PICTURE POLITICS
20 Years of Kontakt
MAGAZINE • SHOWROOM • PHOTOGRAPHY & MEDIA ART• SINCE 1991 •
Magazine
#132 Where Is Photography Now?
EIKON #132 – Where Is Photography Now? Photography no longer exists as a clearly defined medium, but as part of a complex constellation of visual practices. Cameras, algorithms, archives, and machine…
#130-131 Picture Politics
EIKON #130–131 – Picture Politics This double issue is dedicated to the political dimension of the image: how photographic and media-art practices make social realities visible, question them, or…
#129 20 Years of Kontakt
EIKON #129 This issue highlights Kontakt’s commitment to raising the profile of Eastern European art. To mark the institution’s anniversary, EIKON #129 pays special tribute with a feature entitled…
#128 Fake News
EIKON #128 The publication of this issue of EIKON on November 5, 2024, coincides with an historically significant date: the 60th election of the president of the USA. One of the two candidates for…
Portfolio
Anton Kehrer
The image, produced and disseminated through the media in the billions today, is perceived as a distraction and diversion rather than as a focus and concentration. The artistic image allows us a…
Laura Roth
Tourism, resource extraction, infrastructure, climate change, technological developments – and the desires and longings that drive all of this – form the resonant space of Laura Roth’s visual……
Annegret Soltau
Annegret Soltau rarely makes things easy for her audience. One is still struck by works with evocative titles such as “Body orifice”, when confronted with images of genitals appearing in places where…