PHOTOGRAPHY

Award Winner

ANJA BOHNHOF und KAREN WEINERT

»Abwesenheitsnotizen« | Serie | 2007

Anja Bohnhof (born 1974), Karen Weinert (born 1976)
student of “visual communication“, Bauhaus-University Weimar, degree: 2004, since 2004 freelancer joint

awards - 2003 2nd prize, student competition, ministry of the interior, Berlin 2004 1st prize of visual arts “Löwenhof-Förderpreis“, Frankfurt am Main 2004 1nd prize student competition, ministry of the interior, Berlin 2006 “Sachsen_ Art“, award for saxony young art, photography, Kulturstiftung Dresdner Bank & Neuer Sächsischer Kunstverein

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Appreciation

REBEKKA KRAFT

»don’t look back« | digitale C-Prints hinter Acrylglas | 2006 | 50x40cm

1971 born in Stuttgart 1993 - 1994 studies of fine art at Freie Kunstschule Nürtingen, 1994 - 1996 apprenticeship for photographer and archivar 1997 - 1999 studies of art sciences in Munich 1999 - 2003 studies of photography at Projekt Fotografie of the adult evening classes in Munich, conducted by Michael Jochum 2005 class for photography under conduction of Lynne Cohen and Reiner Leist at the Int. Summer Academy for Fine Arts Salzburg; seminars and workshops 2001 with Anders Petersen 2001 - 2002 with Sybille Bergemann 2005 with Alvydas Lukys Exhibitions - 2006 2nd Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie and fotobild Berlin

The reflection and interpretation of my own memory is an important motivation within my artistic work. I’m aiming somehow the reduction of personal matters to a kind of steady content of truth and a symbolic expression, which is commonly understood. In this sense my pictures are to be seen as concentrates, which refer to many different levels of interpretation besides the personal one. Being autonomous objects of art, they provoke new topics to be looked at by posing themselves questions, giving the answers, too.

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Appreciation

AGATA MADEJSKA

»Kosmos« | Serie | Lightjetprint, Alu-Dibond, Aluminiumschattenfuge | 2006


1979 born in Warsaw; since 1992 in Germany 1996 - 1997 residence in Fontana, California 1999 - 2000 studies of history of arts, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf 2000 photography course at the University of Duisburg-Essen, communications design 2004 scholarship, ESAG Penninghen, Paris 2007 diploma degree with distinction Awards and Exhibitions - 2001 2nd prize at the photographer and journalist competition RAG AG 2006 Kodak award for the promotion of young talents 2006 Photokina, Köln, Gruner + Jahr Pressehaus, Hamburg, Galerie Mikro, Düsseldorf and 2007 Sparkasse Essen, “Gute Aussichten 2007, 2008 - Young German Photography“ for the work “Kosmos“

In “Kosmos” I focus on a particular section of an urban environment – on playground objects made of stainless steel, of which I took pictures in the last hours of the daylight for the purpose of showing their unusual but in the broader sense maybe “true face“. In these hours a change takes place: the light leaves, the darkness arrives. This composition lets the objects shine. The space disappears as a result of the reduction of the light. What remains, is the exaggerated form of the objects. Due to his property, the playground equipment allows us an access into an unusual world, or rather said into a forgotten or an unlearned world. It leads us back to the haptic, back to the time when it wasn’t necessery to think about essential things; back to the time when one wanted to feel. Simultaneously, because of the way the photographs were taken, we feel the unknown of that distant period, the estrangement caused by memories.

Appreciation

GITTA SEILER

»abgetrieben (aborted)« | Krankenhaus für Minderjährige, St.Petersburg | Serie | 2000
 
1967 born in Metzingen 1986 A-levels, Reutlingen 1989 - 1991 Photography education at the Lette-Verein, Berlin 1991 - 1998 Course of studies in Photography and Design at the Dortmund Polytechnic with Professor Arno Fischer 2004 - 2005 Working period in São Paulo/ Brasil
Exhibitions and Awards - 1999 “Kind sein” shown in the Museum of Art and Cultural History’s FiF gallery (Fotografie im Fenster – photography in the window), Dortmund, Germany 2000 Solo exhibition at Le Manége gallery, Berlin; Contract of manufacture of the Sozialen Künstlerförderung, Berlin 2002 “abgetrieben” shown at the Encontros da Imagem festival, Braga, Portugal (catalogue); “abgetrieben” shown at the Mois de la Photo festival, Paris, France (catalogue) 2004 Scholarship from the “Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg”, Stuttgart 2005 “abgetrieben” is shown at Maria Antonia (Centro Universtário da USP), São Paulo, Brazil 2005 - 2006 Scholarship from the cultural office of the town Konstanz

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