LINZ.- Šejla Kamerić » YOU, WHO CAN FLY
14 March – 27 July 2025
The exhibition "YOU, WHO CAN FLY – ŠEJLA KAMERIĆ" presents various groups of works by the artist from the last decades with current installations developed for the presentation in Linz. The multi-layered network offers an insight into the artistic self-image and the political and social intentions and hopes of the artist, who was born in 1976 in Sarajevo in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Explore the delightfully absurd world of Erwin Wurm! This retrospective catalog documents his iconic sculptures and critical commentary on consumer society. Click here to purchase and discover his unique artistic vision.
The exhibited self-stagings for photographic recordings, the self-portraits, which have been repeatedly conceived for over 20 years, run like a common thread through the thematic focus of the work. The representations of women and the female body, as they are coded and propagated in the visual and social media, find an equivalent in the artist's self-portraits and at the same time a provocative, self-determined de- and re-coding.
Anna Breit
These Days I Think a Lot About the Days that I Forgot
14 March – 27 July 2025
Anna Breit (*1991 in Vienna) is a photographer whose work is at the interface between documentary, applied and artistic photography. Her working method is characterized by a profound examination of interpersonal relationships, which she captures with a precise eye and great sensitivity.
She often places people from her immediate environment at the center of her works, creating an intimate reflection on closeness, identity and connection. As part of her extensive exhibition at the Francisco Carolinum, Anna Breit presents a multi-layered photographic work that can be read as a portrait of three women and generations: her grandmother, her mother and herself.
Starting from her own childhood, the artist explores the conscious creation and reflection of memories. Using photography, she creates new moments with her mother that are not only lived, but preserved as images seemingly for eternity.
A particular focus is on gestures and textiles - these play a central role in her family. Textiles can be found in the life of both her grandmother and her mother, who worked as a seamstress and made clothes in her own workshop.
In THESE DAYS I THINK A LOT ABOUT THE DAYS THAT I FORGOT, Anna Breit combines archive photos from family albums with newly created, analogue images, blurring the boundaries between past and present. Her work becomes a touching photographic love letter to her mother and grandmother, raising questions about transience, mortality and the meaning of memories. The result is an intimate homage in which present and past, archive material and new photographs are inextricably intertwined - a poetic echo that resonates both in the lived moment and in the images.
Curator: Maria Venzl
Marius Glauer Wait a Minute
14 March – 27 July 2025
A shell found on the beach. Splashes of water between it and our gaze. The shell's surface, its grooves, reveal its age. The past time becomes a phenomenon of the surface. In the work of Marius Glauer (*1983 Oslo), it is this resonant relationship between surface, materiality and temporality that can be described as the artist's central interest. The medium in which the artist works, photography, has always had a particularly complex relationship to the concept of surface. In the era of analog film, it was still the light-sensitive place where images were recorded, but the contemporary media landscape is characterized by countless new digital surfaces on which images show themselves to us and come into contact with one another. Wait a Minute, Glauer's first institutional exhibition in Austria, challenges us to pause for a moment and focus the camera against the backdrop of these dizzying imagery. What image of temporality can photography create today? In response to this question, Marius Glauer shows us shiny, opulent surfaces that reflect images from art history and pop culture. He shows sensual liveliness in lifeless objects, visual tensions of materialities from 'high' and 'low' aesthetics, but above all he shows the manifold forms that photography can currently take. In a wide variety of display situations he allows photography to resonate with ideas from sculpture, installation and fashion.
The material from which Glauer's photographs are made is permeable - artistic signatures, eras, forms and dates overlap, adapt to their surroundings and tell of the plural perspectives that photography can take on reality. Glauer approaches questions about the representation of temporality in the photographic image with a fusional and boundary-breaking attitude. Processuality becomes more important than finality. But maybe a final form is just a flash-like snapshot?
Curated by Susanne Watzenboeck
A catalogue will be published for the exhibition.
Erwin Wurm Photographic Sculptures
– 7 September 2025
Erwin Wurm is one of Austria’s most internationally renowned contemporary artists.
With its photographic works, FC Linz shows a part of its oeuvre that has rarely been seen before.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the artist began to rethink the concept of "sculpture." Wurm's ironic deconstruction of art-historical certainties ultimately led to a conception of sculpture that includes the processual, the temporary, the ephemeral, and the performative.
Media such as photography and video play an essential role in his oeuvre because they are suitable for capturing this ephemeral, processual character of his “sculptural actions” and sometimes transforming them back into objects.
Consequently, the artist also calls his photographic works Photographic Sculptures.
The exhibition shows collages, contact sheets and prints from the artist's archive, some of which are being exhibited for the first time, as well as works from the well-known series 59 Positions or One Minute Sculptures and provides insight into the considerations that culminated in his later large-format works such as 'Fat Car' or 'Narrow House'.
The exhibitions are currently on view at Francisco Carolinum Linz.
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