Steffen Junghans
Steffen Junghans (* 1963 in Leipzig ) is a German photographer .
Life
Growing up in Leipzig, after training as a toolmaker in 1983, he was expatriated in January 1989 and moved to West Berlin. In 1991 he graduated from high school and worked as a taxi driver and freelance photo journalist. Junghans then studied from 1994–2001 at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB) in the class of artistic photography with Timm Rautert and philosophy with Christoph Türcke , 2001 diploma in fine arts. Atelier in Leipzig.
Work / photo art
Junghans works as an artistic photographer exclusively in analog technology . According to his presentation, this is the consequence of being responsible for the medium of photography and at the same time the point of contact with reality. The idea behind his photographs is that the invisible can be made visible in photography. The photographic act is tried out in the staging of a seemingly known reality and at the same time the supposed evidence of the medium is questioned. The staged photographs help to recognize that the image is not reality. It is only a question of images, that is, images of what is really in the construction of them. This applies to all work groups: “Mitropa” (1995) / “JVA” and “JVA-Protokoll” (together with photographer Andrea Seppi) / “Setting up” (2001) / “modern workshops” (2004) / the sequence of images “Capitulation I , II, III ”(2006–2011) and“ Photography is an Image ”(2011). Junghans sees itself as a photographer . The exposure , the writing of light on a negative as a physical process, requires that a trace of the real remains. His understanding of photography is therefore not an experimental or narrative one, but a demonstration from which the visual formulation of a thought then proceeds. The aim is to sound out the possibilities of photography as an image-generating medium for a representation of reality and simultaneous reflection.
Collections
Junghan's works can be found in the photographic collection of the Museum Folkwang Essen, the Museum Goch, the art collection of the Sparkasse Leipzig, the art collection of the Deutsche Bundesbank Frankfurt, the Foundation of Saxon Memorials in Dresden, the Leipzig Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the State of Berlin - Charlottenburg district office , Zabludowicz Collection, London.
Exhibitions
- 2011
- we are what you say with Hans Aichinger. maerzgalerie. Leipzig
- welcome (new) home maerzgalerie. Berlin
- Trigger. Photography concepts in Leipzig - a selection of the Sparkasse Leipzig art gallery
- 2010
- Crises & Utopias / 4 - Surrender (I / II / III) Neuer Kunstverein Wuppertal eV
- Silent Revolution. Painting and Photography from Leipzig Kerava Art Museum. Kerava. Finland
- Capitulation (I / II / III) - New photographs maerzgalerie. Leipzig
- The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place Zabludowicz Collection. London
- maerzflimmern 99/09 maerzgalerie. Leipzig
- 2009
- Surrender (II) maerzgalerie. Berlin
- maerzflimmern maerzgalerie. Berlin
- 2008
- Bas de Cuir maerzgalerie. Leipzig
- 2006
- Photographs Museum Goch. Goch
- New Photography from Leipzig Archeus Gallery. London
- Surrender maerzgalerie. Leipzig
- Leipzig and the Photography Kunsthalle der Sparkasse. Leipzig
- 2005
- The Leipzig Lens Podium Gallery & West Corridor. Glasgow School of Art. Glasgow. Goethe Institute. London
- useful, cute, museum-like - the photographed animal museum Folkwang. eat
- Lucky that you are here ... maerzgalerie. Leipzig
Awards
- 2003 Herbert Schober Prize of the German Society for Photography eV
- 2002 bronze medal of the Leipzig Book Fair for »JVA - Protokoll« in the category »Most Beautiful Books in the World« of the German UNESCO Commission
- 1998 1st prize from the Institute for Book Art Leipzig. Photo project »JVA« with co-author Andrea Seppi
literature
- Man and his objects . Exhibition catalog. Museum Folkwang, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86930-472-4 .
- Trigger. Photography concepts in Leipzig - a selection . Exhibition catalog. Stadt- und Kreissparkasse Leipzig, 2011, ISBN 978-3-9812837-2-3 .
- Silent Revolution - Painting and Photography from Leipzig . Kerava Art Museum, 2010, ISBN 978-952-9642-42-7 .
- Surrender . Book, Museum Goch 2006, ISBN 3-86678-044-3 .
- useful, cute, museum-like - the photographed animal . Exhibition catalog. Museum Folkwang, 2005, ISBN 3-86521-237-9 .
- yet untitled. Catalog of the Bernd F. Künne collection. 2005, ISBN 3-7757-1306-9 .
- JVA protocol . Book, Institute for Book Art Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-932865-27-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Steffen Junghans in the catalog of the German National Library
- Steffen Junghans in the maerzgalerie
- Kassel Photo Forum
- Museum Goch
- New Art Association Wuppertal
- L-IZ, 1
- L-IZ, 2
- L-IZ, 3
- artfacts net
- MO: NO Thoughts on Art & Culture ( Memento from November 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- FAZ Feuilleton
- FAZ / Feuilleton
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Junghans, Steffen |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |