Maria Henn

My passion for painting comes from the fun of experimenting with colors, textures, shapes, themes and stories.

I would call my works contemporary art, a kind of contemporary impressionism right up to the impetuous world of Informel. I portray emotions, pictures and memories of what I have seen, experienced and deeply moved me. Painting is an intuitive process for me. I do not do any studies or sketches in that sense. The idea and memory of experiences or natural formations are what drive me.

As soon as I start to paint, all that counts for me is color, which I apply to the canvas quickly, dynamically, often in an emotional outburst. In doing so, I do not completely dissociate myself from the idea of ​​a concept, but I associate it with the moment of chance.

I am concerned with the dissolution of the classical form principle. As in the Informel, the picture calls for permanent destruction and transformation.

I celebrate this by building up, pouring, spraying, scratching, until layer by layer shows the nature of my picture. I play with different layers of color to bring depth into my paintings.

Despite the motives that could be associated with explosions and chaos, my art has a very peculiar sensibility and subtlety that opens up to the beholder after and more and more.


 
 

Vita & Ausstellungen

2002 - today Freelance artist in Berlin

since 20 years Painting workshops in Austria, Italy and Mallorca // permanent exhibition at Galerie am Berg, Tirol, Austria und Kunsthotel altes Zollhaus, Erzgebirge, Germany

Sept - today Exhibtion Gallery Silberstein, Berlin, Germany

July 2019 Open Air Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2018 Solo Exhibiton, Abstract Expressionism, Maxixe, Berlin, Germany

2017 Solo Exhibiton, Gallery Silberstein, Berlin, Germany

April 2016 Frühlingserwachen, Gallery Silberstein, Berlin, Germany

2014/15 Artist in Residence at Alegria Art Gallery, Mallorca, Spain

July 2014 Open Air Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Aug 2013 Medusen, Blumenbett, Berlin, Germany

July 2013 Florale Abstraktionen, Gallery Silberstein, Berlin, Germany

Nov 2012 Anima-Animal-Anmalen-Animismus, Gallery Unterlechner, Schwaz, Tirol, Austria

2012 Artist in Residence at Gallery Unterlechner, Tirol, Austria (permanent artist of the Gallery)

July 2011 Die Legende von Schwaz, Gallery Unterlechner, Schwaz, Tirol

2010 Artist at the Gallery Hellbusch, Mainz, Germany

2008 Flowerpower, Gallery Hellbusch, Mainz, Germany

May 2007 Artico ART Fair, Retroperspektive, Frankfurt am Main

2007 Asian Impression, Gallery Hellbusch, Mainz, Germany

2004 Studio opening in Berlin, Mitte & Nevermind, Factory-Berlin, Germany

2003 It´s easy when you´re blessed, Kunstgut, Berlin, Germany

2002 Artist of the Factory Berlin, Rathenauhöfe, Schöneweide

2001 Auf den hund gekommen, Lumen, Wiesbaden, Germany

2000 Foundation Studio ARTig, Wiesbaden // Exibition Artico Artaffair, Frankfurt //
Artist Gallery Hellbusch, Mainz, Germany

1999 Expressive Malerei, Gallery ARTICO, Wiesbaden, Germany

1998 Diplomausstellung, Ottersberg, Germany

1996 Floorcloth Dillinger, Outsidegallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA

1995 Toscan impression, Villa Palagione, Volterra, Italy

1995 - 1999 Studies at the University of Applied Sciences Ottersberg, Germany
Diploma in arttherapy / pedagogue

1992 Working stay in Carrara, Italy, sculpting in marble

Dec 1990 Birth of daughter Cyra Henn

1990 Painting trip to Bali, Indonesia. Creation of first works in oil //
Contemporary painting inspired by traditional balinese art

1987 Exhibiton participation, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA

1986 Cutoutpieces in leather, Westwoodgallery, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

1987 - 1990 Artist in Residence in Madison, Wisconsin and Chicago, Ilinois, USA // 1st painting exhibition

1985 Autoritratti, escuola di pittura americana, Florenz, Italien

1983 - 1987 Study of modern dance, Scuola Faggioni, Florence, Italy // Joining the acting troupe Tiempo Comun. Tour across Italy and Tunisia.

born and raised in Mainz, Germany