Exhibition
The female view in photographies from the SpallArt Collection
February 14 to April 12, 2026
From February 14 to April 12, 2026, the gallery in the Old Town Hall in Prien will present the exhibition Not Nice Girls. The female gaze in photographs from the SpallArt collection. The title refers to a quote by American photographer Berenice Abbott, who sought her motifs in the streets of New York's Lower East Side in the 1930s and decisively rejected social conventions: "I'm not a nice girl. I'm a photographer." Based on this self-confident attitude, the exhibition focuses on female photographers who have had a decisive influence on photography in a discipline long dominated by men and have asserted their place behind the camera. Over 200 works from the SpallArt collection span a period from the early pioneers of photography to contemporary positions. Portraits, landscape photographs, photomontages, and experimental art photographs document the diversity of female perspectives. Photographers such as Inge Morath, Vivian Maier, Lisette Model, Cindy Sherman, Beate Passow, and others offer a profound look at identity, self-reflection, and change, as well as a precise observation of scientific processes, urban life, and interpersonal encounters.
In Not Nice Girls, female and male positions meet on equal terms and enter into a fascinating dialogue. The juxtaposition reveals similarities as well as differences and invites us to compare how women and men perceive and interpret the world. Photography appears as an individual result – independent of gender, but sensitive to its influence.
Curated by Ute Gladigau
Opening on Friday, February 13, 2026
with works by:
Berenice Abbott, Irene Andessner, Ursula Arnold, Atelier Manassé, Ellen Auerbach, Nomi Baumgartl, Ruth Bernhard, Isabella Berr, Sabrina Biancuzzi, Lillian Birnbaum, Luise Böker, Margaret Bourke-White, Julia Margaret Cameron, Natalia Chebotareva, Katharine Cooper, Elisabeth Czihak, Sinje Dillenkofer, VALIE EXPORT, Sissi Farassat, Karin Fisslthaler, Caroline Gavazzi, Lotte Gerson-Collein, Isabella Gherardi, Nan Goldin, Dorothee Golz, Alessa Grande, Ismene Grebe, Maria Hahnenkamp, Ilse Haider, Candida Höfer, Carol Huebner-Venezia, Hertha Hurnaus, Karen Irmer, Lotte Jacobi, Ursel Jäger, Anna Jermolaewa, Anne Kaiser, Sanna Kannisto, Sandra Kantanen, Eeva Karhu, Angelika Krinzinger, Germaine Krull, Elke Krystufek, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Isabelle Le Minh, Valerie Loudon, Michelle Magdalena Maddox, Vivian Maier, Anja Manfredi, Elfriede Mejchar, Lisette Model, Inge Morath, Barbara Morgan, Michaela Moscouw, Abigail O´Brien, Riitta Päiväläinen, Nelli Palomäki, Beate Passow, Agnes Prammer, Bettina Rheims, Sheila Rock, Gabriele Rothemann, Charlotte Rudolph, Liddy Scheffknecht, Karin Schneider-Henn, Maria Schott, Gundula Schulze Eldowy, Jill Seer, Cindy Sherman, Luzia Simons, SofijaSilvia, Margherita Spiluttini, Jutta Strohmaier, Miriam Tölke, Bettina von Zwehl, Sabine Weiss, Francesca Woodman and Pernilla Zetterman
and supplementary work by:
Ansel Adams, Hugo Brehme, Pierre Descamps, Robert Doisneau, Peter Dressler, Harold Eugen Edgerton, Alfred Ehrhardt, Eliot Elisofon, Siegfried Enkelmann, Franz Fiedler, Christoph Fuchs, Ralph Gibson, Bob Hauser, Miloš Heyduk, Horst P. Horst, Dieter Huber, Leo Kandl, Peter Keetman, André Kertész, Hannes Kilian, Rudolf Koppitz, Marko Lipuš, Edgar Lissel, Max Lohr, Claudio Monteccuco, Stefan Moses, Andreas Mühe, Arnold Odermatt, Martin Parr, Manfred Paul, Alfred Pfau, Marc Riboud, Werner Schnelle, Wolfgang Schriever, Ralph Steiner, Thomas Struth, Josef Sudek, Rudolf Sulke, Walter Vogel, Wilhelm von Gloeden, Martin Waldbauer, Robert Werling, Michael Wesely, Edward Weston, Kim Weston, Robert Zahornicky and George S. Zimbel
Exhibition catalog
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