Sabine Groschup - Paul Albert Leitner
Two sophisticated austrian artists in self-portraits
Sabine Groschup, Paul Albert Leitner
The traveling exhibition focuses on the photographic self-portrait from an artistic perspective. It deliberately follows in the wake of mass-media self-preoccupation, without directly addressing this theme. Accordingly, it unites individual and self-presentations by two Austrian artists with national and international reputations.
Paul Albert Leitner has been photographing himself in analogue mode for over thirty years. Sabine Groschup was already trained in self-observation during her painting studies with Maria Lassnig. While in Leitner’s self-portraits staging, pose, and a desire for extraversion play as much of a role as the obligatory “photo suit,” Groschup’s self-portraits and series of images of the self stand for introspection and abundant consciousness of the self. With the camera, Groschup reenacts the idea of “body awareness” that Lassnig pursued in painting. Her Self-awareness (and the like) and Leitner’s Self-Portraits (Déjà-vu) are connected by the ingenious Collaboration-Work at the center of the show, which spans around one hundred works.
Österreichisches Kulturforum Berlin
28.09. – 23.10.2018
Vernissage 27.09.2018 7:00 pm
Location
Österreichisches Kulturforum BerlinStauffenbergstraße 1
10785 Berlin - Mitte
T 030 20287-14
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Mon–Fri 11–16 h
Public transport
U2 Potsdamer Platz
S1, S2, S25 bis Potsdamer Platz
Bus 200, M29, M41, M48, M85
Admission price
Free admission