Lutz Henke

Lutz Henke, born in 1981, is a curator and cultural scientist (M.A.). His studies at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt (Oder), at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and the University of California Berkeley, focused on urban studies, art, subculture and contemporary history. Henke has been awarded a grant from Olafur Eliasson’s “Institute for Spatial Experiments” at the University of the Arts Berlin and taught in the Masters program “Spatial Strategies” at the Berlin Weißensee School of Art. In 2011/2012 Lutz Henke worked for the Salomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum as programs manager of the BMW Guggenheim Lab. As the chairman of the Kreuzberg art organization „Artitude e.V.“ and director of the exhibition space and former secret reserve „Senatsreservenspeicher (SRS) Berlin“ he has been curating and managing art-projects which deal with art and the public domain since 2001. Among these were such programs as “Planet Prozess – Zwischen Raum und Kunst“ (2007), “Write the Wall – Temporary Memorial Berlin Wall“ (2009) or “Die Revolution im Dienste der Poesie” (2011). He has realized public artworks and interventions in Berlin and worldwide in close collaboration with the artists – including the “World’s largest Graffiti” with Santiago Sierra in the Algerian desert (2012). His curatorial practice as well as his research focuses on spatial practice and theory, memory and remembrance, aesthetical interventions and frontiers in their diverse appearances. Currently he is involved in various international art projects between Berlin and New York, Algeria and Korea, from the North to the South Pole. He writes and researches on public art, aesthetics and the Berlin Wall for various institutions among these the Berlin Wall Foundation, the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung and the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. Henke has been invited to give talks and classes on urban aesthetics, art, culture and history at various institutions such as the Harvard GSD or the University of Copenhagen. His writings on these subjects have been published in various books, catalogues etc.