Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation confers the HfG Rundgang Award 2024 to Haben Ghebregziabher
The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation has confered the HfG Rundgang Award 2024 to Haben Ghebregziabher for her project “Heim, Heimat, Pfade – was verbindet?”. The prize is given annually to students at the University of Art and Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung, HfG) in Offenbach/Main who engage with the medium of photography. As part of its commitment to supporting young artists, the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation has been awarding the €3,000 prize annually since 2010. The award ceremony took place during the traditional HfG Rundgang (open house tour) in Offenbach on 13 July. This year’s jury members were photographer Barbara Klemm, gallery-owner Peter Sillem, and Anne-Marie Beckmann, Director of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation.
The jury explained its decision as follows: “In her work, Haben Ghebregziabher explores the question of what a sense of home can be and what meaning it holds. She combines photographs from trips to Eritrea, the country of her family’s origin, with polaroids of her hometown of Darmstadt in Germany and images of culturally and religiously significant objects that she grew up with, which are presented almost like museum artefacts.
Haben Ghebregziabher operates on different levels of photographic representation, using a variety of photographic materials and visual forms of expression. This multilayered approach reflects the complexity of her thoughtful engagement with identity, memory and the medium of photography. Through intriguing yet harmonious presentation of the work, the discrepancy between cultural fragments and individual perception becomes comprehensible when viewing the images, and the personal space of experience expands into a collective one”.
Haben Ghebregziabher was born in 1995. She has been studying photography with Professor Martin Liebscher at the HfG since 2017.
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