Artists

Walentina Kaja Ammann, Christoph Bisenberger, Adrian Czubatinski, Jana Ehls, Adriana Finghis, Johannes Hartmann, Mara Printz, Farhang Rafiee, Ana Sofia Rocha de Matos, Gabriel Rózsa, Lorenz Walker

Press release

Opening: Monday, 17 March 2025, 7 pm

With PROPELLER I (lat.: propellere “to propel forward”), a biennial exhibition format began in 2019, each of which aims to reflect on current events at Austrian art academies. How do young artists work today in the fields of photography and new media? On the one hand, FOTOGALERIE WIEN wants to make student work visible to a broader audience, and on the other hand, it wants to give students the opportunity to get to know the exhibition business better. The current student works presented in this exhibition, PROPELLER IV, show an extremely wide variety of materials and forms of presentation. Photography and video are placed in installative, sculptural, painterly and publicist contexts, thus expanding their form and content. Thematically, there is a clear shift towards an examination of identity, the search for refuge, security and the longing for poetry.