Jacqueline Hen — Explorations: Liquid Light
"When creating an artwork, I aspire to create a moment of irritation: a slight glitch to experience contingency. Through this, the visitor might question the habitual perception of space and reality. For me, light is an exciting medium because it lets you shape the attention within a space." - Jacqueline Hen
Vernissage: 14.11.24 18:00
Exhibition: 15.11.24 - 18.01.25
Jacqueline Hen's works are significantly influenced by extensive research and experimentation. In the exhibition “Explorations: Liquid Light”, the Cologne-based artist presents her latest findings from her studies working with unconventional art media and materials.
Jacqueline Hen often uses spatial interventions to create places of social interaction and transformation. Performative elements meet installative arrangements. In her artistic practice, which encompasses both physical and virtual environments, she examines how natural phenomena and artificial technology affect social interaction. Seemingly frozen in time, momentary impressions of flowing water, unchanging and yet seemingly in constant motion, a sun rising and setting at the same time, a blue portal into a new world - Hen conveys the beauty of our natural world and simultaneously illustrates its fragility.
Jacqueline Hen (1989) is an artist and - literally - a spatial designer. She studied Visual Communication and Spatial and Experience Design at the Berlin University of the Arts and at the Art Center College of Design Pasadena. Hen worked at the Fraunhofer Center for Responsible Research and Innovation Berlin (2014-2016), at the Academy of Media Arts (KHM) in Cologne and has been Professor of Artistic-Experimental Foundations of Design at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden since 2023. In 2019, she was awarded the International Light Art Award by the Center for International Light Art in Unna.
Hen has participated internationally in numerous exhibitions and renowned light art projects, including at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Lichtparcours Braunschweig, the Amsterdam Light Festival, the Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst Unna, EVI LICHTUNGEN in Hildesheim, the Digital Education Center Chengdu, and the Villa Nomad in Zurich.
