Registration
Retailers interested in participating in this exhibition project should complete the registration form (PDF in German) and send it to: 3000garagen(at)chemnitz2025.de.
Wanted: shops for exhibition
Retail becomes part of the "Garage Portraits" exhibition
Photo: Peter Rossner
In spring and summer 2024, photographer Maria Sturm roams the garage yards of Chemnitz and photographs the people who park or repair their cars there, enjoy an after-work drink in the garage or take care of their yard together during spring cleaning. Sometimes she also accompanies the #3000Garagen team and other artists involved with her camera during their explorations and work meetings. She enjoys engaging in dialogue and is interested in the individual life paths and the uniqueness of garages that are supposedly the same. This enables her to take expressive and individualised portraits of the people she meets in the garage courtyards.
"C the Unseen" - "See the undiscovered" is the motto for Chemnitz 2025, but it also stands for the invitation to show oneself. This is what many Chemnitz residents are doing in this photo project, for example.
From January 2025, around 100 pictures are to be shown in a large decentralised exhibition in retail outlets throughout the city. Exhibition venues are now being sought.
Maria Sturm's pictures focus on the people behind the garage doors: at eye level, self-confident, likeable. From the perspective of the garage courtyards, a collective portrait of Chemnitz's urban society emerges.
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.
Interested retailers who would like to participate in this exhibition project can contact: 3000garagen(at)chemnitz2025.de
