Hans-Christian Schink
May 22, 2026 – August 7, 2026
, Am Weg
, Galerie Rothamel, Frankfurt
Hans-Christian Schink (born in Erfurt in 1961) has traveled the world as a photographer for over 20 years. More recently, however, he has devoted his artistic work to the region where he lives, in the far northeast of Germany. This sparsely populated region, shaped by the last Ice Age, is characterized primarily by industrialized agriculture and, increasingly, by the effects of the “energy transition.”
Between 2012 and 2025, the series “Hinterland,” “Unter Wasser,” and “Am Weg” were created there. From a visual perspective, these projects constitute a multifaceted, contemporary engagement with the influential tradition of European and North American landscape depictions—particularly Romanticism. At the same time, the work stands at the intersection of current social debates regarding landscape transformation in the wake of climate and structural change, the accompanying loss of biodiversity, and the effects of these processes on people’s experience of nature.
In Schink’s latest work, “Am Weg,” his intensive photographic engagement with the landscape is complemented by a naturalist interest in flora and fauna as well as an exploration of the landscape’s history (both in terms of geology and human land use). Focusing on the area along a 3-kilometer-long dirt road leading from the artist’s home to a nearby lake, he was guided by two fundamental questions: What defines this landscape, and how can its character be captured photographically, as well as through other forms of expression?
We cordially invite you and your friends to join us in Frankfurt for the opening with the artist on Thursday, May 21, at 5:30 p.m.!
Galerie Rothamel Frankfurt
Reuterweg 71
60323 Frankfurt am Main
T. +49 177 599 84 45