Jens Haas

Jens Haas is an expatriate artist who divides his time between Manhattan and remote regions in the Alps. He is inspired by both the structure of things and their surfaces—like the similarity between shades-of-grey in cities and at high altitude. Haas started out in news and documentary photography. Still, from the beginning he was interested simply in the image itself. His work tells stories about cityscapes, landscapes, and people. New projects have taken him to the sea, especially the Mediterranean, land of Odyssean travels and recent tragedy. Haas has been using all sorts of cameras and over time his work has become increasingly screen-based. Whatever the nature of the initial recordings, they are only the beginning of the image. Some turn into drawings, others morph into what could be mistaken for lithography. This process, for Haas, is a way of seeing more, a way of both discovering more about the world and keeping it at bay.

including private collections and online presentations

On The Road, Online Diary 2016
http://katjavogt.com/on-the-road/

Life In Exile (selection), private collection Munich

What It Is Like To Be A Traffic Cone (selection), private collections New York City, London, Salzburg

Who You Are Is What You See, four drawings for Aperture: What Matters Now? Proposals for a New Front Page, New York City 2011
http://www.jenshaas.com/drawings/who-you-are-is-what-you-see/ and http://aperture.org/exhibition/matters-now-proposals-new-front-page/

Villa Adriana, Excavation 2014

Walk In The Park (selection), private collection New York City

Stabiae, Excavation 2011

Walk In The Park, Evergreen Group Exhibition, Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara 2010

Berlin Walls (selection), private collection Berlin

Swimming Pool, Photo Expo Plus, New York City 2006

Pax Americana (selection), Picturehouse, New York City 2005

30 Dozen Eggs, Fax Art for South London Gallery's INDEPENDENCE exhibition 2003