Artists

Maria Hahnenkamp

Press release

Maria Hahnenkamp (b. 1959, Eisenstadt) has been working with, through, about, and against the medium of photography and its specific dispositives since the late 1980s.

As an artist’s artist, she is known for her media-critical and feminist artistic work over the past decades and as a defining figure in Austrian contemporary art history. In the spring of 2025, the Belvedere 21 will host the first major institutional solo exhibition dedicated to Maria Hahnenkamp.

The exhibition’s central themes are void, space, craftsmanship, and ornamentation. With a selection of around 100 works, the solo show includes photographs, works on photographic paper, slide projections, video works, installations, and in-situ wall drillings in an architectural setting by Walter Kräutler.

The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue (German/English) published by Walther König, and designed by Martha Stutteregger, with contributions by Clara Bouveresse, Rainer Fuchs, Ruth Horak, Christin Müller, and Stefanie Reisinger.

Curated by Stefanie Reisinger.
Assistant curator: Ana Petrović