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
Licancabur Burning, 2019

c-print, watercolour on negative
30 × 40 cm
Hanna Mattes
Full Moon, yellow, 2019

c-print, watercolour on negative
30 × 40 cm
Hanna Mattes
L.A.U.F.O. (Encounters #5), 2013

c-print
24 × 30cm
Hanna Mattes
Venice Beach (Encounters #22), 2013

c-print, paint on negative
24 × 30 cm
Hanna Mattes
Supernatural Series, 2014

digitized 16mm film, installation view
00:01:00
Hanna Mattes
Barringer Crater #2, 2016

c-print
140 × 200 cm
Hanna Mattes
Mirror Mountain (Encounters #11), 2013

c-print, negative collage
24 × 30cm
Hanna Mattes
on hold (Texaco Amsterdam Cost) #1, 2006

photograph collage on wood
10 × 15 × 3 cm
Hanna Mattes
on hold (Texaco Amsterdam Cost) #3, 2006

photograph collage on wood
10 × 15 × 3 cm
Hanna Mattes
on hold (Texaco Amsterdam Cost) #2, 2006

photograph collage on wood
10 × 15 × 3 cm
Hanna Mattes
on hold (Texaco Amsterdam Cost) #4, 2006

photograph collage on wood
10 × 15 × 3 cm
Hanna Mattes
4 Suns (Encounters #19), 2013

c-print
24 × 30cm
Hanna Mattes
The Diva, 2009

c-print
40 × 50 cm
Hanna Mattes
The Winner, 2009

c-print
40 × 50cm
Hanna Mattes
Day for Night #3, 2011

c-print
40 × 50cm
Hanna Mattes
Day for Night #10, 2011

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

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

c-print
30 × 40 cm
Hanna Mattes
Wild West I, 2007

c-print
64.5x80cm
MAT_06_0003 [LR] copy
MAT_06_0004 [LR] copy
MAT_06_0008 [LR] copy
MAT_06_0012 [HR] copy
MAT_06_0013 [HR] copy
MAT_06_0011 [LR] copy
MAT_06_0019 [HR] copy
MAT_06_0020 [HR] copy
MAT_06_0015 [LR] copy
MAT_09_0004 [LR] copy
MAT_07_0002[LR] copy
MAT_08_0006 [LR] copy
MAT_09_0008 [LR] copy
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MAT_09_0011 [LR] copy
MAT_06_0021[HR] copy
MAT_08_0014 [HR] copy
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MAT_09_0015 [HR] copy
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MAT_11_0011 [LR] copy
MAT_11_0012[LR] copy
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MAT_11_0014 [LR] copy
MAT_11_0020 [LR] copy
MAT_11_0023 [LR] copy
MAT_11_0024 [LR] copy
MAT_11_0025 [LR] copy
MAT_13_0001 [LR] copy
MAT_13_0002[LR] copy
MAT_13_0013 [LR] copy
MAT_14_0004 [LR] copy
MAT_16_0011 copy
steineO copy
MAT_17_0004 atacama_burning_sky_800.1280x0 copy
MAT_17_0006 traveling_spirit_atacama_800.1280x0 copy
01.1_Atina_fake_lake_landscape_upsidedown_small-copy
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06_water and sky006_new_small copy
Horizontal_split_mirror_small copy
India_horizon_small copy
Week2_ Bora Bora_web copy
Week3_from Cook Island to Tonga_web copy

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