The Amazed Silence. Land­scapes of Andréas Lang

Andréas Lang

After living in Paris for many years, Andréas Lang returned to Germany in 2001 in search of his intellectual roots. He began exploring the effects history and mythology exerted on European landscapes. Following the traces of German Romanticism, he rediscovered his home region along the border to France, a place haunted by historic events, which resulted in further works on Europe and an artist’s residency in Poland. Lang travelled through the Middle East and the landscapes of Christianity and the Crusades, with their ambivalence between holy land and holy war. Since 2010 he has been working on a long-term project on German colonialism that follows his great-grandfather’s footsteps and German colonial history to Cameroon and the Congo region. Lang’s images, often reduced to dark shades of black and white, hint at the shadows of European history, while their quiet visual language seems to exist on a timeless plane. His auratic landscapes evoke projections and the mental images of our collective memory.