Samuel Henne studied Fine Arts at the Braunschweig University of Arts and graduated as a „Meisterschüler“ of Prof. Dörte Eißfeldt. In addition to solo exhibitions at Kunstverein Hannover; Münchner Stadtmuseum; Deutsches Haus der New York University, among others, he has participated in numerous institutional group exhibitions, including at NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg and the Goethe Institute Washington. Henne's work has been recognized with several awards, including a one-year residency at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York, the Kunstverein Hannover Prize and most recently a Stipend from Stiftung Kunstfonds (2024).
Henne is the artistic director of the non-profit art space „ad/ad – Project Space“ in Hannover, since 2016.
cosmos
2023–2025, ongoing
“untitled (him/ what is, what is not),” from ‘cosmos’ (working title), 2023-2025 (work in progress),
fine art print framed in metal frame, 60x45cm.
“untitled (false deity),“ from ‘cosmos’ (working title), 2023-2025 (work in progress),
fine art print framed in metal frame, 60x45cm
“untitled (wonder & awe),” from “cosmos” (working title), 2023-2025 (work in progress),
Fine art print framed in metal frame, 60x45cm
“untitled (self/ little pile of atoms),” from ‘cosmos’ (working title), 2023-2025 (work in progress),
Fine art print framed in metal frame, 60x45cm
“untitled (shrine IV),” from ‘cosmos’ (working title), 2023-2025 (work in progress),
fine art print framed in metal frame, 60x45cm
“untitled (inheritance),“ from ‘cosmos’ (working title), 2023-2025 (work in progress),
fine art print framed in metal frame, 60x45cm
“untitled (sol),” from “cosmos” (working title), 2023-2025 (work in progress),
Fine art print framed in metal frame, 60x45cm
“untitled (the unspeakable/ space & time),” from ‘cosmos’ (working title), 2023-2025 (work in progress),
Fine art print framed in metal frame, 60x45cm
Emerging from a primarily studio-based practice, Samuel Henne’s current series “cosmos” (working title, 2023–2025, ongoing) marks a return to a personal, biographical, and intuitive artistic process. In still lifes, portraits, and views of nature and the city, the artist explores the breadth of life, human experience, and the conditio humana. Staged compositions of recombined objects, photographs, and fragments become sculptural, archival memento mori and allegorical portraits.
Among other things, the artist returns to the place of his youth. The death of his father initiates a personal confrontation with the belongings, drawings, and notes left behind.
These found items become fragments of the work—a microcosm that not only reflects a broken, searching personality but, through Henne’s own confrontation, becomes an attempt to understand the mechanisms and pitfalls of the human mind: its susceptibility to delusion and failure in the search for belief systems, meaning, and belonging—and its relentless urge to connect everything in order to construct sense and coherence.
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