OstLicht starts spring 2019 with a new  concept. »OstLicht RELOADED« showcases highlights of the extensive  repertoire of the gallery and also puts a focus on contemporary  photography with the new platform »OstLicht YOUNG EDITIONS«: Especially  aimed at young collectors, the series offers limited editions of  up-and-coming artists with Piero Percoco, Silin Liu and Paweł Jaszczuk  kicking it off.   

OstLicht YOUNG EDITIONS
Under the  name »OstLicht YOUNG EDITIONS« the gallery introduces a new platform for  young photography, starting off with Piero Percoco, Silin Liu and Paweł  Jaszczuk. The Italian autodidact and Instagram shooting star Piero Percoco creates  his works right outside his doorstep. Percoco offers a unique  perspective on his homeland, the south of Italy. With humour and irony  he captures everyday life in the village, grandmother's culinary skills  and sunbathing people on the beach of Bari. In »I'm Everywhere« Silin Liu  from Beijing assumes the identity of her alter ego Céline Liu and  travels with her through space and time. Posing with Andy Warhol, Lady  Di or John F. Kennedy she inscribes herself into the history of the 20th century. The Polish photographer Paweł Jaszczuk  embarks on a search for representations of Christ in pop culture in his  series »¥€$U$«. It shows a world between spirituality and commerce made  of Holy Mary underwear, neon figures of saints and Jesus swim  rings. The exhibition is part of FOTO WIEN festival.   

OstLicht RELOADED
The exhibition presents a  broad spectrum of the history of the photographic medium: from vintage  masterpieces, classics of photojournalism to iconic Fine Art photography  all the way to Viennese Actionism. On offer, for example, is a Rudolf  Schwarzkogler portfolio with ten colour prints of his first action,  »Hochzeit« (Wedding), as well as a portfolio with Günter Brus’s action  »Transfusion«, photographed by Ludwig Hoffenreich. Cora Pongracz, whose estate OstLicht was able to secure, documented actions by Otto Muehl, portrayed VALIE EXPORT  and Arnulf Rainer and captured Marta Jungwirth dancing. Her pictures  are offered as high-quality edition prints. With Henri Cartier-Bresson,  Erich Lessing, Bruce Davidson and Elliott Erwitt  we encounter four of Magnum’s finest in the third exhibition room, each  with their own inimitable view of the poetry of everyday life. We set  out on the trail of glamour with Roland Pleterski's elegant fashion  shots and cityscapes of New York. Nobuyoshi Araki’s  studies of women’s bodies made him famous worldwide. »OstLicht  RELOADED« features a selection of his deeply poetic yet also often  provocative pictures.