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ABOUT
NEWS
WORK IN PROGRESS
(2023 – ongoing)
Imprints
Of Trees and Cars
BOOKS
Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg
My Dreamhouse is not a House
One Day You Will Miss Me
COMPLETED
WORKS
(2014 – 2024)
Weikendorf
Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg (film)
What Remains!?
Let the Game Begin
Mapping Split 3
A March in the City
Graz-Vienna
We Come Together
My Dreamhouse is not a House
My Dreamhouse is Daydreams (film)
One Day You Will Miss Me
ARCHIVE
(2007 – 2014)
The Party
Public Exercise
Cathrine’s Street
Wandeling
Venice
Acaciapark
Neighbours
Annen Street
Private
Archive Theleman Alley
Untitled
Room Nr. 121-136
Brugse Poort
Darling
Clearing (Archive Kurt Wehlte)
Francis in the Morning
Magritte on a Sunday
CONTACT
Imprints
2023 – 2025Funded by
Kunstraum Steiermark scholarship, The Province of Styria (AT) The Austrian Federal Chancellery (AT) The City of Graz (AT)
Imprints is an ongoing photographic project by Julia Gaisbacher that explores the layere intersections of personal and collective memory, architectural development, and social transformation. The point of departure is the “Terrassenhaussiedlung” in Graz – a brutalist housing complex from the early 1970s where Gaisbacher grew up.
The series examines how we perceive spaces to which we return, how personal archives resonate within contemporary contexts, and how places become carriers of memory – both for those who once lived there and for those who inhabit them today.
At the heart of Imprints lies a visual dialogue between past and present. Gaisbacher juxtaposes her recent photographs of the housing complex – including images of the vacant apartment of the estate’s recently deceased architect – with material from her family photo archive. The result is a layered narrative in which personal histories intertwine with architectural traces.
Imprints invites viewers to step into these in-between spaces – not as voids, but as charged sites of meaning. The photographs reveal what is often overlooked: the quiet yet persistent signs of change that shape both our built environments and our lived realities – and, in turn, ourselves.
The series examines how we perceive spaces to which we return, how personal archives resonate within contemporary contexts, and how places become carriers of memory – both for those who once lived there and for those who inhabit them today.
At the heart of Imprints lies a visual dialogue between past and present. Gaisbacher juxtaposes her recent photographs of the housing complex – including images of the vacant apartment of the estate’s recently deceased architect – with material from her family photo archive. The result is a layered narrative in which personal histories intertwine with architectural traces.
Imprints invites viewers to step into these in-between spaces – not as voids, but as charged sites of meaning. The photographs reveal what is often overlooked: the quiet yet persistent signs of change that shape both our built environments and our lived realities – and, in turn, ourselves.