Hendrik Krawen

Hendrik Krawen (born 1963 in Lübeck, Germany) is a contemporary visual artist and installation artist.

Life and work

From 1978 to 1981 Hendrik Krawen learned painting in the studio of the painter and graphic artist Rainer Erhard Teubert and 1980, architectural representation at a commercial artist in Lübeck. From 1982 to 1984 and from 1985 to 1990 he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the class of Alfonso Huppi. In 1990 he was one of the initiators of the project "EX WM" and between 1992 and 1994 of the project space WP8 (Artists Association) in Düsseldorf. He worked as a visiting professor 2007/2008 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg. Hendrik Krawen lives and works in Berlin.

Public collections

• Bavarian State Painting Collections
• Kunsthalle zu Kiel
• Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
• Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg
• Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
• Leopold-Hoesch-Museum Dueren.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2015 "Radical modern", Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
• 2014 "Some of each" Martin Leyer-Pritzkow Ausstellungen, Düsseldorf 2014
• "Shades of Green", Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, 2011
• "The youth of today", Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a. M., 2006
• "Metropolitanscape", Palazzo Cavour, Turin, 2006
• "spaceforspace", Kunsthalle Düsseldorf und Kunstverein, 2005
• "Central Station / La Collection Falckenberg ', La Maison Rouge, Paris, 2004
• "Deutschemalereizweitausendunddrei", Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2003
• "Motiv" Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna, 2001
• "Salons des Musique", MAMCS, Strasbourg, 2001
• "Superca ...", SMBA, (Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, 1999

Literature

• Hendrik Krawen, "Shades of Green", ed. Lia Rumma Naples, 2010
• "Raumfürraum", ed. Kunsthalle Düsseldorf 2004
• "SEE history", ed. Kunsthalle zu Kiel 2003
• 'Traumfabrik Komunismus' Hatje Cantz, in the German National Library ,ed. by Boris Grojs, 2003 ISBN 3-7757-1328-X
• "Deutschemalereizweitausendunddrei" Lukas & Sternberg, FKV 2003
• Hendrik Krawen, "Lexicon Discothek Bon", Ed. Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, 1996