With "It’s Yours, It’s Mine", FOTOHOF presents an insight into the extensive body of work by Austrian artist Mafalda Rakoš. Her projects, most of which are realised over long periods of time, focus on questions arising from a view of the world that is at once photographically documentary and anthropologically investigative. Portraiture serves as the recurring aesthetic and medial point of departure for artistic experimental arrangements that explore the possibilities of engaging with complex social discourses through photographic means.
In Mafalda Rakoš’s work, the image of the Other emerges through an expansion of perspective. In dialogue with her protagonists and co-authors, she transcends the literary, scientific, and artistic tradition of the first-person narrative. The collaborative process that unfolds brings together elements of documentary practice, art therapy, performance, and anthropological research with the aim of rendering something intangible — people’s thoughts and emotions — visible against the backdrop of broader systemic, economic, or historical contexts.
- Venue
- Fotohof
- Date
- 7. 8. – 24. 9. 26
Mafalda Rakoš
Mafalda Rakoš was born in 1994. Her interdisciplinary practice originates in photography and extends into film, drawing, painting, and collage. She often collaborates closely with a diverse range of co-authors, including strangers, friends, and fellow artists. These works lie at the intersection of art, anthropology, and documentary photography, with a strong emphasis on dialogue and mutual decision-making.
Her pictures are regularly shown in exhibitions, photo books, and international newspapers and magazines.
Website
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2026 It’s yours, it’s mine (upcoming), Fotohof, Salzburg (AT).
2025 Fotografía como Encuentro, Fotogalerie, Vienna.
All in this together, General Hospital Vienna.
2024 All in this together, Copenhagen Fotofestival, Copenhagen.
2022 A Story to Tell, Fotodok at Astare, Utrecht (NL).
2021 A Story to Tell, Galerie Westlicht, Vienna.
2021 A Story to Tell, Melkweg Gallery, Amsterdam.
Group exhibitions
2025 It’s yours, it’s mine, Diploma at Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, Vienna.
2024 Return to Ithaca, DL Gallery, Athens.
2023 Invisible Obvious, Never at Home, Vienna.
2022 Stop & Go, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris.
2020 Körper / Rituale, Fotogalerie, Vienna.
A Story to Tell, Athens Photo Festival, Athens.
Steenbergen Stipendium, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (NL).
2019 Photographing the Female, Beaconsfield Gallery, Boston, MA (US).
2018 I want to disappear, Organ Vida Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb.
2017 I want to disappear, Fotografia Festival, Rome.
Photobook Phenomenon, CCCB Barcelona, Barcelona (ES).
Photographing the Female, FOCUS photo festival, Mumbai (IN).
I want to disappear, Circulation(s) Festival, Paris.
2012 Times Like These, Encontros da Imagem Festival, Braga (PT).
Publications
All in this together, Four Dialogical Portraits: Eriskay Connection, Breda, 2024.
A Story to Tell, or: Regarding Male Eating Disorders: Fotohof, Salzburg, 2020.
I want to disappear – Approaching Eating Disorders, Lammerhuber, Baden, 2017.
