Landschaft – Krasnodar

In the first exhibition of the new year, FOTOHOF presents two still relatively unknown but very interesting Austrian photographers whose works have little in common at first glance.

Paul Kranzler has been taking photographs for two years in a little-known asylum home on the outskirts of Linz. Despite a classic photo-documentary gaze, he does not move through a world on the fringes of society as an outsider onlooker, for whom we mostly only muster pity, but with a sensitivity that has come about through his friendship with the residents. The city of Krasnodar really exists, but it is very far away, where exactly, few people know; this time the foreign place is right in front of our own city.

For the Tyrolean Nikolaus Schletterer, landscape is the central theme of his artistic work. With poetic and at the same time unsparing views, he has recorded a comprehensive picture of the state of the contemporary landscape in Europe in recent years. In large-format colour photographs, he virtually holds up to the viewer how landscape is understood in our time and how it is dealt with. In the exhibition at the Fotohof, Schletterer shows examples from the cycle “Earth” and “Water”.