• Gregor Sailer The Polar Silk Road
  • Gregor Sailer The Polar Silk Road
  • Gregor Sailer The Polar Silk Road
  • Gregor Sailer The Polar Silk Road
  • Gregor Sailer The Polar Silk Road
  • Gregor Sailer The Polar Silk Road

Gregor Sailer The Polar Silk Road

Following The Potemkin Village and Closed Cities, The Polar Silk Road is Gregor Sailer’s third publication with Kehrer Verlag. Temperatures up to 55 degree Celsius below zero, military restriction zones, extensive research, and the unpredictability of the Arc­tic made this project with the analog view camera an enormous challenge. The Polar Silk Road deals with the economic exploitation of the Arctic regions and the territorial claims of the respective neighboring states. The associ­ated consequences are geopolitical tensions as well as the expansion of military structures and research stations, which Sailer highlights in his project.
The Austrian photographer’s work has already been exhibited in national and international museums and festivals and has won presti­gious awards, such as the DAM Architectural Book Award.


Hardcover 22,5 x 28 cm 272 pages 143 color illustrations and 15 maps English, German Available ISBN 978-3-96900-045-8 2021

Artist:

Gregor Sailer

Texts:

Lassi Heininen, Carolyn Kirschner, Günter Köck, Ralph Latteck, Walter Moser, Sune O. Rasmussen, Mike Rietveld, Peter Schweitzer

Design:

Manuel Radde


Preview

Exhibitions

The Polar Silk Road
Natural History Museum, London
26.05.–22.11.2023

The Polar Silk Road
Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Berlin
13.01.–02.04.2023

Artist Talk »Infrastructure, Remoteness and People« Gregor Sailer with Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter Schweitzer
30.03.2023

Unseen Places
Kunst Haus Wien/Vienna
15.09.22-12.02.23

Lumen Museum of Mountain Photography, Brunico, Italy
28.08.–17.10.2021 and 27.11.2021–24.04.2022

Book launch
02.10.2021

Further venues to be confirmed

Reviews

TV-Feature in the German culture magazine ttt – titel, thesen, temperamente, on 29.08.2021, 11.05 pm

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