Coinciding with the August Sander exhibition, the upper gallery features an installation by Hanna Putz, Portraits after S. The Vienna and Berlin based artist has been invited to curate a selection of her portraits. The photographs depict predominantly women of her own generation – among them friends and peers of the artist, protagonists of the Austrian art scene and athletes, whom Putz accompanied over a period of time. While in Sander’s compositions the connection between man and his status still seems to be a stable foundation despite the social upheaval of the 1920s, Putz documents the contemporary individual, exempt from all ties, with radical crops and tilted views. In her distinctive, quiet yet powerful, voice, Putz casts a contemporary female perspective on the work of Sander and its conceptual and social aspects.

An installation in the camera museum draws a further connection to contemporary art. It pays tribute to the far-reaching legacy of Sander’s so-called exact photography and visual.