Julius Werner Chromecek and Daniela Zeilinger, in collaboration with guest curator Bastian Hackl-Schwind, present works that address the translation of materiality and surfaces within photography.
In Julius Werner Chromecek's series "Raster," analog and digital techniques are combined to reduce patterns and structures from the everyday environment to graphic grids. The result is photograms in which forms and surfaces are brought into focus, and the photographed objects are removed from their original context. A similar approach is taken in Daniela Zeilinger's series "Stardust." In her photograms of screen prints on glass, colored foils, typically used in studio photography and film, are stripped of their color and transformed into abstract light-dark contrasts. According to Zeilinger, the series "addresses the abstraction of colored light as chiaroscuro, transformed in several stages into traces of grid, grain, and dust." Bastian Hackl-Schwind also focuses on a process of transformation in his series "traces of work." He shows photographs of cutting materials from his workshop, which document his work process and thus addresses, on the one hand, the concept of work in art production, and on the other hand, the translation of material into photography.
What all the works have in common is the question of how material, surface and structure behave during photographic translation processes and what new properties and perspectives emerge through this transformation.
- Bastian Hackl-Schwind

Opening hours:
Sat/Sun, 1- 6 pm

WSB Plenary Room WUK
Währinger Straße 59, Entrance C, 1st floor, right
1090 Vienna

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Opening: October 11, 2026, 4 pm

In their work, Janine Schranz and Daniela Zeilinger subtly reflect on the fundamental conditions of the medium of photography. In the exhibition Intervalle, fundamental questions about time and space enter into a poetic dialogue. Using a variety of media approaches, the artists explore the very moment in which visibility emerges. In doing so, they focus on the transitions from the indeterminate to the recognisable. Fleeting moments of transition arise between image and space, only to be immediately left behind as a void.


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Fri / Sat / Sun 3 pm  to 6 pm 

Opening: April 29, 2026, 7 pm

Opening Hours: Daily 1–7 pm

Artists: Charlotte Bastian, Betty Böhm, Antonia Breme, Selket Chlupka, Cecile Dupaquier, Dana Engfer, Nadine Ethner, Catherine Rose Evans, Kathrin Ganser, Carla Mercedes Hihn, Stefan Klein, Claire Laude, Stefanie Loveday, Prinz Gholam, Katja Pudor, Jessica Rimondi, Theresa Schubert, Sadith Silvano, Kama Sokolnicka, Sarah Straßmann, Attilio Tono, Bignia Wehrli und Daniela Zeilinger.
Performance: Olga Hohmann

In cooperation with curator Cassandra Mehlhorn.

In 2026, the independent artists’ collective pilote marks its tenth anniversary with the group exhibition Decade x Dialogue. Bringing together current and former members alongside invited artistic positions, the exhibition initiates a polyphonic exchange that reveals the collective’s evolving working relationships visible while opening them to new perspectives.
Conceived as both a process-oriented survey and a discursive platform, Decade x Dialogue reflects on collective practice between shared history and future artistic inquiries. The exhibition addresses key questions at the intersection of humans and nature, examining the increasingly ambiguous entanglements in a technologically shaped present. It questions presumed hierarchies, illuminates co-existence and hybridization, and positions humans as part of larger processes.
Particular attention is given to processes of temporality and sedimentation, understood as the continuous inscription of experiences, images, and material as well as the immaterial traces of individual and collective spaces of memory. The participating artistic positions, research and reflect on traces both as relics of past actions and as active agents in the production of future meaning.
Another focus lies on artistic engagements with archives—as epistemic structures, poetic repositories, and critical infrastructures of visual culture. Here, archives are not conceived as static sites of preservation but as dynamic systems of reorganization, overwriting, and the renegotiation of history. In this context, spaces are examined in both their physical and virtual dimensions: as hybrid fields of experience between analog and digital spheres in which perception, memory, and presence are newly configured.
Images are no longer understood as discrete objects but as processual entities moving through continuous transformations, distributions, and recontextualizations. Decade x Dialogue thus positions itself as a reflective space in which artistic practices engage with the material, technical, and discursive conditions of their own present.

Text: Kathrin Ganser / Cassandra Mehlhorn, 2026

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