Henrike Naumann

Henrike Naumann (1984–2026) was a German artist whose work reflects on socio-political problems on the level of design and interiors and explores the friction between opposing political opinions in dealing with taste and personal everyday aesthetics. In her immersive installations, she arranged furniture and objects creating scenographic spaces into which she integrated video and sound works. Her practice reflected the mechanisms of radicalization and their connection to personal experience. Her artistic practice was accompanied by a wide range of lectures and interdisciplinary collaborations reflecting on the questions immanent in her work.
She has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship, the Max Pechstein Prize of the City of Zwickau, the Leipziger Volkszeitung Art Prize and the Scholarship of Villa Aurora / Thomas Mann House, Los Angeles. Important exhibitions of her works have been held at the SculptureCenter in New York, the Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard, the MoMA Warsaw, the Wall Memorial of the German Bundestag as well as the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti and the Kyiv Biennale in Ukraine.