The young photographer Anne Pöhlmann spent 85 days in Dresden in spring 2022 - as part of the scholarship for photography. Born in Dresden, she used the opportunity to artistically re-approach her hometown and to search for biographical traces. Her works are now on display in the Dresden Technology Collections as a Dresden diary.
Anne Pöhlmann's photographic works are both emotional and analytical, reflecting familiarity and distance in her approach to what was once her childhood home. Born in Dresden, Anne Pöhlmann (*1978) has returned from her place of work and residence in Düsseldorf for a limited period of time and has dared to experiment. Memories, but also her own first photographs from Dresden in the 1990s were to be compared with what could be captured photographically at the time. The research was accompanied and supported by conversations with residents, some of whom have known the city for a long time. The results of the work have been made available on an ongoing basis on Instagram (dresdendiary).
The exhibition transfers the photographic diary into a format that can be experienced spatially. A material transformation also took place: the photographs were printed on recycled textiles and attached to the walls as fabric. They literally offer material surfaces that appear valuable.
The photographic diary adds another facet to the series of exhibitions on the Dresden Scholarship for Photography that began in 2010 - as a continuation and reinvention.
The Dresden Scholarship for Photography and the exhibition are a cooperation project between the Dresden Foundation for Art & Culture of the Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden and the Dresden Technology Collections
