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Walk Though Tour with Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka)

Friday, May 28, 2010 | 3 pm – 4 pm

Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka): Year Portraits

Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka) was born in London in 1946 and spent her childhood in East Berlin and Vienna. She made her first films in the late 1960s while still a student, asking her models to look into the camera for the duration of one reel of film: "I want to see something that has never before been seen in this form." Her films have screened at venues such as the Munich Film Museum, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Anthology Film Archives (New York), the Austrian Filmmuseum to name a few. In 1971 she graduated with a diploma in industrial photography from the Graphic Instruction and Research Institute in Vienna. In 1997 she completed her psychoanalytical training, employing themes concerned with the human psyche, humor and shame. Perhaps best known for her serial photographs (the Year, Month, Week and Day Portraits) Kubelka has had solo exhibitions of her photographic works at museums and galleries including the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (Vienna), Galerie Fotohof (Salzburg) and the Frankfurter Kunstverein. In 2005 she was awarded the Staatspreis für Photographie, Austria's most prestigious photography award. She is founder of the Vienna School of Artistic Photography (1990) and the School for Independent Film (2006). She currently teaches photography in Salzburg and Vienna.

This exhibition and artist visit is a partnership with the AGW and Media City Film Festival as part of its 16th annual edition, May 25-29, 2010.