Guided Tour „Ragnar Axelsson. Greenland.“ in German Language

“Never has it been more important than now to document, in words and images, the lives of the people of the Arctic and the changes they are undergoing, so that the world can see what is happening.” (Ragnar Axelsson, * Protected content Reykjavik)

For more than 40 years, the Icelander Ragnar Axelsson has been photographing people, animals, and landscapes in the most remote regions of Greenland, Iceland, and Siberia. In dramatic black-and-white images, he captures the existential human experience at the edge of the habitable world. Rather than merely illustrating climate change, his photographs reveal how environmental changes are experienced by the people whose livelihoods depend on land, sea, and ice.

The exhibition Ragnar Axelsson Greenland comprises 60 works. His magnificent photographs and texts convey both beauty and vulnerability. They tell, with great empathy, of resilience, loss, dignity, and a way of life under pressure from an outside world that ignores their existence or seeks to dictate to them how they are to live. Ragnar Axelsson’s Greenland shows the reality of a rapidly changing world – a place of singular beauty and constant peril.

A world melting before our eyes – with incalculable global consequences.