For 2021, TU Bergakademie Freiberg has been showing the photo exhibition "Symmetrical Metamorphoses" with art photos by Coswig photographer Piet Joehnk at the Centre for Efficient High-Temperature Material Conversion (ZeHS). Joehnk's work has now been featured by the international photography forum IRYS in the app of the same name.
Dan Saunders from the IRYS team, himself a professional photographer from England, asked Piet Joehnk to provide work for publication in the IRYS app. The reflections and symmetries, which are shown both in the ZeHS and in the app, reveal surprising perspectives on many areas of our lives. "Our body structure is almost mirror-symmetrical; we recognise recurring patterns in nature and architecture; mathematics, physics and chemistry use symmetries to describe the structure of elements and shapes," says physicist Professor Dirk Meyer, initiator of the photo exhibition and scientific spokesperson for the Centre for Efficient High-Temperature Material Conversion.
Photographer Professor Peter "Piet" Joehnk is close to both science and art. He has been working as a photography lecturer since 1979 and is the founder and long-standing director of the IFW Dresden photography group. To honour his achievements for Saxony as a research location, Peter Joehnk, who was in charge of commercial and administrative affairs at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf from 2002 to 2017, was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in June 2021. "I am delighted that the exhibition will also be on show in Freiberg in 2026. The building is an architecturally attractive location. My symmetrical metamorphoses meet an art-loving management team here, which symbiotically combines artistic and scientific work."
The exhibition can be experienced until 2027 on the first floor of the ZeHS, near the industrial-scale halls with a view of the inner courtyard.
The research building on the science corridor is opening up to the interested public with the exhibition and other offerings in the "Art meets Science" series. Following the acquisition of two art prints by Walter Maria Padao with the support of private sponsors and the assistance of the VFF, 35 exhibits by private collector Josef Böhm will soon be on display alongside two photographs of dance-percussion-singing. The vernissage is planned for 17 June at 5 p.m.
The permanently installed work "Solaris" by Axel Anklam will also be on display. The mirror guide on Solaris has now been functionally produced and, depending on the position of the sun, there is a wonderful development of light.
