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.

Artworks

  • In the Mood for Love

    Hanna Mattes

    In the Mood for Love, 2018

    c-print on alu-dibond
    10 × 70 cm

  • Aquatic Antipode 3

    Hanna Mattes

    Aquatic Antipode 3, 2022

    c-print, negative collage
    25 x 30 cm or 80 x 100 cm

  • Supernatural Series

    Hanna Mattes

    Supernatural Series, 2014

    digitized 16mm film, installation view
    00:01:00

  • Licancabur Burning

    Hanna Mattes

    Licancabur Burning, 2019

    c-print, watercolour on negative
    30 × 40 cm

  • 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

  • L.A.U.F.O. (Encounters #5)

    Hanna Mattes

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

    c-print
    24 × 30cm

  • Venice Beach (Encounters #22)

    Hanna Mattes

    Venice Beach (Encounters #22), 2013

    c-print, paint on negative
    24 × 30 cm

  • Sterntaler (Encounters #15)

    Hanna Mattes

    Sterntaler (Encounters #15), 2013

    c-print
    80 × 100 cm

  • Searching for the Cold Spot

    Hanna Mattes

    Searching for the Cold Spot, 2017

    installation view, Belmacz

  • Steine #6

    Hanna Mattes

    Steine #6, 2015-17

    c-print, watercolour on negative
    140 × 200cm

  • Sunset Crater - Arizona

    Hanna Mattes

    Sunset Crater - Arizona, 2016

    c-print

  • Barringer Crater #2

    Hanna Mattes

    Barringer Crater #2, 2016

    c-print
    140 × 200 cm

  • Mirror Mountain (Encounters #11)

    Hanna Mattes

    Mirror Mountain (Encounters #11), 2013

    c-print, negative collage
    24 × 30cm

  • 4 Suns (Encounters #19)

    Hanna Mattes

    4 Suns (Encounters #19), 2013

    c-print
    24 × 30cm

  • on hold (Texaco Amsterdam Cost) #1

    Hanna Mattes

    on hold (Texaco Amsterdam Cost) #1, 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) #4

    Hanna Mattes

    on hold (Texaco Amsterdam Cost) #4, 2006

    photograph collage on wood
    10 × 15 × 3 cm

  • The Diva

    Hanna Mattes

    The Diva, 2009

    c-print
    40 × 50 cm

  • The Winner

    Hanna Mattes

    The Winner, 2009

    c-print
    40 × 50cm

  • Nebel

    Hanna Mattes

    Nebel, 2009

    c-print
    40 × 50 cm

  • The Blue Dress

    Hanna Mattes

    The Blue Dress, 2009

    c-print
    40 × 50 cm

  • MAT_07_0003 [INSTL - LR]

    Installation View

  • Day for Night #3

    Hanna Mattes

    Day for Night #3, 2011

    c-print
    40 × 50cm

  • Day for Night #10

    Hanna Mattes

    Day for Night #10, 2011

    c-print
    40 × 50cm

  • Lookout over Laurel Canyon

    Hanna Mattes

    Lookout over Laurel Canyon, 2010

    c-print
    30 × 40 cm

  • Pacific Coast Highway

    Hanna Mattes

    Pacific Coast Highway, 2009

    c-print
    30 × 40 cm

  • Joshua Tree

    Hanna Mattes

    Joshua Tree, 2009

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

  • Wild West I

    Hanna Mattes

    Wild West I, 2007

    c-print
    64.5x80cm

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