Longest F. Stein

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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)

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

  1. ↑ Constanze Albrecht, Ute Hornbogen (ed.): Studio visual arts Berlin-Baumschulenweg. Documentation from 1979–1998. Berlin 2002.
  2. ↑ Entry on deutsche-fotografische-akademie.com.
  3. ↑ a b Astrid Volpert: Cunning gallery owners . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 20, 1996.
  4. ↑ Simone Hain, Stephan Stroux, Michael Schroedter: The salons of the socialists. Culture houses in the GDR. Berlin 1996, p. 182.
personal data
SURNAME Stein, Longest F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stein, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German curator
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden