#Photoartist 2 series#

2020: The Beginning, Art in Austria between 1945 - 1980, Albertina Modern, Vienna.2018: Women House, National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington).2018: THE 1990s: Subversive Imaginations, Wien Museum Startgalerie Artothek (MUSA).Hamburger Kunsthalle The Photographers' Gallery, London Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna Works from the Verbund collection, Vienna. 2015 to 2017: Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s.2015: Rabenmütter, Lentos Art Museum Linz.Photographic manuscripts in the digital age, Künstlerhaus Vienna 2012: On Screen - Current Photography from Austria, Fotohof Salzburg.

2012: Me, Myself and Them, a group exhibition on the subject of self-portrait, Künstlerhaus Vienna.2008: IntAkt - The Pioneers, Work Show XIII, Photo Gallery Vienna.2008: Sound of Art, Museum der Moderne Salzburg.Photographs by Karin Mack, Wienmuseum (catalog) 2004: Woman in the picture / opposing positions, Museum of Modern Art (Passau).1985: The self-portraits 1975–1985, Photo Gallery Vienna.Some part of her work deals with nature as something that has to be protected. She got the idea of Scratching the Surface by the 'unreflected use of fashion by young women' as presented by publicity and fashion magazines as the ideal of attraction and not underlining their identity. Between 2012 to 2018, she worked on European Identity in a Global World, which showed her political interest in the truth of journalism. These works focused on the feelings of a woman. In the 1980’s she started to work with photocollage, consisting of 3 photographs with a selfportrait in the center.

#Photoartist 2 series#

She started her artistic work with photo series such as Ironing Dream (1975) and Demolishing an Illusion (1977), reflecting a woman's role as housewife only. Later in the 1970s she saw Photocostallations of Gerhard Rühm, which gave her the idea of combining several photos to tell a story. Mack was given her first camera at the age of 16 by her father, who gave her first instructions concerning the composition of an image. Between 20, she has served as a Curator for several exhibitions including, 'Buchstaben, Worte, Texte in fotografischen Bildern', 'Experiment Analog', and 'Ultima Thule/ Island als Naration.' She works as a freelance photo artist, author, and curator in Vienna. Since 2008, she has been a member of the Lower Austrian photo and media initiative Fluss and the Künstlerhaus Wien. In 1994, Mack moved to the Netherlands, where she lived until 2005.

From 1977 to 1982, she was involved in the group 'Intakt' (International Action Group for Women Artists) to improve the situation of women artists.

She did several documentaries based on the art and culture of Vienna till 1980. Before completing her studies in the history of art and Italian at the University of Vienna, she worked as an photographer of architecture till 1978. Mack was born in Vienna in 1940, and was married to Friedrich Achleitner (1962-1972).