Joachim Brohm

The photographer Joachim Brohm

Joachim Brohm (* 1955 in Dülken , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German photo artist and professor of photography at the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Art .

life and work

Brohm studied visual communication at Die Folkwangschule in Essen from 1977 to 1983 . As a lecturer from 1978 to 1979, Michael Schmidt had a great influence on Brohm, who subsequently also participated in the activities of the photography workshop in Berlin-Kreuzberg, which Schmidt founded.

After graduating in 1983, Brohm went to Ohio State University for one year on a Fulbright scholarship and deepened his studies of the medium in theoretical terms with Allan Sekula and Jonathan Green. Back in Germany, Joachim Brohm started working as a freelance photographer in 1984, and also as a lecturer in photography at the Bielefeld and Dortmund universities of applied sciences and at other locations in Germany and abroad. In 1990, a Siemens cultural program project enabled him to work intensively in Berlin. At the same time, the publication “Industriezeit” appeared for his first solo exhibition at the Museum Folkwang Essen.

Various trips then took Brohm to Spain or beyond Europe to Bangladesh. In a book published in 1995, the photographer put together a sequence of images with motifs from different countries in combination with photos from the Ruhr area, which presented his special, subtly colored imagery for the first time in a publication.

Brohm's central project from 1992–2002 is entitled Areal . Over a period of 10 years he kept returning to the former industrial area in the north of Munich in order to photographically accompany its complete redesign into a so-called “Parkstadt”. Thousands of color photos were taken that show abandoned buildings and their extensive interim uses in partly comparative representations, countless found objects such as work materials left behind, furniture and provisional artefacts show the temporal change process of this place with the means of photography.

In 1993 Brohm was appointed professor for artistic photography at the University of Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig , of which he was also rector from 2003–2011.

meaning

Joachim Brohm is one of the first German photographers to deal with the medium of color photography in an artistic context as early as the late 1970s .

At that time, this was unusual and innovative in Germany in particular, as color photography was more likely to be assigned to applied areas such as advertising and the black and white print was proclaimed as a photographic-artistic paradigm.

Awards (selection)

1983–1984 Fulbright Commission scholarship
1985 Scholarship from the Franco-German Youth Office
1988 Scholarship from the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation for contemporary German photography

Solo exhibitions (selection)

1984 Joachim Brohm: America Inside / Out , OSU University Gallery of Fine Art, Columbus / Ohio, USA
1988 Joachim Brohm: Places - Times - History / s , Spectrum Photo Gallery in the Sprengel Museum , Hanover
1990 Joachim Brohm: Industrial Age, Folkwang Museum, Essen
1990 Berlin-Berlin , Galerie Perspectief, Rotterdam, NL (with Fons Brasser)
1991 Joachim Brohm: Photographs 1986–1990 , Photo Museum in the Munich City Museum
1995 Joachim Brohm , Gallery of the College of Graphics and Book Art, Leipzig
1998 Joachim Brohm: Photography , Showrooms 2, Huis a / d Werf, Utrecht, NL
1998 Joachim Brohm: Slow Attention , Projektraum Berlin, Auguststrasse 35 (with Vince Leo)
1999 Joachim Brohm: Areal (in progress) , Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, A
2000 Joachim Brohm: Areal , Goethe-Institut, Rome, I
2002 Joachim Brohm - Areal , Fotomuseum Winterthur (further positions: Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster, Fotomuseum in Münchner Stadtmuseum)
2002 Joachim Brohm , Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne (with Tata Ronkholz)
2003 Joachim Brohm, Areal , Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, California, USA
2004 Joachim Brohm , FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen, B (with Paul Casaer)
2004 Joachim Brohm , Areal, Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne
2005 Joachim Brohm, driving , Ravensburg Municipal Gallery
2005 Joachim Brohm: Areal , Goethe-Institut, London, GB
2007 Joachim Brohm , Kicken Berlin (with Eugène Atget)
2007 Joachim Brohm. Ruhr, Josef Albers Museum Square, Bottrop
2007 Joachim Brohm. Ohio , Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig
2008 Joachim Brohm and Valentina Seidel , Galerie Michael Wiesehöfer, Cologne
2009 Joachim Brohm and Heribert C. Ottersbach: Culatra / Areal , Galerie Michael Wiesehöfer, Cologne and Beck & Eggeling New Quarters, Düsseldorf
2009 Joachim Brohm. Photography , Kunsthalle Mainz
2010 Culatra. Joachim Brohm , "Allgarve'10", CEAM, Quinta de Marim, Olhão, PT
2010 Joachim Brohm. COLOR , Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne (further station: Landesgalerie Linz at the Upper Austrian State Museum, Linz, A)
2011 Joachim Brohm. Ohio , Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2011 Joachim Brohm. Culatra , Kicken Berlin
2013 Places and Edges . Brancolini Grimaldi, London, UK
2014 Vernacular & Modern . Grimaldi Gavin, London, UK
2014 typology 1979 . Beck & Eggeling, Düsseldorf
2015 Joachim Brohm, Valentina Seidel: Not A House / But A Face , Fotohof Galerie, Salzburg, A
2015 Not A House . Beck & Eggeling, Düsseldorf
2017 Mixed Media (III). About architecture. Joachim Brohm in dialogue , Kicken Berlin

Group exhibitions (selection)

1986 remains of the authentic. German photographic images from the 1980s , Museum Folkwang, Essen

1991 Scholarships for contemporary German photography from the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation 1988 and 1989: Annette Frick, Pidder Auberger, Joachim Brohm, Rudolf Bonvie, Volker Heinze, Matthias Wähner, Museum Folkwang, Essen

1992 Surface Readings , The Photographers' Gallery, London, GB

1993 Industrial photography today, Siemens photo project , State Gallery of Modern Art / Neue Pinakothek, Munich

1994 Spectrum Photo Gallery 1972–1991. A review. Selected photographs , Sprengel Museum, Hanover

1995 From Icon to Irony , Boston University Gallery, Boston / MA

1995 The act of seeing (urban space) - part two , Fondation pour l'architecture, Brussels, B.

1999 insight-out. Landscape and interior as themes of contemporary photography , Kunstraum Innsbruck, A

1999 Pars per Toto: Förg, Dibbets, Scully, Schmidt, Fischer, Bürkle, Brohm , Galerie Lelong, Zurich, CH

2000 uncertainty relation. Photography as a dimension in painting , Kunstverein Freiburg im Marienbad, Freiburg

2001 If Berlin were Biarritz ... Architecture in Pictures from the Photographic Collection in the Museum Folkwang , Museum Folkwang, Essen

2002 landscape. Photographs by Robert Adams, Joachim Brohm, Laurenz Berges, Bernhard Fuchs and Simone Nieweg , Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven

2003 Every photograph is a picture. Siemens photo collection , Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

2003 Contemporary German Photography. Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation scholarship holders 1982–2002 , Museum Folkwang, Essen

2004 Best of - a look into the collection , Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne

2004 Gemengd Bedrijf. De Verandering van het agrarisch Landschap , Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, NL

2004 landscape / photography. Brohm, Nieweg, Riebesehl , Representation of the State of Lower Saxony at the Federal Government, Berlin

2005 Landscape in Flux: Becher, Brohm, Riebesehl, Schmidt, Schürmann , Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, California, USA

2005 Multiple rooms (2): Park - Breeding and Wild Growth in Art, State Art Gallery, Baden-Baden

2007 “What does the Jellyfish want?” Photographs from Man Ray to James Coleman , Museum Ludwig, Cologne

2007 Private Public , Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL

2009 non-places, places. Collection exhibition 2009 , Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig

2009 Location Everyday Ideologies , Art Museum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg

2009 Visions of our time, 10 years of photography at Deutsche Börse , C / O Berlin

2010 Arbeit / Labor, Set 7 from the collection and archive of the Fotomuseum Winterthur , Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH

2010 Ruhr views. A photography project by the Sparkassen Finanzgruppe , SANAA building, Zeche Zollverein, Essen

2010 Objectivity in Germany. Photographs 1960–2000 , Luisotti Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

2011 News from the Zwischenstadt. Photography, video and sculpture from the collection , Museum Ludwig, Cologne

2011 Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven , Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus / Ohio, USA

2011 Aspects of Color: A History of Color in Photography from Pictorialism to Contemporary , Galerie Kicken Berlin

2012 It Startled the Natives . Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica / Ca, USA

2013 Re-Seeing the Permanent Collection: The Viewer's Choice . Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wi, USA

2013 Industrial Worlds. MAST Collection , Bologna, I.

2013 Crossing Views . Art Association Marburg, Marburg

2013 This Infinite World, curated by Paul Graham . Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH

2013 Concrete - Photography and Architecture . Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH

2014 Human Nature . Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Eschborn

2014 Unyielding and Unrestrained: Documentary Photography around 1979 . Museum Ludwig, Cologne

2014 Structures and Surfaces . Kicking Berlin

2014 Industrial Worlds 014 . MAST Collection, Bologna, I.

2015 Green City: Shaped Landscape - Networked Nature . Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen, Oberhausen

2015 Icons and Concepts - August Sander to Jim Dine . Neuhardenberg Castle Foundation, Neuhardenberg

2015 Human Nature . Art Collection Deutsche Börse, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf

Publications (monographs)

1990 Joachim Brohm: Industrial Age , Text: Ute Eskildsen, Museum Folkwang, Essen
1990 Joachim Brohm. Berlin 1990 , Text: Vince Leo, Realization: Thomas Weski, Ed. Siemens AG, Berlin, Munich
1991 Joachim Brohm. 1987 , text: Heiner Schepers, Kunstverein Lingen, Lingen / Ems
1992 Joachim Brohm , text: Peter Friese, Galerie Mathias Kampl, Munich, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg
1995 Joachim Brohm: Kray , ed. Timm Rautert, texts: Heinz Liesbrock, Thomas Weski, edition of the University of Graphic and Book Art Leipzig, Oberhausen: Plitt Druck und Verlag GmbH
1996 Joachim Brohm and Volker Heinze , text: Raimund Stecker, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
1999 Joachim Brohm. Area in progress. A photographic project 1992–2002 , published by Edition Fotohof, Salzburg, texts: Moritz Küng, Joachim Brohm, Salzburg: Edition Fotohof
2002 Joachim Brohm. Area. A photographic project 1992–2002 , texts: Regina Bittner, Urs Stahel, Göttingen: Steidl
2005 Joachim Brohm. Drive , Eds. Claudio Hils, Thomas Knubben, Text: Peter Piller, Städtische Galerie Ravensburg, Cologne: Schaden Verlag
2007 Joachim Brohm. Ruhr , Ed. Heinz Liesbrock for the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Text: Heinz Liesbrock, Göttingen: Steidl
2009 Brohm / Ottersbach - Culatra / Areal , Ed. Kirsten Nordahl, Text: Thomas Wagner, Göttingen: Steidl
2009 Joachim Brohm. Ohio. Photographs 1983–1984 , Ed. Thomas Weski, texts: Thomas Weski, Vince Leo, Göttingen: Steidl
2010 Joachim Brohm. COLOR , ed. Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Landesgalerie Linz at the Upper Austrian State Museum, text by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Munich: Schirmer / Mosel
2014 Joachim Brohm. Typology 1979 ; London: Mack

Web links

Artist's website (portfolio, publications and biography)
Literature by and about Joachim Brohm in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Joachim Brohm in the German Digital Library
Search for Joachim Brohm in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
Website of the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Art

Individual evidence

↑ On the importance of Michael Schmidt's workshop for photography, cf. Gerhard Höfer: "The adult education centers fill an important gap here ... Example VHS workshop for photography in Berlin", in: foto-scene , Mainaschaff, 2nd year, no. 15, 1981, pp. 7-14.
↑ Kray
↑ area on joachimbrohm.com
↑ See Joachim Brohm. COLOR, ed. Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne and Landesgalerie Linz at the Upper Austrian State Museum, text by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Munich: Schirmer / Mosel, 2010, blurb.
↑ Cf. Thomas Weski: “Interlude. Joachim Brohm's Photographs Ohio ”, in: Joachim Brohm: Ohio , ed. Thomas Weski, texts by Thomas Weski, Vince Leo, Göttingen: Steidl, 2009, p. 6ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Brohm, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dulken

[1] On the importance of Michael Schmidt's workshop for photography, cf. Gerhard Höfer: "The adult education centers fill an important gap here ... Example VHS workshop for photography in Berlin", in: foto-scene , Mainaschaff, 2nd year, no. 15, 1981, pp. 7-14.

[2] Kray

[3] area on joachimbrohm.com

[4] See Joachim Brohm. COLOR, ed. Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne and Landesgalerie Linz at the Upper Austrian State Museum, text by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Munich: Schirmer / Mosel, 2010, blurb.

[5] Cf. Thomas Weski: “Interlude. Joachim Brohm's Photographs Ohio ”, in: Joachim Brohm: Ohio , ed. Thomas Weski, texts by Thomas Weski, Vince Leo, Göttingen: Steidl, 2009, p. 6ff.