nocturnal office for real(i)ties / nächtliches realitätenbüro, 1981 – 83, installation view from outside and no media beyond this point, 2019 – 2021
exhibition: günther selichar —sub | texte, camera austria, graz 2022/23.
nocturnal office for real(i)ties / nächtliches realitätenbüro, 1981 – 83
series of 27, each 4 gelatin silver prints on cardboard, 50 x 65 cm (sheet format), installation with sound, installation view inside.
collection österreichische fotogalerie at the museum der moderne, salzburg; the art institute of chicago, chicago; landesgalerie, linz
(former collection gerda and erich walter, steyr), i.a.
exhibition: günther selichar —sub | texte, camera austria, graz 2022/23.
nocturnal office for real(i)ties / nächtliches realitätenbüro, 1981 – 83
series of 27, each 4 gelatin silver prints on cardboard, 50 x 65 cm (sheet format), installation with sound, installation view inside.
collection österreichische fotogalerie at the museum der moderne, salzburg; the art institute of chicago, chicago; landesgalerie, linz
(former collection gerda and erich walter, steyr), i.a.
exhibition: günther selichar —sub | texte, camera austria, graz 2022/23.
nocturnal office for real(i)ties / nächtliches realitätenbüro, 1981 – 83, part 1.
series of 27, each 4 gelatin silver prints on cardboard, 50 x 65 cm (sheet format), installation with sound, installation view inside.
collection österreichische fotogalerie at the museum der moderne, salzburg; the art institute of chicago, chicago; landesgalerie, linz
(former collection gerda and erich walter, steyr), i.a.
exhibition: günther selichar —sub | texte, camera austria, graz 2022/23.
nocturnal office for real(i)ties / nächtliches realitätenbüro, 1981 – 83, part 2.
series of 27, each 4 gelatin silver prints on cardboard, 50 x 65 cm (sheet format), installation with sound, installation view inside.
collection österreichische fotogalerie at the museum der moderne, salzburg; the art institute of chicago, chicago; landesgalerie, linz
(former collection gerda and erich walter, steyr), i.a.
exhibition: günther selichar —sub | texte, camera austria, graz 2022/23.
nocturnal office for real(i)ties / nächtliches realitätenbüro, 1981 – 83, part 3.
series of 27, each 4 gelatin silver prints on cardboard, 50 x 65 cm (sheet format), installation with sound, installation view inside.
collection österreichische fotogalerie at the museum der moderne, salzburg; the art institute of chicago, chicago; landesgalerie, linz
(former collection gerda and erich walter, steyr), i.a.
exhibition: günther selichar —sub | texte, camera austria, graz 2022/23.
nocturnal office for real(i)ties / nächtliches realitätenbüro, 1981 – 83, installation view from outside.
exhibition: günther selichar — nocturnal office for real(i)ties / nächtliches realitätenbüro, museum moderner kunst — palais liechtenstein, vienna 1984.
otto breicha, günther selichar, thomas zaunschirm: günther selichar. nächtliches realitätenbüro. (vienna: molotov, 1984).
german, 54 p., design by christian michelides, vienna.
reinhard braun (ed.): günther selichar – nocturnal office for real(i)ties (revisited). subtexts on working in and with mass media. (graz: camera austria, 2022).
german/english, 144 p., design by satz und sätze, graz.
reinhard braun
the nocturnal office for real(i)ties by günther selichar creates a space in which questions can be posed concerning the origins of photographic images and what lies “behind” them: the production processes, technology, distribution channels, and “sub I texte” that have decisively influenced and determined the conditions under which they were made. created between 1981 and 1983, the nocturnal office for real(i)ties takes the reader back to the starting point, as it were, of the critical processing of apparatus-based images and offers a means to identify the discontinuities in discourse and the differences between then and now, while at the same time marking a continuity of criticism and the political.
© photos (from top to bottom): markus krottendorfer; markus krottendorfer; günther selichar; markus krottendorfer; markus krottendorfer; markus krottendorfer; günther selichar; günther selichar; günther selichar.