Someone once wrote that you cannot pass by Christian Voigt’s photographs without stopping for a closer look. All his images capture your eye and your attention. First you are taken aback, then you are drawn in. And you need to step closer to identify the cause. How can a subject you have encountered a thousand times before suddenly seem so fresh and new, as if seen for the first time? And you begin to marvel with childlike amazement at the beauty of the world. Born in Munich, and with homes in Hamburg and the south of France, Christian Voigt is a restless traveler, always in search of the „city beyond the hills.“ Travel is his life‘s purpose, encounters are his life’s elixir, the search for beauty his life’s motif – underpinned by perfectionism, bordering on obsession. These are the keys to his unfathomably sumptuous images of landscapes and architecture, his unmistakable photographic technique, and visual language – that have catapulted him to rapidly growing, international fame, and made his works sought-after acquisitions in an increasing number of private collections. For Christian Voigt the artist, it would probably make sense to leave his unique visual language unaltered, and to simply collect new images on new travels to new locations. But for Christian Voigt the traveler, that it is not an option. True to this philosophy, Christian Voigt undertook a journey into a completely new world of imagery in 2018 – one where he remains true to his technical means and methods, but opens up his visual language quite radically. His Evolution series comprises monumental, large-format, pitch-black portrayals of prehistoric skeletons. However, these are no longer heightened depictions of reality, but a systematic staging of it. Christian Voigt has expanded his stylistic vocabulary to include a new perspective. He no longer looks into the distance. Instead, he looks at the detail.