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In the series Kowitsch, compiled over the past two years as a work in progress, Robin Hinsch arranges large-format color photographs — portraits and landscapes — in an uneven rhythm to compose an extraordinary series about the conflict in Ukraine.
Born in 1987 in Winsen/Luhe (North-Germany), Robin Hinsch spent a sheltered rural childhood in Garlstorf am Walde. At the age of twenty-one he moved to Karlsruhe to study photography with Elger Esser at the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design (HfG). His academic path took him from Karlsruhe to Hanover and then Hamburg, where he graduated with a master’s in photography in 2016.
In 2010, after Viktor Yanukovych defeated his opponent in the presidential election, Hinsch travelled to Ukraine for the first time. Once the protests began in Kiev toward the end of 2013, Hinsch decided to return there in order to experience the end of the Yanukovych era first-hand. He documented the Maidan demonstrations with a camera: “I made a conscious decision not to document atrocities. My goal was not to show how activists sleep, eat, fight, die. My topic was the last confrontation. I thought: This is the final battle. I had not expected that it would turn into the start of a civil war.” (Robin Hinsch)
Since then, Hinsch has repeatedly travelled to the contested areas in eastern Ukraine, sometimes by train to the front at Sloviansk and sometimes by car through Rostov-on-Don to Donetsk. In February 2015, after the sign- ing of a second Minsk agreement on a ceasefire in Donbas, he crossed the Russian border to the Don- bas region in a rickety truck. The war in eastern Ukraine was far from over, but for Hinsch the result was already visible. A new border had been created. During his two-week road trip through the newly formed “People’s Republics” of Luhansk and Donetsk, he documented the extent of the civil war in lucidly composed photographs that go beyond the ac- tual events and differ considerably from the images shown daily in the global media. He depicts ghostly landscapes, at times in a soft morning light or infused with the red glow of the setting sun, which, despite their romantic lighting, dispense with all hope and do not conceal the senseless destruction that has jolted these places: giant holes in houses’ facades that seem
almost surreal; blackened, leafless treetops; or the wrecks of burnt military vehicles. The large-format images recall desolate images of battle, in which people, whether soldiers or civilians, have given up everything, even when there was nothing more to give up. Sometimes a place in Hinsch’s images evokes a forgotten trash heap, where space and time blur. Perhaps these places were already hopeless before the fighting, a no man’s land that for a brief time enjoyed the attention of a global audience, only to sink even more deeply into obscurity thereafter. Hinsch restores these forsaken places to us as powerful, narrative images and manifests them as wounds on our memories. “This time my focus was the newly created border region to western Ukraine, which continues to be a scene of heavy fighting between government troops and pro-Russian separatists. This new no man’s land between Ukraine and Russia bore the visible marks of the war. Only seldom did I come across civilians in the ruins of former villages and cities,” says Hinsch. He does not portray the few people — especially the men — he encounters in his quest as heroic fighters, but at the moment of their greatest vulnerability, weak, cowering on the ground, despondent, downright crushed. Only the young girl on the horse in the metal-manufacturing town of Mariupol evokes a classical equestrian statue and testifies to the power of hope with which this young civilian defies everyday hardships.
The portrait of war drawn by Hinsch in his series contradicts the thesis — by Gerhard Paul — that the ever increasing visualization of war goes hand in hand with its realities becoming invisible and that ultimately modern warfare eludes capture by visual media. Robin Hinsch is part of a young, political generation of German photographers who, despite the safety of their homeland, cast their gaze on the crises and problems of our times and use their cho- sen medium to perturb and sensitize the viewer.
About author:
Education:
2008-2009 HfG Karlsruhe Fotografie bei Prof. Elger Esser
2009-2011 Hochschule Hannover Fotografie bei Prof. Rolf Nobel & Prof. Ralf Mayer
2011-2014 HAW Hamburg Fotografie bei Prof. Kohlbecher
2013-2014 HfBK Hamburg Fotografie bei Prof. Silke Großmann
2014 HAW Hamburg Fotografie Bachelor Abschluss bei Prof. Ute Mahler & Vincent Kohlbecher
2014-now HAW Hamburg Master / Fotografie Prof. Vincent Kohlbecher
Teaching:
2014-2015 Leuphana University Lüneburg/Germany
2015-2016 Leuphana University Lüneburg/Germany
2016 Workshop Photofestival Zingst/Germany
2016 Workshop AdBK Nürnberg/Germany
2017 Workshop Klub der Künste, Deichtorhallen Hamburg/Germany
2017 Workshop Photofestival Zingst/Germany
2018 Workshop Photofestival Zingst/Germany
Lectures and Talks:
2015 Antikriegshaus, Hannover/Sievershausen
2015 Masterpieces, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg
2015 Artist-Talk /w Kirill Golovchenko, Haus der Photographie, Hamburg
2016 Deutsche Fotografische Akademie, Haus der Photographie, Hamburg
2016 Klub der Künste, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg
2016 Artist-Talk, AdBK Nürnberg, Nürnberg
2017 Artist-Talk, EPEA: Shifting Boundaries, Körberforum, Hamburg
2017 Artist-Talk, Lange Nacht der Musseen, Haus der Photographie, Hamburg
2017 Artist-Talk, Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Dessau
2017 Lecture, RAW-Festival 17, Worpswede
2017 Lecture, HCU Hamburg, Hamburg
2018 Artist-Talk, Hometown e.V., Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Hannover
2018 Lecture, Photofestival Zingst/Germany
2019 Lecture, Creative Mornings, Hamburg
2019 Artist-Talk, Ame Nue Gallery, Hamburg
Awards/Preise/Förderungen/Scholarships:
2010 Deutscher Jugendfotopreis
2012 Kunstförderpreis der Hamburger Börse
2013 Goethe Institut / Dakar, Senegal, Arbeitsstipendium
2014 Leica Oskar Barnack Prize (Shortlist)
2014 Canon Profifoto Förderpreis
2014 International Photography Award Honorable Mention: Editorial / Photo Essay and Feature Story
2014 International Photography Award Honorable Mention: Editorial / War&Conflict
2014 International Photography Award 1. Place: Editorial / War&Conflict
2014 International Photography Award 1. Place: Editorial
2014 Lucie Awards Discovery of the Year (Finalist)
2015 European Exhibition Award (Epea 03)
2015 Leica Oskar Barnack Prize (Shortlist)
2015 Magnum Masterclass/Workshop Antoine D`agata
2015 International Media Center Scholarship / HAW Hamburg
2016 Henri Nannen Award (Shortlist)
2016 Athens Photofestival (Shortlist)
2016 International Photography Award Honorable Mention: War & Conflict
2016 Photography Magazine Grant 2016 (3. Place)
2016 Prix Pictet (Nominated)
2017 Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award (Shortlist)
2017 Athens Photofestival (Shortlist)
2018 Photolucida / Critical Mass
2018 Hansel Mieth Award / Honorable Mention
2018 Travel Scholarship / City of Hamburg
2019 Hansel Mieth Award / Honorable Mention
2019 Travel Scholarship / City of Hamburg
2019 The European Photoawards / Martin Parr Foundation
Collections:
Incite Project/Great Britain
DKW/ Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus
Books/Catalogues:
2009 Chronik, u.a. mit Elger Esser
2010 Architektur in Hannover
2011 Zoom, Junge Fotografie
2012 Für immer Jung, Deutscher Jugenfotopreis
2012 Kunst In der Börse
2014 Der Greif "A Process"
2015 Guest-Room: Katrin Weber / Der Greif
2016 EPEA, European Photo Exhibition Award
2017 Reisen mit Regierung, Edition Holprig
Published in:
Spiegel
UniSpiegel
KulturSpiegel
CNN
Rolling Stone
Musikexpress
National Geographic
Sueddeutsche Zeitung
Sueddeutsche Zeitung Magazin
Esquire Russia
SPEX
VICE
ZEIT
ZEIT CAMPUS
ZEIT MAGAZIN
DEBUG
INTRO
NEON
Exhibitions/Austellungen:
2009 Sommerloch, HfG Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
2010 Strasbourg, Photokina, Köln
2010 Kröpcke, Architektur in Hannover, Hannover
2011 Krautzungen #1, Astra Stube, Hamburg
2011 Jede Pfütze dieses Sommers spiegelt mich wieder, Westwerk, Hamburg
2011 Wahnsinn, Schrecken, Vergnügen, Lokal Galerie, Hamburg
2012 Durch die Hölle mit..., Thalia Theater/Nachtasyl, Hamburg
2012 Apokalypse (light), Hinterconti, Hamburg
2012 Krieg und Frieden, Dockville, Hamburg
2012 Kowitsch, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg
2012 Strasbourg, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
2012 Kowitsch, Kunst in der Börse, Hamburg
2013 Last and Lost Poems, Dockville, Hamburg
2013 Its all over now, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg
2013 Von Mäusen und... wie hast du mich gerade genannt?, Kraniche bei den Elbbrücken, Hamburg
2013 Nebelungen, Island, Hamburg
2013 Pudel Art Basel, Pudel, Hamburg
2014 BIS EINER HEULT, Galerie 117, Hamburg
2014 DER GREIF 'A PROCESS', Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus, Augsburg
2014 Kowitsch, HAW-Hamburg, Hamburg
2014 Odysseus wollte nicht nach Hause, Dockville, Hamburg
2014 Die Welt als Schwein, Dockville, Hamburg
2014 Hades und der Seher, Dockville, Hamburg
2014 Kowitsch, Tarnungssalon, Fleetstreet, Hamburg
2014 Kowitsch, Photokina, Köln
2014 Kowitsch, KB-Galerie/Projektraum, Leipzig
2015 Kowitsch, Guest Room, Galerie f5,6 , München
2015 Kobane, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg
2015 YALLA YALLA/The Experimental Jetset, Kraniche bei den Elbbrücken, Hamburg
2015 Die Unterirdischen, Dockville, Hamburg
2015 Kowitsch, PHOTOTRIENNALE HAMBURG, Hamburg
2015 The Artist is broke, Bender & Co, Berlin
2015 Aber sonst gehts gut, Galerie 21, Vorwerkstift, Hamburg
2015 Kobane, Antikriegshaus, Hannover/Sieverhausen
2015 Kowitsch, Ian Parry Scholarship, Hoxton Gallery, London
2016 Interzone, Galerie 117, Hamburg
2016 Kowitsch, European Photo Exhibition Award, Foundation Gulbenkian, Paris, France
2016 Kobane, RAW 16, Photofestival, Worpswede
2016 Provinz, RAW 16, Photofestival, Worpswede
2016 Kobane, Kunstmuseum Dkw Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, Cottbus
2016 Kowitsch, European Photo Exhibition Award, Villa Argentina, Lucca, Viareggio, Italy
2016 Kowitsch, European Month of Photography, FOG-Documentaries Dispersed, Berlin
2016 UWAGA, Studio 45, Künstlerhaus Wendenstraße, Hamburg
2017 Rituale im Kopfgarten, Westwerk, Hamburg
2017 Schlaglichter, Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt/Oder
2017 Kowitsch, European Photo Exhibition Award, Haus der Photographie, Hamburg
2017 Okomfo Adonko, Studio 45, Künstlerhaus Wendenstraße, Hamburg
2017 Hammerbrook, State of mind, Schaltzentrale, Hamburg
2017 Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten, Galerie Speckmannstrasse, Hamburg
2017 Desaster des Krieges, Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Dessau
2017 I JUST WANT TO BE HOME, Artlakefestival, Lichterfeld
2017 Sabiq, At Tension Festival, Lärz
2017 Kowitsch, European Photo Exhibition Award, Nobel Peace Center, Oslo
2017 MASWUWLIA, Galerie Holprig, Künstlerhaus Wendenstraße, Hamburg
2017 I JUST WANT TO BE HOME, Schaltzentrale, Hamburg
2017 Viel Spaß in der Zukunft, Galerie Melike Belir, Hamburg
2018 KRASNA, Studio 45, Künstlerhaus Wendenstraße, Hamburg
2018 100 x Mona Lisa, Galerie Melike Belir, Hamburg
2018 BROOK, Hamburger Rathaus, Hamburg
2018 Wir verlassen die Erde, Affenfaust Galerie, Hamburg
2018 Goodbye blue Sky, Ame Nue Galerie, Hamburg
2018 MASWUWLIA, Galerie Melike Bilir, Phototriennale, Hamburg
2018 Gartenparty, Studio 45, Künstlerhaus Wendenstraße, Hamburg
2018 A Contemporary Reference of the Human Condition, Edition One Gallery, Santa Fe
2018 Die Welt ist düster, Westwerk, Hamburg
2018 JÌNDÙ, Studio 45, Künstlerhaus Wendenstraße, Hamburg
2018 Kowitsch, Ame Nue Galerie, Hamburg
2019 JÌNDÙ, Frappant Galerie, Hamburg
2019 SAPAD, Ame Nue Galerie, Hamburg
2019 MASWUWLIA, Right, BWA Galeria, Zielona Gora, Poland
2019 WAHALA, Galerie Holprig, Künstlerhaus Wendenstrasse, Hamburg
2019 MASWUWLIA, 1000 Wirklichkeiten, Haus der Photographie, Hamburg
Born in 1987 in Winsen/Luhe (North-Germany), Robin Hinsch spent a sheltered rural childhood in Garlstorf am Walde. At the age of twenty-one he moved to Karlsruhe to study photography with Elger Esser at the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design (HfG). His academic path took him from Karlsruhe to Hanover and then Hamburg, where he graduated with a master’s in photography in 2016.
In 2010, after Viktor Yanukovych defeated his opponent in the presidential election, Hinsch travelled to Ukraine for the first time. Once the protests began in Kiev toward the end of 2013, Hinsch decided to return there in order to experience the end of the Yanukovych era first-hand. He documented the Maidan demonstrations with a camera: “I made a conscious decision not to document atrocities. My goal was not to show how activists sleep, eat, fight, die. My topic was the last confrontation. I thought: This is the final battle. I had not expected that it would turn into the start of a civil war.” (Robin Hinsch)
Since then, Hinsch has repeatedly travelled to the contested areas in eastern Ukraine, sometimes by train to the front at Sloviansk and sometimes by car through Rostov-on-Don to Donetsk. In February 2015, after the sign- ing of a second Minsk agreement on a ceasefire in Donbas, he crossed the Russian border to the Don- bas region in a rickety truck. The war in eastern Ukraine was far from over, but for Hinsch the result was already visible. A new border had been created. During his two-week road trip through the newly formed “People’s Republics” of Luhansk and Donetsk, he documented the extent of the civil war in lucidly composed photographs that go beyond the ac- tual events and differ considerably from the images shown daily in the global media. He depicts ghostly landscapes, at times in a soft morning light or infused with the red glow of the setting sun, which, despite their romantic lighting, dispense with all hope and do not conceal the senseless destruction that has jolted these places: giant holes in houses’ facades that seem
almost surreal; blackened, leafless treetops; or the wrecks of burnt military vehicles. The large-format images recall desolate images of battle, in which people, whether soldiers or civilians, have given up everything, even when there was nothing more to give up. Sometimes a place in Hinsch’s images evokes a forgotten trash heap, where space and time blur. Perhaps these places were already hopeless before the fighting, a no man’s land that for a brief time enjoyed the attention of a global audience, only to sink even more deeply into obscurity thereafter. Hinsch restores these forsaken places to us as powerful, narrative images and manifests them as wounds on our memories. “This time my focus was the newly created border region to western Ukraine, which continues to be a scene of heavy fighting between government troops and pro-Russian separatists. This new no man’s land between Ukraine and Russia bore the visible marks of the war. Only seldom did I come across civilians in the ruins of former villages and cities,” says Hinsch. He does not portray the few people — especially the men — he encounters in his quest as heroic fighters, but at the moment of their greatest vulnerability, weak, cowering on the ground, despondent, downright crushed. Only the young girl on the horse in the metal-manufacturing town of Mariupol evokes a classical equestrian statue and testifies to the power of hope with which this young civilian defies everyday hardships.
The portrait of war drawn by Hinsch in his series contradicts the thesis — by Gerhard Paul — that the ever increasing visualization of war goes hand in hand with its realities becoming invisible and that ultimately modern warfare eludes capture by visual media. Robin Hinsch is part of a young, political generation of German photographers who, despite the safety of their homeland, cast their gaze on the crises and problems of our times and use their cho- sen medium to perturb and sensitize the viewer.
About author:
Education:
2008-2009 HfG Karlsruhe Fotografie bei Prof. Elger Esser
2009-2011 Hochschule Hannover Fotografie bei Prof. Rolf Nobel & Prof. Ralf Mayer
2011-2014 HAW Hamburg Fotografie bei Prof. Kohlbecher
2013-2014 HfBK Hamburg Fotografie bei Prof. Silke Großmann
2014 HAW Hamburg Fotografie Bachelor Abschluss bei Prof. Ute Mahler & Vincent Kohlbecher
2014-now HAW Hamburg Master / Fotografie Prof. Vincent Kohlbecher
Teaching:
2014-2015 Leuphana University Lüneburg/Germany
2015-2016 Leuphana University Lüneburg/Germany
2016 Workshop Photofestival Zingst/Germany
2016 Workshop AdBK Nürnberg/Germany
2017 Workshop Klub der Künste, Deichtorhallen Hamburg/Germany
2017 Workshop Photofestival Zingst/Germany
2018 Workshop Photofestival Zingst/Germany
Lectures and Talks:
2015 Antikriegshaus, Hannover/Sievershausen
2015 Masterpieces, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg
2015 Artist-Talk /w Kirill Golovchenko, Haus der Photographie, Hamburg
2016 Deutsche Fotografische Akademie, Haus der Photographie, Hamburg
2016 Klub der Künste, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg
2016 Artist-Talk, AdBK Nürnberg, Nürnberg
2017 Artist-Talk, EPEA: Shifting Boundaries, Körberforum, Hamburg
2017 Artist-Talk, Lange Nacht der Musseen, Haus der Photographie, Hamburg
2017 Artist-Talk, Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Dessau
2017 Lecture, RAW-Festival 17, Worpswede
2017 Lecture, HCU Hamburg, Hamburg
2018 Artist-Talk, Hometown e.V., Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Hannover
2018 Lecture, Photofestival Zingst/Germany
2019 Lecture, Creative Mornings, Hamburg
2019 Artist-Talk, Ame Nue Gallery, Hamburg
Awards/Preise/Förderungen/Scholarships:
2010 Deutscher Jugendfotopreis
2012 Kunstförderpreis der Hamburger Börse
2013 Goethe Institut / Dakar, Senegal, Arbeitsstipendium
2014 Leica Oskar Barnack Prize (Shortlist)
2014 Canon Profifoto Förderpreis
2014 International Photography Award Honorable Mention: Editorial / Photo Essay and Feature Story
2014 International Photography Award Honorable Mention: Editorial / War&Conflict
2014 International Photography Award 1. Place: Editorial / War&Conflict
2014 International Photography Award 1. Place: Editorial
2014 Lucie Awards Discovery of the Year (Finalist)
2015 European Exhibition Award (Epea 03)
2015 Leica Oskar Barnack Prize (Shortlist)
2015 Magnum Masterclass/Workshop Antoine D`agata
2015 International Media Center Scholarship / HAW Hamburg
2016 Henri Nannen Award (Shortlist)
2016 Athens Photofestival (Shortlist)
2016 International Photography Award Honorable Mention: War & Conflict
2016 Photography Magazine Grant 2016 (3. Place)
2016 Prix Pictet (Nominated)
2017 Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award (Shortlist)
2017 Athens Photofestival (Shortlist)
2018 Photolucida / Critical Mass
2018 Hansel Mieth Award / Honorable Mention
2018 Travel Scholarship / City of Hamburg
2019 Hansel Mieth Award / Honorable Mention
2019 Travel Scholarship / City of Hamburg
2019 The European Photoawards / Martin Parr Foundation
Collections:
Incite Project/Great Britain
DKW/ Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus
Books/Catalogues:
2009 Chronik, u.a. mit Elger Esser
2010 Architektur in Hannover
2011 Zoom, Junge Fotografie
2012 Für immer Jung, Deutscher Jugenfotopreis
2012 Kunst In der Börse
2014 Der Greif "A Process"
2015 Guest-Room: Katrin Weber / Der Greif
2016 EPEA, European Photo Exhibition Award
2017 Reisen mit Regierung, Edition Holprig
Published in:
Spiegel
UniSpiegel
KulturSpiegel
CNN
Rolling Stone
Musikexpress
National Geographic
Sueddeutsche Zeitung
Sueddeutsche Zeitung Magazin
Esquire Russia
SPEX
VICE
ZEIT
ZEIT CAMPUS
ZEIT MAGAZIN
DEBUG
INTRO
NEON
Exhibitions/Austellungen:
2009 Sommerloch, HfG Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
2010 Strasbourg, Photokina, Köln
2010 Kröpcke, Architektur in Hannover, Hannover
2011 Krautzungen #1, Astra Stube, Hamburg
2011 Jede Pfütze dieses Sommers spiegelt mich wieder, Westwerk, Hamburg
2011 Wahnsinn, Schrecken, Vergnügen, Lokal Galerie, Hamburg
2012 Durch die Hölle mit..., Thalia Theater/Nachtasyl, Hamburg
2012 Apokalypse (light), Hinterconti, Hamburg
2012 Krieg und Frieden, Dockville, Hamburg
2012 Kowitsch, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg
2012 Strasbourg, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
2012 Kowitsch, Kunst in der Börse, Hamburg
2013 Last and Lost Poems, Dockville, Hamburg
2013 Its all over now, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg
2013 Von Mäusen und... wie hast du mich gerade genannt?, Kraniche bei den Elbbrücken, Hamburg
2013 Nebelungen, Island, Hamburg
2013 Pudel Art Basel, Pudel, Hamburg
2014 BIS EINER HEULT, Galerie 117, Hamburg
2014 DER GREIF 'A PROCESS', Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus, Augsburg
2014 Kowitsch, HAW-Hamburg, Hamburg
2014 Odysseus wollte nicht nach Hause, Dockville, Hamburg
2014 Die Welt als Schwein, Dockville, Hamburg
2014 Hades und der Seher, Dockville, Hamburg
2014 Kowitsch, Tarnungssalon, Fleetstreet, Hamburg
2014 Kowitsch, Photokina, Köln
2014 Kowitsch, KB-Galerie/Projektraum, Leipzig
2015 Kowitsch, Guest Room, Galerie f5,6 , München
2015 Kobane, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg
2015 YALLA YALLA/The Experimental Jetset, Kraniche bei den Elbbrücken, Hamburg
2015 Die Unterirdischen, Dockville, Hamburg
2015 Kowitsch, PHOTOTRIENNALE HAMBURG, Hamburg
2015 The Artist is broke, Bender & Co, Berlin
2015 Aber sonst gehts gut, Galerie 21, Vorwerkstift, Hamburg
2015 Kobane, Antikriegshaus, Hannover/Sieverhausen
2015 Kowitsch, Ian Parry Scholarship, Hoxton Gallery, London
2016 Interzone, Galerie 117, Hamburg
2016 Kowitsch, European Photo Exhibition Award, Foundation Gulbenkian, Paris, France
2016 Kobane, RAW 16, Photofestival, Worpswede
2016 Provinz, RAW 16, Photofestival, Worpswede
2016 Kobane, Kunstmuseum Dkw Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, Cottbus
2016 Kowitsch, European Photo Exhibition Award, Villa Argentina, Lucca, Viareggio, Italy
2016 Kowitsch, European Month of Photography, FOG-Documentaries Dispersed, Berlin
2016 UWAGA, Studio 45, Künstlerhaus Wendenstraße, Hamburg
2017 Rituale im Kopfgarten, Westwerk, Hamburg
2017 Schlaglichter, Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt/Oder
2017 Kowitsch, European Photo Exhibition Award, Haus der Photographie, Hamburg
2017 Okomfo Adonko, Studio 45, Künstlerhaus Wendenstraße, Hamburg
2017 Hammerbrook, State of mind, Schaltzentrale, Hamburg
2017 Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten, Galerie Speckmannstrasse, Hamburg
2017 Desaster des Krieges, Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Dessau
2017 I JUST WANT TO BE HOME, Artlakefestival, Lichterfeld
2017 Sabiq, At Tension Festival, Lärz
2017 Kowitsch, European Photo Exhibition Award, Nobel Peace Center, Oslo
2017 MASWUWLIA, Galerie Holprig, Künstlerhaus Wendenstraße, Hamburg
2017 I JUST WANT TO BE HOME, Schaltzentrale, Hamburg
2017 Viel Spaß in der Zukunft, Galerie Melike Belir, Hamburg
2018 KRASNA, Studio 45, Künstlerhaus Wendenstraße, Hamburg
2018 100 x Mona Lisa, Galerie Melike Belir, Hamburg
2018 BROOK, Hamburger Rathaus, Hamburg
2018 Wir verlassen die Erde, Affenfaust Galerie, Hamburg
2018 Goodbye blue Sky, Ame Nue Galerie, Hamburg
2018 MASWUWLIA, Galerie Melike Bilir, Phototriennale, Hamburg
2018 Gartenparty, Studio 45, Künstlerhaus Wendenstraße, Hamburg
2018 A Contemporary Reference of the Human Condition, Edition One Gallery, Santa Fe
2018 Die Welt ist düster, Westwerk, Hamburg
2018 JÌNDÙ, Studio 45, Künstlerhaus Wendenstraße, Hamburg
2018 Kowitsch, Ame Nue Galerie, Hamburg
2019 JÌNDÙ, Frappant Galerie, Hamburg
2019 SAPAD, Ame Nue Galerie, Hamburg
2019 MASWUWLIA, Right, BWA Galeria, Zielona Gora, Poland
2019 WAHALA, Galerie Holprig, Künstlerhaus Wendenstrasse, Hamburg
2019 MASWUWLIA, 1000 Wirklichkeiten, Haus der Photographie, Hamburg