Foto: Hans Hansen
In the organizer's words:
With the exhibition "Photo: Hans Hansen", the MK&G is dedicating a comprehensive retrospective to one of the most important photographers of the post-war period from April 17 to November 1, 2026. Around 220 iconic photographs from over six decades will be on display. In international campaigns for Lufthansa, Nikon, Volkswagen and Erco, among others, Hans Hansen has revolutionized product photography since the 1960s and shaped the collective visual memory of entire generations. The show is complemented by works that reveal his close collaboration with designers such as Tapio Wirkkala. Tools, correspondence, sketches, archive material and selected objects from his private collection also provide in-depth insights into his working process. With his most recent series of works, "Analog" (2024), Hansen also focuses on his own photographic means of creation in his unmistakable objective, minimalist visual language; a new photo series is also being created especially for the exhibition.
While the world outside the studio is constantly changing, a constant order prevails in the studio: everything has its place. In his still lifes, Hans Hansen reduces objects to the essentials: He arranges, breaks down and structures shapes, colors and materials. His photographs have a timeless effect. One of the best-known examples is the photograph of a VW Golf (1988) dismantled into around 7,000 individual parts.
His works bear an unmistakable signature, directing the eye with radical clarity to the everyday world of things and design - incessantly searching for new pictorial solutions. Light and shadow, composition and perspective are central parameters and elementary means with which he constantly questions the nature of photography.
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