In February 2025, Daniela Zeilinger came to Ithaque for a residency. Originally from Austria, where she obtained several degrees, including in Art and Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, she has developed an experimental and conceptual approach to analog photography. Her work explores the materiality of the image and the links between perception, light and space.

Through a dialogue between photography, painting and installation, Daniela questions the way light shapes our perception of reality. Her current project is based on spatial compositions of colored filters typically used in studio photography and on film sets. By transforming them into projected shadows, she reveals their immaterial materiality and infinite variations depending on the angle of observation.

Within her residency in Ithaque, Daniela explored the potential of chiaroscuro in silver photography, working on a series of photograms and black-and-white prints. This project is part of a broader reflection on image construction and the fluidity of perception. Her work will be presented on Tuesday February 12 at her open studio at the Cité internationale des arts paris, from 6pm to 9pm.

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Studio grant from the state of Upper Austria.

Opening: December 6, 2024, 6 pm

With works by
Laurel Chokoago, Elisa Goldammer, Maik Gräf, Almut Hilf, Maximilian Koppernock, Mitko Mitkov, Sophie Pölzl, Claudia Rohrauer, Caspar Sänger, Jenny Schäfer, Janine Schranz, Wiebke Schwarzhans, Dirk Stewen, Daniela Zeilinger and a text by Mira Anneli Naß.

Idea & Concept
The project was initiated in Hamburg by Maik Gräf and Jenny Schäfer, and then further developed by Daniela Zeilinger for Camera Austria.

Working with or in photography moves between the poles of technical perfection and the attempt to break away from the line of vision, the rectangle, the material. The destructive characteristics of photography are thus not only of a content-related or formal nature, but the prerequisites of photographic processes are based in many respects on extractive and exploitative practices. The exhibition Destroying Photography, initiated by Maik Gräf and Jenny Schäfer and shown in earlier version at the Künstler*innenhaus Frise Hamburg in early 2024, brings together artistic works examining the deconstruction of technical processes, the abstraction of photographic material, and new perspectives on object, picture, and position. For Camera Austria, the exhibition has been expanded to include three artists living in Austria—Sophie Pölzl, Claudia Rohrauer, and Janine Schranz—invited to participate by Daniela Zeilinger.

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Opening hours
Tue – Sun and bank holidays
10 am – 6 pm
Closed 24.12., 25.12.
Open 26.12.
1.1.2024 open from 1 pm

Camera Austria
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8020 Graz
Austria