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2024

Heidi Horten Museum, Vienna, Austria (forthcoming)
PPC, Frankfurt, Germany (forthcoming)

06.08-08.10.2024

Skulptur Projekte Stockholm
Beau Travail
Stockholm, Sweden

05.23-07.27.2024

Our Porcelain Thoughts
DREI
Cologne, Germany

11.04-05.18.2024

Dark Glasses
Layr
Vienna

2023

15.12.2023 – 07.04.2024

Your and your vim
Aspen Art Museum
Colorado, USA

02.09.2023-07.01.2024

Good Year
MARTa Museum Herford
Herford, Germany

03.05-14.06.2023

Nature wills it
The Ranch
Montauk, New York

04.11-10.12.2022

Apple Red Cranberry House
Bortolami
New York

27.08-11.12.2022

Forest Through The Trees
Laumeier Sculpture Park
St. Louis, Missouri

2022

30.04-30.07.2022

Auf dem Asphalt botanisieren gehen
Klosterfelde Edition
Berlin

30.04-11.06.2022

Looking Through the Threshold
carlier gebauer
Berlin

17.02-28.10.2022

ALDO ROSSI’S SLEEPING ELEPHANT
Belvedere
Vienna, Austria

2021

26.10.2021–29.01.2022

Lives of an Object
ARCH
Athens, Greece

12.06.-17.10.2021

Lichtenfels Sculpture
Austria

28.04.-20.06.2021

I Think I Look More like the Chrysler Building
Vleeshal
Middelburg

27.03.2021-28.03.2021

Friend of a Friend
Warsaw
Poland

2020

09.12.2020-30.01.2021

Babysteps into Masochism
Emanuel Layr
Vienna, Austria

10.09.2020-07.11.2020

Fate of a cell / Η Τύχη ενός Κυττάρου
Martinos
Athens

19.09.2020-31.10.2020

Ice to Gas
Pedro Cera
Lisbon

11.09.2020-17.19.2020

Various Others
Sperling, München
Munich, Germany

09.11.2019-08.03.2020

R.M.M. Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center
New York, NY

09.11.2019-08.03.2020

L’homme qui marche
Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Bielefeld, Germany

2019

27.09.2019―26.01.2020

My Fetish Years
Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Siegen, Germany

11.01.―16.02.2019

Germanic Artifacts
Bortolami
New York, USA

2018

13.10.―22.12.2018

Positioner
Matthew Marks
Los Angeles, USA

15.05.―21.07.2018

THEMOVE
Emanuel Layr Gallery
Vienna, Austria

03.03.―13.05.2018

An Idea of Late German Sculpture; To The People Of New York, 2018
Kunsthalle Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland

09.03.―22.07.2018

Between The Waters
Whitney Museum of Art
New York, USA

17.03.―28.04.2018

Embrassade
Fons Welters
Amsterdam, Netherlands

2017

19.01.―08.04.2017

Year Of The Monkey
Galerie Emanuel Layr
Rome, Italy

28.04.―30.07.2017

SCHREI MICH NICHT AN, KRIEGER!
Schirn Kunsthalle
Frankfurt, Germany

09.04.―30.05.2017

Vertical Gardens
Antenna Space
Shanghai, China

03.06.―03.09.2017

Die Kommenden
Sprengel Museum
Hannover, Germany

14.09.―25.10.2017

in awe
Kunsthalle Exnergasse
Vienna, Austria

06.2017

Art Basel Parcours
Art Basel
Basel, Switzerland

2016

07.06.―11.09.2016

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Kaufmann Repetto
Milan, Italy

28.01.―27.02.2016

RUN, RUN, RUNWAY
Golsa
Oslo, Norway

27.02.―26.03.2016

Heartbreak Highway
Real Fine Arts
New York, USA

17.06.―27.08.2016

My History of Flow
S.A.L.T.S.
Basel, Switzerland

04.07.―16.09.2016

fat center trash land 1―7, 2016
Small scale Sculpture triennial Fellbach
Fellbach, Germany

09.09.―05.11.2016

Fieber
Emanuel Layr Gallery
Wien, Austria

04.07.―16.09.2016

In Bed with M/L Artspace
9th Berlin Biennale
Berlin, Germany

03.12.2016―12.02.2017

Available Light
Kunstverein Braunschweig
Braunschweig, Germany

2015

2015

Surrounding Audience
The New Museum Triennial
New York, USA

09.2015

Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition
Queens
New York, USA

26.02.―04.04.2015

Looking at you (revived) again
Off Vendom
New York, USA

28-05.―16.05.2015

One step away from further Hell
Vilma Gold
London, UK

23.11.2015―08.01.2016

National Gallery 2―Empire Map
Chewday’s
London, UK

22.02.―05.04.2015

The problem today is not the other but the self
MINI/Goethe-Institut Ludlow 38
New York, USA

2014

09.05.2014-19.07.2014

Warm Math
Balice Hertling, New York
New York

05.2014

Frieze New York
Frieze Art Fair at Randall’s Island
New York, USA

02.05.―07.06.2014

Bloomington: Mall Of America
Bortolami Gallery
New York, USA

27.04.―01.06.2014

YES, I’M PREGNANT
Skulpturen museum Glaskasten
Marl, Germany

22.03.―17.05.2014

Geburt und Familie
White Flag Projects
Saint Louis, USA

08.―09.2014

Piracanga Freedom?
Two Hotel, Piracanga Beach
Bahia, Brazil

06.06.―14.08.2014

Chat Jet (Part 2), Sculpture in Reflection
Künstlerhaus KM
Austria

06.06.―03.08.2015

Revelry
Kunsthalle Bern
Bern, Switzerland

13.09.―18.10.2014

DIE
Parisa Kind
Frankfurt, Germany

2013

14.12.2013-08.02.2014

Soft Wear
Sandy Brown
Berlin

24.02.―21.04.2013

From One Artist To Another
Kunstverein Wiesbaden
Germany

13.09.―18.10.2013

On Thomas Bayrle
The Artist’s Institute
New York, USA

05.2013

The Doors
Skulpturenpark Köln
Köln, Germany

27.06.―09.08.2013

Freak Out
Greene Naftali Gallery
New York, USA

27.09.―09.11.2013

Love of Technology
Museum of Contemporary Art
North Miami, USA

2012

05.02.2012-22.04.2012

Hang Harder
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein
Aachen, Germany

12.2012

Lena Henke: First Faces, book launch at Karma Books, New York
Karma
New York, NY

13.01.2012-19.02.2012

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I would spend six sharpening my axe
Kunstraum Riehen
Basel, Switzerland

01.06.―29.07.2012

Core, Cut, Care
Oldenburger Kunstverein
Germany

14.09.―21.10.2012

H․ H․ Bennett, Lena Henke and Cars
1857
Oslo, Norway

2011

15.06.―07.08.2011

Andrei Koschmieder puts
Real Fine Arts
New York, NY

23.04.―18.06.2011

Schlangen im Stall, “snakes in the barn”
Galerie Parisa Kind Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2010

05.2010

WIR UEBER UNS
Neue Alte Bruecke Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main, Germany

08.2010

you have four eyes, (First ladies)
V 8
Karlsruhe, Germany

10.2010

Scandinavian blonde
Mousonturm
Frankfurt, Germany

28.11.2009 - 23.02.2010

Stone Temple Playground Collection
Kornhauschen Aschaffenburg
Aschaffenburg, Germany

28.11.2009 - 23.02.2010

Tokyo Hotel und deine Mutter
Literaturhaus
Frankfurt, Germany

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06.06.―03.08.2015
Revelry
Kunsthalle Bern
Bern, Switzerland





Private and public life are intertwined today more than ever before. Many people share personal thoughts and information with a broad audience, while daily life is comprehensively recorded and documented, putting our notions of intimacy in constant fluctuation. Our understanding of both humanity and ourselves is simultaneously negotiated, as we physically and virtually work out which and how much space to occupy and, conversely, vacate.


In which light do we show and see ourselves? How does one cultivate intimacy and where do we act out the fetishization of images and anecdotes? What forms and shapes do we create from these kinds of processes and intentions? How much do we disguise and how much do we reveal? How do we edit content in a world defined by lists? Where does a personal or diaristic art practice belong in an interconnected world, saturated with overlaid points of reference and symbols? The works and methods of the artists included in Revelry address these and other questions.


There are two historical models that have mainly informed this exhibition. Between 1955-1964 the artist Arnold Bode organized Documenta I-III in Kassel, Germany, mass events including the work of hundreds of artists. These shows were staged in ways that challenged established exhibition norms. The Fridericianum was decorated like a theater stage. Its windows were covered in white cloth to allow in only indirect sunlight. The interior was dressed in black and white plastic curtains on which modern paintings were displayed. The third edition of Documenta featured paintings that were hung from the ceiling.


As a counterpart to this rampant mise-en-scène stands Voids, A Retrospective, an exhibition curated by Philippe Pirotte, Mathieu Copeland, John Armleder, Mai-Thu Perret, Stuart Comer, and others at the Kunsthalle Bern in 2009. The institution was completely emptied out, and the accompanying press release and catalogue announced the show as a retrospective of “nine empty exhibitions” by artists ranging from Yves Klein to Maria Eichhorn and historically contextualized. 

Between these two poles, Revelry explores both congestion and voidance. The exterior of the exhibition space is used additionally as both an opposition to and condition of the interior. Revelry is an engagement with both the concealment and disclosure of bodies, occupying the Kunsthalle and its immediate surroundings as well as the Botanical Garden in Bern.

Kunsthalle Bern and the curator would like to thank Marlies Kornfeld, Alexander Schröder and Galerie Neu, Dan Solbach, Christoph Schifferli, Peter Handschin, Marianne Farahmand as well as everyone else who helped realizing this project.

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