The human body is all: architecture and art, weapon and prayer, canvas and sculpture. It exists in constant dialogue with the spaces it inhabits and the forces that shape it—desire, performance, constraint, and revelation. ALL HUMAN brings together a curated selection of the world’s most influential fine art photographers, artists whose images have shaped visual culture and defined how the body is seen, staged, and understood. Across decades of practice, these masters treat the body not as a fixed form but as a living, expressive site—one through which identity, power, vulnerability, and belief are continuously negotiated.
Spring Exhibition “All Human” at PREISS FINE ARTS
with Works by Ellen von Unwerth, David Drebin, Michel Comte, Gottfried Helnwein and Albert Watson
ALL HUMAN assembles master photographers who understand the body not as a static subject but as a dynamic and shapable site that constantly holds its beliefs. From the staged studio shoot to athletic perfection and conceptual transformation, these images make it understandable what it means to be embodied: to be, to move, to pose, to vanish, to endure. Here, blue-chip contemporary photographers demonstrate that technical mastery serves a deeper inquiry—what are we capable of, and what do we reveal about who we are?
“All Human” at PREISS FINE ARTS
with Works by Arthur Elgort, Guido Argentini, Albert Watson and Sante D’Orazio
“Spring Awakening” at PREISS FINE ARTS
with Works by Howard Schatz and Guido Argentini
Howard Schatz’s Spring Awakening captures renewal and transformation. Between Bodies floating underwater, petals exploading against darkness and liquid Light enveloping human forms—these images pulse with the urgency of life returning. Here, spring is not a gentle arrival but a force: vibrant, unstoppable, alive.
“Spring Awakening” at PREISS FINE ARTS
with Works by Howard Schatz and Guido Argentini
Neon cuts through the dark like a pulse. Within this black room, Albert Watson’s razor-sharp nocturnal Americana meets Kristian Schuller’s stylised spectacle—cinematic, surreal, and exquisitely staged. Together, they build a world of signs and symbols: motels, midnight streets, saturated colour, and a glamour that feels both iconic and slightly unreal.
“Neon Fantasies” at PREISS FINE ARTS
With Works by Albert Watson, Kristian Schuller and Andreas H. Bitesnich
“Neon Fantasies” at PREISS FINE ARTS
With Works by Albert Watson, Kristian Schuller and Andreas H. Bitesnich
A selection of small erotic nude prints by Andreas H. Bitesnich shifts the atmosphere from public to private. Classical form becomes intimate and immediate—an encounter with the body as sculpture, shadow, and temptation. Moving between billboard brightness and quiet sensuality, the presentation becomes a study in contrast: desire and distance, fantasy and flesh, the theatre of the night and what remains when the lights stay on.
“Spring Awakening” at PREISS FINE ARTS
with Works by Nigel Parry, Joachim Schmeisser and Michel Comte
Joachim Schmeisser’s wildlife photographs expand ALL HUMAN beyond the limits of our own anatomy, positioning the animal body as both mirror and counterpoint. Shot predominantly in Africa and rendered in a powerful black-and-white language, his images strip away spectacle to reveal presence: mass, gaze, vulnerability, authority. These animals do not perform for the camera; they confront it.
“Spring Awakening” at PREISS FINE ARTS
with Works by Joachim Schmeisser and David Yarrow
Visit “ALL HUMAN” at our Gallery in Vienna
Bauernmarkt 14, 1010 Vienna
Mo-Fr 10-18:30
Sa 11-16
