Jacqueline Hen
Jacqueline Hen (*1989) works at the intersection of design, art, and research, exploring possibilities for social transformation through communication and participation. In her light art objects and large-scale immersive installations, she explores the unconscious perception of one’s own movement, tension, posture, and position in space (proprioception) as well as experiences of contingency (Luhmann, Parsons) in the intertwining of physical and virtual living spaces. The work „Off Grid“ creates the illusion of an infinite space of brightness and darkness with the help of a mirror and grid-like arranged lights, whereby the perception of the body takes place in the face of a physical and, as it were, digital space. The explosion particles floating in the air are reminiscent of the first colored arcade games created by means of overlay foils. In her research and teaching Hen focuses on developing a contemporary „basic doctrine of design“ that relates to all areas of analog, digital, 2d and 3d design techniques and addresses universal principles such as symmetry, rhythm and interaction. She studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Art Center College of Design Los Angeles, and worked at Studio Tomás Saraceno from 2013-2016. In 2019, her work „Ligh High“ was awarded the International Light Art Award. Jacqueline Hen lives and works in Cologne and Wiesbaden.
Portrait: Frank Vinken
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University of the Arts, Berlin
Art Center College of Design Pasadena, Los Angeles
Into The Light, La Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, F (GS)
Rauschen, Galerie 3AP, Düsseldorf, (GS)
Inflect, Galerie 3AP, Frankfurt, air.raid shelter (S)
Wohnung Lauxtermann Vol. 7, Galerie 3AP, Düsseldorf (GS)
Lichtparcours, Braunschweig (Public Installation, GS)
Collected Light, H Queen’s, Hongkong, CN (GS)
Trails of the sun, Galerie Seippel, Cologne (GS)
Explorations: Liquid Light, Galerie Watson, Hamburg (GS)
Partikel, Galerie 3AP, Düsseldorf (Duo)
Light High, Amsterdam Light Festival (GS)
Natur & Technik, Galerie Watson, Hamburg (GS)
Space Invaders, Galerie 3AP, Düsseldorf (GS)
Collected Light, Cascina Cuccagna, Milan (GS)
Wohnung Lauxtermann, Galerie 3AP, Düsseldorf (Project)
Transient, für Samsung Switzerland, Blue Velvet Projects, Zürich (GS)
Love, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Köln (GS)
Collected Light, SoShiro Gallery, London (GS)
Sympoiesis, Dortmunder U, Museumsnacht, Dortmund (S)
Formation of the Sun, Light Art Grindelwald (GS)
Panta Rhei. Alles fließt, 150 Jahre RheinEnergie, Historisches Wasserwerk, Köln (GS)
Out of Space, Kunsthalle Hamburg (GS)
Inversion, Godehardistollen, EVI Lichtungen, Licht Kunst Biennale, Hildesheim (GS)
The Future of Light Art, Center for International Light Art, Unna (GS)
International Light Art Award, Center for International Light Art, Unna (2019)
German Design Award, Nominiert (2020)
Exhibitions
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Vol. 7
Joschua Yesni Arnaut, Roberto Barbosa, Joseph Beuys, Willi Bucher, Felix Anatol Findeiß, Jacqueline Hen, Sonja Heim, Steffen Jopp, Nadine Karl, Max Klinger, Helga Kneidl, Carolin Liebl & Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler, Ulrike Markus, Toni Meyer, Julie Mia, Philipp Naujoks, Miriam Schenkirz, Robert Schittko, Wayne Thiebaud, Catharina Szonn, Ellen Wagner, Lara Werth, Sonja Yakovleva
with further objects and contributions by Alex Leo Freier, Monster Mansion, Aleksandra Mir & Tim Griffin
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Enter at your own risk. People with photosensitivity may be affected by flickering light, artificial fog is used.
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News
Art Düsseldorf
Art Düsseldorf opening today with works by Jacqueline Hen, Nadine Karl, Julie Mia, Philipp Naujoks. We cordially inviteyou to visit us at our booth (C03), where we will present a selection of young contemporary artists from our gallery program. Featuring four artistic positions that examine states of transition and transformation. In this liminal space, where nothing is certain but everything is possible, crisis and hope intersect, and past, present, and future merge.
ART DÜSSELDORF
Areal Böhler
Hansaallee 321
40549 Düsseldorf
on view: Ones sunset is another one’s sunrise by Jacqueline Hen
now open: air-raid shelter
We are delighted to announce the first exhibition in the air-raid shelter, an extension our our new gallery space in Frankfurt am Main. With a solo presentation by Jacqueline Hen we would like to introduce the Rhine-Main art scene to a young emerging artist who has gained international recognition with exhibitions in London, Milan, Amsterdam and Hong Kong. Her work „Inflect“ was created in close connection with her large-scale installation „Light High“, for which she won the Light-Art-Prize in 2019. Both works explore themes of space, sound, the digital and the analog, as well as how humans perceive these structures and principles of order. Consciously engaging with sensory stimuli and the impressions they evoke plays a central role in the artist’s work. Photo: Thorsten Wagner
„Why the sun also shines at night“
Jacqueline Hen, ones sunset is another ones sunrise, 2024
temporary installation, Lichtparcours Braunschweig 2024
„Subverting norms constructing narrative scenarios“
NOW OPEN: Partikel – Jacqueline Hen & Philipp Naujoks
Enter at your own risk. People with photosensitivity may be affected by flickering light. Artificial fog is used in the exhibition. Open by appointment.
Wohnung Lauxtermann
The fluid exhibition is open for visitors for the fifth and last time this year until December 15th.
Space Invaders – extendet until 30th September!
with works by Sonja Heim, Jacqueline Hen and Catharina Szonn
The line is never quite obedient
Mit Werken von Jacqueline Hen, Toni Meyer, Philipp Naujoks, Lara Werth
Kuratiert von Aileen Treusch für Cartier Northern Europe, ehemalige Schalterhalle der Commerzbank, Frankfurt (Neue Kaiser), Juli 2023.
Projects
Luftschutzraum (FFM)
opening 04.04.2025, save the date
Wohnung Lauxtermann (D)
The exhibition and residency project WOHNUNG LAUXTERMANN, conceived and curated by Aileen Treusch, enables artists to use the premises at Fürstenwall 74 for their work to bring this historic address back into the active life of the city. Since the beginning in February 2023, various program strands have focused on the social role of art and design and their potential for participation.