Nadine Isabelle Henrich M.A. is a curator and researcher in the history of art, focusing on photography, media art, and synthetic media, based in Berlin. Her curatorial work examines the politics of visibility and imagination, focusing on photography and digital art practices, that subvert and transform normative and colonial narratives in contemporary art and beyond. She is a Ph.D. researcher in Art History at Freie Universität Berlin and holds a MA in History of Images and Art from Humboldt University (Berlin), a BA from Freie Universität Berlin, and studied Curatorial Studies (Frankfurt). She is interested in expanded curatorial practices including community- and coalition-building, and commoning.
2022/2023 she is a visiting Curatorial Fellow at the Collection of Photography at the Getty Research Insitute (Los Angeles).
2021-2023 she is a Curatorial Fellow of »Museum Curators of Photography«, a renowned collaborative program a.o. the Museum Folkwang and Fotomuseum Winterthur, funded by Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation.
She has (co-)curated numerous exhibitions, e.g. »Poetics of Search« (2022) at Fotomuseum Winterthur, »Visions of Ukraine« (2022) at Museum Folkwang, Essen, »Rüzgâr Buşki. Wayward« at Galerie Wedding, Berlin, »Les Cracks & Vincen Beeckman« (2022) as part of the series 6,5 Weeks at Museum Folkwang, Essen, »Fabian Hesse & Mitra Wakil: Crop« (2021) as part of the series Forum at Stadtmuseum München, Munich, »Lines of Passage« (2021) at Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Milan, »Evoking Reality. Constituting Actuality in Photography and Video Art« (2018/2019) for the Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart/Berlin received international attention, »Cy Twombly Photographs« at Galerie Bastian, Berlin/London (2016), »Serial Formations 1967/2017« Berlin/Frankfurt/Vienna (2017);
Her texts were published in exhibition catalogues, monographs, art encyclopedias, art magazines and museum blogs by national and international institutions and publishers, a.o. Museum Folkwang (Essen), Galerie Wedding (Berlin), Bucerius Kunst Forum (Hamburg), Münchner Stadtmuseum, Museum Marta Herford (Bielefeld), Fundación Juan March (Madrid), Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH), Daimler Contemporary/Art Collection Mercedes Benz (Berlin/Stuttgart), Heiner Bastian Fine Arts (Berlin/London), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Sakhile&Me (Frankfurt), Lothringer 13 Halle München, Rundbrief Fotografie, Photonews;
2020 she founded the TEMBLOR ART COLLECTIVE with the theatre director and performer Viviana M. Medina to focus on the examination of decolonization processes as practice in art and theatre (Cuba/Germany). Their first theater project »Juntos / Bî Hevra« won the NEUSTART KULTUR takecare Fund and premiered in collaboration with Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin.
2019 she was appointed as a juror of the Karl-Hofer-Society to award together with Prof. Jörg Heiser (Dean of Univeristy of Arts, Berlin) and Dr. Susanne Titz (Director Museum Mönchengladbach) the best graduate students of Universität der Künste, Berlin in 2019.
2018/2019 she curated the show “Evoking Reality. Konstitution von Wirklichkeit in Fotografie und Videokunst” at Daimler Contemporary, Stuttgart/Berlin.(Reviews: a.o. Kunstforum International, Artnet, Monopol)
Curatorial Focus:
Photography, New Media Art, Performance Art
Research Focus:
Contemporary Art since 1960, Photography, Video Art, Cold War Era, Postcolonial Theory, Curatorial Studies, narratives of dissent, photography as a tool for resistance, community building;
LATEST PROJECTS
Poetics of Search
29.10.2022 – 12.02.2023, Fotozentrum Schweiz
More Information on the website or Fotostiftung Schweiz and Fotomuseum Winterthur
Visions of Ukraine
13. May 2022 – 21. Aug 2022, A Moving Image Selection by Mykola Ridnyi, Museum Folkwang, Essen
Les Cracks & Vincen Beeckman at Museum Folkwang
18 February 2022 – 7 April 2022, Museum Folkwang, Essen
FORUM 052: Fabian Hesse & Mitra Wakil
Crop. Algorithmic Rendering
22 October 2021 – 20 March 2022, Collection of Photography, Münchner Stadtmuseum
TEMBLOR ART COLLECTIVE
2020 – Current (Brasil/Cuba/Germany)
TEMBLOR ART COLLECTIVE was founded in October 2020 by the theatre directors and performers Mirah Laline and Viviana M. Medina together with Nadine Isabelle Henrich to focus on the examination of decolonisation processes as practice in art and theatre. The projects involve a critical reinterpretation of public sights in the cityscape of Berlin as well as they explore spaces for reflecting the hierarchies and histories of museum collections.Find out more: https://www.temblorcollective.com/
Viviana M. Medina (Havanna/Berlin) and Nadine Isabelle Henrich are collaborating and producing performances since 2018.
On occasion of the exhibition ›Evoking Reality‹ they created the performance Three Days and Three Nights which - with reference to the Jonah-Myth (5th-3rd. Century BC) – evoked contemporary realities of migration.
The real attempt at flight of the young Cuban woman, Sandra dos Santos, into the USA created the initial impulse of this performative work, which contrasts the global movements of goods and capital with the forced static of human existance. While contemporary art reflects the importance and human need for freedom and migration, by figures and themes such as immigrants, exile, tourists and urban hikers (Nicolas Bourriaud), the global reality is shaped by regulation and restriction.
While often the attention is led towards the escape, Medina’s performance focusses on two other moments: the farewell and the arrival. This 30 - minute performance invites visitors to immerse themselves in this field of tension and reflect on the constitution of the black, female body in media, politics and society.
Forme Femine
2020 - Current (Lagos/Berlin)
As Art Advisor Nadine Isabelle Henrich is supporting the platform and virtual exhibition space Forme Femine, a space designed and curated for African artists to express their art practice, thoughts and questions on ‘African femininity’.
In December 2020 the first virtual exhibition ›Collect Call‹ was launched and is accompanied by a programme of panels, talks and workshops.
Forme Femine was founded by Charlene Chikezie, enterpreneur based in Lagos, Nigera.
Daimler Contemporary
2017 – Current (Stuttgart/Berlin)
(Co-) Curated exhibitions
›31: Women‹, Daimler Contemporary Berlin 2020/2021
›Evoking Reality. Konstitution von Wirklichkeit inf Fotografie und Videokunst‹, Daimler Contemporary Berlin 2018/2019
Co-Editor of the exhibition catalogue Evoking Reality
›Serielle Formationen 1967/2017‹, Daimler Contemporary Berlin (Exh. trav. to: Museum Giersch, Frankfurt am Main, MuMoK, Vienna) Co-Editor of the exhibition catalogue
Main fields of work: exhibition conception & organisation, editing for art publications, acquisition research, art historic research, project management, event management. Development of a collection-focus on contemporary art from african countries as well as artists from the African Diaspora, LBTQI+ Communities and feminist tendencies. Revision of the Video Art Collection.