Joachim Brohm, Valentina Seidel: TRINITY

by Brohm, Joachim; Seidel, Valentina; Irvine, Karen

• ISBN13: 9783864421686
• ISBN10: 3864421683
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-03-10
• Publisher: Snoeck Publishing Company

Summary

St Trinitas Church Leipzig

The consecration of a new church in May 2015 was the end of an odyssey for a Leipzig parish community that has lasted for over seventy years. With the construction of the new building by Schulz & Schulz architects, St Trinitas has returned to the center of the city: pro­m­inently situated right across from the monumental town-hall built in 1905. A series of about 120 carefully selected photographs follow the continuous changes at the construction-site between 2012 and 2015. The evolving new architecture also provides the backdrop for a selection of portraits: teenagers celebrating their holy confirmation, workmen of multinational origin as well as the artists that were commissioned to develop works for the building. By integrating a number of additional photographs from different artistic projects into the flow of the series, Joachim Brohm and Valentina Seidel de­velop an unexpected and complex visual nar­rative, lead­ing viewers far beyond the boundaries of conventional documentation.

Author Biography

Joachim Brohm, born 1955, studied visual science and communication at the Folkwangschule Essen where he was student of Michael Schmidt. He is a photographer and professor at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig and the senior partner in this project Trinity. Remarkable is the fact that he was one of the first German photographers working at the end of the 1970s with colored photography. A despised technical option which was assigned to advertisment, fashion and journalistic photography. Since that time he had numerous exhibitions, amongst others 2011 at Gallery Luisotti in Santa Monica, 2009 Kunsthalle Mainz, 2007 Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, 2002 Fotomuseum Winterthur, 1999 Galerie Fotohof Salzburg.

Valentina Seidel, born 1973, masterstudent at Joachim Brohm’s class, participated at group exhibitions 2005 in Yokohama, Hanoi and Jakarta, 2006 at ifa galleries Stuttgart and Berlin, 2008 Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, 2012 Museum voor moderne Kunst Arnhem, 2017 Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur Cologne, with a couple of solo shows she had debuts in Leipzig, Berlin, Cologne. Trinity lead 2016 her together with Joachim Brohm to Mana Contemporary in Chicago.