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Biography | CV

Lena Henke (born 1982 in Warburg (GER)). Henke has studied at the Frankfurter Städelschule under Professor Michael Krebber (2004-2010).

Lena Henke has developed a diverse body of sculptural works, often arranged in comprehensive spatial installations. Her interest in spaces is not limited to presentation or intervention in existing architecture; it is also revealed in a broader sense in the appropriation of objects, urban situations and psychological spatial constellations. Recurring motifs include interventions into the classic working methods of sculpture, recourse to anthroposophical methods, often through a biographically motivated approach or the control of "architecture". In her vocabulary of forms and materials numerous references such as Minimalism or Land Art can be found, which she likes to combine with surrealist motifs. In a subtle way and with a humorous undertone, Henke enjoys infiltrating the patriarchal structures of art history. She explores the ideas of urban planners, landscape architects and urban theorists such as Jane Jacobs, Roberto Burle Marx and Robert Moses. She takes up themes like interpersonal relationships, sexuality and fetishism. Using strategies of intervention, appropriation and control, the artist also examines her relationship to herself and her family environment.

Education

2010

Academy of Fine Arts, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main MA with Professor Michael Krebber

2004-
2010

Academy of Fine Arts, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main Contemporary Art, class of Professor Michael Krebber

2008-
2009

Master of Fine Art Multidisciplinary, Glasgow School of Art Scotland, as an Erasmus scholarship holder

Public Collections

Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
MAMCO Museum, Geneva, Switzerland
MAK, Vienna, Austria
Sammlung Verbund, Wien, Austria
Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, USA
Skulpturen Park, Köln, Germany
Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Germany
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Florida
Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
Heidi Horten collection Vienna, Austria
Kunstsammlung des Bundes Bonn, Germany
Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria

Publications

Teaching Experience

2025

Visiting Artist Lecture
Academy of Fine Arts Nürnberg, Germany

2024

Guest Professor
Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria

2022

Visiting Artist Lecture, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Germany

2021

Visiting Artist Lecture
Malmö Art Academy

Visting Artist Lecture
Staatliche Akademie der Künste Karlsruhe, Germany

Visiting Artist Lecture
University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

2020

Visiting Artist Lecture
Jutland Art Academy in Arhus, Denmark

2019

Swiss Institute, Senior Class education program, New York, USA
Visting Aritt Lecture, Bard College Annabel on Hudson, New York, USA
Visiting Artist at De Ateliers in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Engadin Art Talk in Zuoz, Switzerland; A panel discussions led by Daniel Baumann (Director of the Kunsthalle Zurich), Bice Curiger (Artistic Director of the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Artistic Director of the Serpentine Gallery in London) and Philip Ursprung (Professor for Art and Architectural History at the ETH Zurich).

2018

New Museum, Social Fabric: On Thomas Bayrle’s Expanded Network. A conversation with Alex Kitnick, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Jordan Wolfson. July 2018

Artist talk, Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland.

Visiting Artist Lecture, Sitterwerk St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Panel Conversation, Kunst und Kommerz, Trogen, Switzerland.

2017

BKM-Talks, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK, Zurich, Switzerland

Artist talk, Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany.

Visiting Artist Lecture, Harvard University, Boston.

2016

Visiting Artist Lecture, Akademie der Kuenste, Mainz, Germany.

Visiting Artist Lecture, Akademie der Kuenste, Duesseldorf, Germany

2015

Visiting Artist Lecture, Department of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, New York

Galleries

Bortolami Gallery New York
39 Walker Street
New York, NY 10013
USA
Contact: Claire Bergeal
claire@bortolamigallery.com

LAYR Vienna
Seilerstaette 2/26
1010 Vienna
Austria
Contact: Olivia Thurn-Valsassina
olivia@emanuellayr.com

Pedro Cera
Lisbon
Rua do Patrocínio, 67 E
1350-229 Lisboa
Portugal

Madrid
Calle de Barceló, 13
28004 Madrid, Spain
Contact: Markéta Stará Condeixa
marketa@pedrocera.com