Pascal Petignat
Pascal Petignat works as a photographer, conceptual artist, exhibition organizer and publisher. He also accompanies and advises artists and institutions in the realization of photographic works.
In addition to his artistic and photographic practice, he has worked for many years in education and teaching. Most recently at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he worked as a senior artist at the Department of Applied Photography and Time-based Media, helping to establish the department.
Together with Martin Scholz, he founded fotoK, Center for Photography and Art in Vienna in 2004 and ran it until 2018. In addition to a three-year course, fotoK was a workshop with a studio and laboratory for analogue and digital photography and, with two exhibition spaces, a venue for a rich exhibition program for photography.
Website
Exhibitions
solo
2024, portrait post mortem - la tache - viaggio in francia, Standard/Deluxe, Lausanne 2017, Bild im Hochhaus, Hochhaus Herrengasse, Vienna. 2013, Jet Lag All Stars Radio Show, Aktion gegen das berechenbare Bild, Radio Ö1, Vienna. Das letzte Labor, Galerie Hinterhaus, Vienna. 2003, Grenzland, Kunsthalle, Wien
group
2018, Choreography of the Frame, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna. 2013, Fotos; Österreichische Fotografien von den 1930ern bis heute, Belvedere, 21er Haus. 2013, Die Magie des Objekts, Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Rupertinum: Schaufenster zur Sammlung IV. 2005, Home Stories, an inside loook at singlefamilie houses in Austria, Austrian Culture Forum, New York
Publications
2024, Probelauf - Performative Szenen zum parlamentarischen Betrieb, Parlamentsdirektion, University of Applied Arts Vienna and Pascal Petignat (ed.), Walter DeGruyter, Berlin/Boston, (editor, concept, realisation). 2020, Temporäre Unordnung - 782 Abbildungen aus dem Parlamentsgebäude im Leerstand Parlamentsdirektion, University of Applied Arts Vienna and Pascal Petignat (eds.), Walter DeGruyter, Berlin Boston (publisher, concept, realisation) 2017, Bild im Hochhaus, petignat und scholz (eds.), Eigenverlag, Vienna, hochbetagt, Günther Brandstetter, Marietta Mühlfellner (eds.), Verlag Anton Pustet, Salzburg, (concept, design and realisation)
