The festival FOTO WIEN – Month of Photography (March 20 -  April 20, 2019) aims to showcase the diversity and potential of the Viennese photography scene – in collaboration with over 130 photography institutions, museums, archives, galleries, art universities, artists initiatives and off-spaces.

As program partner of FOTO WIEN, we are happy to offer you an annual EIKON subscription at a special price:

Austria: € 60,00  ->  € 50,00
EU/Overseas: € 72,00  ->  € 60,00
Rest of Europe: € 65,00  ->  € 54,00
Students (up to age 26): Austria: € 30,00  ->  € 25,00
Students (up to age 26): Europe: € 40,00  ->  € 33,00

We are looking forward to your orders via mail (to office@eikon.at, subject line: FOTO WIEN SUB) or directly at the photobook market of FOTO WIEN.

photo © Say Say Say, Inc.

The festival center of FOTO WIEN takes place at the iconic architecture of Otto Wagner‘s Postsparkasse – with numerous exhibitions, presentations, talks and events. You’ll find the photobook market on March 23 and March 24, 2019 in a side wing of the building.

Come and join us at the photobook market – we are looking forward to your visit!

FOTO WIEN photobook market
When: Saturday, March 23, 2019, 11am – 8pm  and Sunday, March 24, 2019, 11am – 5pm
Where: FOTO WIEN Festival center, Österreichische Postsparkasse, Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
More Information here

photo © SIGNA / Stefan Seelig

SPECIAL EVENT in cooperation with FOTO WIEN

A selected group of seven artists from the international collective 280A took up the task of documenting and recreating an entire island. This venture included recording and analyzing their own experiences and presence on the island as a new part of the studied territory. As they proceeded to (re)-create an isolated world, the individual artists turned from creators into mere replicas of themselves, revealing a world of (self)-images and questions. Aren’t all images an echo of the very first image and the manifestation that humans are nothing more than selfies of God?
In the same way as the internet nurtures and sustains our own world, travelling through binary pulses at the bottom of the ocean that surround this island, and connects all the other islands and continents on earth, the artists found themselves fluctuating between light and darkness, depth and shallow waters, distance and connection. Facing the ghosts of their own depictions and technological essays while dealing with the temptation of the snake that offers immortality through a small byte of a forbidden fruit, the artists dialogued with their own imperfections on the path of building a perfect (re)-creation.

Participating artists: Martin Bollati (AR/ES), Ernst Lima (AT), Christiane Peschek (AT), Philipp Pess (AT/DE), Michaela Putz (AT), Linn Phyllis Seeger (DE), Magdalena Zoledz (PL/UK)

280 A: VACANT DREAM STATE
Performance: March 28, 2019, at 7 pm
Location: EIKON Schaufenster, Q21 / MuseumsQuartier Wien / Schauräume, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna
Exhibition: March 1—May 26, 2019, daily from 10am to 10pm

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EIKON recommends the exhibition Losing London | Wolfgang Lehrner & Beat Streuli, curated by Jade Niklai, at the gallery ZELLER VAN ALMSICK.
The two artists have known each other for over 15 years, communicate regularly and meet again and again in one of the world's pulsating cities. Together they have lost each other in the streets of London, at different times, in different places, but with similar thoughts. Beat Streuli’s Edition EIKON HK Central 15 will be on view as part of the project.

Losing London | Wolfgang Lehrner, Beat Streuli
ZELLER VAN ALMSICK, Franz-Josefs-Kai 3, 3rd floor, 1010 Vienna
Artist talk: Wednesday, March 20, 6pm | moderated by Jade Niklai
Opening: Thursday, March 21, 7pm – 9pm | the artists will be present
Exhibition: March 22 – April 20, 2019, Wednesday – Saturday 12 – 6pm & by appointment