VON UND MIT   BUCERIUS KUNST FORUM / DEICHTORHALLEN HAMBURG / HAMBURGER KUNSTHALLE / KUNSTVEREIN IN HAMBURG / MUSEUM FÜR KUNST UND GEWERBE HAMBURG

Deichtorhallen Hamburg

Exhibitions

RAGNAR AXELSSON
WHERE THE WORLD IS MELTING

17.03.2023 – 18.06.2023

The Icelandic photographer RAGNAR AXELSSON (*1958), one the most sought-after Nordic photographers, has long observed climate change with great concern. For more than 40 years he has documented the dramatic changes in landscapes and habitats on the fringes of the habitable world, traveling to the most remote and isolated regions of the Arctic, to Inuit hunters in northern Canada and Greenland, to farmers and fishermen in Iceland and the Faroe Islands, and to indigenous populations in northern Scandinavia and Siberia.

This first retrospective of Axelsson’s impressive black-and-white photographs makes the extraordinary relationships between people, animals, and places in the Arctic and their extreme environment visible—relationships that are subject to profound and complex changes due to unprecedented climate change.

Axelsson’s information comes from first-hand accounts by local people. Undeterred by the risks and effort involved, he travels to remote places to spend extended periods of time with them. For this reason, and because he shares their often arduous daily life with them, he gains their trust. This allows him to take snapshots of their lives and write down their stories, thus becoming an ambassador of their existence and the changing living conditions.

The other major theme that excites him is the power of the elements and the grandeur of Nordic nature, as evidenced in his impressive photographic landscape portraits. With the perspective of a researcher and artist, he also analyzes minute natural structures, which recall modernist drawings by Paul Klee or Per Kirkeby.

Curators: Ingo Taubhorn (curator, House of Photography) and Isabel Siben (Kunstfoyer, Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung, Munich)
Produced in cooperation with the Kunstfoyer, Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung, Munich

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Deichtorhallen

Deichtorhallen Hamburg

Opening Hours:

Tuesday to Sunday –  11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
1st Thursday of each month – to 9 p.m.
Closed on Mondays

CONTACT:

Deichtorstraße 1–2
20095 Hamburg

+49 40 32 10 30
mail@deichtorhallen.de
www.deichtorhallen.de


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Getting there

Bus 112 or U1 to station Steinstraße. From there on it will take you only about 2 minutes on foot to the Deichtorhallen.

Use the journey planner of the Hamburg Transport Association, if you would like to use means of public transportation.

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Many hire stations for city bikes on the Kunstmeile offer facilities round the clock for hiring and returning a StadtRAD.

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