Hanna Mattes

Hanna Mattes’ (b.1980, Munich, Germany) practice is one of innate multiplicity. Across her photographic works—and more recently, through her performative intervention, paintings and poetic collaborations—Hanna pieces together multiple points of view, as well as moments of action, to create dramatic multiverses.

Education. Hanna studied Fine Arts at Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and Linguistics at Freie Universität zu Berlin.

Select exhibitions include Indien: Hanna Mattes & Eva Mattes, Belmacz, London, UK (2025 – 26); Love Yourself First, AFF Galerie, Berlin, Germany (2024); MACRODOSER: Hanna Mattes & Anna Steinert, SP2, Berlin, Germany (2019); Searching for the Cold Spot, Belmacz, London, UK (2017); Digital? Analogue!, Huis Marseille – Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2010).

Alongside her solo practice, Hanna is an active member of two collectives: Dead Darlings, an anonymous art auction founded in Amsterdam in 2005 which explores the complex love triangle between artist, artwork, and collector; and femxphotographers.org, a platform dedicated to the promotion of fine art photographers to expose and deconstruct the dominance of a male gaze.

Hanna lives and works in Berlin and Amsterdam.

On the work of Hanna Mattes | text by Daniela Hahn and Andrea Lehsiak

Photographs From ‘Encounters’ Are Otherworldly | text by moray mair

About pictures that are filmscenes | text by Annemieke Gerrist

My Mind Will Travel Where My Body Can't Go | with Chantal van Genderen

Searching for the Cold Spot | publication

Stone & Crater | edition

hannamattes.com

available works

online portfolio

Artworks

Hanna Mattes
After the Party, 2009

c-print
40 x 50 cm
Hanna Mattes
Lookout over Laurel Canyon, 2010

c-print
30 × 40 cm
Hanna Mattes
Day For Night #15, 2011

c-print
40 x 50 cm
Hanna Mattes
Supernatural Series (installation view), 2014

Digitised 16mm film
00:01:00
Hanna Mattes
The Horizon Is Too Loud (week 3 from Cook Island to Tonga), 2025

c-print on glossy paper
24 x 30 cm
Hanna Mattes
Holiday in Italy #3, 2006

photo collage
10 x 15 cm
Hanna Mattes
Full Moon, yellow, 2019

c-print, watercolour on negative
30 × 40 cm
Hanna Mattes
Nightscapes #8, 2010

c-print
40 x 50 cm
MAT_08_0005 [LR] copy
MAT_09_0015 [HR] copy
Hanna Mattes
Barringer Crater #2, 2016

c-print
140 × 200 cm
Hanna Mattes
Dirty Dancing, 2006

c-print photo collage
50 x 70 cm
Hanna Mattes
L.A.U.F.O. (Encounters #5), 2013

c-print
24 × 30cm
MAT_08_0002 [LR] copy
Hanna Mattes
Steine 1, 2014

c-print, watercolour on negative
Hanna Mattes
Sunset, 2009

c-print
50 x 60 cm
Hanna Mattes
Mirror Mountain (Encounters #11), 2013

c-print, negative collage
24 × 30cm
Hanna Mattes
Day for Night #10, 2011

c-print
40 × 50cm
Hanna Mattes
Atacama Burning Sky, 2019

c-print, watercolour on negative
30 x 40 cm
Hanna Mattes
Wild West I, 2007

c-print
64.5x80cm
Hanna Mattes
Licancabur Burning, 2019

c-print, watercolour on negative
30 × 40 cm
Hanna Mattes
Pacific Coast Highway, 2009

c-print
30 × 40 cm
Hanna Mattes
4 Suns (Encounters #19), 2013

c-print
24 × 30cm
MAT_06_0011 [LR] copy
MAT_06_0019 [HR] copy
MAT_06_0020 [HR] copy
MAT_06_0015 [LR] copy
MAT_08_0006 [LR] copy
MAT_09_0009 [LR] copy
MAT_09_0011 [LR] copy
MAT_06_0021[HR] copy
MAT_07_0003 [LR] copy
MAT_09_0018 [HR] copy
MAT_14_0004 [LR] copy
MAT_16_0011 copy

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