Hans-Christian Schink

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Hans-Christian Schink (* 1961 in Erfurt ) is a German photographer .

Life

Hans-Christian Schink studied photography from 1986 to 1991 at the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Art with Joachim Jansong. From 1991 to 1993 he was a master class student at the university in Leipzig. In the following years he received several working grants, including in 1997 from the Kulturfonds Foundation for the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf and in 2008 from the Else Heiliger Fund of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. In 2002 he was “artist in residence” at the Künstlerhaus Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, in 2012 he received a scholarship from the Villa Kamogawa Kyoto and in 2014 he received a scholarship from the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo Rome. He has received several prizes, including the German Photo Book Prize in 2004 in the photo book category for his book “Verkehrsprojekte” and in 2008 the international REAL Photography Award endowed with 50,000 euros.

Hans-Christian Schink was a member of the German Association of Artists . He lives in Berlin.

Photo art

Hans-Christian Schink works systematically on photographic series or work groups with a broad spectrum of photographic subjects and content-related approaches. In 1993, while studying in Leipzig, he worked on the photographic series “From Leipzig to Günthersdorf”. In the style of documentary photography, he shows buildings and street and landscape sections along Merseburger Straße from the outskirts of Leipzig to a shopping center outside. This series is reminiscent of Ed Ruscha's famous work “Every building on the Sunset-Strip” from 1966 , but replaces completeness with a concentrated photographic look at details and typical features. At the same time, the photo series draws attention to the increasing changes in the (urban) landscapes in eastern Germany after reunification. The photographs of the series “Flämig”, taken in 1997, on the other hand, show an East German landscape in which changes are delayed, only a few individual houses have been renovated and much is reminiscent of the GDR era.

During stays and a. In the Antarctic, Japan, Peru, Russia, the USA and Vietnam, Hans Christian Schink took travel photographs in the classic sense, which, however, did not focus on the people they met, but on landscapes and cities. The pictures taken while participating in the “ World Festival of Youth and Students ” in North Korea concentrate on propaganda paintings in subway stations (series: North Korea, 1989).

With his pictures in the exhibition and in his book Verkehrsprojekte Deutsche Einheit. Traffic projects German unity attracted international attention to Schink. In his photos, he shows East German transport projects that were implemented in the spirit of “ Blooming Landscapes ” in order to integrate this part of Germany into the European transport network. In the process, huge cuts were made in nature. The mostly humanless pictures show large landscape spaces structured by concrete and steel. The huge construction sites are taken from the pedestrian perspective and seem depressing to some viewers. For example, you can see the rails of the new ICE routes and monstrous concrete pillars of bridges. “Schink looked for worthwhile motifs, sometimes waited for months for a cloudy but not cloudy sky that made pastel colors possible, waited until all construction workers had left the picture, waited until all otherwise disruptive elements did not appear and took photos only then with his large-format camera breathtakingly abstract, surreal construction site still life made of concrete, earth and accompanying greenery. The photographer's patience and compositional gaze turned everyday motifs into melancholy ciphers for the state of Germany after reunification. "

Parallel to the documentation “Verkehrsprojekte Deutsche Einheit” followed from 1995 to 2003, Schink's group of works “Autobahn” was created in 1999/2000, details of motorway structures (for example noise barriers). The photographs for “Rötha”, a series of images in which Schink presents single-family house facades, which draws attention to the uniformity and seriality of modern building, are also from 2000.

The series “LA: Night” from 2002/2003 is unusual. Here Schink's attention focused on details of night shots he took in Los Angeles. These are small excerpts that are disproportionately enlarged, appear unreal and have a color that is due to photographic technology (daylight film) and does not correspond to the visual experience of the human eye. - The photographs in the work groups Büro (1998) and Walls (1995–2003) are almost abstract.

Schink received the “REAL Photography Award” for his series “1 h”. Inspired by the photo Black Sun that the American photographer Minor White took half a century ago, who used the technique of solarization and overexposed the sun to such an extent that it appeared black in the picture, Schink created a series of images in which he Exposure extended to one hour. Against the background of landscapes from different parts of the world, the one-hour path of the sun appears as an unrealistic and strange-looking dark stripe at a correspondingly changed angle of inclination - due to the season and latitude - whereby the backlight intensifies the unreality of the images. The artist is interested in the relationship between immobility and change or the effect of time stopped in this way.

In 2014 he received a scholarship at the Villa Massimo in Rome.

Exhibitions and works

Solo exhibitions

  • 2016: Rome, Galerie Rothamel Erfurt
  • 2016: SCENERY AND NATURAL PROJECT. Museums of the city of Dresden, technical collections
  • 2016: Rome, Galerie De Zaal, Delft
  • 2016: Hans-Christian Schink - 1h. Relief Society Gallery Dornbirn, Austria
  • 2016: Myanmar. Goethe Institute Yangon
  • 2015: Kanemasu Nigougura Gallery, Shibata, Japan
  • 2015: Schorndorf Culture Forum
  • 2015: EUR, Galerie Rothamel, Frankfurt am Main.
  • 2013: Tŏhoku , Galerie Rothamel, Frankfurt am Main.
  • 2011: Hans-Christian Schink. Photographs 1980 to 2010 , Neues Museum , Weimar and Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art , Duisburg
  • 2011: One hour - photographs , Angermuseum , Erfurt and Galerie Rothamel, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2011: 1h , Kicken Berlin
  • 2008: Galerie Rothamel, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2008: Museo de Bellas Artes Doctor Genaro Perez, Córdoba, Argentina (with Luis Gonzales Palma)
  • 2007: Galerie Arnés y Röpke, Madrid
  • 2006: Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Dordrecht (with Jan Koster)
  • 2006: Vietnam , Kicken Berlin
  • 2005: Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg
  • 2005: Kunsthalle Erfurt
  • 2004: Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin
  • 2004: ACE Gallery, Los Angeles
  • 2001: Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles
  • 2001: Galerie Rothamel, Jena
  • 2000/2001: Architektur-Galerie Berlin, Berlin
  • 2000: Goethe-Institut New York
  • 1998: House of Books , Leipzig
  • 1998: Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt
  • 1995: Grassimuseum , Leipzig

Group exhibitions

Works in public collections

Schink's works can be found in the Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany , Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, High Museum of Art Atlanta, Museum Küppersmühle (Duisburg), in the Museum of Fine Arts (Leipzig), in the Angermuseum (Erfurt) and in the Kupferstichkabinett Dresden as well as in the Jena City Museum .

Books, illustrated books, catalogs

  • Industrial architecture in Chemnitz 1890–1930. Text by Tilo Richter. Thom, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930383-10-1 .
  • Industrial architecture in Dresden. Text by Tilo Richter. Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-378-01019-3 .
  • Industrial architecture in Leipzig. Text by Peter Guth.Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-378-01022-3 .
  • Architecture, landscape, photography. Edited by Ulrich Müller. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-7861-2430-2 .
  • Henry van de Velde's Villa Esche in Chemnitz. A total work of art between Art Nouveau and practicality. Texts by Katharina Metz and Klaus-Jürgen Sembach. Birkhäuser, Basel, Boston, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7643-6991-4 .
  • Hans-Christian Schink. LA. Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg 2004, ISBN 3-901756-41-8 .
  • Hans-Christian Schink - Transport Projects German Unity. Traffic projects German unity. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2004, ISBN 3-7757-1425-1 .
  • Hans Christian Schink: 1h. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7757-2661-0 .
  • Hans-Christian Schink. Photographs 1980–2010. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-2826-3 .
  • Hans-Christian Schink. Tōhoku. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-7757-3548-3 .
  • Hans-Christian Schink. Photographs from Rome. Kehrer, Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86828-665-6 .

literature

  • Martin Kieren: Foreword. In: Architecture, Landscape, Photography. Berlin 2000.
  • Alexander Kluy: The silence after the shot. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. June 15, 2004.
  • Mark Siemons: Triumph of Pure Void. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. June 17, 2004.
  • Boris Hohmeyer: Elegies about touched nature. In: art. No. 4/2004.
  • NN: Blooming landscapes. In: The time. No. 26/2004 ( online ).
  • NN: Industrial culture in Saxony. In: The time. No. 43/1997.
  • Kai Uwe Schierz: Hans-Christian Schink. ( online ).
  • Thomas Wiegand : Motorway Still Life by Hans-Christian Schink . In: "kasseler fotoforum".

Web links

Commons : Hans-Christian Schink  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Schink, Hans-Christian ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on January 19, 2016)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  2. ↑ Quote: Thomas Wiegand: Autobahnstillleben by Hans-Christian Schink
  3. ↑ Villa Massimo | Hans-Christian Schink. Retrieved August 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ A landscape that appears deadly still in FAZ from June 19, 2013, page 38
personal data
SURNAME Schink, Hans-Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt