For 2025/26, the curatorial team of FOTOGALERIE WIEN has chosen to focus on NARRATIVES, exploring narrative strategies and structures in contemporary photography and video art. The three exhibitions developed for this theme are organised chronologically: The first part, Topographies of Memory, looks back at the past through an examination of archival material, historiography, and collective and individual memory. The second part, Present Forms, addresses the question of how digital media can inform new narrative modes, and considers the overwhelming number of constantly available narratives in a networked world. The third part looks to the future and is dominated by visionary, fictional and speculative narrative modes, which are based on a desire to perceive the world differently or to escape it.
Linear and unambiguous narrative structures are replaced in the artistic works of the three exhibitions by discontinuous, fragmentary and circular representations, or those that lie between documentation and construction. Expectations are broken, and entrenched narratives are disrupted or dissolved in favour of multi-perspective narratives. There is also a focus on storytelling itself: what is told, by whom, and how, and how meanings, language and communication change.
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2. December 2025 — 17. January 2026
For 2025/26, the curatorial team of FOTOGALERIE WIEN has chosen to focus on NARRATIVES, exploring narrative strategies and structures in contemporary photography and video art. The three exhibitions developed for this theme are organised chronologically: The first part, Topographies of Memory, looks back at the past through an examination of archival material, historiography, and collective and individual memory.[...]