With Portfolios on Aya Ben Ron, Hanakam & Schuller, Christian Kosmas Mayer, Mara Novak and Werner Schrödl, the upcoming EIKON issue #106 offers a diverse cross-section regarding current trends in photography and media art.

Katharina Brandl and Friederike Zenker dedicate the section In Focus to “Interspecies Media Art” and discuss the manmade dichotomy between nature and culture as well as the blurring boundaries between our modern society and wildlife.

Elisabeth Falkensteiner introduces the film project DON WHO?, a cooperation of the department of stage and film design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with VIS-Vienna Shorts. The film will premiere at Gartenbaukino on May 29, 2019 at 9 pm.

Furthermore you will find A Work in Profile of Wolfgang Reichmann from the SpallArt collection, an insight in Daniela Kostova’s Project for VIG at the Viennese Ringturm and selected exhibition reviews, such as Introducing Tony Conrad. A Retrospective (Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia) and Horizontal Vertigo #1. Ongoing Experiments With Strangeness (Julia Stoschek Collection Berlin) as well as reviews of new publications, current reports, announcements and exhibition recommendations.

Magazine Launch EIKON #106
When: June 4, 2019, 7 pm
Where: EIKON Schaufenster, Q21 / MuseumsQuartier Vienna / Schauräume, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna

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With the installation Magazzino Markus Hanakam and Roswitha Schuller give an insight into their current artistic work: Various objects, which can be identified as industrially produced commodities after a closer look, are rearranged on a flexible screen with several levels – deprived of their initial function and alienated form their original context. Following previous works the duo focuses thematically on the parallel development and mutual influence of technology and culture and questions the naturalness of our technological present at the same time.

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A main contribution in the latest issue of EIKON #106 is dedicated to the artist duo.

Hanakam & Schuller. Magazzino
Duration: June 5–September 1, 2019, daily from 10 am to 10 pm
Opening: June 4, 2019, 7 pm
Location: EIKON Schaufenster, Q21 / MuseumsQuartier Vienna / Schauräume, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna

Photo © Hanakam & Schuller

How can the multifaceted theme “At Home” be expressed with the possibilities of today’s photography? And how do social, political and economic developments influence the individual notion and reality of a home? These are some of the questions the VONOVIA AWARD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY 2019 will go after.
Applications are possible until July 15, 2019 in digital form. The Award is endowed with 42.000 EUR in total.

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Photo: Norman Hoppenheit, Dreesch, 2016-2017 © Norman Hoppenheit, courtesy Vonovia Award for Photography 2018 (1st Award Winner 2018 „Best Photo Series“)