Florian Glaubitz on his scholarship project
Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, 10 October 2024: Photographer Florian Glaubitz often focuses his interest on details of everyday objects and realities of life. This is evident in his book Mutter Architektur (Mother Architecture), which Florian Glaubitz brought along to the press conference at the Artists’ and Scholarship Holders’ House for viewing.
In this photographic archive, Florian Glaubitz examines the estate of ceramicist and Bauhaus student Margarete Heymann-Loebenstein. It consists of portraits, landscape photographs and still lifes, which Florian Glaubitz collected photographically. In doing so, he depicted a wide variety of themes, motifs and materials to create his own world around everyday structures.
During his three-month stay at the Artists’ and Scholarship House in Salzwedel, Florian Glaubitz intends to explore the urban space and its inhabitants. Against the backdrop of omnipresent media, globalisation and the acceleration of our living environments, he plans to create artistic documentary photographs of the social and cultural living space of the city and the surrounding region. The ordinary and everyday contrast with the prevailing event culture. He wants to search for traces at the interfaces between public and private.
Florian Glaubitz explained his project in more detail: ‘The aim is not simply to create a series of individual images, but rather a cluster of visual impressions that attempt to show in a poetic way what “togetherness” can mean.’
With the resulting photographic sequences, he wants to give viewers a different perspective on the town of Salzwedel. He intends to artistically guide the viewer’s perception and open their eyes to processes that we often do not pay enough attention to in our everyday lives.
More about Florian Glaubitz
Florian Glaubitz, who was born in Burg, Saxony-Anhalt, in 1985, lives mainly in Münster, Westphalia, and Leipzig. In 2008, he began studying fine art at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig under Professor Heidi Specker. He graduated with a degree in 2016. In 2013, Florian Glaubitz received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation and the Listaháskóli-Íslands foreign scholarship (Iceland).
From 2016 to 2020, he was a master student of Professor Dr Andrea Büttner and Adrian Williams at the Mainz Academy of Fine Arts. In 2022, Florian Glaubitz worked as a curator and art educator for the Förderverein Aktuelle Kunst (FAK) Münster. In the same year, he held a teaching position in photography at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig.
You can find out more about Florian Glaubitz and his works here: http://florianglaubitz.net. (pm)