East light

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East light. Galerie für Fotografie , is an art gallery in Vienna , which is located on the site of the former Ankerbrot factory in Favoriten . The gallery shows contemporary photographic art.

OstLicht Gallery

history

In June 2012 , the OstLicht gallery was opened on the site of the former Ankerbrot factory, Vienna's youngest and dynamically growing cultural area. OstLicht is a new project by Peter Coeln, who has been the WestLicht photo museum since 2001 . Operates a scene for photography . OstLicht shows group and solo exhibitions of contemporary photo art on 400 m² of exhibition space, both Austrian and international positions. With the opening of OstLicht, another art institution is established on the still young cultural area of ​​the former anchor bread factory.

architecture

The architect Gregor Eichinger designed the OstLicht premises with the historical industrial architecture in mind.

Library

OstLicht specialist library

The specialist library of the OstLicht Gallery comprises a collection of over 20,000 books and magazines on the subjects of art, technology, history and theory of photography , which extends from the end of the 19th century to the present day. The inventory of the reference library emerged from the collection of Peter Coeln. The library is constantly being expanded through purchases of antiquarian and exhibition-related books.

OstLicht / WestLicht collection

The photo collection of Peter Coeln-GmbH includes around 40,000 objects in a wide variety of photographic production techniques, from plate photographs and glass slides to the various printing processes on paper. The spectrum includes historical and classic photography, which in WestLicht. The location for photography is kept, as well as works of contemporary photographic art, located in the OstLicht. In addition to individually purchased objects, the collection includes a number of partial bequests and larger work blocks (Studio Manassé / Olga Wlassics, Photo Simonis, Gustav Schikola, Udo Proksch / Roland Pleterski, Stefan Kruckenhauser , Walter Henisch, Trude Fleischmann ).

Publications

  • Peter Coeln, Verena Kaspar-Eisert (Ed.): Night. Catalog on the occasion of the opening exhibition of the OstLicht Gallery for Photography. With texts by the editors and Markus Mittringer, German / English, 64 pages, OstLicht, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-9503353-0-9
  • Peter Coeln, Verena Kaspar-Eisert (Ed.): Industry. Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition in the Ostlicht. Gallery for photography. With texts by Karin Jaschke, Sophie Haslinger. German. 44 pages, east light. Gallery for Photography, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-9503353-1-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OstLicht. Gallery for Photography Walter Seidl. Camera Austria. June 2012.
  2. ↑ Successful debut Jothady, Manisha. Art magazines. 17th August 2012.
  3. ^ New center for photography in Vienna Thomas Trenkler. The standard. June 3, 2012.

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 19.5 ″  N , 16 ° 23 ′ 21.8 ″  E