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Lena Henke (b.1982 in Warburg, Germany) Lives and works in New York, NY
Education
2010 Academy of Fine Arts, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main Meisterschüler of Michael Krebber 2004-10 Academy of Fine Arts, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main Contemporary Art, class of Prof. Michael Krebber 2008-09 Master of Fine Art Multidisciplinary, Glasgow School of Art Scotland, as an Erasmus scholarship holder
Solo Exhibitions and Two Person Exhibitions
2021 Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria (Forthcoming) 2020 Ice to Gas, Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal 2019 Lena Henke - My Fetish Years, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany Germanic Artifacts, Bortolami, New York, NY 2018 THEMOVE, Galerie Emanuel Leyr, Vienna, Austria Embrassade, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, Netherlands Lena Henke: An Idea of Late German Sculpture; To the People of New York, 2018, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland 2017 Schrei mich nicht an, Krieger!, Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2016 Available Light, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany My History of Flow, S.A.L.T.S., Birsfelden, Switzerland Heartbreak Highway, Real Fine Arts, New York, NY 2015 Hellweg, Dormunder Kunstverein, Dormund, Germany One step away from further hell – Lena Henke / Marie Karlberg, Vilma Gold, London, United Kingdom Looking at you, (revied) again – Lena Henke / Max Brand, Off Vendome, New York, NY 2014 Die, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Yes, I’m pregnant, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Marl, Germany GEBURT UND FAMILIE, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO 2013 From one artist to another, Nassauicher Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany 2012 SHE SAID SOMETHING LIKE …, Real Fine Arts, New York, NY Core, Cut, Care, Kunstverein Oldenburg, Germany Hang Harder, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany H.H. Bennett, Lena Henke and Cars – Lena Henke / H.H. Bennett, 1857, Olso, Norway 2011 Schlangen im Stall, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany 2010 WIR ÜBER UNS!, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, Germany
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Scandinavian Blonde, Galerie Station Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany FIRE, WATER, ICE, Opelvillen, Zentrum für Kunst, Rüsselsheim, Germany Deuxième Bureau: Lena Henke – sculpt!, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany 2009 you have four eyes, V8 Platform, Karlsruhe, Germany
Group Exhibitions
2021 Vleeshal Middleburg, Middleburg, Netherlands (Forthcoming) 2020 Various Others, Sperling Gallery, Munich, Germany Fate of a Cell, Andreas Melas Gallery, Athens, Greece Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center, New York, NY 2019 L’homme qui marche, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany Diplomacy, Yeh Art Gallery, St. John’s University, Queens Tiny Hands, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Lustwarande ’19 – Delirious, Fundament Foundation, Tillburg, Netherlands Abstract, Representational, and so forth, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY Flat Out II, MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ 2018 The Invitational, 346 Spadina Ave, curated by Robert Wainstein, Toronto, Canada Positioner, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Ab Auf Die Insel!, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland In and Out of Place, curated by Hannah Spears, Bard Hessel Museum of Art, New York The Artsy Vanguard, Bergdorf Goodman, New York, NY Between the Waters, curated by Elisabeth Sherman and Margaret Koss, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 2017 Galocher, Bortolami, New York, NY Art Basel Parcours, Basel, Switzerland Scamming, curated by Franziska Sophie Wildförster and Flavio Palasciano, Palazzo Lancia, Turin, Italy No Eyes Dry, One and J Gallery, Seoul, Korea Art Encounters Biennale, Timișoara, România in awe, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria Dirge, JTT, New York, NY Made in Germany III, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany 99 Cents or Less, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI Hütti, MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38, New York, NY The Year of the Monkey, Emanuel Layr Gallery, Rome, Italy Aubades. Land Art for Aliens, curated by Julia Moritz & Bob van der Wal, Weiss Falk Galerie, Basel, Switzerland 2016 Le Grand Balcon, La Biennale de Montréal, Montreal, Canada Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria WHAT PEOPLE DO FOR MONEY: SOME JOINT VENTURES, Manifesta 11, Zurich, Switzerland Kaufman Repetto, Milan, Italy Garden Show, curated by Sam Korman, Regards, Chicago 9th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany 13th Fellbach Small Sculpture Triennial, curated by Susanne Gaensheimer, Stuttgart, Germany RUN, RUN, RUNWAY, Rod Bianco, Oslo, Norway 2015
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National Gallery II, Empire, Chewdays, London, United Kingdom SOME GALLERIST’S, M/L Artspace, Berlin, Germany Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY Triennial: Surround Audience, New Museum, New York, NY The problem today is not the other but the self, Ludlow 38, New York, NY Please Respond, M/L Artspace, Venice, Italy Flickr Café, Cologne, Germany G.I.F.T., Der Tank, Zurich, Schwitzerland Random Rules, Aschaffenburg, Germany 2014 Revlery, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland Skulptur, Reflexion, Kuenstlerhaus Graz, Austria Bloomington, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY Warm Math, Balice Hertling Gallery, New York, NY DAS GESAMTSEXWERK, M/L Artspace, New York, NY 2013 Soft Wear, Sandy Brown, Berlin, Germany Love of Technology, MOCA, North Miami, FL Freak Out, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY Köln Skulptur #7, Skulpturenpark Köln, Köln, Germany One After One, Vilma Gold, London, United Kingdom On Thomas Baryle, The Artist’s Institute, New York, NY Neue Alte Brücke & Real Fine Arts, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France FLIP, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada 2012 If I had eight hours …, Kunst Raum Riehen, Basel, Switzerland 2011 KW69 #3, curated by Judith Hopf, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany Where Language Stops, Wilkinson Gallery, London, United Kingdom Kunststudentinnen und Kunststudenten stellen aus, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany The Long Day Wanes, The Malayan Triology, ZINGERpresents, Amsterdam, Netherland 2010 Another Romance, The 2010 New Wight Biennial, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA Geschmacksverstärker, Absolventenausstellung 2010 der Städelschule, MMK Zollamt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Placed in the Heat of the Night, Förderpreis 2010, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany UN DIMANCHE SANS FIN, 112 Hudson Street, New York, NY Something Blue – A Curiosa, Contemporary Erotica – Pilot Issue, Archive Kabinett, Berlin, Germany 2009 Übermorgenkünstler, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany Soleil, prends garde à toi!, Bockenheimer Depot, Frankfurt, Germany openingheimer, Vanish, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Multiples, Mari Paz Gallery, London, United Kingdom Peeping Tom, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland frankfurt good wood, HOLD & FREIGHT Gallery, London, United Kingdom Boxer, Literaturhaus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2008 Hotel Marienbad 002: Sammlung Rausch, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Berlin, Germany value is in activity, Stoltzestrasse, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Bibliography & Publications
2018 “Lena Henke shares with Tenzing Barshee her thoughts about materiality and ephemerality, and the exhausted representational function of sculpture”, Flash Art Magazine, June 2018 “Lena Henke in conversation with Max Buschman”, Spike Art Magazine, May 2018 Alexandra-Maria Toth, “In the Studio Lena Henke, New York City”, Collectors Agenda, May 2018 Sharon Edelson, “Bergdorf Goodman, Dior Get Artsy Retailer Provides a New Audience for Contemporary Art”, WWD, 4 May 2018 Max L. Feldman, “Opening: Lena Henke at Emanuel Layr Interview”, Spike Art Magazine, May “Artsy Vanguard: Newly Established,” Artsy, 30 April 2018 Laura McLean-Ferris, “Casting Call: Lena Henke’s Sculptures Propose New Manners of Dwelling and Co-Existence”, Frieze, April 2018 “Portrait: Lena Henke”, Monopol, April 2018 Elke Buhr, “Lena Henke behauptet, sie sei eine klassische bildhauerin. Kann sein. Aber das sagt noch längst nicht alles,” Monopol, February 2018. 2017 “Lena Henke and Autocartography”, Visions Video Portrait, Swiss Institute (Season 01, Episode 09, 2017 Lena Henke, “LENA HENKE ‘SCHIRN ROTUNDE,’” Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2017. “Stipendiatin Lena Henke,” Hessische Kulturstiftung, January 2017 Vivien Trommer, “Irrationality versus Modernism,” Schirn Magazine, February 2017 “Sand im Kunstgetriebe,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 2017 “Leise rieselt der Sand und die Gedanken,” Frankfurter Neue Presse, April 2017 Michael Hierholzer, “Sand im Kunstgetriebe”, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 2017 “Fantasy / Private as Public: Lena Henke in conversation with Penny Rafferty,” Berlin Art Link, May 2017 Aria Dean, “New Fantasies of Modernism,” Cura Magazine, June 2017 “Art Basel Parcours,” TagesWoche Basel, June 2017 Vivien Trommer, “Critics Pick,” ArtForum, July 2017 Barshee, Tenzing. “Lena Henke ‘Don’t Shout At Me, Warrior!’”, Topical Cream, July 2017 2016 Lena Henke, “The Present in Drag”, Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 2016 Lena Henke, “Okologien des Alltags,13”, Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, 2016 Lena Henke, “Lena Henke 2010 – 2015”, Druckerei Kettler, 2016. Moritz Gaudlitz, “Curated by”, Monopol: Auf den Spuren der Vergangeheit, 21 September 2016 Sam Korman, “Lena Henke”, Art in America, May 2016 “Armory week must see, Lena Henke “Heartbreak Highway”, Kaleidoscope, March 2016 Laura McLean-Ferris, “Lena Henke: Heartbreak Highway”, Topical Cream, 3 March 2016 “Laura McLean-Ferris on Lena Henke’s ‘Heartbreak Highway,’” Spike Magazine, Spring Issue “Into the void: On Spring Shows of Empty, Charged Spaces, And Raw, Rough-and-Tumble Sculpture”, ARTnews.com, February 2016 2015 Lena Henke, “25 Jahre”, Kuensterinnen, Museen, 2015 Lena Henke, “KolnSkulptur #7”, Skulpturenpark Koln, 2015 “Female Genius”, Pin Up Magazine for Architectural Entertainment, Fall/Winter Issue Anna Gritz, “Dead Horse Bay, Focus on Lena Henke”, Cura Magazine, October 2015 “Lena Henke’s Top Ten”, ArtForum, Summer Issue “In the Studio of Lena Henke”, Spike Magazine, Summer Issue Jerry Saltz, “Digital Bitches: the New Museum Triennale”, Vulture, March 2015 “Critics pick: Lena Henke and Max Brand at Off Vendome”, ArtForum, February 2015 Randy Kennedy, “Where Virtual Equals Real”, New York Times, February 2015
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Andrew Russeth, “About Off Vendom”, ARTnews, January 2015 2014 Julie Baumgardner, “Lena Henke Star Material”, WMagazine.com, 4 December 2014 Lena Henke, “YES I’M PREGNANT”, Kunststiftung North Rhine Westphalia Karen Butler, “Review on Lena Henke”, Artforum, Summer Issue Tim Saltarelli, “Art and the City: Lena Henke in Vogue Casa,” Frieze NY, June Issue “Skulpturen Love Story in Marl, Radio Show Scala,” Aktuelles aus der Kultur, WDR, May 2014 Andrew Russeth, “Street Smarts: Lena Henke’s Work Is All Over Town This Frieze Week,” Gallerist NY, May 2014 Andrew Russeth, “Street Smarts: Lena Henke’s Work Is All Over Town This Frieze Week,” Observer.com, 7 May 2014 “Lena Henke,” Flaunt Magazine, May Issue 2013 Pablo Larios, “Focus on Lena Henke,” Frieze, June-August, p. 118-119. Judith Hopf, “Street Material: Judith Hopf in conversation with Lena Henke” Mousse #38, April- May, p. 140-147. 2012 Julia Jung and Stephanie Seidel (ed.), “Lena Henke – First Faces,” NAK Aachen, Berlin and Zurich: Motto Pierrette Schlettwein (ed.), Wandering No. 1, Wandering Magazine, p.162 Jerry Saltz, “Critic’s Pick: Lena Henke’s Solo Show at Real Fine Arts”, New York Magazine, December 2012 Oldenburger Kunstvereing, Nord West Zeitung Oldenburg, 30 May 2012 Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Aachener Zeitung 4 February 2012 2011 “Watchlist,” Monopol - Magazin für Kunst und Leben, Issue 9, p. 26-27. Der Duft des Reitlehrers, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Rhein-Main-Teil, Kultur 2010 MMK Zollamt (ed.), Geschmacksverstärker – Städelschule Absolventenausstellung, Frankfurt, “Another Romance,” The New Wight Biennial, Los Angeles 2009 Philosophische-Theologosche Hochschule Sankt Georgen (ed.),Trinity Animation 2007-2009, Frankfurt, Germany
Conferences, Presentations, Lectures
2020 Artist talk, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany Book launch and Artist talk, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany 2019 Visiting Artist Lecture, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY Visiting Artist Lecture, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, Netherland Visiting Artist Lecture, Swiss Institute, Senior Class education program, New York, NY “Grace & Gravity”, Engadin Art Talks, A panel discussion led by Daniel Baumann, Bice Curiger, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Philip Ursprung, Zuoz, Switzerland 2018 “Social Fabric: On Thomas Bayrle’s Expanded Network“, A conversation with Alex Kitnick, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Jordan Wolfson, New Museum, New York, NY Artist talk, Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland Visiting Artist Lecture, Sitterwerk St. Gallen, Switzerland. “Kunst und Kommerz,” Panel Conversation, Trogen, Switzerland 2017 BKM-Talks, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK, Zurich, Switzerland Artist talk, Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
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Visiting Artist Lecture, Harvard University, Boston, MA 2016 Visiting Artist Lecture, Akademie der Kuenste, Mainz, Germany Visiting Artist Lecture, Akademie der Kuenste, Duesseldorf, Germany 2016 Visiting Artist Lecture, Department of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, New York, NY
Grants and Awards
2019 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2018/19 Mana Contemporary, Studio Residency Grant, Jersey City, NJ 2015/16 Hessische Kulturstiftung, Residency Grant for New York 2013 Stiftung Kunstfonds, Stipend, Berlin Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Swing Space Program, New York, NY 2012 Kunststiftung NRW in Germany; Grant for an individual catalog promotion West LB-Stiftung Zukunft NRW in Germany; Grant for an individual catalog promotion for young artists 2011 Air Antwerpen Grant, International Residency Program, Antwerp, Belgium
Permanent Collections
Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany MAMCO Museum, Geneva, Switzerland Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany Sammlungs Verbund, Wien, Austria Skulpturen Museum Glaskasten Marl, Germany Skulpturen Park, Köln, Germany Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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