Henrik Spohler (*1965) studied at the Folkwang School at the University of Essen and began working as a photographer in 1992. He has been honored many times for his works, which are included in public and private collections. Spohler is a professor of photography and teaches in the Communication Design program at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. Spohler lives with his family in Hamburg, Germany.
Spohler’s work is concerned with infrastructures and technological systems defined by increasing complexity and size. Although made by humans, they are further and further removed from human scale, or else make the presence of human beings superfluous or undesirable.

In earlier projects Spohler examined the structural makeup of the rising Information Age in 0/1 Dataflow (2000/01) and industrialized food production in The Third Day (2013).
Through a cool aesthetic and a high degree of abstraction, Spohler shows his interpretation of the world we live in today. Despite its clearly recognizable critique of overconsumption, his work maintains a poetic view without falling into romanticized, visual intoxication.
His latest work, In Between, documents the globalized, streamlined world of international transportation logistics—a world that is normally unseen by the public.
All projects have been released in book form:
0/1 Dataflow, 2004
Global Soul, 2008
The Third Day, 2013
In Between, published in 2016 by Hartmann Books
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Institutional exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions  

2015
When Millennium Begins, Barlach Halle K,
Triennale der Photographie, Hamburg, Germany
2013
The Third Day, Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
2003 
0/1 Orte des Datenflusses, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
1995 
Transformationen, The Photographers Gallery, London, Great Britain
1994 
Transformationen, Museum für Arbeit und Technik, Mannheim, Germany

Selected group exhibitions

2015 
Data Rush, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, Netherlands
2015 
7 Orte, 7 prekäre Felder, 6th MLH Photography Festival,
Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
2015 
Industry, Now; MAST, Bologna, Italy
2014 
Human Capital in Industry, MAST, Bologna, Italy
2014 
Industrial Worlds, MAST, Bologna, Italy
2011 
Fetisch Auto. Ich fahre, also bin ich,” Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
2011 
Arbeit/Labor, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2001 
Trade, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

Henrik Spohler is represented by:
Galerie Robert Morat, Hamburg, Germany