And the winner is... - LUDWIGGALERIE Schloss Oberhausen

And the winner is ...

August 18, 2020

On Sunday, August 16, the jury of the LUDWIGGALERIE Schloss Oberhausen (Miriam Hüning, curator; Karoline Seck, trainee and Axel Scherer, photo designer) and Head of the Cultural Department Apostolos Tsalastras awarded the winners of the “Home” photo competition and opened the exhibition space.

Participants of the photo competition look at photographs, 2020 © LUDWIGGALERIE

Head of the Cultural Department Apostolos Tsalastras at the award ceremony, 2020 © LUDWIGGALERIE

16 works are now physically hanging in the LUDWIGGALERIE, and over 40 other works are running as a digital slide show on a large television in order to be able to exhibit every submitted work.

AND THE WINNERS ARE…

LONGING, 2011 © Achim Kubiak

Achim
Kubiak, 64 years old, takes third place with his painting “SEHNSUCHT” from
the year 2011. Kubiak combines past, present and
future and convinced the jury with its content and imagery. Idyllic, but
not kitschy, Kubiak succeeds in creating an intangible longing
visualize. Mining was an important part of the Ruhr region’s identity and shaped
the view of the region even today. Kubiak photographs a
Miner in back view in his traditional costume with miner's smock, pit hat and
Federbusch. He looks at the headframe of the Prosper Haniel mine in Bottrop.
The picture is a symbol of structural change, because in 2018 the mine will close
Prosper Haniel was the last mine in the Ruhr area. To this day it remains a task
how the former areas can be repurposed.

The
Second place goes to the photograph of Sera Demiral, 18 years old. “Hair studio
Karin” (2020) convinced the jury, because home in the Ruhr area does not have to be
romanticized ideal. Here, dilapidated buildings of a
worthy of a certain aesthetic. In her series “Where Scrufiness
meets Nature“ places in their
hometown of Duisburg, where the morbid decay is in the foreground. The
Symmetry through the facade and the car is emphasized by the
Roller shutters are broken open and create liveliness. The sunlit
Wall gives the decay a certain luminosity. The jury was impressed by this honest,
direct depiction of home sympathetic.

The
The first prize went to photographer Denise Ogan, 40 years old. She
photographed her neighbor “Ruth” in the style of photographer Weegees, as did the
Title of the photo. The term “home” is not for nothing difficult to translate into other
languages. It is more than just a beautiful place where we live
or grew up in. Highly emotional, quite ambivalent and deeply rooted
in our soul. In this impressive mood picture, this
Complexity in a nutshell. “Ruth” takes us along and lets us experience
share in their home moment. “Just do nothing”
is written in oversized letters on her shirt. Steal time, relieve stress
leave, have a smoke and chat with the neighbor in front of the front door.
welcome chat. A small but all the more emotional
Home moment that is captured in this human encounter between photographer and
model is stuck.

The exhibition “Rudolf Holtappel” and the associated photographs from the photo competition can be viewed until September 6th.