Opening: April 12, 2026, 6 pm

To mark the 200th anniversary of photography, the Francisco Carolinum initiated an open photography competition that celebrates photography in all its facets, involves as many people as possible in Upper Austria, and showcases both professional and non-professional photographers. The competition track for artistic photography aimed at artists as well as the art and photography scene in Upper Austria.

Curators: Sandra Kratochwill, Genoveva Rückert
Exhibition Booklet
 

Franciso Carolinum Linz
Museumstraße 14
4010 Linz, Austrtia

Charity Auction Academy

The annual online auction of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, in cooperation with Dorotheum Vienna, takes place again in 2026. The artistic works can be viewed from Wednesday, 21.1. to Friday, 23.1.2025 at the Prospekthof of the Atelierhaus of the Academy.

Work for Auction:
Veri Dots # 1, 2021/23
Museum glass coated with photo emulsion, exposed with negative of the series Polka Dots, watercolour, highlighter, marker pen on paper
28 x 23 x 4 cm
Unique 

Opening: November 25, 2025, 6 pm

Lumen X is a self-organized, open photo lab in Vienna, supported by a diverse community—from artists and activists to self-taught photographers. In this exhibition, we present analogue works created between darkroom, exchange, and improvisation.
The exhibition reflects not only photographic processes but also social realities: As a laboratory in the precariat, we work with limited resources but great dedication. Our practice is characterized by solidarity-based knowledge transfer, shared resources, and the attempt to create a sustainable space for analog image production – beyond the logic of commercial exploitation.
Put on the red light makes visible what would otherwise remain in the dark: collective work, experimental techniques and the political dimension of analogue photography.

With works by Julius W. Chromecek, Sigrid Herler, Paul Müller, Kerstin Pfleger and Daniela Zeilinger.

WUK, WSB Studio
Währinger Straße 59
1090 Vienna