We are very excited to announce: The HELP FOR JAPAN "Secret Postcard" Art sale presented by Francesca von Habsburg/T-B A21, Elsa König, Elsa Okazaki and Andrew Standen-Raz.

The HELP FOR JAPAN Charity Event for the Red Cross, held on April 17th, 2011 at the Pratersauna in Vienna, will be one of the largest line-up of leading musicians, artists, fashion designers & locally based businesses seen in Vienna for a long time. 3pm till ...
The event is a natural outpouring of solidarity and assistance from Vienna's artistic community to the victims of the catastrophic events still unfolding in Japan.



The event includes international DJs and live acts, such as Peter Kruder, Rodney Hunter, Dorian Concept, Bauchklang, Microthol and [dunkelbunt], a fashion sample sale by Wendy & Jim, Ute Ploier, Anna Aichinger, Mühlbauer and, following in the steps of the successful charity art sales held for the last 15 years at the Royal College of Art in London, HELP FOR JAPAN will also present a charity sale of original, "one-off" postcard-sized art from the following leading and emerging artists:

BEN-DAVID ANAT, OVIDIU ANTON, JOHANNA BRAUN, CANDICE BREITZ, JANET CARDIFF & GEORGE BURES MILLER, ANETTA MONA CHISA & LUCIA TKÁCOVÁ, DJ SPOOKY, THOMAS DRASCHAN, BARBARA EICHHORN, EVA ENGELBERT, CHASE ERACHI, MANFRED ERJAUTZ, KERSTIN VON GABAIN, DOROTHEE GOLZ, DANIEL HAFNER, MARLENE HAUSEGGER, FLORIAN HECKER, JEPPE HEIN, LUKAS HEISTINGER, MATTHIAS HERRMANN, JUDITH HUEMER, KATSEY, SUSANNE KLOBASSA, IVO KOCHERSCHEIDT, KARL KÜHN, MARKO LULIC, CONSTANTIN LUSER/STEFAN ARZTMANN, MAHONY, CARSTEN NICOLAI, MICHAEL NIEMETZ, IRIS NITZL, RITA NOWAK, ANNELIES OBERDANNER, ELSA OKAZAKI, JULIAN PALACZ, GERNOT PETJAK, DEREK ROBERTS, CONSTANZE RUHM, VALENTIN RUHRY, FIONA RUKSCHIO, LISA RUYTER, HANS SCHABUS, MAX SCHAFFER, EVA SCHLEGEL, yours truly SIRA ZOE SCHMID/MARKUS OBERNDORFER, ELFIE SEMOTAN, DEBORAH SENGL, NEDKO SOLAKOV, A. C. STANDEN-RAZ, ESTHER STOCKER, JUERGEN TELLER, MARTIN VESELY, BILL VIOLA, SALVATORE VIVIANO, KAY WALKOWIAK, HERWIG WEISER, ERWIN WURM, NATALIA ZALUSKA ... and many more!

Leaning on a very nice project by photographer Richard Nicholson in which he is documenting some of the last remaining photographic darkrooms in London and a post by the Guardian that has been published under the headline of “the dying art of the photographic darkroom" and that featured this project, I tried to leave you some personal thoughts, that has been haunting me for a while.

Even more since I read an interesting manuscript called “Rauchzeichen aus dem Labyrinth, Der onthologische Anspruch der Photographie” by Steffen Kammler last year (N°6 in the series published as the “Rostocker Phänomenologische Manuskripte”).

Bringing what i read in the manuscript together with what i saw in Richard Nicholsons project and what I experience of being a photographer that still partly processes in the darkroom, i am wondering …  “What esle is going to be gone if the photographic darkroom really dies out? Where (if there) is this thin border between photography in the broader and photography in the narrower sense? The border, that after Steffen Kammler and in conjunction with the darkroom would have to be drawn behind “the negative that has been the last instance that has direct contact with the light and therefore carries the trace of the referent”? Something that digital photography can not claim for itself as “the lightsensor that literally takes the place of the photosensitive layer, in comparison does not show any trace of contact after the contact with the light …” because “the location of the light-contact is seperated from the location where the information is stored.” (Steffen Kammler, Rauchzeichen …, page 28).

I’m not a philosopher and I know that in the end it might not really matter for the (average) spectator. But still I do - as an artist - confront myself with the media I’m working with. As I had to deal with some slight problems after Kodak lately decided to stop production of a certain paper I partly used over the last 9 years of printing - and loved, I had to think about that question of the media even more and had to involuntarily compare those two (very different) crafts from an at least process oriented point of view:

“The craft and process of taking a negative, filterting colors and getting a result by printing in the darkroom” VS “the craft of ... Read more ...

i'm proud to announce my single exhibition "Markus Oberndorfer - Photography & Photofilm" at Galerie Schloss Puchheim. The exhibition - on three floors - will feature photography (2006-2008) aswell as photofilm. It will open doors on 19.11.2010, 7:30pm and will last until 12.12.2010. for opening days/hours check the gallery website ... would be great to see the one or other familiar face, this especially goes out to the Upper Austrian family. no excuse this time :) looking forward.

MARKUS OBERNDORFER - PHOTOGRAPHY & PHOTOFILM
Opening: 19.11.2010, 7:30pm, Galerie Schloss Puchheim
Gmundner Strasse 1a, 4800 Attnang-Puchheim

I am proud to annouce that quaterly published EIKON Magazine (International magzine will feature 8 pages of different current artworks in it's upcoming edition. Please find more information about the magazine and content on their WEBSITE.

Artist pages by Dorthee Golz, Jorma Puranen, Micha Payer & Martin Gabriel, Alicja Karska & Aleksandra Went and last but not least - me, Markus Oberndorfer // Texts by Margit Zuckriegl, Jan-Erik Lundström, Lucas Gehrmann, Kerstin Stremmel and Ruth Horak ...

EIKON #71 will be presented // Tuesday, 14.9.2010, 6pm // at EIKON SchAUfenster, Electric Avenue, Quartier 21, MQ, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna