MEGACITY – HONG KONG (Hong Kong, 2007-2009)

In the last six decades no city in the world has undergone such dramatic changes as Hong Kong. The city is a Muse for the German photographer Marcus Koppen: he has recorded the city’s surrealistic, artificial atmosphere and nocturnal heat in urban landscapes that seem to be simultaneously futuristic and timeless. Moreover, in the almost abstract beauty of the city’s play of lights the perceptive viewer sees a hint of prodigality. Koppen is fascinated by the rapid changes in mega-cities, which have to be carefully guided in the right direction by architects and urban planners. Will they be able to solve the problems of urbanisation?