FJK3 - Contemporary Art Space

FJK3 - Contemporary Art Space Franz Josefs Kai 3, Contemporary Art Space is a non-commercial institution in the heart of Vienna.

Thank you for joining us!Vielen Dank an Walter Moser und Fiona Liewehr für die großartige Tour.Wir freuen uns, mit Walte...
01/09/2026

Thank you for joining us!
Vielen Dank an Walter Moser und Fiona Liewehr für die großartige Tour.

Wir freuen uns, mit Walter Moser, seit 2011 Chefkurator der Fotosammlung der Albertina Wien, einen ausgewiesenen Kenner der Fotografie der Gegenwart für den Rundgang durch die Ausstellung gewonnen zu haben. Für die Albertina hat er u. a. Retrospektiven zu Richard Prince (2026), Lisette Model (2025) und VALIE EXPORT (2023) kuratiert.

Photos: Manisha Jothady

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fjk3 – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Franz-Josefs-Kai 3
1010 Wien

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JOIN US THIS FRIDAY!Fr, 28.08.2026, 18:00 UhrWalter Moser, Chefkurator der Fotosammlung der Albertina, und Fiona Liewehr...
26/08/2026

JOIN US THIS FRIDAY!
Fr, 28.08.2026, 18:00 Uhr
Walter Moser, Chefkurator der Fotosammlung der Albertina, und Fiona Liewehr, künstlerische Leiterin des fjk3, führen durch die Ausstellung Passants parmi les pierres. Curated by Thomas Demand.

Was zeigen Fotografien tatsächlich und inwiefern spielen individuelle Vorstellungen und Erinnerung in die Deutung eines Bildes mit hinein? Passants parmi les pierres lädt dazu ein, sich diesen Fragen zu widmen.
Die vom Künstler Thomas Demand kuratierte Ausstellung versammelt 27 Positionen aus Fotografie, Film und Skulptur. Eine besondere sprachliche Ebene bilden die vom Schriftsteller Clemens J. Setz verfassten Bildlegenden. Sie erklären die Werke nicht, sondern begleiten sie als subjektive Kommentare bzw. Assoziationen.
Wir freuen uns, mit Walter Moser, seit 2011 Chefkurator der Fotosammlung der Albertina Wien, einen ausgewiesenen Kenner der Fotografie der Gegenwart für den Rundgang durch die Ausstellung gewonnen zu haben. Für die Albertina hat er u. a. Retrospektiven zu Richard Prince (2026), Lisette Model (2025) und VALIE EXPORT (2023) kuratiert.

Die Führung findet auf Deutsch statt.
Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung möglich

The tour will be conducted in German.
Participation is free of charge and no registration is required.

Image: Visitors in front of Tacita Dean, Gellért, 1998
16 mm color film, optical sound, 6 min Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris, and Frith Street Gallery, London, Photo: Juro Carl Anton Reinhardt

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fjk3 – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Franz-Josefs-Kai 3
1010 Wien

fjk3 bleibt frei!
Free admission to all exhibitions and events.

JOIN US THIS FRIDAY!Fri, August 28, 6 p.m.Walter Moser gives a tour through the exhibitionPassants parmi les pierres. cu...
26/08/2026

JOIN US THIS FRIDAY!
Fri, August 28, 6 p.m.
Walter Moser gives a tour through the exhibition
Passants parmi les pierres. curated by Thomas Demand.

The expert-guided tours accompanying the exhibition offer visitors the opportunity to engage more deeply, and through dialogue, with the role of images in shaping perception, memory, and history.

The tour will be conducted in conversation with Walter Moser, who has been Chief Curator of the Photography Collection at the Albertina, Vienna, since 2011. Moser studied art history at the Universities of Vienna and Rome before serving as a research associate at the Wien Museum and the Austrian Film Museum. His current research focuses on twentieth-century photography. Most recently, he has curated retrospectives on Richard Prince (2026), Lisette Model (2025), and VALIE EXPORT (2023) for the Albertina. He also teaches at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

The tour will be conducted in German.
Participation is free of charge and no registration is required.

Image: Visitors in front of Tacita Dean, Gellért, 1998
16 mm color film, optical sound, 6 min Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris, and Frith Street Gallery, London, Photo: Juro Carl Anton Reinhardt

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fjk3 – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Franz-Josefs-Kai 3
1010 Wien

fjk3 bleibt frei!
Free admission to all exhibitions and events.

Martin Boyce, A Partial Eclipse (Baalbek), 2010/2025Giclee Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth, 20.8 × 13.9 cmCou...
11/08/2026

Martin Boyce, A Partial Eclipse (Baalbek), 2010/2025
Giclee Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth, 20.8 × 13.9 cm
Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute, Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
The Modern Institute

Der Archäologe Kyriakos Pittakis (1798–1863) war zur Zeit der Griechischen Revolution Soldat und kämpfte gegen die osmanischen Herrscher. Bei Kämpfen um die Akropolis ging den osmanischen Soldaten die Munition aus, also begannen sie, die berühmten Säulen der Tempelanlage zu zerschlagen, um an bestimmte Bauteile aus Blei zu kommen und diese für Munition zu verwenden. Als Pittakis und seine Kollegen von diesem Frevel erfuhren, schickten sie kistenweise Munition an ihre Feinde, um das berühmte Bauwerk zu schützen. Tag und Nacht wurden sie darauf beschossen.

At the time of the Greek Revolution, archeologist Kyriakos Pittakis (1798–1863) was a soldier fighting against the Ottoman rulers. In the course of battles at the Acropolis, the Ottoman soldiers ran out of ammunition and began smashing the famous columns of the temple complex to obtain certain lead components that they could use for ammunition. When Pittakis and his colleagues got news of this outrage, they sent loads of boxes of ammunition to their enemies to protect the famous building. They were under fire day and night after that.

Text by Clemens Setz Clemens Setz

Exhibition:
Passants parmi les pierres
curated by Thomas Demand

Photos:
[2–4] juro carl anton reinhardt

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fjk3 – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Franz-Josefs-Kai 3
1010 Wien

fjk3 bleibt frei!
Free admission to all exhibitions and events.

Martin Boyce, A Partial Eclipse (Baalbek), 2010/2025
Giclee Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth, 20.8 × 13.9 cm
Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute, Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
The Modern Institute

Der Archäologe Kyriakos Pittakis (1798–1863) war zur Zeit der Griechischen Revolution Soldat und kämpfte gegen die osmanischen Herrscher. Bei Kämpfen um die Akropolis ging den osmanischen Soldaten die Munition aus, also begannen sie, die berühmten Säulen der Tempelanlage zu zerschlagen, um an bestimmte Bauteile aus Blei zu kommen und diese für Munition zu verwenden. Als Pittakis und seine Kollegen

Peter Fischli David Weiss, Untitled (4 Frauen), 1987/2012Aluminum and paint, 50 × 110 × 150 cmCourtesy Sprüth Magers, Be...
31/07/2026

Peter Fischli David Weiss, Untitled (4 Frauen), 1987/2012
Aluminum and paint, 50 × 110 × 150 cm
Courtesy Sprüth Magers, Berlin/London/Los Angeles/New York
Sprueth Magers

La lune est le soleil des statues, behauptete Jean Cocteau. Der Esperanto-Dichter Jorge Camacho überlegte dazu: Wenn die Statuen unseren Mond sehen, der, so wie sie, aus Stein ist, werden sie ihn im Vergleich zur Sonne wohl als viel „lebensnaher“ empfinden. Er ist ja wie sie. Die Sonne dagegen erscheint ihnen mehr für die beweglichen Figuren aus Fleisch, für uns Menschen. Daher würden die Statuen unsere Sonne „Mond“ nennen. Aber wenn man, so Camacho, den jeweiligen Gefühlswert der Worte
innerhalb der Statuenwelt beibehält, müsste man die Statuen selbst „Menschen“ und uns Menschen „Statuen“ nennen. „Per kio ni revenas al la unua verso de la poemo: La luno estas la suno de la statuoj.“ – „Dadurch kommen wir wieder zum ersten Vers des Gedichts zurück: Der Mond ist die Sonne der Statuen.“

La lune est le soleil des statues, Jean Cocteau suggested. Esperanto poet Jorge Camacho pondered the idea: when the statues see our moon, which, like them, is made of stone, they will likely perceive it as much more “lifelike” than the sun. After all, it is like them. The sun, on the other hand, will strike them as being more for the moving figures made of flesh, for us humans. The statues would, therefore, call our sun “moon.” If we keep to the respective emotional value of words within the world of statues, Camacho argued, we would have to call the statues themselves “humans” and us humans “statues.” “Per kio ni revenas al la unua verso de la poemo: La luno estas la suno de la statuoj.” – “This brings us back to the first verse of the poem: The moon is the sun of the statues.”

Text by Clemens Setz Clemens Setz

Exhibition:
Passants parmi les pierres
curated by Thomas Demand

Photos:
[1,5,6] juro carl anton reinhardt
[2–4] .lisa

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fjk3 – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Franz-Josefs-Kai 3
1010 Wien

fjk3 bleibt frei!
Free admission to all exhibitions and events.

Peter Fischli David Weiss, Untitled (4 Frauen), 1987/2012
Aluminum and paint, 50 × 110 × 150 cm
Courtesy Sprüth Magers, Berlin/London/Los Angeles/New York
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PASSANTS PARMI LES PIERRES, curated by Thomas Demand, is open all summer long!Wed–Sun, 12–6 p.m.Many thanks to hannahsak...
27/07/2026

PASSANTS PARMI LES PIERRES, curated by Thomas Demand, is open all summer long!

Wed–Sun, 12–6 p.m.

Many thanks to hannahsakai for the wonderful design of the posters and folders.

PASSANTS PARMI LES PIERRES presents 27 works spanning photography, film, video, and sculpture by artists including Luigi Ghirri, Sibylle Bergemann, Tacita Dean, Jürgen Jürges, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Mohamed Bourouissa, Jeff Wall, and Carrie Mae Weems. Their works move between reportage and reconstruction, between the observed moment and the staged image, between historical event and its representation.
The writer Clemens J. Setz has composed a caption for each contribution, creating an independent textual layer within the exhibition space and thereby subverting the conventional relationship between artwork and commentary.

Poster image: Martin Boyce, A Partial Eclipse (Baalbek), 2010/25. Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute, Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow.

Photos: juro carl anton reinhardt
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fjk3 – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Franz-Josefs-Kai 3
1010 Wien

fjk3 bleibt frei!
Free admission to all exhibitions and events.

Yoshinori Mizutani, COLORS  #111, 2014Archival pigment print, 80 × 53.3 cmYoshinori Mizutani Einmal kam ich in Tokio an ...
17/07/2026

Yoshinori Mizutani, COLORS #111, 2014
Archival pigment print, 80 × 53.3 cm
Yoshinori Mizutani

Einmal kam ich in Tokio an einem halb geöffneten Buchgeschäft vorbei. Das Gitter war nur zur Hälfte hochgezogen, möglicherweise klemmte es oder war defekt. Die Kundschaft musste sich tief bücken, um ins Innere zu gelangen. Angelockt durch die irreguläre Betretungsart schlüpfte ich ebenfalls hinein. Nach einer Weile fand ich eine lateinische Ausgabe von De Rerum Natura. Aber der Verkäufer winkte höflich ab und bedeutete mir, das Buch bitte wieder zurückzulegen. Dann zeigte er mir einen laminierten Computerdruck mit einer Liste von Tageszeiten. Diese Bücher dort drüben stünden, so verstand ich seine Belehrung, ausschließlich in den Nachmittagsstunden zum Verkauf. Ich kehrte am Nachmittag zurück, in meinem schönsten Regenmantel, und fand das Geschäft geschlossen.

I once passed by a Tokyo bookstore that was only half-open. The shutter was raised only halfway; it was perhaps stuck or broken. Customers had to bend down low to get inside. Intrigued by the odd way of entering, I slipped inside, too. After a while, I found a Latin edition of De Rerum Natura. But the clerk politely waved me off and motioned for me to please put the book back. He then showed me a laminated computer printout with a list of times of day. I understood from his explanation that the books back there were for sale exclusively during the afternoon hours. I returned in the afternoon, wearing my finest raincoat, and found the store closed.

Text by Clemens Setz Clemens Setz

Exhibition:
Passants parmi les pierres
curated by Thomas Demand

Photos:

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fjk3 – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Franz-Josefs-Kai 3
1010 Wien

fjk3 bleibt frei!
Free admission to all exhibitions and events.

Yoshinori Mizutani, COLORS #111, 2014
Archival pigment print, 80 × 53.3 cm
Yoshinori Mizutani

Einmal kam ich in Tokio an einem halb geöffneten Buchgeschäft vorbei. Das Gitter war nur zur Hälfte hochgezogen, möglicherweise klemmte es oder war defekt. Die Kundschaft musste sich tief bücken, um ins Innere zu gelangen. Angelockt durch die irreguläre Betretungsart schlüpfte ich ebenfalls hinein. Nach einer Weile fa

JOIN US THIS FRIDAY!Fri, July 10, 6 p.m.Manisha Jothady gives a tour through the exhibitionPassants parmi les pierres. c...
08/07/2026

JOIN US THIS FRIDAY!
Fri, July 10, 6 p.m.
Manisha Jothady gives a tour through the exhibition
Passants parmi les pierres. curated by Thomas Demand.

The expert-guided tours accompanying the exhibition offer visitors the opportunity to engage more deeply, and through dialogue, with the role of images in shaping perception, memory, and history.

One of the experts leading these tours is Manisha Jothady, an art historian, author, and university lecturer, who approaches these questions from the perspective of media theory. She began her career in arts and cultural journalism. During the 2000s, she worked as an editor of the art journal Camera Austria International, where she deepened her theoretical engagement with the medium of photography and its aesthetic, historical, and social dimensions.

Since 2021, she has served as Project Director of fjk3 – Space for Contemporary Art. Having studied art history and German literature, she is particularly interested in the interplay between image and text, and in the ways literary and visual strategies complement, shift, or comment on one another. Against this background, the exhibition Passants parmi les pierres holds a special significance for her: the texts by Clemens J. Setz enter into a complex dialogue with the photographic works, opening up new perspectives on perception and memory.

The tour will be conducted in German.
Participation is free of charge and no registration is required.

Photo: Visitors in front of David Claerbout, The Algiers‘ Sections of a Happy Moment (scouting still), 2008 in Passants parmi les pierres, curated by Thomas Demand, fjk3—Contemporary Art Space, 2026. Photo: Juro Carl Anton Reinhardt

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fjk3 – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Franz-Josefs-Kai 3
1010 Wien

fjk3 bleibt frei!
Free admission to all exhibitions and events.

We warmly congratulate Clemens J. Setz on being awarded the Grand Austrian State Prize 2026, the Republic of Austria’s h...
02/07/2026

We warmly congratulate Clemens J. Setz on being awarded the Grand Austrian State Prize 2026, the Republic of Austria’s highest artistic distinction, and on his membership at the Austrian Arts Senate.
Clemens Setz


Recognized as one of the most significant voices in contemporary German-language literature, Setz has received numerous major literary honors throughout his career. With the Grand Austrian State Prize, his extraordinary literary achievement and lasting contribution to contemporary literature are further acknowledged.

We are especially pleased that visitors to our current exhibition, Passants parmi les pierres, curated by Thomas Demand, can encounter another facet of his work. Throughout the exhibition, Clemens J. Setz’s original texts accompany the artworks—not as explanations, but as poetic, associative reflections that invite new ways of looking and thinking.

Passants parmi les pierres
curated by Thomas Demand
on view until September 20th.

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fjk3 – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Franz-Josefs-Kai 3
1010 Wien

fjk3 bleibt frei!
Free admission to all exhibitions and events.

Thank you for yesterday!Off the Shelf No. 8Andreas FogarasiFrom Wall to WallThank you for the great presentation of the ...
27/06/2026

Thank you for yesterday!

Off the Shelf No. 8
Andreas Fogarasi
From Wall to Wall

Thank you for the great presentation of the new book From Wall to Wall.
Andreas Fogarasi, Damian Lentini, Heike Eipeldauer.




Thanks to Anna Liska for her beautiful and careful design, to Spector Books Leipzig and the writers , Flóra Gadó and and to many more people along the way!

This first extensive monograph on the Austrian/Hungarian artist Andreas Fogarasi covers twenty years of his work, with large-scale, full-color images, new essays by Damian Lentini and Flóra Gadó, and an interview with the artist by Heike Eipeldauer. Designed by Anna Liska.

In his conceptual practice that merges methods of abstraction and documentarism, Fogarasi engages with the histories of cultural production, with architecture, design and urbanity. The resulting sculptural works explore how social values, power relations and national self-images are inscribed in forms, surfaces and urban spaces.

Andreas Fogarasi (*1977) lives and works in Vienna. Fogarasi’s work was exhibited widely in Europe and beyond, solo exhibitions were held, among others, at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, GfZK, Leipzig, and Trafó Gallery, Budapest, as well as at the Hungarian Pavilion at the 52. Biennale di Venezia, where he was awarded the Golden Lion prize.

Damian Lentini is deputy director and chief curator at the Ludwig Forum in Aachen. Flóra Gadó is an independent curator and writer based in Brussels and Budapest. Heike Eipeldauer is a curator at mumok in Vienna.

Lombardi—Kargl

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1010 Wien

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