Lars Klingenberg, born 1978 in Aachen, lives and works in Hamburg.
Since 2014, Lars Klingenberg has been working self-taught on independent, conceptual-artistic long-term projects, creating, among other things, "Social and Political Sculptures of the Metropolis". Using photographic tools and iterations (partly from objects found or collected on the street), to reflect social states and poverty in Germany. The comparative, objective, and serial depictions are based on a veristic approach of New Objectivity.
Driven by the advancing social inequality in German society, escalating consumerism and the Anthropocene, Lars Klingenberg works on a counter-design to the representations, aesthetic distortions and reality shifts in contemporary documentary photography, which have been shaped by educated bourgeois worldviews and neoliberalism since the 1990s.
"Social Objectivity" is a return to the "clear objectivity photography" that emerged in the 1920s, shows socio-politically relevant and socio-critical content and sees itself as a counter-current to thematic ownership of foreign cultures and life realities in an artistic context.
In 2022 Lars Klingenberg initiated the "Poverty Working Group", a platform for regular exchange and the development of new project ideas with experts from the fields of social science and sociology.
