As part of FOTO WIEN 2023, Galerie rauminhalt_harald bichler presents new works by Stefan Oláh under the title "NICHT STÜRZEN", which the photographer looked into the depot of the Natural History Museum in Vienna for.

Truth or lie - a problematic topic in today's times. It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate truth from non-truth, since the process before that, recognizing what is what, is becoming more and more difficult.
 
Untruth as a calculation, not only in politics and business, but also in society and ultimately in art. This untruth arrived a long time ago. Possibly since time immemorial, for example to gain a social advantage. As an instrument of communication, art held and still holds many possibilities, whether true or idealised.

With photography as a form of projection of reality, a new view of our environment began. But also the possibility of shaping this environment. 
 

Whether through a certain section and thus exclusion of the surrounding milieu or later, due to technology, through active intervention in the image.

Stefan Oláh's photography seems genuine, pure and unadulterated. For his analogue photographs without post-processing, it takes time, a lot of time. He searches and looks. He examines and tests. Only then, sometimes sooner sometimes later, the chosen motif is captured in the form of a technical process. In the end, the image seems enraptured, unreal and yet it is reality and tells a story. A singular view of life.
 
The depot pictures of the Natural History Museum are deliberately kept in black and white. They take us back to a supposedly more honest world. Whether it was really like that is for everyone to decide for themselves.