Hannah Höch

For the first time in Austria, a major museum retrospective celebrates the work of the German Dada artist Hannah Höch (1889–1978). Höch was a key figure of the 1920s avant-garde and is regarded as one of the inventors of collage and photomontage. Armed with scissors and glue, she explored the power and impact of images in an incisive and ironic way.

The exhibition focuses on Hannah Höch’s collages and photomontages. Little known until now is that Höch regarded photomontage as closely related to film—as “static film” on paper that could create new views of the world through cutting and composing. Both film and photomontage use montage: visually and mechanically dividing the world into separate images and reassembling these to produce new visual experiences.