LENA HENKE

• born 1982 in Warburg, Germany

EDUCATION

2004-2010

Academy of Fine Arts, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main

Contemporary Art, class of Prof. Michael Krebber

2008-2009

Master of Fine Art Multidisciplinary, Glasgow School of Art

Scotland as an Erasmus scholarship holder

EXHIBITIONS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013

From one artist to another

Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany, upcoming

2012

SHE SAID SOMETHING LIKE DON’T LET ME WALK THE STAIRS AGAIN I SAID BUT YOU LIVE THERE

Real Fine Arts, New York, NY

Core, Cut, Care

Kunstverein Oldenburg, Germany

Hang Harder

NAK. Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Germany

H. H. Bennett, Lena Henke and Cars. (together with H. H. Bennett)

1857, Olso, Norway

2011

Schlangen im Stall

Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany

2010

WIR ÜBER UNS!

Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, Germany

Scandinavian Blonde

Galerie Station Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany

sculpt!,

Deuxième Bureau

Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany

2009

you have four eyes

V8, Raum für junge Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany

2008

FIRE, WATER, ICE

Opelvillen, Zentrum für Kunst, Rüsselsheim, Germany

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012

Neue Alte Brücke & Real Fine Arts @ Valentin

Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France

The Gap

Philosophische-Theologischen Hochschule Sankt Georgen

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

STEPHEN

(solo, together with Melanie Ohnemus)

Pro Coice, Vienna, Austria

FLIP

ART METROPOLE, Toronto, Canada

If I had eight hours ......my axe.

Kunst Raum Riehen, Basel, Switzerland

2011

KW69 #3, Kalte Gesellschaft, (curated by Judith Hopf)

KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

Where Language Stops

Wilkinson Gallery, London, Great Britain

Andrei Koschmieder puts:

Real Fine Arts, New York, USA

The Long Day Wanes, The Malayan Triology

ZINGERpresents, Amsterdam, Netherland

2010

Aphrodite at the Water Hole

Glasgow International, DEATHANDDADA, Glasgow, Scotland

Another Romance

The 2010 New Wight Biennial, (invited by Daniel Birnbaum)

UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

Geschmacksverstärker

Städelschule Absolventenausstellung 2010, MMK Zollamt

Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010

Something Blue – A Curiosa, Contemporary Erotica – Pilot Issue

Book Launch at Archive Kabinett, Berlin, Germany

Placed in the Heat of the Night

Förderpreis 2010, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany

UN DIMANCHE SANS FIN

112 Hudson Street, New York, USA

2009

Stone temple playground collection

Kornhäuschen, Aschaffenburg, Germany

Soleil, prends garde à toi!,

Bockenheimer Depot, Frankfurt, Germany

openingheimer

Vanish, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Multiples

Mari Paz Gallery, London, Great Britain

Jamie Radcliff

Studio Warehouse, Glasgow, Scotland

Jana Euler und Andrei Koschmieder pendeln aus

Sankt Georgen, Phil.-Theol. Hochschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Peeping Tom

CCA, Glasgow, Scotland

frankfurt good wood

Gallery HOLD & FREIGHT, London, Great Britain

Boxer, Literaturhaus

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2008

Hotel Marienbad 002: Sammlung Rausch

KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Germany

value is in activity

Stoltzestrasse, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Zeche Zollverein

AGORA Programm, Essen, Germany

2007

no big deal

Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen, Germany

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

PUBLICATIONS

Lena Henke– First Faces

Julia Jung, Stephanie Seidel (ed.), NAK Aachen, Berlin and Zurich: Motto 2012.

Kunststudentinnen und Kunststudenten stellen aus,

Martin Köttering (ed.), Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrupublik Deutschland Bonn, Hamburg 2011, p. 52f.

Geschmacksverstärker – Städelschule Absolventenausstellung

MMK Zollamt (ed.), Frankfurt 2010.

Trinity Animation 2007-2009

Philosophische-Theologosche Hochschule Sankt Georgen (ed.), Frankfurt 2009.

ARTICLES

New York Magazine12/2012

Critic’s Pick/ by Jerry Satz about Lena Henke’s Solo Show at Real Fine Arts

Oldenburger Kunstverein

Nord West Zeitung Oldenburg 30/05/2012

Neuer Aachener Kunstverein in Aachen

Aachener Zeitung 04/02/2012

Neuer Aachener Kunstverein in Aachen

Klenkes Zeitung 06/04/2012

Wandering No. 1

p. 162, ISSN:2235-4417, 2012, Wandering Magazine

Watchlist, in: Monopol

Magazin für Kunst und Leben, Issue 9/ 2011, p. 26-27.

Der Duft des Reitlehrers

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Rhein-Main-Teil, Kultur, 2011

Another Romance

The New Wight Biennial, Los Angeles, 2010

Ein Cocktail für Carla

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Rhein-Main-Teil, Kultur, 31.3.2010, p.42