Jitka Hanzlová

July 11 – October 26, 2025

Yancey Richardson congratulates Jitka Hanzlová on her exhibition Identities at the Albertina Museum in Vienna, marking her first solo museum show in Austria. Jitka Hanzlová fled from the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic to Germany in 1982 and went on to study photography in Essen. Her biography forms the backdrop to her work’s central themes: exile, remembrance, and identity. This Albertina exhibition presents ten of her most important series: Rokytnik (1990–1994) is devoted to the artist’s eponymous home village, while Forest (2000–2005) features the woods she knew as a child. Her portrait series in urban environments such as Bewohner (1994–1996) and Female (1997–2000) examine the relationship between individuals and their surroundings.