Hans Christian Schink Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig

ÜBER LAND
Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig
27 November 2025 to 1 March 2026

The artist and the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig cordially invite you to the opening today, Wednesday, 25 November 2025, at 6 p.m.







Hans-Christian Schink (born in Erfurt in 1961) is one of the most renowned photographic artists of our time. His series ‘Verkehrsprojekte Deutsche Einheit’ (German Unity Transport Projects) and ‘1h’, which broke new ground in black-and-white photography, made photographic history. As part of his projects, he travelled, lived and photographed our planet from Spitsbergen to Antarctica, from Machu Picchu to Kochi.

Under the title Über Land (Over Land), the MdbK is showing Schink's latest group of works. This time, the subject of the work is the landscape in the far north-east of Germany, which the photographer illuminates from different perspectives in three different sub-projects: Hinterland, Unter Wasser (Under Water) and Am Weg (On the Way). From an artistic point of view, Über Land is a multi-layered, contemporary examination of the influential tradition of European and North American landscape depictions – especially Romanticism. At the same time, the work stands at the interface of current social debates about the overexploitation of the landscape, the associated loss of biodiversity and the effects of these processes on people's experience of nature.




Wednesday, 3 December, 6 p.m.
Reading and discussion with Uwe Kolbe & Hans-Christian Schink
As part of the exhibition at the MdbK, author Uwe Kolbe will read from his new prose text Der Weg (The Way). This multi-layered autofictional text was written at Schink's invitation as a contribution to his new photo book Am Weg (On the Way, Hartmann Books, 2025). The reading will be followed by a discussion between the author, the photographer and the curator (Philipp Freytag).

Wednesday, 25 February, 6 p.m
Hans-Christian Schink. Über Land (Across Country)
Conversation in the exhibition with references to works from the collection with Hans-Christian Schink and curators Philipp Freytag and Jan Nicolaisen.
Admission: €5 / €2.50, no registration required.