Kristian Schuller (*1970, Romania), one of the best-known contemporary fashion photographers and entertainer – as he likes to call himself – grew up inspired by art and culture in a stage environment. His father was a dramaturge and director, his mother was an art teacher. Growing up in the grey shades of everyday communist life, he very quickly wanted to leave this dreariness behind him.

After emigrating to Germany, he studied fashion design with Vivienne Westwood and photography with F.C. Grundlach, the legendary German fashion photographer and art collector. The interplay of light and colour became an essential component of his unmistakeable signature. Very soon he was working for well-known fashion magazines like Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar or Elle. As a sharp-tongued photographer on Heidi Klum’s casting show “Germany’s Next Top Model”, he became a star in his own right. 

Together with his wife and creative partner Peggy Schuller he creates visually stunning compositions, and dreamy scenes: a fascinating synthesis of fashion and art. Peggy’s costumes and her input are an essential part of his creations. Schuller’s artistic development is rapid. The real & perfect merges increasingly with scenic elements, surreal and mysterious worlds of images emerge. 

The exhibition • 2.200 m² of fireworks of colour and fantasy

In 2021, in collaboration with Messe Congress Graz, we showed the great works of Steve McCurry, one of the most successful photo exhibitions ever to be seen in Graz. 

This summer another highlight will follow in cooperation with the MCG. Schuller’s worlds of colour will be shown in large format, floating and backlit in the formats 2 x 3m and 3 x 4.5m. This presentation emphasizes the power of the photographs and the magic moments!

Kristian Schuller’s voice accompanies you through the exhibition!
With the audio guide from scan.art, you can listen to or read his comments and background information on each individual image directly on your smartphone.

Visitors can expect a variety of images, ranging from reduced bw images to opulent and colourful works of art from the last 20 years. Each shot tells a lively and dynamic story. In his sensitive and intense shots of Sharon Stone, Cate Blanchett, Heidi Klum, Penélope Cruz and others, his unmistakeable visual language is easy to recognise.

Accessibility
The exhibition is accessible without barries.

Air-contitioned exhibition venue
Messe Congress Graz • Halle A • Entrance Fröhlichgasse

Directions
Tramway line 4 •  Stop: Stadthalle • 200 m walk • Fröhlichgasse
Parking: Underground garage Messe, Entrance Fröhlichgasse

Press
Obtain media accreditation in advance at: mail@atelierjungwirth.com
For accreditation, we require a copy of your press card and the name of the publication.

Pets
Petsare not permitted. Exceptions are made for assistance dogs.

We will be happy to help you with any questions you may have. Call us on +43.664.2666738 or send us an email: mail@atelierjungwirth.com

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7 July – 24 September 2023 

Semperdepot • Lehárgasse 8 • 1060 Wien Google Maps

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Semperdepot, Vienna

Summer 2021: Steve McCurry’s life’s work is so extraordinary that we invented a new presentation of his pictures for him. Large format, back-lit pictures between 2 x 3 m and 4 x 6 m in size can be seen! This Steve McCurry exhibition was first shown in Graz in 2021.

The success of the exhibition but especially Steve’s comment, “Probably the best show in my life!ˮ and his wish to present it again, has inspired us to top it!

July – September 2023: In the Semperdepot, the former Imperial Court Theatre scenery store, 100 of these icons of photography will float in oversized form on several levels and the viewer will be taken on a condensed journey around the world as if in a kaleidoscope of colours! Steve McCurry’s pictures will captivate visitors, and the presentation certainly will!

This exhibition will again be a magnet for visitors, all the photographs on display can be purchased as signed editions!

is holding a prize draw among all visitors for a Leica SL2 + Leica Vario-Elmarit-SL 1:2.8/24-70 ASPH“, the model with which Steve McCurry takes his photographs (list price: € 8,800.-).

Steve McCurry

There are great nature photographers and there are specialist portrait photographers.
And then there is Steve McCurry. He has been one of the most iconic voices in contemporary photography for more than 40 years. Born in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; McCurry studied film at Pennsylvania State University, before going on to work for a local newspaper. After several years of freelance work, McCurry made his first of what would become many trips to India. Traveling with little more than a bag of clothes and another of film, he made his way across the subcontinent, exploring the country with his camera.

It was after several months of travel that he found himself crossing the border into Pakistan. There, he met a group of refugees from Afghanistan, who smuggled him across the border into their country, just as the Russian Invasion was closing the country to all western journalists. Emerging in traditional dress, with full beard and weather-worn features after weeks embedded with the Mujahedeen, McCurry brought the world the first images of the conflict in Afghanistan, putting a human face to the issue on every masthead.

Since then, McCurry has gone on to create stunning images on all seven continents and countless countries. His work spans conflicts, vanishing cultures, ancient traditions and contemporary culture alike – yet always retains the human element that made his celebrated image of the Afghan Girl such a powerful image.

As Steve likes to say, “I’m interested in people, how people are different, but yet how they are the same. We all dress differently and speak different languages, maybe have different religions. But fundamentally we still have a common shared humanity, a commonality. That difference is what really fascinates me.”
McCurry looks for the unguarded moment and tries to convey some part of what it is like to be that person, or in a broader sense, to relate their life to the human experience as a whole. He condenses his impressions, the colours, the landscape, as well as the fate of those portrayed, into one picture.

McCurry has been recognized with some of the most prestigious awards in the industry. The Minister of French Culture has also appointed McCurry a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters and most recently, the Royal Photographic Society in London awarded McCurry the Centenary Medal for Lifetime Achievement.

Accessibility • restrictions

In the Semperdepot, the ground-level columned hall, in which the majority of all the paintings on display can be seen, is barrier free.
The room at ground level in the Prospect Court is also barrier free, the two upper levels can be reached via two staircases, unfortunately there is no lift. Due to the structural conditions of this historic building, not all pictures in the Prospect Court can be seen from the perspective of the barrier-free, lowest level for wheelchair users and people with walking difficulties. A barrier-free WC is accessible with a Euro key.

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Exhibition venue

Semperdepot • Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildenden Künste • Lehárgasse 8 • 1060 Vienna

Directions
U1 • Karlsplatz station • 700 m walk
U2 • Museumsquartier station • 500 m walk
U4 • Karlsplatz station • 700 m walk
U3 • Neubaugasse station • 750 m walk
Parking: Underground garage WIPARK, Lehárgasse 4, 1060 Wien

Press

Obtain media accreditation in advance at: mail@atelierjungwirth.com

Pets

Unfortunately, pets are not permitted in the Semperdepot. Exceptions are made for assistance dogs.

We will be happy to help you with any questions you may have.
Call us on +43.664.2666738 or send us an email: mail@atelierjungwirth.com

Haslinger started the Tribute to Egon Schiele project ten years ago. Schiele’s works fascinated him even as an art student, the “intensity of expression” captivated the young photographer on several levels. Haslinger began to approach the subject of Schiele on huge canvases, always with the intention of paying homage, never with the intention of copying.

Haslinger invited carefully selected friends, acquaintances and models successively to his studio and photographed them in partly contemporary clothing, sometimes in vintage pieces but also in genuine turn-of-the-century clothing. He spent countless days researching suitable items in theatres, costume rental firms and film equipment and props companies. The range of clothing styles and accessories in his pictures is always intended, tattoos should also remain visible.

Conventional space does not play a role in Schiele’s works. He usually reduced his models to an abstract environment to concentrate on their emotional expression. Haslinger recognized an invitation in the “spacelessness” in Schiele’s works to search for these spaces within himself, with “mind, heart, soul, belly and loins”. Tribute to Egon Schiele can thus be imagined as a journey into the inner spaces of the human being and of humanity. Spaces that are densely filled with a palette of emotional states and perceptions, which are important for Haslinger to trace and express photographically. Introversion and extroversion, constraints and fears, depression and emptiness, rapture and exposure interfere with affectations and extravagances, with eroticism and provocation, in an artistic universe that fascinates to this day and still seems to be expanding.

The photographer’s joy in expressing these emotions and in the dense and intensive work with his models speaks from every single image in the series. In addition, the immense craftmanship and artistic quality is astonishing. At first glance the photos, most of which are extremely elaborate, often appear like paintings or drawings, only to reveal their photographic origin afterwards. It is as if only Haslinger’s homage fully reveals the (photo-) realistic level of Schiele – and vice versa, only Schiele’s expressiveness reveals that of Haslinger’s works. It is as if they had been waiting for each other.
Wolfgang Kindermann

www.joachimhaslinger.com

The artist

There are great nature photographers and there are specialist portrait photographers.
And then there is Steve McCurry. He has been one of the most iconic voices in contemporary photography for more than 40 years. Born in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; McCurry studied film at Pennsylvania State University, before going on to work for a local newspaper. After several years of freelance work, McCurry made his first of what would become many trips to India. Traveling with little more than a bag of clothes and another of film, he made his way across the subcontinent, exploring the country with his camera.

It was after several months of travel that he found himself crossing the border into Pakistan. There, he met a group of refugees from Afghanistan, who smuggled him across the border into their country, just as the Russian Invasion was closing the country to all western journalists. Emerging in traditional dress, with full beard and weather-worn features after weeks embedded with the Mujahedeen, McCurry brought the world the first images of the conflict in Afghanistan, putting a human face to the issue on every masthead.

Since then, McCurry has gone on to create stunning images on all seven continents and countless countries. His work spans conflicts, vanishing cultures, ancient traditions and contemporary culture alike – yet always retains the human element that made his celebrated image of the Afghan Girl such a powerful image. 

As Steve likes to say, “I’m interested in people, how people are different, but yet how they are the same. We all dress differently and speak different languages, maybe have different religions. But fundamentally we still have a common shared humanity, a commonality. That difference is what really fascinates me.”

McCurry looks for the unguarded moment and tries to convey some part of what it is like to be that person, or in a broader sense, to relate their life to the human experience as a whole. He condenses his impressions, the colours, the landscape, as well as the fate of those portrayed, into one picture.

McCurry has been recognized with some of the most prestigious awards in the industry. The Minister of French Culture has also appointed McCurry a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters and most recently, the Royal Photographic Society in London awarded McCurry the Centenary Medal for Lifetime Achievement. 

The exhibition

One should be careful when using superlatives, but the exhibition “colors” will be one of the most highly regarded cultural events in this part of the world in the upcoming months.

Not only McCurry’s pictures will captivate visitors, but the presentation of the pictures also plays an additional role.

A total space of 2,200 m² is available for the exhibition. The picture formats are between 2 x 3 m and 4 x 6 m; the picture areas of all 126 works alone total 1,100 m² and every single one of these colour-intensive pictures is backlit!

The requisite spacing is possible due to the size of the halls. Both a guidance system and a Covid-19 prevention concept ensure safety.

We will be happy to help you with any questions you may have.
Call us on +43.664.2666738 or send us an email: mail@atelierjungwirth.com

Atelier Jungwirth is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Graz photo gallery with great names in the world of photography. And by looking at them in a very personal way.

Ten. Atelier Jungwirth has been a showroom for photography for exactly ten years. For names like Paolo Roversi, Véronique Vial, Bruno Bisang or even Greg Gorman, who have captured very special moments and people with their cameras. And for all those who look at these very special glimpses of life and wander through the exhibitions as viewers. This place of photographic encounter will now be filled with the personal highlights of the curators from the past decade. We have made this our mission right from the very beginning. To show internationally renowned photographers to the Graz public for the first time or to introduce young, emerging artists to an interested audience. Strictly speaking, however, what the gallery will be showing the public from 11 March is not so new.

“We have acquired at least one picture from each of the artists. Always the one that moved us the most. And it is precisely these photographs that will now become a journey through the spirit of our gallery and our history. We are showing our very personal view of the past decade.”

The French artist Jean Michel Fauquet, Vincent Peters and his intimate portrait of a Hollywood icon, Kristian Schuller’s fantastic world of fashion or the distinctive visual language of Paolo Roversi with whom everything began. These pictures will all see the familiar light of the gallery once again and allow a reunion to take place in the very best company. A déjà-vu.

Clemens Ascher, Billy & Hells, Bruno Bisang, Szymon Brodziak, Gabriele Croppi, Jean-Michel Fauquet, Giorgia Fiorio, Christophe Gilbert, Greg Gorman, Joachim Haslinger, Christian Jungwirth, Marc Lagrange, Erich Lessing, Peter Mathis, Arnold Odermatt, Matthias Olmeta, Vincent Peters, Paolo Roversi, Gregor Sailer, Rainer W. Schlegelmilch, Kristian Schuller, Vee Speers, Horst Stasny, Oliviero Toscani, Nick Veasey, Véronique Vial, Nikolaus Walter, Donata Wenders

Born in Milan, he started taking photographs as a child. He studied in Zurich and became acquainted with Andy Warhol, whose work had a profound impact on him, in New York. In his campaigns for Benetton he himself has written both advertising and cultural history. Issues such as HIV, war, death, same sex love, religion or even anorexia – Toscani seldom spared his customers and recipients from taboos. His works triggered contentious debates throughout the world.

In addition to his work for Benetton he also created campaigns for Esprit, Chanel and Fiorucci. He worked for Elle, Vogue, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Stern and Liberation. He founded the magazine “Colorsˮ and was significantly involved in the establishment of Benetton’s creative workshop “Fabricaˮ. And his book “La pub est une charogne qui nous sourit” (Advertising is a carrion that smiles at us) was a publication which settled a score with the advertising branch as well as being a bestseller.

Since 2007 he has been travelling around the world for his project RAZZA UMANA (www.razzaumana.it). The aim is to capture the diversity of humankind on photographs and videos. The images from Japan, Guatemala, Italy or Namibia are striking portraits which encourage us to reflect on human nature, on people’s characters but also on the influence of social phenomena such as education and upbringing or fashion.

17.10.2019 / Talk
Congress Graz

18.10.2019 / Opening „RAZZA UMANA“
Landhaushof 

19. + 20.10.2019 / Masterclass
“Is taking pictures enough to be a photographer?ˮ
Venue: Atelier Jungwirth

The two-day Masterclass with the Milan-born photographer will also be held in English and will convey fascinating insights into Toscani’s imagination not only for photographers but for creative individuals from all sectors. Not technology but the art of looking under the surface of things is paramount.

Gregor Sailer, the photographer from Tyrol (born in 1980 in Schwaz), studied Communication Design and Photography in Dortmund. He is the recipient of many awards such as the prestigious Joseph Binder Award and the St. Leopold Friedenspreis. In his exhibition “The Potemkin Villageˮ he leads us into a world of copies, fakes and artificial fronts which promise more than they can fulfil. We look and marvel – the legendary Potemkin village, which is attributed to an 18th century Russian field marshal, exists today and is very real in many countries.
From time to time one simply wants to convey the impression of size, cleanliness, order or strength in the best “Potemkinˮ tradition. Elsewhere the uninhabited buildings and streets are used for military exercises or as vehicle testing sites for the automotive industry. And then there is the paradise for copies of all kinds – China, where entire villages and towns are reconstructed.
As a spectator you not only get to know fascinating “non-placesˮ like the military exercise zone in Schnöggersburg or the vehicle testing ground in Vårgårda but you are also confronted with unique aesthetics. Sailer manages to create tranquility and intensity through the largely deserted settings and the much reduced colour schemes.
Over the past few years the works of the Austrian photographer, who has won multiple awards, have been shown in exhibitions, inter alia, in Washington DC, Paris, Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Barcelona, Geneva, Milan, Vienna, Prague and Budapest. His works form part of the collections of the Rupertinum in Salzburg, the Belvedere and the Albertina in Vienna. “The Potemkin Villageˮ has been published as a book by Kehrer Verlag.

Contact
Should you have any further questions on Gregor Sailer or our studio, please feel free to contact us here.
www.gregorsailer.com

Every story begins somewhere, sometime – in this case it is the story of the Edegger-Tax court bakery. It began 450 years ago in Graz, making the bakery the oldest family-owned bakery in the city and therefore also one of the oldest in Austria.

When asked by master baker Robert Edegger to take a few photos for the anniversary, Christian Jungwirth, photographer and long-standing friend of the Edegger family, came up with the idea of carrying his friends off to the bakehouse and watching them work while executing an apparently simple task.

Backstage in the bakehouse
Handformed Kaiser rolls were to be baked in the same way as a baker like Robert Edegger makes them. At least that was the plan. The results were varied and not all that good. It was, however, an honour that well-known personalities joined this illustrious circle and simply got involved in the fun to celebrate the 450th anniversary of the bakery. All of them in love with Graz and tradition-conscious, stroll through the Hofgasse and buy croissants and similar delicacies in the court bakery. Henceforth they are amateur bakers…

The models are:
Wolfram Berger (actor), Reinhard P. Gruber (author), Anja Platzer (model), Anne-Marie Schullin (stage designer), Markus Schirmer (pianist), Johannes Silberschneider (actor) and Aglaia Szyszkowitz (actress).

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In 2006 Donata Wenders’ first book “Island of Silence” was published. Over the years she has also published further books like PINA – Der Film und die Tänzer, Don’t Come Knocking, The Buena Vista Social Club, The Heart is a Sleeping Beauty und Beyond the Clouds/ My Time with Antonioni together with her husband, Wim Wenders. Her photographs appear in international newspapers and magazines such as Egoiste, BLAU Magazin, The New York Times, Vogue, W, Deutsch, The Rolling Stone, Kult, Esquire, Pen, Let’s Panic and illustrate CD covers by Bono, Jon Hassell, Sam Phillips, BAP, ZweiRaumWohnung and Die Toten Hosen. In addition, she is also involved in her husband’s films as a set photographer.

Sharpness and blur, shadow and haze, black and white. Donata Wenders makes use of these classical tools in her photography. Each picture contains a story, a background, perhaps even a secret. And the light that breaks through the darkness in her photographs has developed from a stylistic element into a major protagonist, as the photographer herself says. Her pictures sound out the borders and boundaries between painting and photography.

Up to now the works of Donata Wenders have been shown, inter alia, in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, in Norway, France, South Korea, in the Netherlands, Switzerland and in Italy as well as in Innsbruck and Salzburg.

The exhibition “Gestures of light”, which will be on show at Atelier Jungwirth from 17 November, is the first opportunity to see Donata Wenders photographs in Graz.

Further pictures and information can be found at: www.donatawenders.com

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Fauquet was born in Lourdes in 1950 and now lives in Paris. He has perfected his artistic philosophy over the past three decades. During his forays, he collects various materials such as cardboard and makes them into sculptures. He paints the photos of these objects with thin layers of dark oil-based paint. No two pictures are the same but all have, to some extent, an organic character. In addition to this sculptural art Fauquet also depicts landscapes and portraits – and these pictures use a very unique visual language, too. So, for example, with a few exceptions, the eyes of the people cannot be seen. In any case their faces are usually turned away or covered. Fauquet dispenses with the superficial fascination of looks or even of bare skin.

And something else sets him apart from many of his colleagues. While painters and photographers have always been fascinated by light and want to highlight it as intensively as possible, Fauquet appears to have succumbed to the fascination of darkness and gloom. Using long exposure times at low light levels with simple plate-back cameras and roll-film cameras the French photographer creates a world which appears to be an anachronism.

His pictures are so profound and spectacular that they have made it into the collections of major French museums. Furthermore Jean Michel Fauquet has published twenty books and catalogues so far, he has been involved in various film projects and over the past fifteen years has presented his photographs in solo exhibitions in France, Norway, Germany, the USA, Japan, Taiwan and in the Netherlands. And finally, it is now the turn of Graz…

Further information and pictures can be found at: http://jmfauquet.weebly.com/galerie.html

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