Lucia Moholy – Exposures
Lucia Moholy (1894–1989) was one of the 20th century’s most internationally recognised and important female photographers. Her architectural photographs and portraits from her years at the Bauhaus in Dessau, which have become icons of photographic history, still shape how that institution is perceived today. However, Moholy was not just a photographer, but also an art historian, critic, writer and archivist; she described herself as a ‘documentalist’ and made a name for herself in the field of information science.
The exhibition Lucia Moholy – Exposures is the first to show the broad scope of her work from the 1910s to the 1970s. Her photographic oeuvre is presented together with numerous documents, some of them newly discovered, which shed light on Moholy’s role in the avant-garde during the interwar period, as well as her youth in Prague, her editorial work in Germany, her activity as a portraitist in London, and her involvement with early microfilm technology in England and Turkey.
Finally, the exhibition also invites visitors to encounter Lucia Moholy in the context of Zurich, where she spent the last thirty years of her life. During that time, she also maintained a relationship with the then fledgling Fotostiftung Schweiz, which today is home to a large collection of her photographs.
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The curator of the exhibition and artist Jan Tichy is showing contemporary works in dialogue with the legacy of Lucia Moholy at oxyd-Kunsträume from 08.02. to 02.03.2025.
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A publication to accompany the exhibition was published by Kunsthalle Praha in 2024.
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Lucia Moholy – Exposures is a Kunsthalle Praha exhibition project, organised in cooperation with Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur, and the Bauhaus Archive, Berlin. It was initiated by Christelle Havranek (Kunsthalle Praha), curated by Jordan Troeller (Professor at Leuphana University Lüneburg), Meghan Forbes (freelance author and curator in New York), and Jan Tichy (Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago), and adapted by Teresa Gruber (Fotostiftung Schweiz) and Jan Tichy.
With kind support by
The Many Lives of Lucia Moholy. Short lectures by Estelle Blaschke, Sabine Hartmann, Angela Thomas and Jordan Troeller (in German).
Sabine Hartmann discusses her work with Moholy’s estate at the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin.
Estelle Blaschke highlights Moholy’s contributions to international documentation projects and the advancement of microfilm technology. Angela Thomas reflects on her personal relationship with Moholy and their shared feminist activism in Zurich since the 1970s. Jordan Troeller explores additional significant facets of Moholy’s multifaceted life.
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