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.