Selected Works

Installation view "Ice to Gas" at Galeria Pedro Cera

Installation view "Ice to Gas" at Galeria Pedro Cera

Installation view "My Fetish Years" at Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Installation view "My Fetish Years" at Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Installation view "Frieze Sculpture 2020" at Rockefeller Center

Courtesy of the artist and Andres Melas, Athens

Courtesy of the artist and Andres Melas, Athens

Installation view "An Idea of Late German Sculpture; To the People of New York, 2018" at Kunsthalle Zürich

Installation view "An Idea of Late German Sculpture; To the People of New York, 2018" at Kunsthalle Zürich

Installation view "An Idea of Late German Sculpture; To the People of New York, 2018" at Kunsthalle Zürich

Installation view at Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami, New York

Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami, New York

Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami, New York

Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami, New York

Installation view at Bortolami, New York

Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami, New York

Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami, New York

Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami, New York

Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami, New York

Installation view "Positioner" at Matthew Marks Gallery

Installation view at Kunsthalle Zürich

Installation view at Kunsthalle Zürich

Courtesy of the artist and LAYR, Vienna

Installation view, Art Basel, Parcours 2017

Installation view "My Fetish Years" at Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Installation view at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

Installation view at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

Installation view "My History of Flow" at SALTS
Featured Projects

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen

Courtesy Kunsthalle Zürich

Courtesy Kunsthalle Zürich

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Courtesy Kunsthalle Schirn

Courtesy Kunsthalle Schirn

Courtesy Kunsthalle Schirn

Courtesy Kunsthalle Schirn

Courtesy Kunsthalle Schirn

Courtesy SALTS

Courtesy SALTS

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Courtesy Kunstverein Braunschweig

Courtesy Kunstverein Braunschweig

Courtesy Kunstverein Braunschweig

Courtesy Kunstverein Braunschweig

Courtesy Kunstverein Braunschweig

Courtesy Kunstverein Braunschweig

Courtesy Kunstverein Braunschweig

Courtesy Kunstverein Braunschweig
Exhibitions
Biography
Lena Henke is a New York-based artist who has developed a diverse body of sculptural works, often arranged in comprehensive spatial installations. Her interest in spaces is not limited to presentation or intervention in existing architecture; it is also revealed in a broader sense in the appropriation of objects, urban situations, and psychological spatial constellations. Recurring motifs include interventions into the classic working methods of sculpture, recourse to anthroposophical methods, often through a biographically motivated approach or the control of “architecture”. In her vocabulary of forms and materials, numerous references such as Minimalism or Land Art can be found, which she likes to combine with surrealist motifs. In a subtle way and with a humorous undertone, Henke enjoys infiltrating the patriarchal structures of art history. She explores the ideas of urban planners, landscape architects, and urban theorists such as Jane Jacobs, Roberto Burle Marx, and Robert Moses. She takes up themes like interpersonal relationships, sexuality, and fetishism. Using strategies of intervention, appropriation, and control, the artist also examines her relationship with herself and her family environment.
Lena Henke, (born 1982 Warburg, Germany) has exhibited at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany (2019); Whitney Museum of Art, New York, (2018); Bard Hessel Museum, New York, (2018); Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland, (2018); Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt em Main, Germanny, (2017); Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany (2017); Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, USA, (2017); Timisoara Contemporary Art Biennale, Romania, (2017); S.A.L.T.S., Basel, Switzerland, (2016), Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, (2016); Manifesta 11, Zurich, (2016); The 9th; Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany (2016); Le Biennale de MONTREAL, Montreal, Canada, (2016); Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany (2016); Triennale of Small Scale Sculpture, Fellbach, Germany (2016);The New Museums Triennial, New Museum, New York, (2015); Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, (2015); New Museum, New York (2015); Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland (2014); White Flag Projects, St. Louis, USA, (2014); Sculpture Museum Glaskasten, Marl, Germany, (2014); Kuenstlerhaus Graz, Graz, Austria (2014); Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA, (2013); Kunstverein Aachen, Germany (2012), among other.
In 2019 Henke received the RUBENSFÖRDERPREIS der Stadt SIEGEN and the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen held a survey exhibition of Lena Henke’s work, summarizing the past ten years of her practice. In the same year, Henke was awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.