Kirsten Klein (born 1945) is one of Denmark’s most celebrated contemporary art photographers. For more than thirty years she has been photographing nature, usually finding her motifs on the west coast of Jutland and the Island of Mors in Limfjord. Other landscape images stem from the artist’s extended travels in northern Europe, Ireland and America. When choosing her motifs, Klein avoids urban centres and instead sets out in search of the remains of wild, untouched nature. Light and shadow phenomena in the sky, cloud formations, migrating birds, the vast expanses of the sea and coastal landscapes, turbulent eddies and thundering waves are witnesses to a wayward and untameable nature. Kirsten Klein’s atmospheric black-and-white photographs dramatise nature as a world between light and shadow, her reduction to a concert of grey tones allowing us to experience its mystery and sublimity anew.
