Lena Henke (b.1982 in Warburg, ) Lives and works in New York, NY Education 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 2019 2015 Germanic Artifacts, Bortolami, New York, NY Kunstmuseum Siegen, Siegen, (Forthcoming) 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,, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland Schrei mich nicht an, Krieger!, Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt am Main, Available Light, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, My History of Flow, S.A.L.T.S., Birsfelden, Switzerland Heartbreak Highway, Real Fine Arts, New York, NY Hellweg, Dormunder Kunstverein, Dormund, 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 Die, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt am Main, Yes, I m pregnant, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Marl, GEBURT UND FAMILIE, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO From one artist to another, Nassauicher Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, SHE SAID SOMETHING LIKE, Real Fine Arts, New York, NY Core, Cut, Care, Kunstverein Oldenburg, Hang Harder, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, H.H. Bennett, Lena Henke and Cars Lena Henke / H.H. Bennett, 1857, Olso, Norway Schlangen im Stall, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, WIR ÜBER UNS!, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, Scandinavian Blonde, Galerie Station Mousonturm, Frankfurt, FIRE, WATER, ICE, Opelvillen, Zentrum für Kunst, Rüsselsheim, Deuxième Bureau: Lena Henke sculpt!, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, you have four eyes, V8 Platform, Karlsruhe,
Group Exhibitions 2019 2015 Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, (Forthcoming) 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 Galocher, Bortolami, New York, NY 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 III, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, 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 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 9 th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, 13th Fellbach Small Sculpture Triennial, curated by Susanne Gaensheimer, Stuttgart, RUN, RUN, RUNWAY, Rod Bianco, Oslo, Norway National Gallery II, Empire, Chewdays, London, United Kingdom SOME GALLERIST S, M/L Artspace, Berlin, 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, G.I.F.T., Der Tank, Zurich, Schwitzerland Random Rules, Aschaffenburg, 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
2008 Soft Wear, Sandy Brown, Berlin, Love of Technology, MOCA, North Miami, FL Freak Out, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY Köln Skulptur #7, Skulpturenpark Köln, Köln, 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 If I had eight hours, Kunst Raum Riehen, Basel, Switzerland KW69 #3, curated by Judith Hopf, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Where Language Stops, Wilkinson Gallery, London, United Kingdom Kunststudentinnen und Kunststudenten stellen aus, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, The Long Day Wanes, The Malayan Triology, ZINGERpresents, Amsterdam, Netherland Another Romance, The New Wight Biennial, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA Geschmacksverstärker, Absolventenausstellung der Städelschule, MMK Zollamt, Frankfurt am Main, Placed in the Heat of the Night, Förderpreis, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, UN DIMANCHE SANS FIN, 112 Hudson Street, New York, NY Something Blue A Curiosa, Contemporary Erotica Pilot Issue, Archive Kabinett, Berlin, Übermorgenkünstler, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Soleil, prends garde à toi!, Bockenheimer Depot, Frankfurt, openingheimer, Vanish, Frankfurt am Main, 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, Hotel Marienbad 002: Sammlung Rausch, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Berlin, value is in activity, Stoltzestrasse, Frankfurt am Main, Bibliography & Publications Sharon Edelson, Bergdorf Goodman, Dior Get Artsy Retailer Provides a New Audience for Contemporary Art, WWD, 4 May Max L. Feldman, Opening: Lena Henke at Emanuel Layr Interview, Spike Art Magazine, May Artsy Vanguard: Newly Established, Artsy, 30 April Laura McLean-Ferris, Casting Call: Lena Henke s Sculptures Propose New Manners of Dwelling and Co-Existence, Frieze, April Elke Buhr, Lena Henke behauptet, sie sei eine klassische bildhauerin. Kann sein. Aber das sagt noch längst nicht alles, Monopol, February. Lena Henke, LENA HENKE SCHIRN ROTUNDE, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt,. Stipendiatin Lena Henke, Hessische Kulturstiftung, January Vivien Trommer, Irrationality versus Modernism, Schirn Magazine, February Sand im Kunstgetriebe, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April Leise rieselt der Sand und die Gedanken, Frankfurter Neue Presse, April
2015 Fantasy / Private as Public: Lena Henke in conversation with Penny Rafferty, Berlin Art Link, May Aria Dean, New Fantasies of Modernism, Cura Magazine, June Art Basel Parcours, TagesWoche Basel, June Vivien Trommer, Critics Pick, ArtForum, July Barshee, Tenzing. Lena Henke Don t Shout At Me, Warrior!, Topical Cream, July Lena Henke, Lena Henke 2015, Druckerei Kettler,. Moritz Gaudlitz, Curated by, Monopol: Auf den Spuren der Vergangeheit, 21 September Sam Korman, Lena Henke, Art in America, May Armory week must see, Lena Henke Heartbreak Highway, Kaleidoscope, March Laura McLean-Ferris, Lena Henke: Heartbreak Highway, Topical Cream, 3 March 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 Female Genius, Pin Up Magazine for Architectural Entertainment, Fall/Winter Issue Anna Gritz, Dead Horse Bay, Focus on Lena Henke, Cura Magazine, October 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 Critics pick: Lena Henke and Max Brand at Off Vendome, ArtForum, February Randy Kennedy, Where Virtual Equals Real, New York Times, February Andrew Russeth, About Off Vendom, ARTnews, January Julie Baumgardner, Lena Henke Star Material, WMagazine.com, 4 December 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 Andrew Russeth, Street Smarts: Lena Henke s Work Is All Over Town This Frieze Week, Observer.com, 7 May Lena Henke, Flaunt Magazine, May Issue Pablo Larios, Focus on Lena Henke, Frieze, June-August, p. 118-119. Judith Hopf in conversation with Lena Henke, Mousse #38, April-May, p. 140-147. 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 Oldenburger Kunstvereing, Nord West Zeitung Oldenburg, 30 May Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Aachener Zeitung 4 February Watchlist, Monopol - Magazin für Kunst und Leben, Issue 9, p. 26-27. Der Duft des Reitlehrers, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Rhein-Main-Teil, Kultur, MMK Zollamt (ed.), Geschmacksverstärker Städelschule Absolventenausstellung, Frankfurt, Another Romance, The New Wight Biennial, Los Angeles Philosophische-Theologosche Hochschule Sankt Georgen (ed.),trinity Animation 2007-, Frankfurt,
Conferences, Presentations, Lectures 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 BKM-Talks, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK, Zurich, Switzerland Artist talk, Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Visiting Artist Lecture, Harvard University, Boston, MA Visiting Artist Lecture, Akademie der Kuenste, Mainz, Visiting Artist Lecture, Akademie der Kuenste, Duesseldorf, Visiting Artist Lecture, Department of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, New York, NY Permanent Collections MAMCO Museum, Geneva, Switzerland Sammlungs Verbund, Wien, Austria Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY Skulpturen Park, Köln, Skulpturen Museum Glaskasten Marl, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY