Written on 16. February 2026
Henrike Naumann passed away on February 14, 2026, surrounded by her family and friends in Berlin, after a cancer diagnosis that came far too late. Henrike asked us to send a final farewell to all the people who accompanied her on her journey. At every stage of her life, she surrounded herself with loved ones, […]
Written on 26. May 2025
Curator Kathleen Reinhardt announces artistic positions for the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2026 on behalf of ifa. Henrike Naumann and Sung Tieu have been announced as the artists for the German Pavilion at the 61st Venice Art Biennale, for which ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen serves as commissioner. Curator Kathleen Reinhardt has nominated […]
Written on 8. May 2025
8. Mai 2025 ᵉⁿThe unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945 marks – depending on your perspective – a day of liberation, a day of victory or a day of defeat. Exactly 80 years after the end of the Second World War, my lecture performance Orcs from the East at the HGB Offenbach revolves around the question of […]
Written on 11. September 2024
Harvard, Cambridge (USA), 11. September 2024 Ossification– Lecture Performance ᵉⁿAt the opening of the exhibition Made in Germany? at the Busch-Reisinger Museum (Harvard Art Museums), I will speak in depth about my work on view, Ostalgie, and take the audience on a journey through German history and the political present, while providing an overview of my practice over […]
Written on 1. August 2024
Lecture Performance 18. Mai 2024Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum, Georgien.
Written on 17. May 2024
Tbilisi, Georgien, 17. Mai 2024 ᵈᵉSeit Beginn diesen Jahres bin ich Stipendiatin im Berliner Programm Künstlerische Forschung 2024/25. In den kommenden zwei Jahren werde ich mich mit dem Thema Kunst und Krieg auseinandersetzen und im interdisziplinären Dialog meine Arbeitsweise weiterentwickeln. Ich gehe in dem Projekt davon aus, dass politische Systeme und Ideenwelten wie Sozialismus, Kapitalismus […]
Written on 4. March 2024
Lecture at Bundeskunsthalle Bonn in November 2023. Link to the German translation.
Written on 23. February 2024
Kyiv Perennial opening this week in Berlin!Program and infos here Screening of the Breathe documentationas part of the Kyiv PerennialJune 2024, Berlindetails coming soon Press Kyiv Biennial 2023 New York Times on the Kyiv Biennial “the most energizing exhibizion of the year” Süddeutsche Zeitung zur Kyiv Biennale“Ausstellung des Jahres” Monopol Top 10022 – Henrike Naumann Interview Postimpreza […]
Written on 4. October 2023
“Breathe the pressureCome play my game, I’ll test yaPsychosomatic, addict, insaneBreathe the pressureCome play my game, I’ll test yaPsychosomatic, addict, insaneCome play my gameInhale, inhale, you’re the victimCome play my gameExhale, exhale, exhale”The Prodigy – Breathe, 1995 On 8th December, 1995 The Prodigy premiered their track Breathe in the Pionir Hall in Belgrade, Serbia. It was the […]
Written on 6. January 2023
Today, two years ago, my phone was buzzing with messages and photos from Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. People asked me: “Did you see that coming?” I was puzzled because I had captured the aesthetics of the Capitol stormers in my installation Das Reich from 2017 about the German “Reichsbürger movement”. Until last year, I […]
Written on 12. September 2022
H E N R I K E N A U M A N NR E – E D U C A T I O N 22. September 2022 – 27. Februar 2023SculptureCenter44–19 Purves StreetLong Island City, NY 11101INFOS SculptureCenter is pleased to announce Henrike Naumann: Re-Education, the first exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based […]
Written on 30. July 2022
2000 in Gropius Bau Berlin Thursday, 04.08.2022 17.00—19.30Gropius Bau, 2nd floorFree admission with pre-registrationINFOS This lecture by Valeria Schiller and the following conversation between her and Henrike Naumann, who will join online, discuss the cultural-historical connections and parallels between Kyiv and Berlin in context of the division between East and West, and the position of […]
Written on 14. June 2022
Ghetto Biennale / Atis Rezistansdocumenta fifteen Kassel, 2022 We propose the Museum of Trance as a fictional institution that explores the sonic culture phenomenon of the 90ies German music genre Trance. Built around the organ, the central instrument of worship ceremonies, the work, combines structural elements of ethnographic historicization and museology of cultural formations. St. […]
Written on 28. February 2022
My work ‚2000‘ had a special meaning in the Ukrainian context, as the work about the divided Germany was read by the audience as a metaphor of the divided Ukraine. I am one of the few artists who up until the beginning of the invasion had shows in both Kyiv and Moscow. Working in both […]
Written on 17. February 2022
For the past two weeks, I’ve been mostly online. I held my breath while reading the news about the escalating conflict between Ukraine and Russia. And I’ve been looking on social media at the selfies taken at the two exhibitions I’m currently participating in parallel in Kyiv and Moscow. I see my work as a […]
Written on 10. January 2021
In 2017 I created the work ‚Das Reich‘ for Gorki’s Herbstsalon. With the installation, composed of furniture, objects and video, I tried to find a visual language to speak about the self-proclaimed ‚Reichsbürger‘ (citizens of the German Reich), who deny the legitimacy of the Federal Republic of Germany and claim that the German Reich is […]