1. June - 1. September 2012: Summer-Sculpture-Søby:

'Guard' Henriette Heise 2012, glazed white tiles

42 sculptures all over Søby, Ærø. Read more here

Symposium: Knowledge production right now: 15 March 13-17 pm

A symposium about how we produce, collect and circulate knowledge created through artistic practice at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art Copenhagen Read more here. Henriette Heise's presentation is called: Darkness machines and lens flares - on the machinery that complicate our ideas about knowledge.

Slide show: Darkness machines - dormant. Die Raum, Berlin, January 2012

Read more here

120 bottled messages thrown into the sea.

Lino cut edition: Lens flare

Lens flare, Henriette Heise 2011 (20 x 20 cm)

Edition made for the Danish Etching Association. Read more here: Den Danske Radeerforening

Darkness machines - dormant

27.11.2011 — 07.01.2012 Viewable 24 hours
Vernissage November 26, 19 h
die raum - Oderberger Straße 56 - Berlin

A Darkness Machine does what it promises — it produces darkness. If you leave it on a green lawn to do it's job it will kill every living plant beneath it and leave a cloud shaped patch of naked soil imprinted on the ground like a sun print. Life stopped and naked skin. The darkness produced by a Darkness Ma­chine is the kind of darkness that attracts us and scares us at the same time — somewhere between radical openness and no change whatsoever (sex and death). They take us to a place on the borderline between submission and per­dition, where the system of the visible and understandable no longer rules.

For the exhibition at die raum the Darkness Machines are dormant and nicely folded. Two guards — one on the street outside and the other one inside the space of die raum — are watching over the Darkness Machines and making sure that they stay dormant.

To even get started to write this text I had to trick myself: How could I write about something which in it's core is unrepresentable? The trick was to think of the text as a woodcut or a lino cut — a graphic image in only black and white. Just like text is often black letters on white paper. Try to imagine the kind of in­for­mation you get from a woodcut and then read this text through that. It is not be­tween the black and the white that sense is made. It happens somewhere else — I am not sure where.

Henriette Heise, November 2011

e-catalogue for the exhibition:

Open publication - Free publishing - More abz

Mørkemaskine - hvilende (Darkness machine - dormant)

Poster: photo copy + wall paper paste.
Darkness Machine in window: weed killing fabric

In Vestergade (Aarhus) you can see this dormant darkness machine in the window space of Galleri Image between 7 Oktober - 13 November 2011.  Galleri

Press pause

Darkness Machine, weed killing fabric, photo AB

Saturday August 20, Henriette Heise will press pause on the four Darkness Machines that is Henriettes contribution to the big scale project called Lovealley - initiated and run by the visual artist Marianne Jørgensen. The Darkness Machines have been working for two years now - lying on the ground on Mariannes field. Lovealley will close down (with a huge party) August 20 and the Darkness Machines will enter a new state: Darkness Marchines - dormant.

Out now:

In this book you will find twenty-two letters written by people who know Henriette Heise and her work as a visual artist. Friends, artists, art historians, musicians and poets, have written specifically for this book. Henriette asked these people to write a letter taking its point of departure in her work. Names are left out to protect the private sphere and intimacy of the correspondence. There are also four letters written by Henriette herself - letters originally written for the blog bedsteven.blogspot.com.

Henriette Heise is a visual artist working with imagination and representation, and therefore believes that publishing twenty-six letters and nine linocuts is the most precise way to represent her work in a book.  

Shop and read more here: Pork Salad Press

Thinking about the word "we"

Performance by Henriette Heise as part of the BYOB event, 28 April · 17:00 - 22:00
Fabrikken for Kunst og Design, Sundholmsvej 46, Copenhagen, Denmark

The Moved Object 2.0

A second version of the groupshow 'The Moved Object' curated by the artist Tommy Støckel, is now on show at essays and observations in Berlin: 26. March until 30. April 2011. My video Tv-video is in the show.

There are pockets, she said, Overgaden 2010 - (slide)show

You can watch the trailer for the show here: lens flare and read the press release here.

Conversation with Kathrine Bolt Rasmussen from Overgaden: Nightwriting

Talk and performance

Thursday 13 January 7 pm at Overgaden, Copenhagen.

Drawer, Heise 2010

Two new blogs:

I have added two new blogs to the seven blogs I have already: Interiors and Becoming

Group show at ttc-gallery, Copenhagen : WORKS BY EXTRAORDINARY BEAUTIFUL ARTISTS.

04. Dec. 2010 — 16. Jan. 2011

Lens flare, Heise 2010

Curated by Jesper Fabricius. Participating artists: Henrik Capetillo, Jesper Dyrehauge, Henriette Heise, Esben Klemann, Randi & Katrine, Emil Salto, Tove Storch, Myne Søe-Pedersen og Mette Winckelmann.
Read more here: ttc-gallery

There are pockets, she said: Solo show at Overgaden, Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen: 13.11.10 - 16.1.11

Watch the trailer here:


Pictures and press here: Overgaden

Conversation with Kathrine Bolt Rasmussen from Overgaden: Nightwriting

Sunprint

Sun Print, soft board 50 X 80 cm, Heise 2010

Pin board made for Alt_Cph, the alternative art fair in Copenhagen, as part of the stand representing the Association of Danish Printmakers. 21 artist was invited to make a bulletin board for the stand.

tv-video

tv-video, 48 min, Henriette Heise 1997

This video is part of a group show, The Moved Object, at Skulpturi in Copenhagen. Open between August 7 - September 5 2010. The show is curated by the artist Tommy Støckel and the other artists are: Sofia Hultén (SWE/UK), Haris Epaminonda (CY), Olivia Seiling (DE), Mark Formanek (DE).

Lens flare

Lens flare, linocut

Lino cut for the innersleeve of the magazine Pist Protta no. 68

Darkness Machine

Darkness Machine, Anti-Weed Fabric

New and bigger Darkness Machine constructed for Marianne Jørgensens Lovealley project. There is an official opening in September, more news follows.

Darkness Machines and more

Group Show: The Personal is not a private affair, and anonymity is a potential public, at Moestings House, Copenhagen. Curated by Jacob Lillemose with Pernille With Madsen, Nikolaj Recke and Henriette Heise
(February 2010).

Darkness Machine (roller blind fabric) and Untitled (so far) (linocuts)


Untitled (so far) (linocuts)


Darkness Machine (roller blind fabric) and Night Writing (felt collage)


Darkness Machines (roller blind fabric)


Darkness Machine (roller blind fabric) (detail)

New blog

This is my latest blog: Darkness Machine
Here you can find some research from my darkness studies

120 bottled messages for the groupshow Fri Porto

65 artists has contributed to this show at Den Frie - Centre of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen. The show is on between 19 September - 18 October, 2009. Read more here: Fri Porto

Pocket Industries

The poet and web entrepreneur Christian Yde Frostholm has written a text about my blogs and websites. I love this text and you can read it here: Pocket Industries (it's in Danish)

Opening Friday 13 March 2009

Den Permanente
Åbningsudstilling i Irma Mørch Gallery
Åbning 13.3.09 kl 17-19
Overgaden oven Vandet 4a, st.tv. København K


Lens Flare (Henriette Heise 2009)


I en beskeden vindueskarm på Christianshavn er det en fornøjelse for Irma Mørch Gallery at åbne dørene for Den Permanente med en række prominente kunstnere fra ind og udland.

På Den Permanente vil man kunne se værker af Maiken Bent, Yvette Brackman, Anja Franke, Anne Hedegaard, Pia Hedegaard, Henriette Heise, Søren Jensen, Joe Scanlan og YOU LITTLE TEAPOT.

Picture taken while the exhibiton No Place to Hide was Installed

Drawer (wall poster) made for hallway in private home