08.08.2025 – 27.09.2025
The German photographer Valentina Seidel, who has been associated with Salzburg and the FOTOHOF for many years, has reviewed and re-edited her early contact sheets and slides from 1992-94 in a co-operation project with the FOTOHOF>ARCHIVE. Alongside Graz, Salzburg has been a prominent location for the study of contemporary photography since 1975 thanks to the photography training programme at Salzburg College. The portrait has always been at the centre of Seidel’s artistic work, documented by publications such as the FOTOHOF>EDITION. Her interest in the human image was formulated early on in her self-portraits, first shown as a graduation work in Michael Schmidt’s class in 1992, which will be shown in a ‘second premiere’ in the current exhibition. During these formative years of contemporary European photography, the workshops at Salzburg College represented a variety of different approaches to the new artistic medium, from documentary to conceptual working methods, which were also to be formative for Seidel. The artist’s exhibition installation entitled ‘Learning from Salzburg … Sommerakademie und Salzburg College 1992-94, eine persönliche Recherche’ (Learning from Salzburg … Summer Academy and Salzburg College 1992-94, a personal research) now shows a selection of the results of these workshops as well as a projection of the original slides from 1993, which provide a detailed insight into the artistic processes of Nan Goldin’s class.
Valentina Seidel – Learning from Salzburg…
08.08.2025 – 27.09.2025
FOTOHOF
Inge-Morath-Platz 1
5020 Salzburg
http://fotohof.net
