Henrike Naumann (born 1984 in

Zwickau Zwickau (; ) is the fourth-largest city of Saxony, Germany, after Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz, with around 88,000 inhabitants,. The West Saxon city is situated in the valley of the Zwickau Mulde (German: ''Zwickauer Mulde''; progression: ), ...

) is a German

installation art Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific art, site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior intervent ...

ist. She became known for her furniture installations, often made from

wall unit A wall unit is a premanufactured item of furniture. It is an assembly of several discrete components that are fixed to an internal wall of a room. Wall unit fixtures range in style from contemporary to traditional in order to match the decor of t ...

s from the

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. In her work, she explores the relationship between furniture and interior design with political and social issues. Her unconventional approach to complex political issues has garnered broad media attention. Naumann has received numerous awards, including the Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff Fellowship, the

Max Pechstein Hermann Max Pechstein (31 December 1881 – 29 June 1955) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and a member of the Die Brücke group. He fought on the Western Front during World War I and his art was classified as Degenerate A ...

Prize from the city of Zwickau and the

Villa Aurora The Villa Aurora, 520 Paseo Miramar, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, has been an artists' residence since 1995. It is the former home of the German Jewish author Lion Feuchtwanger and his wife Marta. The Feuchtwangers bought this Spanish-style ...

Scholarship from the Thomas Mann House, Los Angeles. Major exhibitions of her work have taken place at the

SculptureCenter SculptureCenter is a not-for-profit, contemporary art museum located in Long Island City, Queens, New York City. It was founded in 1928 as "The Clay Club" by Dorothea Denslow. In 2013, SculptureCentre attracted around 13,000 visitors.Randy Kenned ...

in New York, the

Haus der Kunst The ''Haus der Kunst'' (, ''House of Art'') is a museum for modern and contemporary art in Munich, Bavaria. It is located at Prinzregentenstraße 1 at the southern edge of the Englischer Garten, Munich's largest park. It was built between 1933 an ...

in Munich,

Documenta Documenta (often stylized documenta) is an Art exhibition, exhibition of contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. Documenta was founded by artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the Bundesgarte ...

in Kassel and the Kyiv Biennal in Ukraine. At the 61st Venice Biennale in summer 2026, Naumann will design the German Pavilion together with Sung Tieu.

Life

Naumann is the granddaughter of artist Karl Heinz Jakob, who was also awarded the Max Pechstein Prize. She studied stage and costume design at the

Dresden Academy of Fine Arts The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (German language, German ''Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden''), often abbreviated HfBK Dresden or simply HfBK, is a vocational university of visual arts located in Dresden, Germany. The present institutio ...

and

scenography Scenography is the practice of crafting stage environments or atmospheres. In the contemporary English usage, scenography can be defined as the combination of technological and material stagecrafts to represent, enact, and produce a sense of plac ...

at the

Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg The Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg (German: ''Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf'') is the oldest and largest film school in Germany. The university offers undergraduate, graduate, as well as post-graduate studies in all fields o ...

. She describes the arson committed by and subsequent arrest of

Beate Zschäpe Beate Zschäpe (; ; born 2 January 1975) is a German far-right extremist and a member of the National Socialist Underground (NSU), a neo-Nazi terrorist organization. In July 2018, she was sentenced to life imprisonment for numerous crimes com ...

on November 4, 2011 - during the exposure of far-right terrorist group

National Socialist Underground The National Socialist Underground (, ), or NSU (), was a German neo-Nazi militant organisation active between 1998 and 2011, and uncovered in November 2011. Regarded as a terror cell, the NSU is mostly associated with Uwe Mundlos, Uwe Böh ...

- as a key moment in her artistic development. At the time, Naumann was only a few hundred meters away, visiting her grandmother in the Weißenborn district. Deeply affected by these events, she addressed the origins of the National Socialist Underground in post-reunification East Germany in her thesis project ''Triangular Stories''. Naumann's first international exhibition took place at the 2015

Ghetto Biennale The Ghetto Biennale (Haitian Creole: ''Geto Byenal'') is an international contemporary arts exhibition held every two years in Port-au-Prince, Haiti during November and December. History The Ghetto Biennale was founded and is curated by Andre Eu ...

in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The ''Museum of Trance'', created in collaboration with Bastian Hagedorn, marked a shift from earlier works integrating video and sound, towards objects that speak for themselves. In her 2017 work ''Das Reich'', Naumann recreated

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made of wall units at the

Kronprinzenpalais The Kronprinzenpalais (English: ''Crown Prince's Palace'') is a former Royal Prussian residence on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic centre of Berlin. It was built in 1663 and renovated in 1857 according to plans by Heinrich Strack in ...

in Berlin to address the

Reichsbürger movement (; ) or (; ) are several Unrechtsstaat, anticonstitutional Historical revisionism, revisionist groups and individuals in Germany and elsewhere who reject the legitimacy of the History of Germany (1990-present), modern German state, the Germany ...

at the historic site where the Unification Treaty was signed. Her 2019 exhibition ''Ostalgie'' reflected on the legacy of the GDR during the 1990s. It demonstrated Naumann's radical approach to architecture by covering gallery's concrete walls with carpet and using them as flooring for her furniture, tilted at 90 degrees. In 2021, several of Naumann's works were exhibited simultaneously in Ukraine and Russia, including at the

PinchukArtCentre PinchukArtCentre is a private contemporary art centre, located in Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides ...

in Kyiv and the

Tretyakov Gallery The State Tretyakov Gallery (; abbreviated ГТГ, ''GTG'') is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, which is considered the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world. The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Muscovite merchant Pavel ...

in Moscow. Following

Russia's invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...

in 2022, the exhibitions were closed. One of her works was evacuated from Kyiv through the war zone. That same year, Naumann held her first solo exhibition ''Re-Education'' in the United States at the

in New York, where she used her experience with German history to examine American politics. Her installation ''Rustic Traditions'' (2022) explores the role of furniture in the

2021 storming of the United States capitol On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., was attacked by a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump in an attempted self-coup,Multiple sources: * * * * * * * * * * * * * two months after his defea ...

. Naumann combines her artistic work with lecturing and teaching. In her lecture ''What Comes After Postmodernism'' (2023) at the

Bundeskunsthalle (Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany) is one of the most visited museums in Germany. Known as the ''Bundeskunsthalle'' for short, it is part of the so-called "Museum Mile" in Bonn. It holds exhibitions relating to art a ...

in Bonn, she reflected on her work at the 2023 Kyiv Biennal and the topic of art and war. Starting in the winter semester of 2026, she will take up a professorship in sculpture at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg. She lives in Berlin.

Projects

Selected Works

* 2023 ''Breathe'' dealt with

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and

Decommunization Decommunization in former communist states is the process of purging former communist high officials and eliminating communist symbols. It is sometimes referred to as political cleansing. Although the term has been occasionally used during t ...

in Ukraine in form of a performance in the Drama Theater

Ivano-Frankivsk Ivano-Frankivsk (, ), formerly Stanyslaviv, Stanislav and Stanisławów, is a city in western Ukraine. It serves as the administrative centre of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast as well as Ivano-Frankivsk Raion within the oblast. Ivano-Frankivsk also host ...

. * 2022 ''Rustic Traditions'' focuses on the

January 6 United States Capitol attack On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., was attacked by a mob of supporters of Donald Trump, President Donald Trump in an attempted self-coup,Multiple sources: * * * * * * * * * * * * * two months afte ...

and the role played by

Federal Style Federal-style architecture is the name for the classical architecture built in the United States following the American Revolution between 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815, which was influenced heavily by the works of And ...

furniture. * 2020 ''Die Monotonie des Yeah Yeah Yeah'' deals with the history of

Ostalgie In German culture, ''Ostalgie'' () is nostalgia for aspects of life in Communist East Germany. It is a portmanteau of the German words '' Ost'' (east) and '' Nostalgie'' (nostalgia). Its anglicised equivalent, ostalgia (rhyming with "nostalgi ...

raves based on Walter Ulbricht's quote about “Yeah”. In the video work of the same name, the

Town Musicians of Bremen The "Town Musicians of Bremen" () is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in ''Grimms' Fairy Tales'' in 1819 (KHM 27). It tells the story of four ageing domestic animals, who after a lifetime of hard work are negle ...

unite with

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s to bring down the

Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall (, ) was a guarded concrete Separation barrier, barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the East Germany, German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany). Construction of the B ...

. * 2019 ''Ruinenwert i''s an exploration of the

ideology An ideology is a set of beliefs or values attributed to a person or group of persons, especially those held for reasons that are not purely about belief in certain knowledge, in which "practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones". Form ...

and history of

National Socialism Nazism (), formally named National Socialism (NS; , ), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During Hitler's rise to power, it was frequ ...

and its aesthetics based on the work of Hitler's interior designer

Gerdy Troost Gerhardine "Gerdy" Troost (née Andresen; 3 March 1904 – 30 January 2003), was a German architect, interior designer, interior decorator, and the wife of Paul Ludwig Troost. Life and work Troost was born in Stuttgart, the daughter of the ...

. In 2021, Naumann adapted the work for her solo exhibition ''Einstürzende Reichsbauten'' at Kunsthaus Dahlem, the former studio of Nazi sculptor

Arno Breker Arno Breker (19 July 1900 – 13 February 1991) was a German sculptor who is best known for his public works in Nazi Germany, where he was endorsed by the authorities as the antithesis of degenerate art. He was made official state sculptor, ...

. * 2019 ''Ostalgie'' deals with the

politics of memory The politics of memory refers to how societies construct, contest, and institutionalize collective memories of historical events. Often this practice should serve political, social, or ideological purpose. As a field of study, memory politics seek ...

of the

GDR East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on 3 October 1990. Until 1989, it was generally vie ...

through a comparison with ''

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'' and the “ primal society” according to

Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels ( ;"Engels"
''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''.Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard''. * 201''9 Tag X'' is based on the Hannibal network of

prepper Survivalism is a social movement of individuals or groups (called survivalists, doomsday preppers or preppers) who proactively prepare for emergencies, such as natural disasters, and other disasters causing disruption to social order (that is, ...

groups and stages a memorial in which home accessories and design classics interpreted as weapons are exhibited, such as the

Wassily Chair The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925–1926 while he was the head of the cabinet-making workshop at the Bauhaus, in Dessau, Germany. Despite popular belief, the chair was not designed sp ...

Marcel Breuer Marcel Lajos Breuer ( ; 21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981) was a Hungarian-American modernist architect and furniture designer. He moved to the United States in 1937 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1944. At the Bauhaus he designed the Was ...

and the lemon squeezer by

Philippe Starck Philippe Starck (; born 18 January 1949) is a French industrial architect and designer known for his wide range of designs, including interior design, architecture, household objects, furniture, boats and other vehicles. His most popular pieces ...

for Alessi. The work was exhibited at Berlin's

Alexanderplatz (, ''Alexander Square'') is a large public square and transport hub in the central Mitte district of Berlin. The square is named after the Russian Tsar Alexander I, which also denotes the larger neighbourhood stretching from in the north-ea ...

as part of the 30th anniversary of the

Peaceful Revolution The Peaceful Revolution () – also, in German called ' (, "the turning point") – was one of the peaceful revolutions of 1989 at the peak of the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in the late 1980s. A process of sociopolitical change that led to, am ...

of 1989. * 2018 ''2000'' relates the

Expo 2000 Expo 2000 was a World Expo held in Hanover, Germany from 1 June to 31 October 2000. It was located on the Hanover Fairground (Messegelände Hannover), which is the largest exhibition ground in the world. Initially, some 40 million people were ...

German reunification German reunification () was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9 November 1989 and culminated on 3 October 1990 with the dissolution of the East Germany, German Democratic Republic and the int ...

. The work was exhibited at the Busan Biennale in 2018 and discussed in the context of the

division of Korea The division of Korea began at the end of World War II on 2 September 1945, with the establishment of a Soviet occupation zone and a US occupation zone. These zones developed into separate governments, named the Democratic People's Republic of ...

. During the

Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...

in 2022, the installation was exhibited at the

Kyiv and was evacuated to the

Martin-Gropius-Bau Martin-Gropius-Bau, commonly known as Gropius Bau, is an important exhibition space in Berlin, Germany. Originally a museum of applied arts, the building has been a listed historical monument since 1966. It is located at 7 Niederkirchnerstraße ...

in Berlin. * 2018 ''DDR Noir'' exhibits works of Naumann's own grandfather, the GDR graphical artist Karl Heinz Jakob amidst furniture of the period after reunification The work was conceived for the municipal gallery Galerie im Turm at

Frankfurter Tor The Frankfurter Tor ("Frankfurt Gate") is a large square in the inner-city Friedrichshain locality of Berlin. It is situated in the centre of the district, at the intersection of Karl-Marx-Allee and Frankfurter Allee (the eastbound federal ...

, which was the exhibition space of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR. * 2018 ''Eurotique'', created as part of the first Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, deals with the phenomenon of “ eiroremonts” (Latvian for “euro repair”). Today the work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw. * 2018 ''14 Words'' refers to the racist formula of

Fourteen Words "The Fourteen Words" (also abbreviated 14 or 1488) is a reference to two slogans originated by the American domestic terrorist David Eden Lane, one of nine founding members of the defunct white supremacist terrorist organization The Order (white ...

and depicts a former East German retail store with reference to the

and its victims, most of whom were self-employed and shot in their own businesses. * 2018 ''Anschluss ‘90'' explores the idea that

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

would have “rejoined” the

German Reich German ''Reich'' (, from ) was the constitutional name for the German nation state that existed from 1871 to 1945. The ''Reich'' became understood as deriving its authority and sovereignty entirely from a continuing unitary German ''Volk'' ("na ...

in 1990, the year of

. As part of steirischer herbst, Naumann opened a furniture store in Graz where people could set themselves up for the “

reunification A political union is a type of political entity which is composed of, or created from, smaller politics or the process which achieves this. These smaller polities are usually called federated states and federal territories in a federal govern ...

”. * 2017 ''Das Reich'' displays far-right ideology and the

symbolized in a spatial installation in the form of a

made of

s. * 2016 Aufbau Ost considers the transformation of the

and the integration of East and West Germany using the aesthetics of everyday items. * 2015 ''The Museum of Trance'' is a fictional

ethnological Ethnology (from the , meaning 'nation') is an academic field and discipline that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural anthropology, cultural, social anthropology, so ...

museum about German

trance music Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged from Electronic body music, EBM in Frankfurt, Germany, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and quickly spread throughout Europe. Trance music is typically characterized by a tempo between ...

, which Henrike Naumann opened in 2015 with the musician Bastian Hagedorn as part of the

in a

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temple in

Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince ( ; ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Haiti, most populous city of Haiti. The city's population was estimated at 1,200,000 in 2022 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894. The me ...

Haiti Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...

(reflections on

spirituality The meaning of ''spirituality'' has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other. Traditionally, spirituality referred to a religious process of re-formation which "aims to recover the original shape o ...

rave A rave (from the verb: '' to rave'') is a dance party at a warehouse, club, or other public or private venue, typically featuring performances by DJs playing electronic dance music. The style is most associated with the early 1990s dance mus ...

culture,

exoticism Exoticism (from ''exotic'') is the style or traits considered characteristic of a distant foreign country. In art and design it is a trend where creators become fascinated with ideas and styles from distant regions and draw inspiration from them. ...

, etc.). This was followed in 2021 by a multimedia installation filmed in the former

Tresor TRESOR (recursive acronym for "TRESOR Runs Encryption Securely Outside RAM", and also the German word for a safe) is a Linux kernel patch which provides encryption using only the CPU to defend against cold boot attacks on computer systems by perf ...

with

Mark Reeder Mark Reeder (born 5 January 1958) is a British musician and record producer. He grew up in Manchester, England. At a young age, Reeder became interested in progressive rock and especially early electronic music. In his teens, he worked in a sma ...

as a trance

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

, and in 2022 by an adaptation of the work in the form of a trance organ in the church of St. Kunigundis in Kassel as part of the

documenta Documenta (often stylized documenta) is an Art exhibition, exhibition of contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. Documenta was founded by artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the Bundesgarte ...

at the invitation of Ghetto Biennale and Atis Rezistans. The exhibition was named the best exhibition of 2022 by the German section of the AICA ( Association des Critiques d'Art). * 2012 ''Triangular Stories'' contrasts

hedonistic Hedonism is a family of philosophical views that prioritize pleasure. Psychological hedonism is the theory that all human behavior is motivated by the desire to maximize pleasure and minimize pain. As a form of egoism, it suggests that peopl ...

and

neo-Nazi Neo-Nazism comprises the post–World War II militant, social, and political movements that seek to revive and reinstate Nazism, Nazi ideology. Neo-Nazis employ their ideology to promote hatred and Supremacism#Racial, racial supremacy (ofte ...

youth culture Youth culture refers to the societal norms of children, adolescents, and young adults. Specifically, it comprises the processes and symbolic systems that are shared by the youth and are distinct from those of adults in the community. An emphasis ...

in the

in the form of a fictitious youth room of

, in which staged

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s shot on

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from the youth of the

are integrated.

Selected solo exhibitions

* 2024 ''Innere Sicherheit'', Wall Memorial of the

Bundestag The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet (assembly), Diet") is the lower house of the Germany, German Federalism in Germany, federal parliament. It is the only constitutional body of the federation directly elected by the German people. The Bundestag wa ...

* 2023 ''Westalgie'' '','' IKOB International Art Centre, Eupen, Belgium * 202''2 Re-Education'',

, New York * 2022 ''2000 – Back Home'',

Gropius Bau Martin-Gropius-Bau, commonly known as Gropius Bau, is an important exhibition space in Berlin, Germany. Originally a museum of applied arts, the building has been a listed building, listed historical monument since 1966. It is located at 7 Nieder ...

, Berlin * 2022 ''Westalgie'', CAC – la synagogue de Delme, France * 2021 ''Einstürzende Reichsbauten'', Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin * 2019 ''2000'', LVZ-Kunstpreis,

Museum der bildenden Künste The Museum der bildenden Künste (German: "Museum of Fine Arts") is a museum in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. It covers artworks from the Late Middle Ages to Modernity. History Museum Foundation and First Museum The museum dates back to the f ...

, Leipzig * 2019 ''2000'' ''– Mensch. Natur.

Twipsy Twipsy was the official Mascot of the Expo 2000 world's fair held in Hannover. The character was created by the Spanish designer Javier Mariscal. His draft was selected in 1995 by an international jury out of 17 proposals in total. During the cou ...

.,'' Kunstverein Hannover * 2019 ''Das Reich'',

Belvedere 21 Belvedere 21, formerly 21er Haus or Einundzwanziger Haus (), is a modernist style steel and glass building designed by Austrian architect Karl Schwanzer (1918–1975). Originally constructed as the Austrian pavilion or temporary showroom for the ...

, Vienna * 2019 ''Ostalgie'', KOW Berlin * 2018 ''DDR Noir'', Galerie im Turm, Berlin * 2018 ''2000'',

Abteiberg Museum The Museum Abteiberg is a municipal museum for contemporary art in the German city Mönchengladbach. Since the 1970s, the museum has been known for its experimental and avant-garde exhibitions, starting with director Johannes Cladders (1967– ...

, Mönchengladbach * 2016 ''Intercouture'', Musée d'Art Contemporain et Multimédia Echangeur de Limete, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo * 2016 ''Aufbau Ost'', Galerie Wedding, Berlin * 2013 ''Generation Loss'', Freunde Aktueller Kunst, Zwickau

Selected works in public collections

* Harvard Art Museums, US * Bundeskunstsammlung * MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt * Belvedere 21 Vienna, AT * Lentos Linz, AT * Mudam Luxemburg, LU * IKOB Eupen, BE * Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen * Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz * Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden * Kunstpalast Düsseldorf * Städtische Kunstsammlungen Zwickau * Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach

Lecture series

* ''What comes after Postmodernism?'', Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn 2023 * ''Foreign Agent'', Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum, Tbilisi 2024 * ''Breathe'', Screening und Gespräch mit Vasyl Cherepanyn, Kyiv Biennale, Berlin 2024 * ''Ossification'', Harvard Art Museums, Boston 2024 * ''Orcs from the East'', HFG Offenbach 2025

Publications

* Henrike Naumann – ''Concepts'', Bierke Books, Berlin 2024, * Henrike Naumann, Angela Schönberger, Andreas Brandolini (authors), Matthias Kliefoth (publisher): ''Einstürzende Reichsbauten'', DISTANZ Verlag, Berlin 2021, . * Henrike Naumann – ''2000'', Spector Books, Leipzig 2019, * Henrike Naumann - ''The Effects Can Last Forever'', Goldrausch, Berlin 2014 * Henrike Naumann – ''Triangular Stories'', Diplomarbeit an der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen “Konrad Wolf”, Potsdam-Babelsberg 2012

Selected prizes, grants and residencies

*2024/2025 Berliner Programm Künstlerische Forschung *2024

/ Thomas Mann House *2019 Max-Pechstein-Prize *2019 Arts̶ prize of the Leipziger Volkszeitung *2018 Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff-Stipendium *2017 Global cultural exchange grant of the

Senate of Berlin The Senate of Berlin (; unofficially: ) is the executive body governing the city of Berlin, which at the same time is a state of Germany. According to the Constitution of Berlin the Senate consists of the Governing Mayor of Berlin and up to ten ...

*2016 Residency of the

Goethe Institute The Goethe-Institut (; GI, ''Goethe Institute'') is a Nonprofit organization, nonprofit German culture, cultural organization operational worldwide with more than 150 cultural centres, promoting the study of the German language abroad and en ...

Kinshasa Kinshasa (; ; ), formerly named Léopoldville from 1881–1966 (), is the Capital city, capital and Cities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kinshasa is one of the world's fastest-grow ...

*2015 Maroc Artist Meeting,

Marrakesh Marrakesh or Marrakech (; , ) is the fourth-largest city in Morocco. It is one of the four imperial cities of Morocco and is the capital of the Marrakesh–Safi Regions of Morocco, region. The city lies west of the foothills of the Atlas Mounta ...

, Marokko *2015 German Embassy,

, Haiti *2014 Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt *2013 Expanded Media Award, Filmwinter Stuttgart

Selected group exhibitions

* 2025 ''The Impermanent – Four Takes on the Collection'', Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Poland * 2024 ''Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation'',

Busch-Reisinger Museum The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the Fogg Museum (established in 1895), the Busch-Reisinger Museum (established in 1903), and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (established in 1985), and four research ...

, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA * 2024 ''Die Reise der Bilder'' '','' Lentos Linz, Austria * 2023 ''On The Periphery Of War'', Kyiv Biennial, Iwano-Frankiwsk, Ukraine * 2023 ''Channeling'',

Museum für Moderne Kunst The Museum für Moderne Kunst (''Museum of Modern Art''), or short MMK, in Frankfurt, was founded in 1981 and opened to the public 6 June 1991. The museum was designed by the Viennese architect Hans Hollein. It is part of Frankfurt's Museumsuf ...

, Frankfurt/Main * ''2023 Illiberal Lives'' in Ludwig Forum Aachen, with Pauline Curnier Jardin, Johanna Hedva, Ho Rui An, Blaise Kirschner, Jota Mombaça, Henrike Naumann, Melika Ngombe Kolongo, Bassem Saad, Mikołaj Sobczak and Jordan Strafer, with five installations by Henrike Naumann * 2022 ''A War In The Distance'', stierischer herbst, Graz, Austria * 2022 ''Atis Rezistans / Ghetto Biennale'',

fifteen, Kirche St. Kunigundis, Kassel * 2021 ''Future Generation Art Prize'',

Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

, Ukraine * 2021 ''Illiberal Arts'',

Haus der Kulturen der Welt The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), in English House of World Cultures, in Berlin is Germany's national center for the presentation and discussion of international contemporary arts, with a special focus on non-European cultures and societi ...

, Berlin * 2019 ''Innenleben'',

, Munich * 2019 ''Point of No Return'',

Museum der Bildenden Künste The Museum der bildenden Künste (German: "Museum of Fine Arts") is a museum in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. It covers artworks from the Late Middle Ages to Modernity. History Museum Foundation and First Museum The museum dates back to the f ...

Leipzig * 2018 ''Because I live here'',

, Frankfurt/Main * 2018 ''Volksfronten'', stierischer herbst, Graz, Austria * 2018 ''Divided We Stand'',

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, South Korea * 2017 ''5th

'', Port-au-Prince, Haiti * 2017 ''3. Berliner Herbstsalon'',

, Berlin

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Personal web site
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