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20095 Hamburg
Germany
The Deichtorhallen Hamburg is pleased to announce the appointment of Nadine Isabelle Henrich as the new Curator of the House of Photography, beginning February 1, 2024. The 33-year-old photography expert has previously worked at institutions such as the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, the Fotomuseum Winterthur, and the Museum Folkwang in Essen. Henrich will succeed Ingo Taubhorn, who has significantly shaped the exhibition program at the House of Photography since 2003 and is retiring.
Dirk Luckow, General Director of Deichtorhallen Hamburg, stated, “I’m pleased to welcome Nadine Isabelle Henrich as our new curator. She is an innovative and internationally well-connected photography expert. Her forward-thinking exhibition concepts impressed us immediately. As a connoisseur of both the German and the international art scenes, Nadine Isabelle Henrich will continue the success story of the House of Photography, founded by F.C. Gundlach in 2003.”
Bert Antonius Kaufmann, Managing Director of Deichtorhallen Hamburg, added, “In addition to Nadine Isabelle Henrich’s continued development of the exhibition program at the exhibition space PHOXXI, I look forward to working with her, and Collection Curator Sabine Schnakenberg, to shape the new House of Photography as an open space for the local as well as global photography community.”
Nadine Isabelle Henrich shared her vision, saying, “My program will delve into the politics of photographic visibility. It will focus on artists shaping photographic futures, on the overlooked legacies of photo collectives, and on the dynamics of image ecologies online. Recognizing photography’s entanglements with new technologies and global economies, the exhibitions will gravitate toward essential societal and sociotechnical issues of the present and explore photography’s capacity to translate imagination into alternative presents. As an open space for the local and global photo community, we will increase our impact as a platform for aspiring photographers, beginning at PHOXXI, our temporary exhibition space, and then at the freshly renovated House of Photography. Together with the exceptional Deichtorhallen team, I look forward to hosting encounters with emerging tendencies in photography and its digital remediations.”
Background
Prior to joining the House of Photography at Deichtorhallen, Henrich (*1990) was a Curatorial Fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles (2022/2023) and worked in the curatorial teams of Fotomuseum Winterthur, Museum Folkwang, and Münchner Stadtmuseum (2021-2023), within the framework of the international program Museum Curators of Photography, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation. Her recent shows include, among others, Poetics of Search at Fotomuseum Winterthur (2022/2023), Visions of Ukraine at Museum Folkwang, Essen (2022), and Rüzgâr Buşki: Wayward at Galerie Wedding, Berlin (2022). Based in Berlin, she has worked as a Curator and Doctoral Researcher at Daimler Contemporary Berlin (2017–2020), where she curated, among others, the group show Evoking Reality (2018/19), featuring artists such as Mustafah Abdulaziz, Clément Cogitore, Tacita Dean, Alia Farid, Cao Fei, Pieter Hugo, Richard Mosse, Viviane Sassen, Berni Searle, Guy Tillim, Sharif Waked, Maya Zack. Prior to that, Henrich worked as a Research Associate at Heiner Bastian Fine Arts, Berlin/London (2015/16), and early on assisted the team of the German Pavilion at the 55th La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Susanne Gaensheimer (2013). After studies and grants in Florence, Rome, and Frankfurt, Henrich completed her Master’s in Art and Image History at Humboldt University Berlin (2016) and is currently finalizing her Ph.D. research at the Department of Art History at Freie Universität Berlin, supervised by Prof. Peter Geimer.
For additional information
Press images: deichtorhallen.de/presse
Contact: Angelika Leu-Barthel, Deichtorhallen Press Office, T +49-(0)40-32 103 250 / presse [at] deichtorhallen.de
