Nadine Isabelle Henrich is a curator and researcher in the history of art, focusing on photography, media art, and synthetic media, based in Berlin and Hamburg. Her curatorial work examines experimental materialities and multisensorial dimensions of photography, archives and contemporary art. Her writing and research focus on photography and networked visual practices. She is a Ph.D. researcher in Art History at Freie Universität Berlin and holds a M.A. in History of Images and Art from Humboldt University (Berlin), a B.A. from Freie Universität Berlin, and studied Curatorial Studies (Frankfurt). She is interested in expanded curatorial practices including information visualisation, experimental exhibition design, discourse programs and commoning.
Since 2024 she is the Curator of the House of Photography at Deichtorhallen Hamburg.
2022/2023 she is a visiting Curatorial Fellow at the Collection of Photography at the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles).
2021-2023 she is a Curatorial Fellow of »Museum Curators of Photography«, a renowned collaborative program a.o. the Museum Folkwang and Fotomuseum Winterthur, funded by Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation.
She has (co-)curated numerous exhibitions, e.g. »Poetics of Search« (2022) at Fotomuseum Winterthur, »Visions of Ukraine« (2022) at Museum Folkwang, Essen, »Rüzgâr Buşki. Wayward« at Galerie Wedding, Berlin, »Les Cracks & Vincen Beeckman« (2022) as part of the series 6,5 Weeks at Museum Folkwang, Essen, »Fabian Hesse & Mitra Wakil: Crop« (2021) as part of the series Forum at Stadtmuseum München, Munich, »Lines of Passage« (2021) at Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Milan, »Evoking Reality. Constituting Actuality in Photography and Video Art« (2018/2019) for the Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart/Berlin received international attention, »Cy Twombly Photographs« at Galerie Bastian, Berlin/London (2016), »Serial Formations 1967/2017« Berlin/Frankfurt/Vienna (2017);
Her texts were published in exhibition catalogues, monographs, art encyclopedias, art magazines and museum blogs by national and international institutions and publishers, a.o. Museum Folkwang (Essen), Galerie Wedding (Berlin), Bucerius Kunst Forum (Hamburg), Münchner Stadtmuseum, Museum Marta Herford (Bielefeld), Fundación Juan March (Madrid), Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH), Daimler Contemporary/Art Collection Mercedes Benz (Berlin/Stuttgart), Heiner Bastian Fine Arts (Berlin/London), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Sakhile&Me (Frankfurt), Lothringer 13 Halle München, Rundbrief Fotografie, Photonews;
2020 she led the TEMBLOR ART COLLECTIVE with the theatre director and performer Viviana M. Medina. Their first theater project »Juntos / Bî Hevra« won the NEUSTART KULTUR takecare Fund and premiered in collaboration with Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin.
2019 she was appointed as a juror of the Karl-Hofer-Society to award together with Prof. Jörg Heiser (Dean of Univeristy of Arts, Berlin) and Dr. Susanne Titz (Director Museum Mönchengladbach) the best graduate students of Universität der Künste, Berlin in 2019.
2018/2019 she curated the show “Evoking Reality. Konstitution von Wirklichkeit in Fotografie und Videokunst” at Daimler Contemporary, Stuttgart/Berlin.(Reviews: a.o. Kunstforum International, Artnet, Monopol)