06.03.2026 – 12.07.2026
In his exhibition, Georg Petermichl focuses on photography as a social and psychological instrument. Starting from the smallest personal cosmos – his own family and circle of friends – he broadens his view to larger contexts such as mass tourism, collective longings and shared cultural practices. Central groups of works in the exhibition revolve around the family archive and photographic studies in which Petermichl approaches leisure practices, for example, through photographs of tourist locations where crowds of people move in clear, almost choreographed patterns. He is less interested in moral judgement than in close observation: How do collective rituals arise? When does the individual emerge from the crowd? In enlarged photographs from private photo albums, family becomes visible not only as a biographical origin, but also as a projection surface for memory, authority and closeness.
The exhibition, curated by Maria Venzl, invites visitors to reinterpret seemingly familiar images – as an expression of shared longings, shared rules and a ‘lowest common multiple’ that connects individual experience and social reality.
Georg Peter-Michl – Universal thoughts: Least common multiple
06.03.2026 – 12.07.2026
Francisco Carolinum Linz
Museusstraße 14
4020 Linz
www.ooekultur.at
