On January 30, 2026, FOTO ARSENAL WIEN opens the exhibitions  'DAIDO MORIYAMA. RETROSPECTIVE' and 'Michelle Piergoelam. Across the Water'.

7 p.m. Doors open
7:30 p.m. Opening speeches

Speakers:

Veronica Kaup-Hasler, City Councillor for Cultural Affairs and Science in Vienna
Felix Hoffmann, Artistic Director FOTO ARSENAL WIEN, FOTO WIEN
Thyago Nogueira, Curator and Head of the Contemporary Photography Department at Instituto Moreira Salles, Brazil
Marit Lena Herrmann, Curator FOTO ARSENAL WIEN

Michelle Piergoelam, Artist, and Sohey Moriyama, Chief Director of Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation, are present.

Followed by:

DJ-sets presented by PAU and Antonia XM x Kenji Araki
Party and Drinks
Free admission


About the exhibitions:

DAIDO MORIYAMA. RETROSPECTIVE

A dog in the shadows—matted fur, a wary gaze: Daido Moriyama’s iconic 1971 photograph marks a milestone in the history of photography. Born in Osaka in 1938, he is among the most influential street photographers of our time. With grainy, blurred, and tilted images, Moriyama forged a new visual language capturing the tensions of modern life, longing, and transience. His work reflects Japan’s postwar transformation from tradition to Western consumer culture. The major retrospective at FOTO ARSENAL WIEN presents over 200 works and numerous publications, showing how his questions about media manipulation, surveillance, and image fetishism remain strikingly relevant today. This exhibition was organized by the Instituto Moreira Salles, Brazil, in collaboration with the Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation, Japan. It was curated by Thyago Nogueira (IMS) in cooperation with Marit Lena Herrmann (FOTO ARSENAL WIEN).
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Michelle Piergoelam. Across the Water

How do you remember a story that was never written down? In Across the Water, the artist’s first international solo exhibition, Michelle Piergoelam (b. 1997 in Rotterdam) explores the depiction of memory beyond official archives. Taking the largely invisible history of the Surinamese diaspora in the Netherlands as her point of departure, she interweaves myths, dreams, and family memories with new visual narratives. Her photographs, textiles, and installations address cultural tradition and resistance within the context of colonialism and slavery. Piergoelam’s poetic works also reflect on the meaning of collective memory and the culture of remembrance as living forms of writing history.
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Credits:
Daido Moriyama, Stray Dog, Misawa, 1971 © Daido Moriyama | Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation
Michelle Piergoelam, Clap Clap Clap, 2022 © Michelle Piergoelam