Reiner Riedler: This Side of Paradise
A "chronicler of longing": In the course of his career spanning more than thirty years, Reiner Riedler has created a comprehensive body of work that has also received much international acclaim.
Anchored in classical documentary photography, the Vienna-based artist deals above all with the profoundly human pursuit of happiness.
To do so, he prefers to seek out places that promise at least a short-term escape from everyday life: Artificial leisure worlds, which he has unmaskingly documented in his well-known series Fake Holidays, a Russian Circus, which stops off as a magical counter-image in the middle of a post-socialist prefabricated housing estate, the pleasure gardens of the swinger and fetish club scene, the scenes of modern event culture, the excesses of which he captures in his as yet unpublished long-term project This Side of Paradise, or the Viennese music clubs and dance caf茅s shut down due to the pandemic in his latest series End of the Night.
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A "chronicler of longing": In the course of his career spanning more than thirty years, Reiner Riedler has created a comprehensive body of work that has also received much international acclaim.
Anchored in classical documentary photography, the Vienna-based artist deals above all with the profoundly human pursuit of happiness.
To do so, he prefers to seek out places that promise at least a short-term escape from everyday life: Artificial leisure worlds, which he has unmaskingly documented in his well-known series Fake Holidays, a Russian Circus, which stops off as a magical counter-image in the middle of a post-socialist prefabricated housing estate, the pleasure gardens of the swinger and fetish club scene, the scenes of modern event culture, the excesses of which he captures in his as yet unpublished long-term project This Side of Paradise, or the Viennese music clubs and dance caf茅s shut down due to the pandemic in his latest series End of the Night.
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