, confirming our suspicion that analogue photography, often declared dead, is not only experiencing a revival but is reinventing itself. Artists:Mónica Almereyda, Salem Ashe, Matevž Čebašek, Yuxing Chen, Thana Faroq, Spencer Glover, Kat Green, Sarah Mei Herman, Vladislav Lakubovskii, Vanni Jung Ståhle, Catriona Leahy, Lesha Pavlov, […]
Proximity Landscape – Eine analoge fotografische Untersuchung im urbanen Umfeld
ToZOMIA has moved from the Sonnwendviertel to St. Marx. The loose collective explores the area photographically. How to develop a concrete, but also imaginary environment that allows an analog approach to urban conditions, contradictions and continuities? To what extent can the temporary, i.e. a simultaneity of the non-simultaneous, be reflected photographically in the urban in-between space? […]
PARADAJS PHOTO MAG ZINE EDITION 01-05
PARADAJS PHOTO MAG is a magazine and online archive of photography, run by two Slovak photographers – Ján Viazanička and Veronika Marek Markovičová. Beside the magazine and photo festival Paradajs Photo Fest, they have started in collaboration with Zuzana Pustaiová, Matúš Lelovský, Eva Benková and Monika Domovcová a new zine edition. Thanks to Rotlicht Festival and […]
Midnight in Mumbai
Tanja Verlak’s work emphasizes the relationship between the indexical image and its imaginary aspects, rooted in 19th-century photography’s role as a reliable representation of reality. This theme was central to her doctoral thesis, exploring how photography captures the invisible and unreal. Her series Midnight in Mumbai (2012-2019) embodies this exploration, highlighting gestures of observation and […]
Lonely Planet
Lenka L. Lukačovičová presents her most extensive project, »Lonely Planet Trnávka«, at the Lonely Planet exhibition. She does not limit her territory, she passes through her own space. She observes it and finds in it transformations, (inter)spaces, public spaces, unexpected situations. Places that are not coherent and monotonous, but are organized and chaotic at the […]
WERKSCHAU XXIX: KARL-HEINZ KLOPF – Komplex
WERKSCHAU XXIX is the continuation of the annual exhibition series of FOTOGALERIE WIEN, in which contemporary artists are presented who have significantly contributed to the development of art photography and the new media in Austria. This year we present the artist Karl-Heinz Klopf. The works shown by Karl-Heinz Klopf deal with issues such as urbanisation, […]
Joly Dots and Don’ts
It has already become a festival tradition that one artist was chosen as the Grand Prix winner. Alan Phelan convinced the jury with »Joly Dots and Don’ts« and received the highest number of points. His project, which can also be seen on the cover of this catalog, will have its own exhibition in our gallery. […]
Safe Zone
Safe Zone deals with the disparity between supposedly safe places and the reality, in which human rights violations occur frequently, and sheds light on European migration politics and the humanitarian crises at the EU’s external borders. The exhibition features photographs and texts that were realised on a trip to Bosnia and Herzegovina together with SOS Balkanroute. […]
The Meaning of Land
The AnzenbergerGallery presents the Australian artist Kurt Sorensen and the Austrian artist Daniela Köppl with landscape photographs of their home countries. What significance does land have in times of climate crisis and war? How do people treat the land, cultivate it and try to control it? While Kurt Sorensen traces the origins of the landscape […]
Rotlicht Emerging Artist 2024
This annual exhibition showcases a selection of diverse artistic positions within a group exhibition. The focus is placed both on the overarching theme and the techniques used, with particular emphasis on analog photography and its processes.
Rijeka in the Camera Obscura
For half a century I’ve been trying to discover the secret of the photograph, and it keeps eluding me. Perhaps the beauty is in the search itself, in the process of searching. The paths and by-roads you must go down in this search are always unpredictable, and the results of the search always wondrous. I […]
Verwandlung
I create objects from found, so-called »poor materials« such as wood, plastic, fabric remnants, paper waste, cords, etc., which I photograph and often process in analog. The working process results in abstract, poetic photographic works and objects. About the artist:Born 1948 in Salzburg (AT), 1948-65 in Buenos Aires (ARG) and Marne (GER), 1968-72 art studies […]
Push
Push propels us forward while simultaneously showcasing an urban subculture found in every major city. The exhibition by Lukas Gross, one of the »Rotlicht emerging artists«, presents a culture of change, offering a dynamic urban perspective that challenges everyday stereotypes. We are excited to invite you to the opening of this pop-up exhibition, featuring many […]
SEEKING SILENCE.
SEEKING SILENCE. focuses on the fleeting beauty found only in moments of genuine introspection. Each portrait in the collection isolates a unique moment of self-reflection demonstrating the artist’s ability to capture that what is simultaneously deeply personal and universally human. Every distinct composition carries with it the voice of artist Félix de La Forest de […]