Who would expect to find a blazing fire in a broom cupboard or an explosion in a model kit including a turkey, a partridge and a pheasant?

Eckart Hahn puts everyday objects to unexpected use, removing them from their familiar context in order to create new connections: However it is never really clear whether these are interior or exterior spaces. Our focus is directed towards individual scenes that – like dreams – create an unreal effect when combined with the selected motifs, quite unlike the accurate sharp detail of the photographic representations of the objects. Hahn processes personal experiences in his images and connects these to fantastic elements to create a new reality that the viewer must try and decode: What is happening or what is going to happen? Time stands still before the progression of a story whose ending is uncertain.

Biografie

1971 born in Freiburg/Breisgau

1990-1991 basic education Photography, Stuttgart

1991-1993 studies of art history at the Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen

1995-1998 studies of graphic design at the Johannes-Gutenberg-Schule, Stuttgart

2005 promotion prize of the Verband Bildender Künstler Württemberg

Lives and works in Reutlingen