Niels Stoltenborg

Like many children who grew up in the countryside, Niels Stoltenborg was fascinated by plants, an inexhaustible source of fascination and surprise. He remembers telling his grandmother that he wanted to be a gardener.

He didn’t become a gardener. He studied photography, graphic design and drawing. As a freelancer, he worked as a photography and production assistant. In the 90s, he set up a studio in Istanbul for advertising and magazines. Today, he devotes himself entirely to his artistic and photographic creation.

In Végétalisme, Niels Stoltenborg’s childlike fascination with the Earth re-emerges. His work is based on an intuition: the colors and shapes of fruit and vegetables have both abstract potential and something to tell us.