Hanna Mattes

Hanna Mattes (b.1980, Munich, Germany), studied Fine Arts at Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and Linguistics at Freie Universität zu Berlin. With an interest in that which lies beyond optical capture – be this screen or lens, the filmic or the celestial – Hanna takes photographic processes as a point of departure. Through different modes of direction and documentation, her work expands fantasies, creating multiverses, where a viewer is led to question notions of ‘real’ and ‘fallacy.’ Surpassing ‘the photographic,’ Hanna’s recent work employs sound and her body to make explicit the tensions between these notions and there effect on psychosocial behaviour.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Select exhibitions include: Finally, SP2 Contemporary, Berlin (2023); Take Me To That Landscape, Heimathafen Neukölln, Berlin (2023); Vier mal Vier, Berlin Offgrid, Vienna (2023); State of Cling, Omstand, Arnhem, The Neatherlands (2022); WHO IS NOT A STRANGER, Casa Lü, Mexico (2021); Mom, I am a rich man, Kommunale Galerie Rathaus Johannisthal, Berlin (2021) Take Me To That Landscape, live online performance with David Rothenberg for K. Verlag at Printed Matter New York Art Book Fair (2021); 20×20, WEB, Berlin (2020); Cooking for the Apocalypse, curated by Jack Faber, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki (2020); Three Pieces, Gallery Lauwer, The Hague (2020); The Lunar System, Earth Based Art Space, Zutphen (2020); Macrodoser, with Anna Steinert, Salon Gallery, Berlin (2019); B, Belmacz, London (2019); The Cosmic Sublime, curated by Lumen Studios, Pie Factory Margate, London (2019); Astronomia, Arte e Religione, with Lumen Residency in Atina, Italy (2018); Wild Encounters, curated by La Wayaka Current, Guest Projects, London (2018); If I Was Your Girlfriend – A Jam, Belmacz, London (2018); Searching for the Cold Spot, Belmacz, London (2017); Collectivism – Collectives and their quest for value, Foam, Amsterdam (2017); On the Distant Horizon, curated Joe Wolek, BLAM, Los Angeles (2016); InterKontinental, Belmacz, London (2016); Carbon Content, curated by Marc Philip van Kempen, Kreuzbergpavillion, Berlin (2015); The Nutcracker, Belmacz, London (2014); Circus TM, Belmacz, London (2014); Encounter, with Pim Leenen, ACF – Amsterdam Centre for Photography (2013); Light / Colours, Huis Marseille – Museum for Photography, Amsterdam (2013); Kleider machen Leute, Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin (2013); She Views Herself – Emerging Women Artists and the Self-Portrait, Bank Oddo, Paris (2012); When The Night Falls…, KiK – Kunsthuis Kolderveen (2012) Day for Night, LMCC, New York (2011); To The Netherlands, Diplomat Gallery, Philadelphia (2011); Digitaal? Analoog!, Huis Marseille – Museum voor Photography, Amsterdam (2010); Theater & Fotografie, Galerie Kampl, Munich (2010); Mapping My Hollywood, Amsterdam Centre for Photography (2010); Fleetstreet – Tagebuch eines Theaters, Fleetinsel, Hamburg (2009); True Lies, Kunsthaus Essen (2009).

 

Hanna lives and works in Berlin and Amsterdam.

Artworks

  • In the Mood for Love

    Hanna Mattes

    In the Mood for Love, 2018

    c-print on alu-dibond
    10 × 70 cm

  • Valle de la Luna, Sunrise #2

    Hanna Mattes

    Valle de la Luna, Sunrise #2, 2017

    c-print

  • Full Moon, yellow

    Hanna Mattes

    Full Moon, yellow, 2019

    c-print, watercolour on negative
    30 × 40 cm

  • Ubehebe Crater - California

    Hanna Mattes

    Ubehebe Crater - California, 2016

    c-print

  • Licancabur Burning

    Hanna Mattes

    Licancabur Burning, 2019

    c-print, watercolour on negative
    30 × 40 cm

  • Sunset Crater - Arizona

    Hanna Mattes

    Sunset Crater - Arizona, 2016

    c-print

  • Steine 7 - London

    Hanna Mattes

    Steine 7 - London, 2015

    c-print, watercolour on negative

  • Barringer Crater #2

    Hanna Mattes

    Barringer Crater #2, 2016

    c-print
    140 × 200 cm

  • Steine #6

    Hanna Mattes

    Steine #6, 2015-17

    c-print, watercolour on negative
    140 × 200cm

  • Searching for the Cold Spot

    Searching for the Cold Spot, 2017

    installation view, Belmacz

  • Supernatural Series

    Hanna Mattes

    Supernatural Series, 2014

    moving image
    16 mm projection, 57 sec, no sound

  • 4 Suns (Encounters #19)

    Hanna Mattes

    4 Suns (Encounters #19), 2013

    c-print
    24 × 30cm

  • Sterntaler (Encounters #15)

    Hanna Mattes

    Sterntaler (Encounters #15), 2013

    c-print
    80 × 100 cm

  • Mirror Mountain (Encounters #11)

    Hanna Mattes

    Mirror Mountain (Encounters #11), 2013

    c-print, negative collage
    24 × 30cm

  • L.A.U.F.O. (Encounters #5)

    Hanna Mattes

    L.A.U.F.O. (Encounters #5), 2013

    c-print
    24 × 30cm

  • Exhibition view

    Hanna Mattes

    Exhibition view, 2013

    Amsterdam Center for Photography (ACF)

  • Day for Night #3

    Hanna Mattes

    Day for Night #3, 2011

    c-print
    40 × 50cm

  • Day for Night #6

    Hanna Mattes

    Day for Night #6, 2011

    c-print
    40 × 50cm

  • Day for Night #10

    Hanna Mattes

    Day for Night #10, 2011

    c-print
    40 × 50cm

  • Day for Night #14

    Hanna Mattes

    Day for Night #14, 2011

    c-print
    40 × 50cm

  • The Winner

    Hanna Mattes

    The Winner, 2009

    c-print
    40 × 50cm

  • The Blue Dress

    Hanna Mattes

    The Blue Dress, 2009

    c-print
    40 × 50 cm

  • Nebel

    Hanna Mattes

    Nebel, 2009

    c-print
    40 × 50 cm

  • The Diva

    Hanna Mattes

    The Diva, 2009

    c-print
    40 × 50 cm

  • Pacific Coast Highway

    Hanna Mattes

    Pacific Coast Highway, 2009

    c-print
    30 × 40 cm & 75 × 95 cm

  • Joshua Tree

    Hanna Mattes

    Joshua Tree, 2009

    c-print
    30 × 40 cm & 75 × 95 cm

  • Wild West

    Hanna Mattes

    Wild West, 2007

    c-print
    140 × 200 cm

  • Lookout over Laurel Canyon

    Hanna Mattes

    Lookout over Laurel Canyon, 2010

    c-print
    30 × 40 cm

  • on hold (Texaco Amsterdam Cost) #4

    Hanna Mattes

    on hold (Texaco Amsterdam Cost) #4, 2006

    photograph collage on wood
    10 × 15 × 3 cm

  • on hold (Texaco Amsterdam Cost) #3

    Hanna Mattes

    on hold (Texaco Amsterdam Cost) #3, 2006

    photograph collage on wood
    10 × 15 × 3 cm

  • on hold (Texaco Amsterdam Cost) #2

    Hanna Mattes

    on hold (Texaco Amsterdam Cost) #2, 2006

    photograph collage on wood
    10 × 15 × 3 cm

  • on hold (Texaco Amsterdam Cost) #1

    Hanna Mattes

    on hold (Texaco Amsterdam Cost) #1, 2006

    photograph collage on wood
    10 × 15 × 3 cm

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