ALEC SOTH Photography Is A Language

ALEC SOTH
Photography Is A Language
Invitation to the opening with free entry: Wednesday, 26 February 2020 at 7 p.m.
Book signing at 20:00 in the shop

The artist is present. Opening party followed by drinks and music by DJ Wunderkammer Gerald Moser.

The American Magnum photographer Alec Soth (born 1969 in Minneapolis) rose to international fame with subtle, nuanced photo series portraying American life. Alec Soth’s work is rooted in the American tradition of ‘on-the-road photography’ and references to Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Stephen Shore. His road trips take him to rural and suburban areas of the USA, where he documents people and situations he encounters, creating portraits filled with poetry and melancholy. Soth’s photography covers middle class life outside the big metropolises as well as people on the margins of society. His solo exhibition at KUNST HAUS WIEN is an Austrian premiere: Soth’s best-known series Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004), Niagara (2006), Broken Manual (2010), and Songbook (2014) will be shown, as well as his most recent work I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating (2019).

Speeches at the opening:
Bettina Leidl, Director KUNST HAUS WIEN
Verena Kaspar-Eisert, Curator
Kurt Gollowitzer, Managing Director Wien Holding

From 20:00 to 20:30 the artist will sign his publications in the KUNST HAUS WIEN Shop.