"Brasilia A371406"

pigment-based inkjet print on Dibond

signed, titled, dated and numbered on lable on verso

As an architectural photographer, Stefan Oláh's illustrated books Austrian Architecture of the 1950s (2011) and Architecture in Austria in the 1970s make a significant contribution to sensitising the eye for things that have hitherto been ignored, underestimated or are gradually disappearing; most recently also with his equally sensitive search for the remains of Karl Schwanzer's work (Spuren, 2019). In his artistic work he also likes to pursue the serial, he shows "Sechsunddreißig Wiener Aussichten" (2017), "Fünfundneunzig Wiener Würstelstände" (2013) or "Sechsundzwanzig Wiener Tankstellen" (2010). Common to his projects is the reassessment of the everyday. His gaze is wise and he thinks about what he sees. The depiction of the existing is becoming increasingly politically explosive in Austria. Stefan Oláh is certainly one of the most important Austrian photographers of our time.
(Martina Griesser-Stermscheg, from: Bunt. Sozial. Brutal, 2019)