Weikendorf

2024
45 b/w images, each 30x40cm, framed
Wallpaper, 300x600cm

Funded by 
KOER Niederösterreich

Exhibition design
in collaboration with Fernando Gallegos

Research
with the support of  Robert Hanel and Gerardo Montes de Oca Valadez 

Exhibition views
Julia Gaisbacher

Weikendorf deals with the changes brought about by the new global economic policies and agro-industries from the 1960s onwards and their effects on rural areas and agriculture using the example of the village of Weikendorf in Lower Austria. Around fifty years later, Julia Gaisbacher asks to what extent the changes can still be seen in the townscape today and what traces of that time remain.

Historical images from the Weikendorf archive, extensive conversations, and walks through the community form the starting point for how the various changes were captured. 
Gaisbacher's photographs from Weikendorf are a mixture of documentation and a particular artistic view, which, as framed moments, tell a lot about temporality and change.

Please find images from the exhibition opening here