Longest F. Stein
Longest F. Stein (born April 6, 1953 in Dresden as Frank Stein) is an exhibition designer who is particularly known for exhibitions in the field of photography .
Life
Stein studied in Dresden and moved to Berlin in 1978 . After a short work in a design office, he headed the gallery in the district culture house in Treptow from 1983 to 1990, which he transformed into the Treptow gallery. From 1990 to 1998 he moved the exhibition profile to the “studio bildende kunst - berlin baumschulenweg”, where the “Galerie Treptow” continued to exist as a separate department. In 1991 he founded the Treptow e. V. and in 1995 became a member of the German Society for Photography . After the “studio bildende kunst” closed, he took over the management of the Adlershof Art and Media Center from May 1998 to December 2003. There, in alternation with Ute Tischler, mainly thematic exhibitions were created. In 1999 he was appointed to the German Photographic Academy . He has been organizing exhibition projects in various locations since 2005 and is the curator of the Treptow e. V.
Curatorial work
Longest F. Stein showed mainly young art and artists in the municipal gallery in Treptow. He "rummaged with success in the lowlands of communication and youth culture of the GDR of the 80s," said the Berliner Zeitung in retrospect . At a time when photography was still struggling for recognition as an art form in the GDR , new art forms were observed indulgently and action art was hardly tolerated by the state, he created a platform for precisely these art forms. Many of his exhibitions became scandals for the East Berlin cultural bureaucracy. "Joseph W. Huber's exhibition in 1984 was closed before the opening, Gundula Schulze's appearance embarrassed recorded accurately by the vigilant concerned organs." In the magazine Visual Arts 1989 stone work was titled A cactus in flower as described follows:
“For five years now, the Treptow Gallery in the district's cultural center has been offering works by young art producers. In monthly rotation, the one-man company primarily offers photographers the opportunity to meet an interested public with their work. Treptow's importance for the profiling of young artists and the presentation of experimental work in the field of photography remains undisputed even after the establishment of a special gallery on Helsingforser Platz in Berlin. With debut exhibitions by Tina Bara , Christiane Eisler, Jens Rötzsch or Maria Sewcz , to name but a few, with individual appearances by Dresden's 'caliber Tlaente' ( Christoph Tannert ), Micha Brendel , Rainer Görß , Else Gabriel , who have since come to fame as auto-perforation artists Establishment led by Frank Stein ('Longest') into the seismograph network for local art. "
Curated and organized exhibitions (selection)
- 1983 - Helge Leiberg , graphic
- 1984 - Joseph W. Huber , We are not monkeys after all
- 1985 - Gundula Schulze , nude photographs - Rainer Görß , Michael Brendel , like protection - Kurt Buchwald , transport attempts - Tina Bara , Jens Rötzsch , color photographs from the rayon Ivanovo
- 1986 - Else Gabriel , One Way, Schwarzschild - Cold attacks - Maria Sewcz , Michael Scheffer , Peter Oehlmann , Jörg Knöfel
- 1987 - Frank Herrmann , graphics, photography, overpainting
- 1988 - Bertram Kober , color photographs - Florian Merkel , photographs, photographic self-portraits - Claus Bach , photographs
- 1989 - Bernd Lasdin , This is how we are - Jürgen Hohmuth , Pictures of a German World - Harf Zimmermann , Hufelandstr. - Hans Scheuerecker , Michael Wirkner , Klaus Zylla , heads
- 1990 - Matthias Hoch , train stations - Tobias Buddensieg , truck as camera obscura
- 1991 - Harald Hauswald , Somewhere between yesterday and today - Olaf Martens , day dreams - Helge Leiberg , exposition
- 1992 - AR Penck , artist books , Annegret Soltau , head feeling and body thinking
- 1993 - Berlin Video - Video art from the beginning to the present , Miron Zownir , New York's Finest
- 1994 - Nat Finkelstein , Merry Monster , Klaus Elle , Search
- 1995 - Martin Zeller , Max Baumann - perception , Kain Karawahn , inflammation , Robert Lebeck , portraits
- 1996 - "Ars Baltica - Triennial of Photo Art"
- 1997 - Tina Bara , quartier
- 1998 - Positions I - Positions on color photography I
- 1999 - Positions on Color Photography II - The Image of Man, Small Worlds - Photographs and Video
- 2000 - Positions of Color Photography III - Abstraction I , Wibke Leister , Status Reports
- 2001 - No beautiful country - topographic photographs between virtuality and idyll, positions of color photography IV - abstraction II
- 2002 - and me? - Self-assertions of contemporary photographers, interior - the beautiful appearance
- 2003 - Tina Bara , fragile portraits , Matthias Leupold , photo productions 1983-2001
- 2005 - Peter Freitag , Ebays
- 2006 - Reinhard Kühl , greetings from Berlin
literature
- Longest F. Stein (ed.): Sehtest - materials for the history of a gallery . 204 pages, 203 illustrations, 47 of them in color, with text contributions by Uwe Kolbe, Gabriele Muschter, Wolfgang Kil, Jörg Sperling, Christoph Tannert, Thomas Günther and Cosima Reif
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Constanze Albrecht, Ute Hornbogen (ed.): Studio visual arts Berlin-Baumschulenweg. Documentation from 1979–1998. Berlin 2002.
- ↑ Entry on deutsche-fotografische-akademie.com.
- ↑ a b Astrid Volpert: Cunning gallery owners . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 20, 1996.
- ↑ Simone Hain, Stephan Stroux, Michael Schroedter: The salons of the socialists. Culture houses in the GDR. Berlin 1996, p. 182.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Stein, Longest F. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stein, Frank |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German curator |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1953 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |