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Horror Vacui

Horror Vacui
Horror Vacui
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Horror Vacui
Lisl Ponger, Horror Vacui, 2008, C-Print, 125 × 157 cm, Belvedere, Wien, Inv.-Nr. 11642
© Bildrecht, Wien 2026
Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien
This is the English text for C. Contact: Reproabteilung.

  • Horror Vacui

  • Date2008
    • Artist Lisl Ponger (geboren 1947 in Nürnberg)
  • Object typePhoto
  • MediumC-Print
  • Dimensions
    125 × 157 cm
  • SignatureSign., num., bez. und dat. auf der Rückseite: Lisl Ponger / 3/5+2A.P. / HORROR VACUI, 2008
  • Inventory number11642
  • Location Belvedere 21

  • Lisl Ponger’s research-based practice explores the political potential of images, be they found or constructed, documentary or staged. Working across photography, film, and installation, she repeatedly explores the continuities of colonialism and Nazism at the intersections of art, art history, and ethnology. „Horror Vacui“, a meticulously staged photograph of a ransacked apartment, unfolds as a complex system of references to looted art and the process of coming to terms with it. Countless books, images, and objects point to acts of expropriation and plunder carried out by the Nazis and colonial powers. Reproductions and publications related to Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, or Ernst Ludwig Kirchner address specific restitution cases and the complicity of museums within them. Meanwhile, books by Primo Levi and Jura Soyfer foreground the Nazi policies of persecution and extermination upon which these crimes are based.
    • 2017 Ankauf Galerie Charim, Wien
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