RIGHT HERE! Innsbruck: Seven First Encounters
Photography
Exhibition opening: 4th of October 2018, 7 p.m.
The Class for Photography and Media led by Joachim Brohm at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig creates works in the city.
Exhibition opening: 4th of October 2018, 7 p.m.
The Class for Photography and Media led by Joachim Brohm at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig creates works in the city.
Seven artists from Leipzig
German photographic artist Joachim Brohm nominated seven students from his class to put together an exhibition that would demonstrate their range of perspectives and artistic strategies. The idea was to both examine the city and demonstrate the potential embodied by photography today, as reflected by young artists on their way to carving out their own niche in this field.
The Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB Leipzig) is unique in Germany thanks to its four areas of specialisation: painting, new media art, book design and photography. Founded in 1764, photography was added to the Academy’s teaching programme back in 1893.
Six professors have been teaching aspects of artistic photography at the Academy since the 1990s. In many fields, former students from Leipzig have since become leading voices in discourse on artistic photography in teaching and artistic practice.
The Class for Photography and Media led by Professor Joachim Brohm
The Class is dedicated to the city in all its complexities – both as a space for artistic projection and a site for research and investigation of different artistic strategies and content. The students are receiving hands-on guidance as they develop their individual works based on a range of different strategies in terms of content and aesthetics. Programmatic exhibitions and international projects and collaborations are an integral part of the teaching programme.
Eva Dittrich
2018 Diplom an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig bei Joachim Brohm und Peggy Buth. Gründungsmitglied des Künstlerkollektivs und der Galerie KASKL in Berlin; DAAD-Stipendien an der Kuvataideakatemia, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, sowie an der UMPRUM Academy of Arts in Prag. Diverse Ausstellungen, zuletzt IKNOWIKNOWIKNOW// Group//Bistro21, 2018 in Leipzig.
Florian Merdes
Design-Studium an der Hochschule Mannheim, wo er 2015 seinen Bachelor of Fine Arts erhielt. Er arbeitete als Resident Photographer am Theater Heidelberg und studiert seit 2015 in der Klasse für Fotografie und Medien bei Joachim Brohm. Zahlreiche Ausstellungen, zuletzt »Astoria«, GAPGAP, Leipzig, 2018.
Julius C. Schreiner
Ausbildung zum Mediengestalter in Berlin, am dortigen Lette-Verein lernte er Fotodesign. Seit 2013 an der HGB in Leipzig, seit 2015 in der Klasse von Joachim Brohm. Zahlreiche Ausstellungen, zuletzt »athens coral reef«, und Athens, Athen, 2017.
Mihai Sovaiala
Geboren in Rumänien, Fotografie-Studium an der National University of Arts in Bukarest (BFA), seit 2017 Studium im Rahmen des postgradualen HGB-Meisterschüler-Programms bei Joachim Brohm in Leipzig. Verschiedene Ausstellungen, zuletzt »4m3«, Alert Studio, Bukarest, 2017.
Moritz Zeller
Studium an der Neuen Schule für Fotografie Berlin, danach an der HGB Leipzig, wo er seit 2015 in der Klasse für Fotografie und Medien bei Joachim Brohm studiert. Diverse Ausstellungen und Publikationen, zuletzt im Rahmen von »itsabook« (independent publishing fair), Leipziger Buchmesse, 2018.
Nea Gumprecht
Studium an der Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin, danach ein dreijähriger Auslandsaufenthalt in Italien. Seit 2013 an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, wo sie seit 2016 in der Klasse für Fotografie und Medien bei Joachim Brohm studiert. Zahlreiche Ausstellungen, zuletzt »Waiting for the Blast«, HGB Leipzig, und Galerie Kontoret, Oslo, 2017.
Sophia Kesting
Studium Visuelle Kommunikation an der HTW in Berlin, danach 2016 Diplom an der HGB Leipzig, 2018 Meisterschülerin bei Joachim Brohm. Sie ist seit 2012 Stipendiatin des Cusanuswerks. Zahlreiche Ausstellungen, zuletzt »Picturing Realities: Constructed, Cropped and Reassembled«, Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Düsseldorf, 2018.
The project
The artists Eva Dittrich, Florian Merdes, Julius-C. Schreiner, Mihai Sovaiala, Moritz Zeller, Nea Gumprecht and Sophia Kesting paid their first visit to Innsbruck at the beginning of November 2017. In addition to getting to know their host and the exhibition spaces, their primary goal was to discover the city and find the right angle from which to approach their work.
The concepts and themes were then finalised in Leipzig, and subsequently photographed during three working visits to Innsbruck this spring. The majority of the works for the exhibition was produced in Leipzig due to the excellent facilities offered by the Academy (workshops, laboratories, etc.).
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