INDUSTRY
OstLicht. Galerie für Fotografie
Absberggasse 27, 1100 Vienna
24 January to 30 March 2013

As the OstLicht gallery is located on a former industrial site (bread factory), I appreciate the coincidence with the theme of the new exhibition very much. Over the past decades the production of goods has vanished from the public perception, because factories left the cities/regions or closed down. Some branches of industry even completely vanished.

The artists of the photo exhibiton ask for the changes in factory work and its consequcences for the workers, the local neighbourhood and the ecosytem. They also raise the question, what to do with the abandoned sites.

Featured artists are:

Anatoliy Babiychuk, Carla Bobadilla, Edward Burtynsky, Elisabeth Czihak, Michael Goldgruber, Birgit Graschopf, Katharina Gruzei, Cornelia Hauer, Ernst Logar, Walter Niedermayr, Markus Oberndorfer, Sascha Reichstein, Thomas Ruff, Margherita Spiluttini, Max Wegscheidler