Lena Henke
News:
November 30, 2024 – February 23, 2025
November 16 – December 21, 2024
Lena Henke (Group Show), Everything but the Kitchen Sink, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (DE)
November 9, 2024 – January 18, 2025
September 20, 2024 – March 23, 2025
Lena Henke (Group Show), Light Sound Senses, Heidi Horten Collection, Vienna (AT)
September 15, 2024 – January 19, 2025
December 15, 2023 – April 6, 2025
Lena Henke (Solo Show), Lena Henke: You and your vim, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado (US)
Lena Henke
Dark Glasses, 2024
Installation view
Layr Singerstraße, Vienna
Lena Henke
Dark Glasses, 2024
Installation view
Layr Singerstraße, Vienna
Lena Henke
A hard shoulder I, 2024
Car tires
dimensions variable
Lena Henke
A hard shoulder I, 2024
Car tires
dimensions variable
Lena Henke
Dark Glasses, 2024
Installation view
Layr Singerstraße, Vienna
Lena Henke
Combustions 20 [Tread failure], 2024
Laser etched leather, pigment on wooden panel
150 × 125 × 15 cm
Lena Henke
Combustions 20 [Tread failure], 2024
Laser etched leather, pigment on wooden panel
150 × 125 × 15 cm
Lena Henke
Dark Glasses, 2024
Installation view
Layr Singerstraße, Vienna
Lena Henke
Memory of a Young Sculpture XO, 2024
Soldered and boiled leather, pigment and steel mounted on Austrian granite, on wooden pedestal
30 × 30 × 167 cm (installed dimensions)
Lena Henke
Memory of a Young Sculpture X, 2024
Soldered and boiled leather, pigment and steel mounted on Austrian granite, on wooden pedestal
30 × 30 × 167 cm (installed dimensions)
Lena Henke
You and your vim, 2023
Installation view, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (US)
Photo: Daniel Pérez
Lena Henke
You and your vim, 2023
Installation view, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (US)
Photo: Daniel Pérez
Lena Henke
You and your vim, 2023
Installation view, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (US)
Photo: Daniel Pérez
Lena Henke
You and your vim, 2023
Installation view, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (US)
Photo: Daniel Pérez
Lena Henke
You and your vim, 2023
Installation view, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (US)
Photo: Daniel Pérez
Lena Henke
Good Year - Marta-Preis der Wemhöner Stiftung, 2023
Installation view, Marta Herford Museum für Kunst, Architektur, Design, Herford (DE)
Photo: Gunnar Meier
Lena Henke
Good Year - Marta-Preis der Wemhöner Stiftung, 2023
Installation view, Marta Herford Museum für Kunst, Architektur, Design, Herford (DE)
Photo: Gunnar Meier
Lena Henke
Good Year - Marta-Preis der Wemhöner Stiftung, 2023
Installation view, Marta Herford Museum für Kunst, Architektur, Design, Herford (DE)
Photo: Gunnar Meier
Lena Henke
Good Year - Marta-Preis der Wemhöner Stiftung, 2023
Installation view, Marta Herford Museum für Kunst, Architektur, Design, Herford (DE)
Photo: Gunnar Meier
Lena Henke
Good Year - Marta-Preis der Wemhöner Stiftung, 2023
Installation view, Marta Herford Museum für Kunst, Architektur, Design, Herford (DE)
Photo: Gunnar Meier
Lena Henke
Good Year - Marta-Preis der Wemhöner Stiftung, 2023
Installation view, Marta Herford Museum für Kunst, Architektur, Design, Herford (DE)
Photo: Gunnar Meier
Lena Henke
Nature Wills It, 2023
Installation view, The Ranch, Montauk (USA)
Photo: Greg Kessler
Lena Henke
Nature Wills It, 2023
Installation view, The Ranch, Montauk (USA)
Photo: Greg Kessler
Lena Henke
Nature Wills It, 2023
Installation view, The Ranch, Montauk (USA)
Photo: Greg Kessler
Lena Henke
Combustions, 2023
Pigment on soldered leather on wood
91.5 × 61 × 3.8 cm
Lena Henke
Combustions, 2023
Pigment on soldered leather on wood
91.5 × 61 × 3.8 cm
Lena Henke
Auf dem Asphalt botanisieren gehen, 2022
Installation view, Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin (DE)
Photo by GRAYSC & Silke Briel © Lena Henke & Klosterfelde Edition
Lena Henke
Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey (Kaffee), The mind is like an umbrella Its most useful when open (Saftpresse), Better be old iron than new tin (Mixer), Form Follows Feminine (Kueche), 2022
PU-foam, Pigment, Rubber
58.8 × 32.0 × 33.9 cm, 29.8 × 26.3 × 42.1 cm, 39.1 × 19.7 × 22.4 cm and 35.3 × 63.8 × 36.3 cm (left to right)
Lena Henke
Carlone Contemporary: Lena Henke, 2022
Installation view
Belvedere, Vienna.
Photograph: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna
Lena Henke
Aldo Rossi’s Sleeping Elephant, 2018
Plaster, fiberglass, rubber, paint
70 × 220 × 225 cm
Photograph: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna
Lena Henke
Aldo Rossi’s Sleeping Elephant, 2018
Plaster, fiberglass, rubber, paint
70 × 220 × 225 cm
Photograph: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna
Lena Henke
Lichtenfels Sculpture, 2021
Installation view
Lichtenfels
Photograph: Maximilian Anelli-Monti
Lena Henke
Las Pozas, 2017
Aluminium
160 × 248 × 140cm, 160 × 278 × 148cm
Photograph: Benedikt von Loebell
Lena Henke
Las Pozas, 2017
Aluminium
160 × 248 × 140cm, 160 × 278 × 148cm
Photograph: Maximilian Anelli-Monti
Lena Henke
Lichtenfels Sculpture, 2021
Installation view
Lichtenfels
I Think I Look More like the Chrysler Building, 2021
Installation view
Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg
Carina Bukuts, (Interview) Lena Henke Discusses Distances and Desires, in: Frieze (May 2021)
Lena Henke
Cranberry House after Orsini, 2021
Glazed ceramic on plexiglass pedestal
(top)
Lena Henke
OURCRUELCROSSING, 2019
Print on aluminium
15.3 × 62 cm
(bottom)
Lena Henke
Baby Blue House after Orsini, 2021
Glazed ceramic on plexiglass pedestal
Seilerstaette
Babysteps into Masochism
Lena Henke
December 9, 2020 – February 27, 2021
Lena Henke
Babysteps into Masochism, 2020
Installation view
Layr Seilerstaette, Vienna
Lena Henke
you’re safe, 2020
Leather, fabrics, forton, metal
250 × 150 × 20 cm
Detail view
Lena Henke
BROTHERSISTER, 2020
Glazed ceramic
70 cm (d) × 5 cm
(top)
Lena Henke
BASH, BOND, ZOO, 2020
Glazed ceramic
70 cm (d) × 5 cm
(bottom)
Lena Henke
ABDUCTION, DIRTIED, PHATOS, APPROVAL, 2020
Glazed ceramic
70 cm (d) × 5 cm
Lena Henke
Babysteps into Masochism, 2020
Installation view
Layr Seilerstaette, Vienna
Lena Henke
Organic Architecture I, 2020
Digital print on textured paper
237 × 175 cm
Edition of 3 plus 1 artist‘s proof
Lena Henke
The Holy Trinity or Three Points In Time, 2020
Iron rack, iron pole, and a Forton and steel baby sculpture
Dimensions variable
Detail view
Lena Henke
The Holy Trinity or Three Points In Time, 2020
Iron rack, iron pole, and a Forton and steel baby sculpture
Dimensions variable
Lena Henke
The Holy Trinity or Three Points In Time, 2020
Iron rack, iron pole, and a Forton and steel baby sculpture
Dimensions variable
Detail view
Lena Henke
Ice to Gas, 2021
Installation view
Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon
Bárbara Borges de Campos, (Review) Lena Henke Sculpts the Surreal From the Mundane, in: Frieze (October 2020)
Lena Henke
Ice to Gas, 2020
Installation view
Pedro Cera, Lisbon
Lena Henke
Lisbon 39º in the shade, 2020
Glazed ceramic on custom made pedestal
165 × 73 × 45 cm
Lena Henke
2019, 2020
Glazed ceramic
70 cm (d) × 5 cm
Lena Henke
Frieze Sculpture, 2020
Installation view
Rockefeller Center, New York
Lena Henke
Frieze Sculpture, 2020
Installation view
Rockefeller Center, New York
Lena Henke
Niche, 2020
Soldered, burned and painted leather on wood
70 × 75 cm
Lena Henke
Frieze Sculpture, 2020
Installation view
Rockefeller Center, New York
Lena Henke
L’homme qui marche – Verkörperung des Sperrigen, 2019
Installation view
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Lena Henke
L’homme qui marche – Verkörperung des Sperrigen, 2019
Installation view
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Lena Henke
My Fetish Years, 2019
Installation view
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen
Lena Henke
My Fetish Years, 2019
Installation view
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen
Lena Henke
My Fetish Years, 2019
Installation view
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen
Lena Henke
My Fetish Years, 2019
Installation view
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen
Lena Henke
My Fetish Years, 2019
Installation view
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen
Lena Henke
My Fetish Years, 2019
Installation view
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen
Lena Henke
My Fetish Years, 2019
Installation view
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen
Lena Henke
My Fetish Years, 2019
Installation view
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen
Lena Henke
My Fetish Years, 2019
Installation view
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen
Lena Henke
My Fetish Years, 2019
Installation view
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen
Lena Henke
My Fetish Years, 2019
Installation view
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen
Lena Henke
My Fetish Years, 2019
Installation view
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen
Lena Henke
My Fetish Years, 2019
Installation view
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen
Lena Henke
My Fetish Years, 2019
Installation view
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen
Lena Henke
HISHUMIDCORNER, 2019
Print on aluminium
15.3 × 62 cm
Lena Henke
His Central Park Tower, (Female Fatigue Series), 2019
Steel, rubber, sand
176 × 58 × 37 cm
Detail view
Lena Henke
Our Only One57, (Female Fatigue Series), 2019
Steel, rubber, sand
136 × 68 × 32 cm
Lena Henke
Our Only One57, (Female Fatigue Series), 2019
Steel, rubber, sand
136 × 68 × 32 cm
Lena Henke
Delirious, 2019
Installation view
Lustwarande, Tilburg
Lena Henke
Delirious, 2019
Installation view
Lustwarande, Tilburg
Lena Henke
Die Kommenden, 2017
Silicon rubber, foam, pigment
Dimensions variable
Lena Henke
Die Kommenden, 2017
Silicon rubber, foam, pigment
Dimensions variable
Detail view
Lena Henke
Ab auf die Insel!, 2018
Installation View
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern
Seilerstaette
Themove
Lena Henke
May 15 – July 21, 2018
Lena Henke
THEMOVE, 2018
Installation view
Layr Seilerstaette, Vienna
Lena Henke
THEMOVE, 2018
Installation view
Layr Seilerstaette, Vienna
Lena Henke
Freedom Tower, 2018
Digital print
75 × 50 cm
Max Feldman, (Interview) Lena Henke at Emanuel Layr, in: Spike (May 2018)
Lena Henke
MYIRONFEELINGS, 2018
Print on aluminium
15.3 × 62 cm
Lena Henke
OURPORCELAINTHOUGHTS, 2018
Print on aluminium
15.3 × 77 cm
Lena Henke
The other object, (self-portrait yellow), 2018
Silkscreen on aluminium
180 × 120 cm
Lena Henke
Systems for Architecture, 2017
Glazed ceramic
30 × 26.5 × 15 cm
Lena Henke
THEMOVE, 2018
Installation view
Layr Seilerstaette, Vienna
Lena Henke
An Idea of Late German Sculpture; To the People of New York, 2018
Installation view
Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich
Lena Henke
Robert Moses Mother Drives Through Wallis, 2018
Plaster, fiberglass, rubber, paint
200 × 170 × 180 cm
Lena Henke
Aldo Rossi’s Sleeping Elephant, 2018
Plaster, fiberglass, rubber, paint
70 × 220 × 225 cm
Lena Henke
Die Kommenden, 2017
Silicon rubber, foam, pigment
Dimensions variable
Detail view
Lena Henke
Die Kommenden, 2017
Silicon rubber, foam, pigment
Dimensions variable
Lena Henke
Between the Waters, 2018
Installation view
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Lena Henke
Golden Ages, 2017
Glazed ceramic on wooden pedestal
18 × 15 × 36 cm
Lena Henke
The Green Language, 2017
Glazed ceramic on wooden pedestal
25 × 20 × 35 cm
Lena Henke
Natures Threads, 2017
Glazed ceramic on wooden pedestal
9.5 × 32 × 22 cm
Lena Henke
Embrassade, 2018
Installation view
Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
Lena Henke
In and out of Place, 2018
Installation view
CCS Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson
Lena Henke
First Ladies, 2017
Installation view
Contemporary Art Biennale, Timisoara
Lena Henke
Untitled (8), 2017
Fiberglass, resin, steel
140 × 100 × 90 cm
Lena Henke
Untitled (7), 2017
Fiberglass, resin, steel
220 × 110 × 100 cm
Lena Henke
Produktion. Made in Germany Drei, 2017
Installation view
Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover
Lena Henke
Produktion. Made in Germany Drei, 2017
Installation view
Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover
Lena Henke
Schrei mich nicht an Krieger!, 2017
Rotunda
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt
Vivien Trommer, (Review) In any case, it is loud, in: Schirn Mag (June 2017)
Lena Henke
Schrei mich nicht an Krieger!, 2017
Rotunda
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt
Lena Henke
Schrei mich nicht an Krieger!, 2017
Rotunda
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt
Lena Henke
Available Light, 2016
Installation view
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig
Lena Henke
Available Light, 2016
Installation view
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig
Lena Henke
City Lights (Dead Horse Bay), 2016
Bronze, painted wood
105 × 125 × 65 cm
Lena Henke
Available Light, 2016
Installation view
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig
Lena Henke
Available Light, 2016
Installation view
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig
Lena Henke
City Lights (Dead Horse Bay), 2016
Bronze, painted wood
105 × 125 × 65 cm
Detail view
Lena Henke
Available Light, 2016
Installation view
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig
Lena Henke
Available Light, 2016
Installation view
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig
Lena Henke
Available Light, 2016
Installation view
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig
Lena Henke
Milkdrunk VI, 2017
Acqua-resin, stainless steel, rubber bands, fiberglass
32.4 × 25.5 × 13.3 cm
Lena Henke
Eure Frankfurter Küche, 2016
Metal, sand, silicone, fibreglass, epoxy resin, rubber
70 × 70 × 45 cm
Lena Henke
Fieber, 2016
Installation view
Layr Seilerstaette, Vienna
Lena Henke
Mein warmer Ofen, 2016
Metal, sand, silicone, fiberglass, epoxy resin, rubber
44.5 × 44 × 90 cm
Lena Henke
Split, 2016
Clay, glaze
45.7 × 43.2 × 20.3 cm
Lena Henke
Dead End, 2016
Clay, glaze
15.3 × 33 × 12.7 cm
Lena Henke
Mulberry House after Orsini, 2016
Glazed ceramic
48 × 37 × 77 cm
Lena Henke
My History of Flow, 2016
Installation view
Salts, Basel
Lena Henke
My History of Flow, 2016
Installation view
Salts, Basel
Lena Henke & Marie Karlberg
in bed with M/L Artspace, 2016
Installation view
9th Berlin Biennale, Berlin
Lena Henke & Marie Karlberg
in bed with M/L Artspace, 2016
9th Berlin Biennale, Berlin
Detail view
Lena Henke
Parkchester City Series, 2016
Installation view
Rod Bianco, Oslo
Lena Henke
Gross Stehende, 2015
Stainless steel, UV print on Duraclear
365.75 × 122 × 122 cm
Lena Henke
Hellweg, 2015
Installation view
Kunstverein Dortmund, Dortmund
Lena Henke
Galocher (embrasade), 2014
Fibreglass, resin, pigment, steel
144.8 × 152.4 × 83.8 cm
Lena Henke
Galocher (coeur), 2014
Fibreglass, resin, pigment, steel
238.7 × 248.9 × 139.7 cm
Lena Henke & Marie Karlberg
FREAK OUT!, 2013
Reading Lena Henke's "squin and super squin"
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
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Gisela Williams: Lena Henke, Wrecking Ball, in: Family Style (May 2024)
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Max L. Feldman: You Get the Picture: On Movement and Substitution in the Work of Lena Henke, Schirn Magazin (March 2024)
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“It’s All Fear, No?”: Lena Henke in Conversation With Urs Fischer, in: Interview Magazine (January 2024)
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Lena Henke “Good Year” at MARTa Herford, in: Mousse Magazine (October 2023)
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Alte Meister von Neuen geliebt: Lena Henke über "The Critic Laughs" von Richard Hamilton, in: Monopol (October 2023)
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Vivien Trommer, Lena Henke, Artist Features, in: Tique (2021)
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Carina Bukuts, (Interview) Lena Henke Discusses Distances and Desires, in: Frieze (May 2021)
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Bárbara Borges de Campos, (Review) Lena Henke Sculpts the Surreal From the Mundane, in: Frieze (October 2020)
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Silvia Anna Barrilà and Maria Adelaide Marchesoni, (Text) Le straniere si difendono con l’online, in: Plus24 – Il Sole 24 Ore No. 914 (April 2020)
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Owen Duffy, (Interview) Artists as Mapmakers: Lena Henke interviewed, in: BOMB Magazine (January 2020)
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Lena Henke & Liza Prins, (Interview) Sculptures & other talk (June 2019)
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Julia Moritz, (Review) Lena Henke at Kunsthalle Zürich, in: Topical Cream (July 2018)
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Elke Buhr, (Feature) Lena Henke, Portrait, in: Monopol Magazine (2018)
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Tenzing Barshee, (Review) Lena Henke, Zooms, in: Flash Art (June 2018)
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Christa Benzer, (Review) Lena Henke at Emanuel Layr, in: Der Standard (June 2018)
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Max Feldman, (Interview) Lena Henke at Emanuel Layr, in: Spike (May 2018)
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Laura McLean-Ferris, (Portrait) Casting Call, in: Frieze (April 2018)
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Tenzing Barshee, (Review) Lena Henke “Don’t shout at me warrior” at Schirn Kunsthalle, in: Topical Cream (July 2017)
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Vivien Trommer, (Review) Lena Henke at Schirn Kunsthalle, Critic’s Pick, in: Artforum 55, No. 10 (Summer 2017)
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Aria Dean, (Review) Lena Henke: New Fantasies of Modernism, in: Cura (June 2017)
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Christian Huther, (Review) Leise rieseln der Sand und die Gedanken, in: Frankfurter Neue Presse (May 2017)
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Michael Hierholzer, (Review) Sand im Kunstgetriebe, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (May 2017)
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Claire Voon, (Review) Will a Giant Boob or Chameleon Inaugurate the High Line’s New Public Art Plinth?, in: Hyperallergic (January 2017)
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Laura McLean-Ferris, (Review) Lena Henke: Heartbreak Highway, in: Spike (2016)
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Anna Gritz, (Review) Dead Horse Bay, on Lena Henke, in: Cura (2015)
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Paige K. Bradley, (Review) Lena Henke and Max Brand, Critic’s Pick, in: Artforum 53, No. 8 (April 2015)
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Judith Hopf, (Essay) Street Material, in: Mousse 38 (April-May 2013)
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Karen Butler, (Review) Lena Henke at White Flag Projects, in: Artforum 52, No. 10 (Summer 2014)
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Pablo Larios, (Essay) Lena Henke, in: Frieze 10 (June-August 2013)
Lena Henke
*1982 Warburg/Germany
Education
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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
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2024
Dark Glasses, Layr, Vienna (AT)
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2023
Nature wills it, The Ranch, Montauk, NY (USA)
Lena Henke: Good Year. Marta-Preis der Wemhöner Stiftung, Marta Herford Museum für Kunst, Architektur, Design, Herford (DE)
You and your vim, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado (US) -
2022
Auf dem Asphalt botanisieren gehen, Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin (DE)
Aldo Rossi’s Sleeping Elephant, Carlone Contemporary, Belvedere, Vienna (AT) -
2020
Babysteps into Masochism, LAYR, Vienna (AT)
Ice to Gas, Pedro Cera, Lisbon (PRT) -
2019
My Fetish Years, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen (DE)
Art Basel Hong Kong with Galerie Emanuel Layr (AT)
Germanic Artifacts, Bortolami, New York (US)
Solo Project at EXPO Chicago Art Fair, In Situ Program curated by Jacob Fabricius -
2018
THEMOVE, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT)
An Idea of Late German Sculpture, To the People of New York, Kunsthalle Zürich (CH)
Embrassade at Fons Welters, Amsterdam (NL) -
2017
Schrei mich nicht an, Krieger!, Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
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2016
Lena Henke. Available Light, Kunstverein Braunschweig (DE)
My History of Flow at S.A.L.T.S. Basel, Switzerland (CH)
Heartbreak Highway at Real Fine Arts, New York (US) -
2015
Hellweg, solo show at Kunstverein Dortmund (DE)
One step away from further hell, Vilma Gold, London, (with Marie Karlberg) (UK)
Looking at you, (revied) again, Off Vendome, New York, (with Max Brand) (US) -
2014
Die, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt (DE)
Yes, I‘m pregnant, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (DE)
GEBURT UND FAMILIE, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO (US) -
2013
From one artist to another, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden (DE)
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2012
SHE SAID SOMETHING LIKE DON‘T LET ME WALK THE STAIRS AGAIN I SAID BUT YOU LIVE THERE, Real Fine Arts, New York (US)
Core, Cut, Care , Kunstverein Oldenburg (DE)
Hang Harder, NAK. Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (DE)
H. H. Bennett, Lena Henke and Cars. (together with H. H.Bennett), 1857, Oslo (NO) -
2011
Schlangen im Stall, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt (DE)
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2010
WIR üBER UNS!, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt (DE)
Scandinavian Blonde, Galerie Station Mousonturm, Frankfurt (DE)
FIRE, WATER, ICE, Opelvillen, Zentrum für Kunst, Rüsselsheim (DE)
sculpt!, Deuxième Bureau, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt (DE) -
2009
you have four eyes, V8, Raum für junge Kunst, Karlsruhe (DE)
Selected Group Exhibitions
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2024
All about the Vessel, Kunstquartier, Gmunden (AT)
Our Porcelain Thoughts, Drei, Cologne (DE)
Skulptur Projekte Stockholm, Beau Travail, Stockholm (SE)
Light Sound Senses, Heidi Horten Collection, Vienna (AT)
Deep Distance Tender Touch, Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Rüsselsheim (DE)
Surrogates, Presentation with Alexandra Bircken & Richard Avedon, Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt (DE)
Dreams of an Owl, Who the Bær and the Wounded Planet, Kunsthalle Bielefeld (DE)
Everything but the Kitchen Sink, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (DE) -
2023
Group Show curated by Sandra Teitge, Gallery Weekend Festival, Studio Mondial (DE)
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2022
New Space Show, Layr, Vienna (AT)
Forest Through The Tress, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri (USA)
First Edition FOOD FOR THOUGHT, SPEISERAUM — Projektraum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Munich (DE)
Apple Red Cranberry House, Bortolami Gallery, New York City (USA)
LOOK, Heidi Horten Collection, Vienna (AT)
hyper (hyper), Callirrhoë, Athens (GR)
OPEN, Heidi Horten Collection, Vienna (AT)
Zusammen Zeichnen - 201 Cadavres Exquis, Museum im Bellpark, Kriens (CH)
Identity not proven, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (DE)
Looking Through the Threshold, Carlier | Gebauer, Berlin (DE)
Standing, Carlier | Gebauer, Berlin (DE)
Seed Disturbances, Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin (DE) -
2021
Lives of an Object, Andreas Melas (GRC)
Horses?, Chart Gallery. New York City (US)
Liquidity curated by Severin Dünser, Fluc, Vienna (AT)
MAM Online Exhibition, MAM WeChat Official Account and Mini-app (MAMall), WeChat Video Channel, Instagram, website & apps)
TBA, darkZone, New Jersey (US)
I Think I Look More Like The Chrysler Building, Vleeshall Middleburg, Middleburg (NL)
Vigil, Wschód, Warsaw (PL)
Lichtenfels Sculpture, Ruine Lichtenfels, Lichtenfels (AT) -
2020
Various Others, SPERLING, Munich (DE)
Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center, September 2020, New York City (US)
Fate of a cell, Andreas Melas & Helena Papadopoulos Gallery, Athens (GRC) -
2019
L‘Homme qui Marche - Verkörperung des Sperrigen, Kunsthalle Bielefeld (DE)
Diplomacy, Yeh Art Gallery Queens (US)
Allan Kaprow’s Words, Converso, Milan (IT)
Tiny Hands, Sommer Contemporary, Tel Aviv (ISR)
Abstract, Representational and so forth, Gladstone Gallery, New York (US)
Delirious, Lustwarande, Foundament Foundation, Sculpture Garden Tillburg, Tillburg (NL) -
2018
Citrus North, easy!upstream, Munich (DE)
Positioner, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
Claude Sandoz - Ab auf die Insel, Kunstmuseum Luzern (CH)
10 Year Anniversary, Tanya Leighton, Berlin (DE)
In and Out of Place, CSS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (US)
Between the Waters, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (US)
Embrassade, Two person show at Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam (NL) -
2017
in awe at Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (AT)
Galocher, Bortolami Gallery, New York (US)
No Eyes Dry, One and J. Gallery, Seoul (KOR)
Art Encounters, Timisoara Contemporary Art Biennale (RO)
Dirge, JTT, New York (US)
99 Cents or Less, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (US)
Made in Germany III, Sprengel Museum, Hannover (DE)
Huetti, Mini Goethe Institute, New York (US)
Shortlisted for High Line Plinth, The High Line, New York (US)
Art Basel Parcours, curated by Samuel Leuenberger, Basel (CH)
The Year of the Monkey, at Emanuel Layr Gallery, Rome (IT)
Vertical Gardens, Antenna Space, Shanghai (CN) -
2016
La Biennale de MONTREAL, Montreal, (CAN)
Fieber, Emanuel Layr Gallery in Vienna, Austria (with Lisa Holzer & Margaret Raspé) (AT)
WHAT PEOPLE DO FOR MONEY: SOME JOINT VENTURES with M/L Artspace at MANIFESTA 11, Zurich (SUI)
Groupshow at Kaufman Repetto, Milan (IT)
Garden Show at Regards, Chicago (curated by Sam Korman) (US)
with M/L Artspace at 9th Berlin Biennale, Berlin (DE)
Fellbach Small Sculpture Triennial, Stuttgart (DE)
RUN, RUN, RUNWAY at Rod Bianco, Oslo (NO) -
2015
National Gallery II, Empire, Chewdays, London (UK)
SOME GALLERIST‘S, ML Artspace at the Duck, Berlin (DE)
Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Socrates sculpture park, Queens, NY (US)
Triennial: Surround Audience New Museum, New York (US)
The problem today is not the other but the self, Ludlow 38, New York (US)
Please Respond, ML Artspace, Venice (IT)
Flickr Café, Cologne (DE)
G.I.F.T. at Der Tank, Zurich (CH)
Random Rules, Aschaffenburg (DE) -
2014
Revlery, Kunsthalle Bern (CH)
Skulptur in Reflexion, Kuenstlerhaus Graz (AT)
Bloomington, Bortolami Gallery, New York (US)
Warm Math, Balice Hertling Gallery, New York (US)
ML Artspace, New York, NY, DAS GESAMTSEXWERK (US) -
2013
Soft Wear, Sandy Brown, Berlin (DE)
Love of Technology, MOCA Miami, FL (US)
Freak Out, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York (US)
Köln Skulptur #7, Skulpturenpark Köln (DE)
One After One, Vilma Gold, London (UK)
On Thomas Baryle, The Artist‘s Institute, New York (US) -
2012
Neue Alte Brücke & Real Fine Arts @ Valentin, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris (FR)
FLIP, ART METROPOLE, Toronto CN) (in Lena CV bei „2013“)
If I had eight hours ......my axe., Kunst Raum Riehen, Basel (CH) -
2011
KW69 #3, Kalte Gesellschaft, (curated by Judith Hopf), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (DE)
Where Language Stops, Wilkinson Gallery, London (UK)
Kunststudentinnen und Kunststudenten stellen aus, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (DE)
The Long Day Wanes, The Malayan Triology, ZINGERpresents, Amsterdam (NL) -
2010
Another Romance, The 2010 New Wight Biennial, (invited by Daniel Birnbaum) UCLA, Los Angeles (US)
Geschmacksverstärker, Städelschule Absolventenausstellung 2010, MMK Zollamt, Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
Something Blue – A Curiosa, Contemporary Erotica – Pilot Issue, Book Launch at Archive Kabinett, Berlin (DE)
Placed in the Heat of the Night, Förderpreis 2010, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (DE) -
2009
UN DIMANCHE SANS FIN, 112 Hudson Street, New York (US)
Übermorgenkünstler, Kunstverein Heidelberg (DE)
Soleil, prends garde à toi!, Bockenheimer Depot, Frankfurt (DE)
openingheimer, Vanish, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
Multiples, Mari Paz Gallery, London (UK)
Peeping Tom, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland (GB)
frankfurt good wood, Gallery HOLD & FREIGHT, London (UK)
Boxer, Literaturhaus, Frankfurt am Main (DE) -
2008
Hotel Marienbad 002: Sammlung Rausch, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin (DE)
value is in activity, Stoltzestrasse, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
Public Collections
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Permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of Modern Art in New York, the CCS Bard Museums in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, in the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami in Florida, in the Mamco- the modern and contemporary Art Museum in Geneva, Switzerland and in the Kunsthalle Bern, in Bern, Switzerland.. As well as at the Sammlung Verbund Wien in Austria, the Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, New York, The Skulpturen Park Koeln, at the Skulpturen Museum Glaskasten Marl, and the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, all three in Germany.
Artist Talks / Public Lectures / Presentations
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2022
Visiting Artist Lecture, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Germany
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2021
Visting Artist Lecture, State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, Germany
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Visiting Artist Lecture, Malmö Art Academy, Sweden -
2020
Artist Talk, Lena Henke, Dominique Knowles and Megan Francis Sullivan in Conversation with Stephanie Weber, online
Visiting Artist Lecture, Jutland Art Academy in Arhus, Denmark -
2019
Visiting Artist Lecture, Bard College Annadel on Hudson, New York
Visiting Artist at De Ateliers in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Swiss Institute, Senior Class education program, New York, USA
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.
Publications
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2023
Lena Henke: P7340LH. Owner’s Manual Model ‘82/2023
The publication is published on the occasion of the exhibition "Good Year" at Museum Marta Herford, Germany.
112 pp.ca. 65 color illustrations
thread-bound brochure
Authors: Kathleen Rahn, Hiji Nam
Designer: Sandra Doeller
Leipzig November, 2023
ISBN: 9783959057967
Published by Spector Books, Leipzig
ISBN: 9783959057967 -
2022
Lena Henke: I don’t love Berlin, Crazy City
The publication is published on the occasion of the exhibition Lena Henke: Auf dem Asphalt botanisieren gehen at Klosterfelde Edition in Berlin,
April 30 – June 30, 2022
Publisher: Lena Henke
Editor: Pia-Marie Remmers
Proofreading: Rebecca A. Layton
Illustrations + Design: Rahel Süßkind, Lena Henke
Photos: Katalin Déer
Litography: Misch Dettling, Fotolabor Kunstgiesserei St. Gallen
Print: Druckerei Rüss, Postdam
© Lena Henke; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne; the authors
ISBN-13: 978-3-7533-0352-9 -
2020
Lena Henke: My Fetish Years, 2020
The publication does not present Henke’s work as a chronological sequence but focuses rather on four central, recurring themes: intervention, appropriation, desire, and Self. The monograph will be published in conjunction with the exhibition Lena Henke: My Fetish Years at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen,
27 September 2019 – 26 January 2020.
Editors: Anna Goetz, Thomas Thiel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
Text: Anna Goetz, Thomas Thiel, Simon Baier, Stefanie Böttcher
Design: Fabian Bremer,Pascal Storz
Published by Spector Books, Berlin
252 pp. with 60 black-white and 240 color illustrations, perfect bound softcover
Language(s): English, German
Edition: 800 copies
ISBN:978-3-95905-360-0 -
2017
LENA HENKE “SCHIRN ROTUNDE”
A catalog published in conjunction with the exhibition: Lena Henke “Schrei mich nicht an, Krieger”
at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt from 28. April - 30 Juli 2017.
Editor: Katharina Dohm
Catalogue Management: Antonia Lagemann
Essay: Katharina Dohm
Translation: Susanne Hondl
Design: Michael Satter
Lithography: Herbert Gartner
Printing & Binding: Pöge Druck, Leipzig
Images: Wolfgang Günzel & Topical Cream
© Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Authors and the artist
Published by VfmK Verlag für moderne Kunst GmbH www.vfmk.org
ISBN: 978-3-903153-36-3 -
2015
Lena Henke 2010-2015:
A concertina style artists book illustrating Lena Henke‘s body of work from 2010-2015, with a text by Alex Kitnick.
Editor: GWK, Fürstenbergstr. 14, D – 48147 Münster,
Illustration: Drew Alderfer | Essay: Alex Kitnick | Translation: Gerrit Jackson
Copy-editing: Susanne Schulte, Daniel Berchenko | Design: Lena Henke & Drew Alderfer
Production: Druckerei Kettler, Bönen, Germany © GWK, Verlag Kettler
Edition of 400 copies + a unique artist edition of 40 hand colored copies
ISBN: 978-3-86206-550-9 -
2014
Yes, I’m pregnant!
This magazine was published on the occasion of the Project 25/25/25 - 25 Years 25 Artists 25 Pictures by the Kunststiftung NRW in collaboration with the Sklulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl and for the exhibitions: Lena Henke, Yes I’m Pregnant!, 2014 Skulpturenmusuem Glaskasten, Germany and Lena Henke, Geburt und Familie, 2014, White Flag Projects, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Publisher: Kunststiftung NRW
Created by: Lena Henke, Andrew Alderfer
Photography: Phillip Ruehr
Print Production Design: Hugo Hoppmann
Arthandling: Jonas Gerhard
Printed by: DZA, Druckerei zu Altenburg, D-Altenburg -
2012
FIRST FACES
This catalog is published on the occasion of the exhibition by Lena Henke, Hang Harder at NAK. Neuen Aachener Kunstverein (5.Februar — 22. April 2012 ) and Core, Cut, Care. At (OKV) Oldenburger Kunstverein (1. Juni - 29. Juli 2012). © 2012 the Artist / the Authors/ the Photographers, NAK. Neuer Aachener Kunstverein
Published by: Lena Henke, Julia Jung, Stephanie Seidel for NAK. Neuer Aachener Kunstverein
Essays: Christian Egger, Felix Riemann, Kristina Scepanski
Translations: Nicolas Grindell
Proof Reading: Stephanie Seidel, Erik Smith
Graphic Design: Dan Solbach
Photography: Simon Vogel (NAK), Roman Maerz (OKV)
Printed by: Altebach Leipzig
Edition of: 500
International distribution: www.mottodistribution.com
SBN: 978-8-8674-9030-1
Typecasting: An Assembly of Iconic, Forgotten and New Vitra Characters Edited by Robert Stadler, Vitra Design, Museum, English176 pages, approx. 350 images ISBN 978-3-945852-29-3
Trinity Animation 2007-2009, Philosophische-Theologosche Hochschule Sankt Georgen (ed.), Frankfurt 2009
Wandering No. 1, p. 162, ISSN:2235-4417, 2012, Wandering Magazine
Geschmacksverstärker – Städelschule Absolventenausstellung, MMK Zollamt (ed.), Frankfurt 2010
Art Encounters, 2017 Biennale in Timisoara and Arad. ISBN: 978-606-93957-8-3
25 Jahre, Kuensterinnen, Museen, 2015. Published by Walter Koenig Verlag. ISBN: 978-86335-804-4
Made In Germnay III, 2017. Published by Snoeck Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-86442-208-9
Koeln Skulptur #7, 2015. Published by Walter Koenig Verlag. ISBN: 978-3-86335-469-5
The Present in Drag, 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 2016. Published by Distanz Verlag: ISBN: 978-3-955476-155-5
Ökologien des Alltags,13.Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, 2016. Published by Kerber Verlag: ISBN: 978-3-7356-0229-9
Press
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2021
Lena Henke Discusses Distances and Desires (Interview), Carina Bukuts, Frieze Magazine, May 2021
Artist Features: Lena Henke by Vivien Trommer, Tique Materialtour I, Stiftung Sitterwerk, May 2021 -
2020
Learning From Doxiadis: Object Lessons in Athens by Despina Zefkili, Ocula
Artists As Mapmakers: Lena Henke Interviewed by Owen Duffy, Bomb Magazine
New Gotham by Franklin Melendez, Kaleidoscope, Fall/Winter Issue 2020
Frieze Sculpture to Return to the Rockefeller Center Later This Year by Jack Stanley, Hyperbeast
Here’s a first look at Rockefeller Center’s major new sculpture installation by Shaye Weaver, TimeOut
Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center Cultivates an Urban Garden with Mighty Artworks by Stephanie Sporn, Galerie
Free outdoor sculpture garden opens at Rockefeller Center by Devin Gannon, 6sqft
Review: Various Others by María Inés Plaza Lazo, Arts of the Working Class
In München mit voller Kraft voraus by Brita Sachs, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Your Guide to This Year’s Gallery Share in Munich by Carina Buktus, Frieze
On the Weekends that were – Munich, Zurich, and Berlin by Colin Lang, Spike
Ross, nicht Reiter by Evelyn Vogel, Süddeutsche Zeitung 2020 -
2019
10 Events to Attend in New York City this Week, ArtNews
How Quitting Instagram Made Me Appreciate Art Again by Scott Indrisek, Artsy
See Lena Henke: Germanic Artifacts by Jerry Saltz, New York 2019
Keine Frauensache by Vivien Trommer, Frankfurt, Welt am Sonntag, 2019
Metropolis, Netherlands: Lena Henke Push/Off/Against, 2019 -
2018
Flash Art Magazine, Interview with Tenzing Barshee, June 2018
Spike Magazine, Lena Henke in conversation with Max Buschman, May 2018
Collectors Agenda, Lena Henke in conversation with Alexandra-Maria Toth, May 2018
Frieze Magazine, Casting Call by Laura Mac-Lean Ferris, April 2018
Monopol Magazine, Portrait Lena Henke, April 2018
Swiss Institute Visions: Lena Henke and Autocartography: New York based artist Lena Henke discusses her fascination with urban planning and design, and in particular the notorious city planner Robert Moses, who took a ‘meat axe’ to the New York as though it were a sculpture of his own. From the BQE to Dead Horse Bay, Henke describes personal psychogeography of the city. (Season 01, Episode 09) -
2017
Tages Woche Basel, Art Basel Parcours, June 2017
New Fantasies of Modernism by Aria Dean. Cura Magazine June 2017
Berlin Art Link, Fantasy / Private as Public: Lena Henke in conversation with Penny Rafferty, May, 2017
Hessische Kultur Stiftung: Stipendiatin Lena Henke, January 2017
Irrationality Versus Modernism by Vivien Trommer at Schirn Magazine, February 2017
Sand im Kunstgetriebe: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 2017
Artforum: Critics Pick by Vivien Trommer, July 2017
Leise rieselt der Sand und die Gedanken: Frankfurter Neue Presse, April 2017 -
2016
Monopol Magazine: Auf den Spuren der Vergangeheit: Moritz Gaudlitz on‚ curated by_Vienna‘, September 2016
Artnews: Into the void: Andrew Russeth on spring shows in New York, February 2016
Kaleidoscope news: Amory week must see, Lena Henke ‚Heartbreak Highway‘ at Real Fine Arts, March 2016
Spike Magazine: Laura McLean-Ferris on Lena Henke’s Heartbreak Highway, Spring Issue 2016
Topical Cream Magazine: Laura McLean-Ferris on Lena Henke’s Heartbreak Highway, May 2016
Art in America: Sam Korman on Lena Henke at Real Fine Arts New York, May 2016
Female Genius, Fall/Winter Issue, Pin Up Magazine for Architectural Entertainment
Artforum Lena Henke’s Top Ten, summer Issue, 2015
New York Times, Where Virtual Equals Real, by Randy Kennedy, February 2015
Art News, About Off Vendom by Andrew Russeth, January 2015
Spike Magazine, In the Studio of Lena Henke, summer Issue 2015,
Cura Magazine, Dead Horse Bay, Focus on Lena Henke by Anna Gritz, October 2015
Vulture, Digital Bitches: the New Museum Triennale by Jerry Saltz, March 2015 -
2014
Artforum review by Karen Butler, Summer Issue 2014
W Magazine Culture, Lena Henke Star Material, December 2014
Skulpturen Love Story in Marl, Radio Show Scala, Aktuelles aus der Kultur, WDR 5., 2014
Street Smarts: Lena Henke’s Work Is All Over Town This Frieze Week, by Andrew Russeth.Gallerist NY, May 2014
Art and the City: Lena Henke in Vogue Casa, Frame section of Frieze NY, chosen by Tim Saltarelli June Issue 2014
Lena Henke in Flaunt Magazine, LA, USA, May Issue 2014
Judith Hopf in conversation with Lena Henke.‘ Mousse Magazine, April-May: 140-147
Pablo Larios. ‚Focus on Lena Henke.‘ Frieze Magazine, June-August: 118-119 -
2012
New York Magazine 12/2012, 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 -
2011
Watchlist, in: Monopol Magazin, Issue 9/ 2011, p. 26-27
Der Duft des Reitlehrers, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Rhein-Main-Teil, Kultur, 2011 -
2010
Another Romance, The New Wight Biennial, Los Angeles, 2010