Exhibition opening: Wednesday, October 26th, at 7 pm.

26. 10. – 04. 12. 2022

Peter Kodera (Vienna, 1937-2014) was a painter, photographer, film-cameraman and (between 1984-2004) the first teacher of photography at the Academy of Fine Arts. Here he set up a studio that quickly became a renown institution across Vienna. Kodera taught the techniques of silver-photography to generations of art students.

He had started photographing during the late 1950ies. The exhibition shows cross-sessions of his multi-faceted works. The vintage prints on display are early ostensibly abstract studies of nature, nudes, film-stills from the 1960ies (directed by avant-garde filmmaker Ferry Radax), portraits of authors from the wiener Gruppe (such as H.C. Artmann and Wolfgang Bauer), street photography, and architectural photography from some of the many illustrated volumes Kodera published (such as his book on St. Stephen’s cathedral in Vienna, or the Hofburg).