First Roll, Kate and Odie
Exhibition
Tschechisches Zentrum Wien Gußhausstraße 10, 1040 Wien
3.10.—2.11.2025
Artists: Tomanova Marie
Curator: Thomas Beachdel
The future is experience. It is being there.
Until one summer day in 2017, I only knew Kate from social media and that she was a Czech living in New York City, something that we both shared. I deeply identified with Kate when I met her for the first time that afternoon and shot a thirty-six-exposure roll of film in the bathroom, which resulted in the widely circulated image “Kate and Odie” (2017), the cover of my first book, “Young American” (2019). Over the years I have kept going back to this roll of images over and over because for me there is something powerful there—it is something really deep, and visible, and real. I decided that this complete roll of film, in its original sequence, never seen before, should be presented as one work, “First Roll, Kate and Odie” (2025). To me, it stands as a powerful testament to openness and transparency as a photographer. The photographs in “First Roll” have led to a video piece called “Kate 2025,” in which Kate looks at the photographs and discusses how she has changed as a person—her identity—since 2017, when she was twenty-two years old. The project, thus, forms a sort of deep extended, or expanded, portrait linking past to present and, ultimately, future.
Attention: For details on accessibility, please contact the program partner directly.
Until one summer day in 2017, I only knew Kate from social media and that she was a Czech living in New York City, something that we both shared. I deeply identified with Kate when I met her for the first time that afternoon and shot a thirty-six-exposure roll of film in the bathroom, which resulted in the widely circulated image “Kate and Odie” (2017), the cover of my first book, “Young American” (2019). Over the years I have kept going back to this roll of images over and over because for me there is something powerful there—it is something really deep, and visible, and real. I decided that this complete roll of film, in its original sequence, never seen before, should be presented as one work, “First Roll, Kate and Odie” (2025). To me, it stands as a powerful testament to openness and transparency as a photographer. The photographs in “First Roll” have led to a video piece called “Kate 2025,” in which Kate looks at the photographs and discusses how she has changed as a person—her identity—since 2017, when she was twenty-two years old. The project, thus, forms a sort of deep extended, or expanded, portrait linking past to present and, ultimately, future.
Attention: For details on accessibility, please contact the program partner directly.
Mon10 AM–4 PM
Tue10 AM–4 PM
Wed10 AM–4 PM
Thu10 AM–4 PM
Fri10 AM–4 PM
Sat12–5 PM
free entry
Artists: Tomanova Marie
Curator: Thomas Beachdel
The future is experience. It is being there.
Until one summer day in 2017, I only knew Kate from social media and that she was a Czech living in New York City, something that we both shared. I deeply identified with Kate when I met her for the first time that afternoon and shot a thirty-six-exposure roll of film in the bathroom, which resulted in the widely circulated image “Kate and Odie” (2017), the cover of my first book, “Young American” (2019). Over the years I have kept going back to this roll of images over and over because for me there is something powerful there—it is something really deep, and visible, and real. I decided that this complete roll of film, in its original sequence, never seen before, should be presented as one work, “First Roll, Kate and Odie” (2025). To me, it stands as a powerful testament to openness and transparency as a photographer. The photographs in “First Roll” have led to a video piece called “Kate 2025,” in which Kate looks at the photographs and discusses how she has changed as a person—her identity—since 2017, when she was twenty-two years old. The project, thus, forms a sort of deep extended, or expanded, portrait linking past to present and, ultimately, future.
Attention: For details on accessibility, please contact the program partner directly.
Until one summer day in 2017, I only knew Kate from social media and that she was a Czech living in New York City, something that we both shared. I deeply identified with Kate when I met her for the first time that afternoon and shot a thirty-six-exposure roll of film in the bathroom, which resulted in the widely circulated image “Kate and Odie” (2017), the cover of my first book, “Young American” (2019). Over the years I have kept going back to this roll of images over and over because for me there is something powerful there—it is something really deep, and visible, and real. I decided that this complete roll of film, in its original sequence, never seen before, should be presented as one work, “First Roll, Kate and Odie” (2025). To me, it stands as a powerful testament to openness and transparency as a photographer. The photographs in “First Roll” have led to a video piece called “Kate 2025,” in which Kate looks at the photographs and discusses how she has changed as a person—her identity—since 2017, when she was twenty-two years old. The project, thus, forms a sort of deep extended, or expanded, portrait linking past to present and, ultimately, future.
Attention: For details on accessibility, please contact the program partner directly.
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The future is experience. It is being there.
Until one summer day in 2017, I only knew Kate from social media and that she was a Czech living in New York City, something that we both shared. I deeply identified with Kate when I met her for the first time that...
Opening hours:
Mon10 AM–4 PM
Tue10 AM–4 PM
Wed10 AM–4 PM
Thu10 AM–4 PM
Fri10 AM–4 PM
Sat12–5 PM
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1040 Wien
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