Photographer Ina Jungmann takes an art form known for faithfully capturing a moment in time and uses it instead to explore our fractured relationship with place, hope and memory.
Fascinated by people’s ability to perceive place in terms of both present reality, past history, and future dreams, Jungmann uses multiple exposures to create high-end art pieces that are textured, nuanced, and at times otherworldly. Her work has been widely exhibited in Los Angeles, Germany, Syria, and Poland.
Jungmann is a citizen of the world, traveling widely, speaking multiple languages, and using her outsider’s eye to bring to life the depths and nuances of a culture and a moment in history. In Damascus only days before the outbreak of Syria’s devastating civil war, Jungmann captured some of the final moments of normalcy and peace. Those works have since been exhibited around the world, most notably in Damascus itself, at both the Goethe Institut Damaskus and the Arab International University. She has also turned her lens to examine such historically profound locations as the Murphy Ranch, an abandoned WWII-era Nazi encampment in California’s Pacific Palisades.
No matter what the context of her photography, Jungmann’s work combines innovation, storytelling and artistry. Educated at UCLA and the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle, Germany, she has studied with acclaimed photographers James Welling and Rudolf Schäfer. She is also honored to be mentored by Japan's Miyako Ishiuchi.
Jungmann remains fascinated by the power of an image to bridge cultural, historical and linguistic chasms.
Born 1985, Mannheim, Germany
Lives and works in Los Angeles.
Education:
2011 MA, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, Germany.
2008 BFA, Major in Visual Art, University of California Los Angeles.
Solo Exhibitions:
2019
In Transit, Online Exhibition, Open Mind Art Space, Los Angeles, USA (Online Exhibit)
2018
Thomas Manns Haus in Pacific Palisades, Thomas-Mann-Archiv ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Transpacific Exposures, Open Mind Art Space, Los Angeles, USA (Press Release)
2017
Mirage, Woodlandhills, Los Angeles, USA
2016
Sleeping Indian (One Night Preview Show), Strauss Studio, Los Angeles, USA
city lights - Damascus 2011, Goethe Institute, Los Angeles, USA
2011
Leben in der Fremde, Trägerwerk Soziale Dienste Sachsen-Anhalt Halle, Halle (Saale), Germany
Group Exhibitions:
2018
CASA of Los Angeles’ 5th Annual Wine+Art, Los Angeles, USA
Summer Exhibition, Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
CASA of Los Angeles’ 4th Annual Wine+Art, Los Angeles, USA
Movement in Time, CreationOvation Art Center, Rolling Hills Estates, USA
2017
Flourish, Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, USA
Looking West, Pixomondo Studio, Los Angeles, USA
2012
in/visible borderless Photokina Cologne, Germany
borderless WhiteBOX Munich, Germany borderless-halle.de
2011
Annual Exhibition Burg Giebichenstein Hochschule für Kunst und Design Halle (Saale), Germany
Damaskus - Im Fokus deutscher und syrischer Studenten Goethe Institut Damaskus, Damascus, Syria
Damaskus - Im Fokus deutscher und syrischer Studenten Arab International University Damascus, Syria
2010
Annual Exhibition Burg Giebichenstein Hochschule für Kunst und Design Halle (Saale), Germany
Sunrise, sunset, swiftly fly the years... Festival of Art Photography 2010 Galeria Schody, Poland
Sunrise, sunset, swiftly fly the years Burg Giebichenstein University for Art and Design Halle, Germany
2008
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye. . . UCLA, Undergraduate Senior Exhibition, Los Angeles, USA
From End to End UCLA Department of Art, New Genres Exhibition, Los Angeles, USA
2007
Farbenblind UCLA Department of Art, Undergraduate Gallery, Los Angeles, USA