Online: February 5 to March 19, 2026
The lion has been one of the most powerful visual symbols in art history for centuries, representing strength, elegance, and timeless presence like few other motifs. In photographic art, it becomes a point of convergence where nature, myth, and artistic interpretation intersect.
The exhibition brings together selected works by artists like Peter Beard, Michel Comte, Patrick Demarchelier, Hans Feurer, Herb Ritts, and David Yarrow. Documentary works enter into dialogue with staged compositions, intensifying the lion’s significance as an artistic symbol. Moving between direct observation and consciously constructed visual language, the lion appears both as a real living being and as an iconic presence of universal resonance.
Numerous works by the featured photographic artists are held in major international collections and are exhibited worldwide. The Lion: Royalty of the Natural World honors the lion as one of the defining motifs of photographic art and underscores its enduring relevance within the contemporary visual language.
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