Max Eicke is a photographer born and raised in Southern Germany. He received his MFA in photography from Hochschule für bildende Künste (HFBK) in Hamburg. His work deals with desire, social relationships, and power dynamics, fixing a gaze that explores human agency, taboos, and the photographic in equal turns.
Max’s sincere and personal language is carried through into his editorial work and can be seen in publications such as Spiegel, Stern, Vice, Berliner Zeitung, de Volkskrant, de Volkskrant Magazine, and Camera Austria. His first book DOMINAS was published by Kehrer Verlag and he has exhibited work in Germany and internationally. Eicke currently lives and works in Berlin.
Books
2016 Dominas, Kehrer Verlag, 96 pages, PVC-Flexcover
2014 Welcome Stranger, Self Published, 58 pages, Hardcover
2011 Vom Fallen, Self Published, 44 pages, Hardcover
Selected Exhibitions
2023
Almost There, Friedrichstr. 61, Berlin, Germany (with Adrian Höllger)
2022
Ukreatepeace, exhibition and auction, Elektrohalle Rhomberg, Salzburg, Austria
2021
Suture, Goethe-Institut, Paris, France
Graduate Show, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany (catalog)
Short Dated, Galerie Stephanie Kelly, Dresden, Germany
Extended Play, Atelier Nebe, Cologne, Germany (with Gabrielle Vitollo)
2019
Annual Exhibition, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany
2018
Young PhotoBook, Museum für Photographie Braunschweig, halle267, Braunschweig, Germany
Abendstund hat Gold im Mund, Limbo Limbo, London, UK
Annual Exhibition, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany
2017
The 2017 Book Awards, Les Rencontres de la photographie, Atelier de la Mécanique, Arles, France
I Book Show, Taiga, St. Petersburg, Russia
Spanish National Library‘s exhibition, PHotoESPAÑA 2017, Madrid, Spain
Photobook Show, Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
I Book Show +, The Brighton Studio, Brighton, England
No secrets! – Bilder der Überwachung, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany (catalog)
2016
15th FELIFA 2016, FoLa – Fototeca Latinoamericana, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Performing Secrecy, Kulturhalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany (solo)
Duplicities, Peckham24, Photo London, Back Room Gallery, London, England (with Alice Bucknell)
Bojen, Farbenladen, Munich, Germany
2015
Fotoistanbul, Dummy Award, Istanbul, Turkey
Photobook Week Aarhus, Dummy Award, Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark
Encontros da Imagem, Dummy Award, Braga, Portugal
Fotobok Gbg 15, Dummy Award, Göteborg, Sweden
Fotobok Festival, Dummy Award, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
Kaunas Photo, Dummy Award, Kaunas, Lithuania
PhotoIreland, Dummy Award, Dublin, Ireland
IED, Dummy Award, Madrid, Spain
Fotoleggendo, Dummy Award, Rome, Italy
7. Int. Fotobookfestival Kassel, Dummy Award, dokumenta-Halle, Kassel, Germany
NEU NEU NEU, Lothringer 13, Munich, Germany
Awards & Grants
2018 Exhibition Exchange, Goldsmiths University/HFBK Hamburg
2018 Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, Shortlist
2017 Die Schönsten deutschen Bücher 2017, Stiftung Buchkunst
2017 Author Book Award, Les Rencontres d‘Arles, Shortlist
2017 Moscow International Foto Awards, Documentary Book
2016 Universitätsstadt Tübingen, Project Grant
2015 Erasmus+ Grant, London
2015 International Dummy Award, Fotobookfestival Kassel, Shortlist
2015 Project Grant by the Lucile-Grahn-Stiftung
Collections
Münchner Stadtmuseum, Sammlung Fotografie
UK Leather & Fetish Archive, Bishopsgate Institute, London, UK
Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Biblioteca Somosturma, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum Leipzig, Germany
Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, Spain
Hellenic Centre for Photography Library, Athens, Greece
Reminders Photography Stronghold, Library, Tokyo, Japan
Private Collections