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27 September to 22 November 2025
Galerie Rothamel Erfurt

We cordially invite you and your friends to an artist talk with handmade artist quiche and exquisite quince punch this coming Saturday, November 8, at 6 p.m.

December 6, 2025 – March 8, 2026

Hiroyuki Masuyama views art history with as much passion as he does the sky. He examines changes in society and transfers the dwindling biodiversity of our planet into thousands of photos on large tableaux, whose appearance is both fascinating and frightening.

In addition to photographs and slides, we will primarily be showing installations.

Am Weg (Along the Path)
Book launch at Paris Photo. Book signing November 14, 2025, 4:30pm at Hartmann Books (Booth K10).
Preorder here: Book or Special edition with book

The exhibition "Microcosm. The World in a Wunderkammer" has opened at the Drentsmuseum Assen.
On display are my "South Pacific Expedition" and the works "The Zebra," "The Deer," and "The Crocodile."

The exhibition is on display until March 1, 2026. It's well worth a visit!

Under the title "Über Land," the MdbK is presenting the latest series of works by renowned photo artist Hans-Christian Schink (*1961 Erfurt). The subject of the work is the landscape of the far northeast of Germany, which the photographer illuminates from different perspectives in three different sub-projects. From a visual perspective, "Über Land" is a multifaceted, contemporary exploration of the influential tradition of European and North American landscape depictions—particularly Romanticism. At the same time, the work sits at the intersection of current social debates about the transformation of the landscape in the wake of climate and structural change, the associated loss of biodiversity, and the impacts of these processes on people's experience of nature.

While his projects over the past 20 years have taken him to the most remote corners of the world, Hans-Christian Schink has been concentrating for the past few years on his immediate surroundings in the Mecklenburg Lake District. This region – shaped by the last Ice Age – is extremely sparsely populated and, more recently, characterized by increasingly industrialized agriculture. In addition to his intensive photographic engagement with the landscape, his latest work combines a natural history interest in the flora and fauna, as well as an exploration of the history of the landscape (both geological and human-made). The artist was guided by two fundamental questions: What defines this landscape, and how can its character be captured photographically, but also through other forms of expression?

Two of the three subprojects of Über Land (Hinterland and Unter Wasser) have already been published as books by Hartmann Books. On the occasion of the exhibition opening, the third subproject, Am Weg (On the Way), will also be published, featuring an essay by poet and writer Uwe Kolbe that captures the peculiarities of the place on a literary level.