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  • Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller, Das neunte Jahresportrait (The Ninth Year Portrait) (detail), 2012–13, 314 gelatin silver prints, 13 C-prints mounted on eleven cardboard plates, each 16 × 19 3/4". From the series “Jahresportraits” (Year Portraits), ca. 1972–.

    Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller, Das neunte Jahresportrait (The Ninth Year Portrait) (detail), 2012–13, 314 gelatin silver prints, 13 C-prints mounted on eleven cardboard plates, each 16 × 19 3/4". From the series “Jahresportraits” (Year Portraits), ca. 1972–.

    Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller

    Museum der Moderne Salzburg | Mönchsberg

    In the 1970s and ’80s Viennese art world, a republic of princely painters, to succeed as a female photographer was no mean feat. That’s probably why Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller and her interrogation of her primary medium remain under the radar, esteemed by connoisseurs and revered by alums of her influential schools for photography and film but hardly mentioned in the annals of international Conceptual art. Yet that’s where she belongs, as this remarkable exhibition, “Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller: The Self in the Mirror of the Other. Photographs and Films, 1968–2018,” makes clear. In photography

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