Susa Templin: Light Space Time Cat. Museum für Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt

Light, space, time – that is everything, besides a camera, a darkroom and a studio, that Susa Templin needs for her work, and that distinguishes it. She does not consider herself a photographer, but sees her work as somewhere between painting and sculpture. Her medium of choice therefore is analog photography: Susa Templin creates her colors in the darkroom, and with her works she departs from the flat surface: with superimposed photography she creates accessible image installations that evolve into the three-dimensional. Light, space and time – according to her, these are the prerequisites of photographic work. Each of her works is a reflection of the light art that it actually is. The catalog goes beyond a mere documentation of the installative and presents works, exhibitions, and art-in-architecture projects of the last ten years. The text by Theres Rhode, curator at the MKK and specialist for Concrete Art as well as photography, examines the conflicting fields of abstraction and concreteness. Christina Leber, head of the DZ Bank art collection, which focuses on photographic forms of expression in contemporary art, outlines in her essay the photographic philosophy of space.

Theres Rohde is curator and deputy museum director at the Museum für Konkrete Kunst in Ingolstadt. Susa Templin, born in 1965, studied photography at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin and the Staedelschule in Frankfurt. She now lives in Frankfurt and Berlin, after a long stay in New York around the 1990’s. Several exhibitions since then in photo galleries and institutions have earned her the reputation of having brilliantly mastered the task of expanding the two-dimensionality of photography through her installations into sculptural image buildings that make photography physically tangible. Christina Leber, born in 1966, studied Catholic theology and education and completed her studies with a doctorate. From 1992 to 1999 Christina Leber was a freelancer for numerous corporate collections, including Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Tetra Pak, DG BANK and others. From 1999 to 2001 she was the managing director of the 2nd berlin biennial for contemporary art. Since 2003 she has been working for the DZ BANK art collection, first as curator, since 2011 as its director.