Viennese photographer Lukas Arnold invites you to a very special evening at WestLicht.
Together with him, we’ll dive into Vienna’s hidden underground worlds – from vast vaults and four-story-deep cellar systems to secret places few would ever expect to find in the city.
In addition to these fascinating underground spaces, the focus will also be on Vienna’s “Lost Places” – abandoned sites that remain largely hidden from the public eye. Many of these buildings and facilities no longer exist today, but Lukas Arnold and his team managed to document them in time and preserve their stories for future generations.
The presentation combines striking photography with a spirit of adventure and urban history, inviting the audience on a journey into the mysterious side of Austria’s capital.
Admission is free, but donations to support the work of Wiener Unterwelten are welcome (recommended donation: €10).
Bruce Gilden is one of the great representatives of street photography – and one of the most uncompromising portrait photographers of our time. For more than five decades, he has been pointing his camera at those who otherwise remain invisible: the ‘underdogs’, the ‘misfits’ and marginal figures in society. With radical closeness and unvarnished directness, he creates images that confront, disturb and move us.
A member of the legendary Magnum Photos agency since 1998, Gilden has shaped photography like few others. Now he is coming to Vienna: as part of the exhibition A CLOSER LOOK at WestLicht Photo Museum, he is holding one of his rare masterclasses in Europe – a unique opportunity for photographers to engage in an in-depth exchange with this exceptional artist.
