Max Eicke (b. 1990 in Tübingen, Germany) is a multidisciplinary artist who uses photography, archival material, text and film to explore human agency, taboos, social relationships and the photographic in equal turns. Through a wide span of artistic practices, Eicke examines issues related to identity, secrecy and morality. His works and artist’s books have been shown internationally including at Les Rencontres de Arles, PHotoEspaña, Athens Foto Festival at the Benaki Museum, Münchner Stadtmuseum (all 2017), Back Room Gallery London (2016), Kulturhalle Tübingen (2016) and Lothringer Halle 13 in Munich (2015). Formally trained in photography, Max Eicke holds a Master of Fine Arts from Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK).
Selected Exhibitions
2021
Suture, Goethe-Institut, Paris, France
Graduate Show, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany
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
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