Sunset Kino – Pascal Petignat and Sophie Thun
27. 8. 25, 9 p.m.
Portal
A Short Film Program from the Sixpackfilm archive.
Curated by Sophie Thun and Pascal Petignat.
Introduction by Martina Berger-Klingler, Internationale Sommerakademie Salzburg. Followed by a Q&A with Sophie Thun, Pascal Petignant and Martina Berger-Klingler.
Portals open transitions – between bodies and spaces, times and states of consciousness, between self-images and other realities. Sophie Thun and Pascal Petignat delve into the archive in search of filmic works that explore the motif of passage in diverse ways – as transformation, reflection, disruption, and more.
Moucle Blackout, Die Geburt der Venus, 1970-72, 5 min
Maria Lassnig, Selfportrait, 1971, 4 min 30 sec
Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Mirror Mechanics, 2005, 7 min 30 sec
Ashley Hans Scheirl & Ursula Pürrer, Sex & Crime, 1984, 3 min 10 sec
Jakub Vrba, Das ist sehr gut, 2009, 4 min
Derek Roberts, Corners, 2008, 10 min 10 sec
Kurdwin Ayub, Adele 1, 2011, 5 min
Daniela Zahlner, Bolex mon amour, 2011, 2 min 34 sec
Daniela Zahlner, Sexy 8, 2012, 2 min 50 sec
Friedl von Gröller, Eva, 2014, 2 min 30 sec
Sasha Pirker, These Walls Were Built by Donald Judd, 2015, 6 min
With heartfelt thanks to Dietmar Schwärzler.
key data
- Venue
- Salzburger Kunstverein
- Date
- 27. 8. 25, 9 p.m.
- In cooperation with Salzburger Kunstverein
- Salzburger Kunstverein Künstlerhaus Hellbrunner Straße 3 5020 Salzburg Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 12-7 pm
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.
Under petignat and scholz, he works artistically on decidedly photographic themes such as the question of whether a stain on the attic of the inventor of photography's house, which has been converted into a museum, refers to the magical in photography as anti-photography or, for example, the existence of phantom images on analog film material after passing through security gates at airports.
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)

Sophie Thun
Sophie Thun (*1985) lives and works in Vienna. She works primarily with techniques of analogue photography, its spaces and processes, as well as conditions of production and exhibition. She grew up in Warsaw and studied for her Master's degree in the Fine Arts Academies in Vienna (2017, with Martin Guttmann and Daniel Richter) and in Kraków (2010). She is currently interim professor of Photography at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art.
Exhibitions
Selected Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2024 (upcoming) Ulay und Sophie Thun, SOPHIE TAPPEINER, Wien; Co Robisz w Łóżku, Gdańska Galeria Miejska; Museum der Moderne, Salzburg. 2023 Back Stages, with Aurora Kiraly, ARAC, Bukarest (RO). Leaking Times, Cukrarna, Ljubljana. 2022 Working Title, Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon. Trails and Tributes, Kunstverein Hildesheim (DE). Merge Layers, SOPHIE TAPPEINER, Vienna. 2021 I Don’t Remember a Thing: Entering the Elusive Estate of ZDZ, Sophie Thun and the Archiv of Zenta Dzividzinska, Kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga. SHIFTS (RAL 5014), Rosa Stern Space, Munich (DE). Förderstipendium, with Sara Cwynar, as part of the Kunststiftung DZ Bank Förderstipendium, Art Foyer, Frankfurt (DE). Thun vs Wałaszek, Sophie Thun and Krzysztof Wałaszek, ul. Ruska 146 C/105, Atelier der Gruppe LUXUS, Wrocław (PL). 2020 Stolberggasse, Secession, Vienna. Extension, C/O Berlin, Berlin. double pose, reflecting self – reflecting pose, double self: Birgit Jürgenssen und Sophie Thun, Photography Festival #10, Prag. Sophie Thun, Kunstfenster Gnas, Gnas (AT). Room Tour: Karolina Jabłońska & Sophie Thun, Galeria Raster, Warschau. Condo London: SOPHIE TAPPEINER: Angelika Loderer & Sophie Thun, The Sunday Painter, London. 2019 Extended Double Release, Galerie 52, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen (DE). Interiors of Photography, Mladen Bizumic, Sophie Thun, Camera Austria, Graz (AT). After Hours, SOPHIE TAPPEINER, Vienna. WHITE FLAG, with Hanna Putz, Foto Wien Zentrale, Vienna.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 20 Jahre SAMMLUNG VERBUND, Albertina, Vienna. The Egg and I. Great Expectations, eversince, Düsseldorf. 2023 I See No Difference Between a Handshake and a Poem, Mendes Wood, Paris. No Time to Have You Lurking, Bistro 21, Leipzig (DE). LCB-Editionen, 1968-89 – eine Re-Lektüre, Literarisches Colloquium Berlin. Taking Notes, SOPHIE TAPPEINER, Vienna. Happy Mind – My Pose, MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo. Nay, Her Foot Speaks, Cooke Latham Gallery, London. I constantly wonder what time it is where you are, Sector 1 Gallery, Bukarest. (INTIMITÄT) Feelings are Facts, Kunstverein Eisenstadt (AT). 2022 I am only the housekeeper, but I don’t know..., Plečnik House, Ljubljana. Something is Burning, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava. 2021 Smart to the Core: Medium / Image, SMART Museum, Chicago, IL (US). Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller: Songs of Experience, Museo MACRO, Rome. HOMESICK, Shivers Only, Paris. 2020 Elisabeth Wild, Karma International, Zurich (CH). Monster/Beauty: An Exploration of the Female/Femme Gaze, Lychee One Gallery, London. Murderkino, Galerie Charim, Vienna. Now. Collected #9/#10, Kunstforum Wien, Tresor, Vienna. Borderlinking, High Art, Paris. 2019 Kopierte Landschaft, Bibliothek der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna. Für die Vögel, Landesklinikum Hollabrunn (AT). Body in Progress, Österreichisches Kulturforum Berlin, Berlin. Augmented Personality, Büro Weltausstellung, Vienna. 2018 Art Berlin, SALON, Berlin. Choreography of the Frame, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna. Portrait 21, Westlicht, Schauplatz für Fotografie, Vienna.
Publications
Publications
2023 Trails and Tributes, contributions by Alise Tifentale, Christin Müller, Torsten Scheid, eds. Kunstverein Hildesheim, Verlag für Moderne Kunst
2022 Sophie Thun, First Monographs, contributions by Catherine Wood, Lisa Long, Lucy Gallun, Charlotte Cotton, eds. Phileas, DISTANZ Verlag
2020 Sophie Thun, contribution by Daniel Spoerri, eds. Secession, Revolver Publishing
2019 WHITE FLAG, with Hanna Putz, contribution by Luca Lo Pinto, publication, PAMPAM Publishing
