The current issue is a double issue focusing on the theme of “Picture Politics.” It highlights moments in which images are involved in social negotiation processes. The selected articles shed light on various artistic strategies used by photographic practices to visualize, question, or reformulate political realities. At the same time, they also reveal the limits of artistic-activist image production. We hope you enjoy reading it. –
Gudrun Zacharias / EIKON

Artists: Katharina Gruzei | Maria Hahnenkamp | Nikita Kadan | Ayoung Kim | Franzi Kreis | Claudia Larcher | Ernst Logar | Michael Najjar | Arnulf Rainer | Felipe Romero Beltran | Laura Roth | August Sander | Deborah Sengl | Fritz Simak | Annegret Soltau | Marcel Urlaub

Authors: Carl Aigner | Wolfgang Brückle | Patrizia Feichter | Wolfgang Giegler | Ralph Gleis | Roman Grabner | Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink | Hartwig Knack | Freddy Langer | Lena Paffrath | Danièle Perrier | Bibiane Resetarits | Christoph Thun-Hohenstein | Matthias Seier | Gudrun Zacharias

Languages | Deutsch / Englisch
Size | 280 x 210 mm
ISBN | 978-3-904083-24-9
144 Seiten
Price: € 18,00 (inkl. 10% USt)

In an age of digital image overload and algorithmically controlled visibility, the political power of photography is being renegotiated. Who creates images, who distributes them – and who profits from them?
Ralph Gleis | Albertina Vienna

CONTENTS

FOCUS | PICTURE POLITICS
AYOUNG KIM | Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink
NIKITA KADAN | Danièle Perrier
MIR METRO | KATHARINA GRUZEI | Gudrun Zacharias
MAGIC MOMENT | Matthias Seier
DIE POLITISCHE DIMENSION | Ralph Gleis
PICTURE POLITICS | Carl Aigner

PORTFOLIO
LAURA ROTH | Gudrun Zacharias
DEBORAH SENGL | Roman Grabner
ANNEGRET SOLTAU | Freddy Langer

AUSSTELLUNGEN

The uncanny beauty of environmental activist art | Bibiane Resetarits
Regenerative art for future confidence! | Christoph Thun-Hohenstein
Maria Hahnenkamp

COOPERATIONEN
MICHAEL NAJJAR | „eruption“ and „liquid landscape“ | Sammlung SpallArt
ARNULF RAINER From painting to photography | Carl Aigner

PUBLICATIONS / REVIEW
FRITZ SIMAK. Photographs in the Key of Life | Hartwig Knack
ERNST LOGAR (Hg.) Reflecting Oil | Lena Paffrath
Annette Deeken. AUGUST SANDER. A Biography | Wolfgang Brückle

NEW RELEASES | COLLECTOR’S EDITION | EIKON EDITION | TIPS & NEWS

EDITORIAL

Dear Readers!
EIKON magazine is undergoing a phase of realignment, a process of reflection and renewal. During this transitional period, a team is being formed that will shape EIKON in the future with a keen eye, great curiosity about content, and fresh perspectives. This new beginning in terms of personnel gives us the opportunity to rethink established structures and try out new ones: you can expect more accentuated photo series, even more space for art in all its diversity, and a magazine layout that we are carefully but consistently making clearer and more reader-friendly. At the same time, we are refocusing on a central aspect of our identity: our mission to communicate – the task of making photographic practices and discourses accessible, readable, and tangible. We want to fulfil this mission with even greater attention, sensitivity, and depth in order to further sharpen the dialogue between art, theory, and the public.
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The current issue is a double issue focusing on the theme of “Picture Politics.” It highlights moments in which images are involved in social negotiation processes. The selected articles shed light on various artistic strategies used by photographic practices to visualize, question, or reformulate political realities. At the same time, they also reveal the limits of artistic-activist image production. We hope you enjoy reading it. Our sincere thanks go to EIKON’s long-standing subscribers, readers, funding institutions, and all friends and companions who continue to support us during this transition period. Your trust sustains our process of renewal.
Gudrun Zacharias | Dezember 2025

THANKS TO

Nikolaus Kratzer / Department of Art and Culture of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government

Michaela Pfundner, Hans Petschar / Austrian National Library

Patrizia Büchele / Volkstheater Vienna

Bert de Leenheer / Galerie Transit, Mechelen

Nina Mößle / Galerie Anita Beckers / Frankfurt

Claudia Larcher / Vienna

Studio Arnulf Rainer / Vienna

ART DIRECTION & DESIGN
Martin Hassler

TRANSLATION
Vera Coccyx, Don Ferguson, Urška Longer