Memorials - Jan Kempenaers Berlin poets and thinkers

poets and thinkers

embarks on a journey through the hidden layers of the Earth

Interaction of Color remains an essential resource on color

The result is a collection of great breadth and cohesion

It wasn’t till much later in life that I began taking an interest in the coastline around Messina

Memorials - Jan Kempenaers Berlin poets and thinkersJan Kempenaers (BE, 1968), has photographed urban and natural landscapes since the mid 1980s. Between 2016 and 2025, he documented these brutalist war monuments of socialist Yugoslavia. Initially capturing large Spomeniksover twenty years ago, his early work highlighted their futuristic forms amidst historical ambiguity. Recently, Kempenaers returned to photograph countless smaller, local memorials across Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Montenegro, North