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until 01.06. | #4218ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK shows from 20. April 2024 the exhibition Hawai’i by the artist Olaf Heine.
The photographer Olaf Heine is an essayist of our time whose oeuvre is characterized by a profoundly composed narraZon. This also includes his observations of the island of Hawai’i, which the internationally renowned artist has been describing photographically for many years in an unprecedented variety. In doing so, he captures the ocean as the architect of those eight islands, which also defines the rhythm of life of its inhabitants. The complexity of this interplay becomes clear in Heine’s work; in addition to powerful nature photography, it also touches on socially relevant aspects, and a holistic view of Hawai’i emerges. TradiZon and everyday life as well as seemingly untouched nature and human influence are reflected as omnipresent contrasts and united by Heine’s clear visual language. With the “Hawai’i” series, the artist has created an allegory of the local attitude to life.
Olaf Heine (*1968) is internaZonally renowned for his enigmatic and detailed portraits of artists and athletes as well as his impressive architecture and landscape photography. After training as a photographer and communicaZon designer at the renowned LeEe Verein in Berlin, he made his internaZonal breakthrough when he moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s. Since then, he has created world-famous portraits of personalities such as Cate BlancheE, Nick Cave, Kurt Cobain, Coldplay, The Eagles and U2. Olaf Heine also established himself as a director for award-winning music videos, short films and commercials and played a decisive role in shaping the visual language of many bands. His photographic work has been published on numerous album and magazine covers as well as in six photo books “Leaving the Comfort Zone” (2008), “I Love You But I’ve Chosen Rock” (2011), “Brazil” (2014, 2024), “Rwandan Daughters” (2019), “Human CondiZons” (2022) and “Hawai’i” (2024) – and are part of renowned private and public collections. Olaf Heine currently lives and works between Berlin and Los Angeles.
CAMERA WORK
The Berlin-based gallery CAMERA WORK was founded in 1997 and is now one of the world’s leading galleries for photographic art. Based on the historically coined gallery name, the company has followed the philosophy from the outset of representing and exhibiting young contemporary artists alongside the best-known artists in the history of photography, such as Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Patrick Demarchelier, Peter Lindbergh, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Man Ray, Herb RiEs and Albert Watson, in order to manifest photographic art as an independent genre within the fine arts and to give space to new posiEons. In addition to the main areas of fashion, nude and portrait photography, CAMERA WORK focuses on the areas of staged photography, architecture and life. CAMERA WORK exclusively represents numerous renowned contemporary artists in Germany, Europe and worldwide, including Olaf Heine, Jean-BapZste Huynh, Russell James, Eugenio Recuenco, MarZn Schoeller, ChrisZan Tagliavini, Dean West and David Yarrow. In order to establish a selection of contemporary artists on the art market and include them in CAMERA WORK’s portfolio, CAMERA WORK ran the art gallery CWC GALLERY in Berlin from 2012 to 2019. CAMERA WORK is regularly represented at leading international art fairs, including Paris Photo, Zona Maco in Mexico City, Art Central Hong Kong and Photo London.
Since 2020, CAMERA WORK has been running the CAMERA WORK Virtual Gallery – an innovaZve and high quality online gallery where art collectors and anyone interested in art can experience exclusive exhibiZons: www.camerawork.de/virtualgallery.
Founded in 2001, CAMERA WORK AG owns one of the world’s most comprehensive and qualitatively most important privately owned photo art collections with numerous vintage works by the most renowned photo artists from the 19th century to the present day. From 2006 to 2019, CAMERA WORK AG managed the museum THE KENNEDYS in Berlin.
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 20. April until Saturday, 1. June 2024
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Image caption: Courtesy Olaf Heine: Hawai’i · CAMERA WORK Gallery
Exhibition Olaf Heine | Camera Work | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
