Steffen Junghans

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Junghans, Steffen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig