Hans-Christian Schink

Hans-Christian Schink is one of the well-known photo artists of our time. He studied photography at the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Art under Joachim Jansong from 1986 to 1991 and completed a master's degree course from 1991 to 1993. In the following years he won several work grants, including from the Kulturfonds Foundation in 1997 and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in 2008. In 2002 he was “artist in residence” at the Künstlerhaus Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, in 2012 he was a scholarship holder at Villa Kamogawa Kyoto and in 2014 he was a scholarship holder at the German Academy Villa Massimo Rome. He has received renowned awards, including the German Photo Book Prize in 2004 for his book “Traffic Projects” and the highly endowed REAL Photography Award in 2008 for his series “1 h”.

“Can you say less and yet say everything at the same time?” asks Mark Siemons in the FAZ, while Boris Hohmeyer for “Art” judges a work by Schink to be “as austere and beautiful as if painted by Barnett Newman”.