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