Since the invention of photography, we know about the diverse manipulation possibilities of the medium. The methods of image processing, for example, have since developed in parallel with advances in technology, from analog photo retouching in the darkroom to the digital diffuser of Photoshop. Due to new phenomena such as artificial intelligence, which is increasingly being used to generate images, questions about the authenticity of image content are more topical than ever.
The discussion about the veracity of the photographic image has actually become obsolete since the advent of postmodernism. With the end of the 1960s and the increasing “incredulity toward metanarratives” (Jean-François Lyotard), it became clear that there is no reality per se, but only a wide range of truths that are not controlled by a central authority, but by the plurality of the many.
Eine Ausstellung im Rahmen der FOTO WIEN 2023 in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Department of Art and Photography, Head: Yair Martin Guttmann), the Friedl Kubelka School of Artistic Photography (Head: Anja Manfredi) and the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Institute of Fine and Media Arts – Photography, Head: Gabriele Rothemann)
To mark FOTO WIEN 2023 and this year’s festival theme, ‘Photography Lies / The Lies of Photography’, students from three leading photography schools in Vienna are creating new works that explore various aspects of this theme.
Parallel to the exhibition, a festival catalog is published by Steidl Verlag with EIKON’s (intentionally subjective) glossary on image manipulation, which complements the show.

Works by: Jamile Azadfallah | Costanza Brandizzi | Dominik Buda | Josefine Ehs | Anastasiia Fashchevska | Eginhartz Kanter | Minjae Kim | Matthias Köck | Katharina Liatskaia | Isabella Andrea Pacher | Ismael Picker-Schiebel | Valentin Schörghuber | Nicole Toferer | Peter Walde & Carlo Zappella | Lily Zlotover

Vernissage 01.06.2023 | 18:00 | EIKON Showroom MuseumsQuartier Wien