PHOTOSYNTHESIS – Dialogue Tours
Strolls through the exhibition, with exciting outside views. Prominent figures from science and everyday culture in conversation with INN SITU’s artistic director Hans-Joachim Gögl.
The guided tours take place on-site (BTV Stadtforum Innsbruck). Please bring a negative COVID-19 test, a COVID-19-vaccination confirmation or a COVID-19 recovery confirmation.
Film and guided tour of the exhibition by the artist
For the finale of this INN SITU spotlight: A documentary about the Pitztal photo pioneer Anna Katharina Lentsch. Prior to this, an exchange with Roos van Haaften at the exhibition (guided tour in English, film and discussion in German).
Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 5 p.m.
The tour with the artist Roos van Haaften begins at 5 p.m., and the film takes place at around 6 p.m.
Photo, BU: The photography pioneer Anna Katharina Lentsch (far right) with her four daughters Maria, Berta, Pauline and Ida (from left) and her sons-in-law Gustav Bregenzer and Wilhelm Lau, the co-founder of the Risch-Lau company. © Private property
Film documentary: Dichtel’s Drina – a search for traces
A spectacular women’s story: The picture postcard company Risch-Lau, whose images Roos van Haaften explores in the exhibition, has its roots in the Tyrolean Pitztal valley. Leaving the village of Wenns behind, a certain Anna Katharina Lentsch set off in the middle of the 19th century and opened a successful photo studio in Sigmaringen (Baden-Württemberg) a few years later. With her help, her daughter Ida then laid the foundation of the Risch-Lau company in Bregenz, which was to shape the image of the region in a very special way for over 100 years. Anna Katharina’s great-great-grandson Markus Barnay set out in search of any traces of this extraordinary Tyrolean entrepreneur. He will be available for a discussion afterwards.
The guided tour takes place on-site (BTV Stadtforum Innsbruck). Please bring a negative COVID-19 test, a COVID-19-vaccination confirmation or a COVID-19 recovery confirmation.
Past events:
Guided dialogue tour with Martina Baleva, art historian
Wednesday, 30 June 2021, 6 to 7 p.m.
Martina Baleva has been a professor of art history with a focus on recent art history at the University of Innsbruck since 2019. Previously, she held an FAG Foundation Assistant Professorship for Cultural Topographies of Eastern Europe at the University of Basel. Her main research areas include the history of art and images in Eastern Europe as well as the history and theory of photography.
The guided tour takes place on-site (BTV Stadtforum Innsbruck). Please bring a negative COVID-19 test, a COVID-19-vaccination confirmation or a COVID-19 recovery confirmation.
Guided dialogue tour with Thomas Feurstein, librarian
Wednesday, 2 June 2021, 6 to 7 p.m. – FULLY BOOKED
Thomas Feurstein maintains the archive of the Risch-Lau company in the Vorarlberg State Library with its tens of thousands of postcards and photographs, which inspired the works of Roos van Haaften’s exhibition. He studied geography and German in Innsbruck and did a training as a librarian in Zurich. Since 1989 he has been working in Bregenz and has been building a regional image database in the state library for several years.
The guided tour takes place on-site (BTV Stadtforum Innsbruck). Please bring a negative COVID-19 test, a COVID-19-vaccination confirmation or a COVID-19 recovery confirmation.
Guided dialogue tour with Martina Baleva, art historian
Digital guided dialogue tour with Markus Barnay, great-grandson of Ida Risch.
Wednesday, 12th of May 2021, 6 to 7 p.m. on Youtube
Markus Barnay is the great-grandson of Ida Risch, née Back, who in 1885 – together with her husband Wilhelm Lau – opened the photo studio in Bregenz that later became the Atelier Risch-Lau and eventually one of the best-known picture postcard publishers in western Austria. Pictures from the Risch-Lau archive serve as models for Roos van Haaften’s works.
Markus Barnay is an editor in the Current Affairs Department at ORF Vorarlberg. He is the creator of TV documentaries on various aspects of Vorarlberg’s history, collaborator on exhibitions and DVDs with interviews with contemporary witnesses, and author of “Vorarlberg: Vom Ersten Weltkrieg bis zur Gegenwart” (Vorarlberg: From the First World War to the Present).
The guided tour was on Youtube.