From the perspective of the garage courtyards, a collective portrait of Chemnitz's urban society is being created, consisting of 100 images that will be exhibited in Chemnitz retail outlets from January 2025. The portraits will be accompanied acoustically by selected fragments from conversations that the project team and artist Cosima Terrasse, among others, have conducted in the garage courtyards and which illuminate and make audible the phenomenon of garage culture. The portraits will be brought together in an exhibition at the Garage Campus from May 2025.
Romanian-born photographer Maria Sturm (*1985) initially studied photography at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences before completing her MFA in photography at the Rhode Island School of Design on a Fulbright and DAAD scholarship. She portrays people in their socio-cultural environment with a particular sensitivity for the cracks and gaps in the carefully selected excerpts of reality. The fragile strength of her protagonists comes to light in a way that is both delicate and relentlessly expressive. Maria Sturm's work has already won several international awards, been published and shown in exhibitions.
