Leo Kandl
Brünner Straße
05/12/2025–31/01/2026
FOTOHOF Gallery
For decades, Leo Kandl has repeatedly depicted his immediate surroundings, the formerly rural working-class district of Floridsdorf, in his extensive photographic work. Until the 1960s, Leo Kandl's parents ran a shop selling paints, varnishes, drugstore goods, and household items at Brünner Straße 165.
In Kandl's street photography, the 21st district becomes the backdrop against which the mostly unspectacular everyday life of the native and immigrant residents unfolds live. Kandl takes a restrained approach to photography, avoiding superficially ‘exciting’ perspectives and ‘decisive moments.‘ People linger in squares and streets or move through the urban space, with the photographer's interest focused less on portraying individuals than on the sober depiction of situations and constellations in public space. His images open up a broad social panorama and subtly hint at possible areas of social tension, cultural differences, precariousness, and social exclusion, but essentially show the unspectacular normality of the suburbs.
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Stadtgalerie Lehen, Eboran Gallery and FOTOHOF at Stadtwerk jointly invite you to a art walk through the neighborhood!
Always on a Wednesday, under the motto »Seeing Lehen«, free of charge, about once a month, relaxed, with questions and answers, artists, curators and works »up close« and lots of information all around.
Meeting Point: Stadtgalerie Lehen | Inge-Morath-Platz 31 | 5020 Salzburg
→ To the exhibition: Brünner Straße
→ To the exhibition: Book Cover! Photomontages in the Political Struggles of 1930s Austria
![Heftumschlag zu: o. A., Ho-ruck nach links!, »Für den Inhalt verantwortlich« Julius Braunthal, Wien: Piperger, [1932]](https://staging.fotohof.at/uploads/bilder/_transforms/ausstellungen/2025/Buchumschlag-Fotomontagen-im-politischen-Kampf-der-1930er-Jahre-in-Österreich/_w2000_webp/12731/Buchumschlag_03.webp?v=1792881702)
For decades, Leo Kandl has repeatedly addressed his immediate living environment, the formerly rural working-class district of Floridsdorf, in his extensive photographic work.
Buchumschlag!
Books, brochures, and pamphlets served as “small posters” that attracted attention with a wide variety of combinations of photographs and text. Fragments of reality, assembled into aggressive montages, reflected the despair over the economic situation.