Exhibitions 2025

Black Sun

Søren Solkær

Søren Solkær is a Danish photographer born in 1969. He graduated from FAMU the Photography and Film
Academy in Prague in 1995. For the past three decades, Søren has created iconic portraits
of artists from the world of music, film, literature and the visual arts.
His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries globally.

With the Black Sun project Søren Solkær leaves portraiture behind and returns
to the landscape of his childhood and youthin Southern Denmark.
For six years he follows the migration of the starling (sturnus vulgaris)
throughout Europe from Denmark, England, Ireland to the Netherlands along the Wadden Sea
and on to Sardinia, Rome, Italy and Catalonia, Spain.
He approaches the phenomenon from a mythological and scientific angle.

Inspired by classical landscape painting, calligraphy and Japanese wood
cuts, Søren Solkær has created a series of graphic images featuring landscape and
great flocks of starlings, performing an unrivalled display of collaboration
and performance skills. “The starlings move as one unified organism that
vigorously opposes any outside threat. A strong visual expression is created
– like that of an ink drawing or a calligraphic brush stroke – asserting itself
against the sky. Shapes and black lines of condensation form within the
swarm, resembling waves of interference or mathematical abstractions
written across the horizon. The graphic and organic shapes of the starling
murmurations range from meditative to highly dramatic as they perform
their incredible ballet of life and death.”