Henrike Naumann

Henrike Naumann (born 1984 in Zwickau) is a German installation artist.

Life
Naumann studied stage and costume design at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and scenography at the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg. She lives in Berlin.

After growing up in the youth culture of her home town that she describes as heavily dominated by Neonazis, she uses her installations to address the history of right-wing terrorism and the aesthetic of commonplace homes. She calls furniture the medium of her art. Through a rapidly expanding series of exhibitions, Naumann received significant media exposure in Germany. In addition to her artistic work she also lectures and teaches.

Works

 * Triangular Stories (2012) contrasts hedonistic and Neonazi youth culture in the Nineties
 * Aufbau Ost (2016) considers the transformation of the GDR and the integration of East and West Germany using the aesthetics of everyday items
 * Das Reich (2017) displays far-right ideology and the Reichsbürger movement symbolized in a spatial installation
 * 2000 (2018) relates the Expo 2000 to German reunification
 * 14 Words (2018) displays a former East German retail store referencing the National Socialist Underground that mostly murdered retail traders inside their own shops
 * DDR Noir (2018) exhibits works of Naumann's own grandfather, the GDR graphical artist Karl Heinz Jakob amidst furniture of the period after reunification
 * Eurotique (2018) at the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art
 * Ostalgie (2019)

Solo exhibitions
 * Generation Loss, with Freunde Aktueller Kunst, Zwickau (2013)
 * Intercouture, Musée d'Art Contemporain et Multimédia Echangeur de Limete, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (2016)
 * 2000, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (2018)
 * Das Reich, Belvedere 21, Wien
 * LVZ-Kunstpreis, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig (2019)

Publications
 * Triangular Stories (2012)
 * Henrike Naumann - The Effects Can Last Forever (2014)
 * Texte zur Kunst #105 (2017)

Prizes, grants and residences
 * Filmfest Dresden Public's Choice Award (2011)
 * German Embassy, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (2015)
 * Maroc Artist Meeting, Marrakesh, Marokko (2015)
 * Residency of the Goethe Institute Kinshasa (2016)
 * Global cultural exchange grant of the Senate of Berlin (2017)
 * Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendium (2018)
 * Arts prize of the Leipziger Volkszeitung (2019)
 * Max-Pechstein-Förderpreis (2019)