Hans Georg Esch

“The Architectural Perspective: Epochal – Global” is the second comprehensive museum exhibition by architectural photographer Hans Georg Esch. From Pompeii to “the Cathedral,” from the Chrysler Building in New York to the buildings of Oswald Mathias Ungers and the Abu Dhabi airport, which will not open until 2025, from Beijing to Shibam, the old town of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, from Hong Kong to Cologne and Neviges in the Bergisches Land… The world’s architecture is Esch’s subject matter.

Born in Neuwied in 1964, Hans Georg Esch has been working for over 40 years both as a commercial photographer and artistically independently on his photo books. The MAKK will present a selection of his work from June 11 to September 27, 2026. On display are large-format masterpieces and serialized photo series that explore the global phenomenon of architecture and its contemporary relevance across eras.

Buildings, design details, urban architectural spaces, and panoramas are transformed through Esch’s personal “architectural gaze” into iconic motifs, independent of their cultural and geographical context. The famous Pop Art thesis that it is the photograph that determines our image of the object is more than strikingly confirmed by Esch’s architectural photographs.