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
In the Mood for Love, 2018

c-print on alu-dibond
10 × 70 cm
Hanna Mattes
Aquatic Antipode 3, 2022

c-print, negative collage
25 x 30 cm or 80 x 100 cm
Hanna Mattes
Supernatural Series, 2014

digitized 16mm film, installation view
00:01:00
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
Ubehebe Crater - California, 2016

c-print
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
Sterntaler (Encounters #15), 2013

c-print
80 × 100 cm
Hanna Mattes
Searching for the Cold Spot, 2017

installation view, Belmacz
Hanna Mattes
Steine #6, 2015-17

c-print, watercolour on negative
140 × 200cm
Hanna Mattes
Sunset Crater - Arizona, 2016

c-print
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
4 Suns (Encounters #19), 2013

c-print
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
The Diva, 2009

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

c-print
40 × 50cm
Hanna Mattes
Nebel, 2009

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

c-print
40 × 50 cm
Installation View
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
Joshua Tree, 2009

c-print
30 × 40 cm & 75 × 95 cm
Hanna Mattes
Wild West I, 2007

c-print
64.5x80cm

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