15.02.2025 – 29.06.2025
Countless artists from the fields of music, visual arts, literature and fashion have stood in front of Corbijn’s camera. Many of his photographs have become veritable icons. His portraits always show the person behind the celebrity. He places his protagonists in unorthodox settings, photographs them from very close up and creates moments full of intimacy, trust and surprise. His often unconventionally composed portraits are characterised by graininess and deliberate underexposure. Many of his pictures are also dark and melancholy in a metaphorical sense. Curated by Lisa Ortner-Kreil, the exhibition ‘Anton Corbijn – Favourite Darkness’ at the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien brings together around 200 works from five decades, including Corbijn’s most famous photographs and a selection of his music videos from 1983 onwards, which look more like short auteur films. The artist has also opened up his archive and is showing sketches for stage sets and album covers for the first time. Corbijn made history as art director for Depeche Mode and created the visual identity of the band, with whom he has worked regularly since 1986, in the first place.
Anton Corbijn – Favourite Darkness
15.02.2025 – 29.06.2025
Kunstforum Wien
Freyung 8
1010 Vienna
https://www.kunstforumwien.at
