Vincent Wechselberger ‘Dreams and How to Keep Them’

SMUT Press is proud to present Dreams and How to Keep Them by Vincent Wechselberger. The publication is the second photobook by Berlin-based photographer Vincent Wechselberger and the eleventh publication from SMUT Press.

Dreams and How to Keep Them is an insight into the artist’s shifting internal landscape, grappling with a fraught relationship to a notorious city that is as generous as it is unforgiving. The publication unfolds over a ten-year photographic archive and documents those who have shaped the artist’s experience in the city. Spanning intimate portraits, after-hours parties, bustling dancefloors and still lives; the images featured are a powerful testament to Wechselberger’s ability to capture the delicate balance between humour and excess, between beauty and chaos. The publication includes a foreword by journalist and author Amelia Abraham, and a closing text by the artist.

The publication will have the first official launch at BAM Works, Berlin, on 10 September before launching at GLUE Book Fair at the Institute for Contemporary Arts, London, from 12-13 September. An accompanying exhibition at 1014 Gallery will open on 17 September with handprinted works from the book.

Vincent Wechselberger is an Austrian photographer who studied at the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie. His work sits at the intersection of documentary and autobiographical photography, exploring memory, the body, and queer identity through deeply personal images. His photographs hold moments of joy, closeness, grief, and rapture, tracing how identity, desire, and the body define and are defined by one another. Wechselberger has widely exhibited at leading photography festivals and institutions, including Bundeskunsthalle and NRW Forum. In collaboration with Vitium, he published the zine Holes, a series consisting of 70 anuses and texts celebrating queerness and the relationships to this unique body part.  His first photobook Ready, presented a humanistic portrait of contemporary queer sex work emerging from his own personal relationship with it.

Published by SMUT Press and distributed by Public Knowledge Books. Stockists forthcoming. For press inquiries, review copies, or to request interviews with contributors, please contact smutpress@gmail.com.

SMUT Press is a London-based queer publishing project and party platform, redefining what print and nightlife can do. Founded in early 2022 by Jordan Hearns & Jack Scollard, SMUT support and commission queer artists to produce printed matter. Since 2024, the project has expanded beyond the primary domain of publishing to include events to coalesce and connect the communities the project is situated; between nightlife and artistic production.

Dreams and How to Keep Them
Vincent Wechselberger
Copyright Vincent Wechselberger/SMUT Press, 2026
All rights reserved.
Artwork by Vincent Wechselberger
Design by John Philip Sage
Words by Amelia Abraham and Vincent Wechselberger
Translation by Natascha Schoenaich
First Published in the United Kingdom in 2026 by SMUT Press
Typeset in Face by Extraset
Edition of 500
Printed in Lithuania by KOPA
ISBN 978-1-0684555-2-0
Front cover: Noam in a toilet stall, Berlin 2022
Back cover: Stundenhotel Selfie, Berlin 2023

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