SINA HENSEL

is a Brussels based visual artist and researcher with a special focus on critical colour practices. They include the question of various ecologies of colour and the kaleidoscopic transformations caused by the current and future chemical make-ups of landscapes and environments.

2025 (upcoming)
The Future is a Purple Tree
Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, BE

2025 (upcoming)
Oceanic Gardens
Annie Gentils Gallery Antwerp, BE

22/05/2025 (upcoming)
Verschränkungen
Architecture Department RWTH University
Aachen, GER

28/09/2024
ArtZero Symposium
curated by Çağla Erdemir and Simon Santschi
Kunsthalle Trier, GER

01/09/2024 - 31/08/2025
Purple as Resilience
Art & Ecology Research Group
Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, BE

07/2024
TOUCH: AN ENDLESS SPIRAL OF POTENTIALITIES FOR KNOWLEDGE-GATHERING.
Text by Max Ferguson about the work in progress pursued during Imagining Ecological Futures by KIKK in collaboration with Goethe Institut and CCN Namur

07/2024
Publication PRESENT TENSE- Working in Critical Times
Published by OnCurating Academy Berlin

07/2024
Recipient of the SOFAM Grant
Brussels, BE

25/06/2024 - 08/09/2024
EAT THE RAINBOW
IKOB- Museum for Contemporary Art
Eupen, BE

05/2024
CHROMA CARE
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, GER

13-31/05/2024
Where did you grow before heat planted the garden?
As part of Imagining Ecological Futures by KIKK in collaboration with Goethe Institut
CCN Namur, BE

19/02/2024
Six Questions
Tique- Publication on Contemporary Art

26-28/10/2023
PRESENT TENSE- Working in Critical Times
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe / Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (organised by Kunstbüro der Kunststiftung BW)
With contributions by Gin Bahc, Sascia Bailer, Constanze Fischbeck, Sina Hensel, Alistair Hudson, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Valentina Karga, Matriarchale Volksküche, Jacob Ott und Dorothee Richter

04-27/09/2023
Residency La Wayaka Current
Reserva Nacional Los Flamencos
Atacama Desert, CL

20/05 - 26/11/2023
Climate Wunderkammer- 18th International Biennale di Venezia
IUAV Palazzo Badoer
Venice, IT

15 - 16/07/2023
Workshop
Kunstmuseum
Stuttgart, GER

06/2023
Book Launch Hybride Denkwerkzeuge - Hybrid Tools for Thought, with Christina Klug, Hannah Groninger
Chair of Visual Arts, Architecture Department
RWTH Aachen University, GER

04-05/2023
Residency Villa Empain
Foundation Boghossian
Brussels, BE

03/2023-
Long Term Loan to the Collection
IKOB- Museum for Contemporary Art
Eupen, BE

03/09/2022 - 16/10/2022
Pale Burnt Lake
Annie Gentils Gallery
Antwerp, BE

Since 2022
Researcher under Prof. Claudia Mareis, Institute for Cultural Studies
Humboldt-University
Berlin, GER

12/06/2022
SANS DIEU, SANS MAÎTRE, SANS ROI, SANS DROITS (Anniversary Exhibition)
Verbeke Foundation
Museum and Sculpture Garden, BE

18/03 - 24/04/2022
Poetics of Hospitality
Het Paviljoen
Ghent, BE

03/2022- 2024
Guest researcher at School of Arts KASK & Conservatorium
Ghent, BE

02/2022
Representation by Annie Gentils Gallery
Antwerp, BE

12/2021
Article by Jasper Delva, HART Magazine

12/2021
Teaching Award (with Anja Neuefeind)
by the Faculty of Architecture, RWTH Aachen University
Aachen, GER

04/12/2021
Conversation with Judith Wielander, Sofia Dati, Rosa Whiteley, Sina Hensel
Beursschouwburg- Multidisciplinary Art Center
Brussels, BE

11/11/2021-14/11/2021
Urgent Translations
PACT Zollverein
Essen, GER

24/09/2021-25/09/2021
Workshop (in the framework of Zwischen system&intuition)
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, GER

09/2021-09/2024
Member MAKE/SENSE Program
FHNW Academy of Art and Design
Basel, CH

19/09/2021
Colour Workshop (in the framework of Brussels Drawing Week/ BOZAR Brussels)
Beursschouwburg- Multidisciplinary Art Center
Brussels, BE

17/09/2021-12/2021
Ava (curated by Sofia Dati)
Beursschouwburg- Multidisciplinary Art Center
Brussels, BE

07/2021
Colour agencies - In search of a contemporary understanding of colour Contribution to Inmaterial, diseño, arte y sociedad, Vol. 6 No. 11 (2021): Design Research: Practices and Forms, with Anja Neuefeind
Barcelona, ES

15/05/2021-15/08/2021
SUNBURN, with Rosa Whiteley (in the framework of JUNCTIONS 21)
PACT Zollverein
Essen, GER

2021 (cancelled due to COVID-19)
Fellowship Program
CCA- Center for Contemporary Art
Kitakyushu, JPN

15/11/2020
IMPACT20 - Planetary Alliances- online Assembly with Rosi Braidotti, Lars Blank, Johannes Paul Raether
PACT Zollverein
Essen, GER

08/11/2020
Temporalities of the Studio- Artist Talk via Zoom
CIAP Kunstverein
Genk, BE

13/09/2020- 08/11/2020
Petrichor
CIAP Kunstverein
Genk, BE

15/08/2020- 14/08/2023
Curriculum 4.0.nrw, with Hannah Groninger and Christina Klug
RWTH Aachen University
Aachen, GER

23/03/2020- 03/05/2020 (postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19)
Momental Reliques in an Ever-changing Globe
Annie Gentils Gallery
Antwerp,BE

01/2020
Selection STRABAG Art Award International
Vienna, AUS

12/2019
Publication ‘Das Wort Ozean ist ca. 2 Quadratmillimeter groß’
In collaboration with Wilfried Huet (Gagarin)

22/11/2019- 15/12/2019
An Island of Multiple Bridges
HISK Final Show (curated by Daniella Géo)
Coupure Rechts
Ghent, BE

19/10/2019- 27/10/2019
Make the future- hope/despair
Albert van Abbehuis art center
Eindhoven, NL

18/09/2019- 06/10/2019
Seeing together: a Synopsis (curated by Alice Lefebvre and Bert Puype)
Zwarte Zaal, KASK
Ghent, BE

20/09/2019- 22/09/2019
Chain (curated by Daniella Géo and Koen van den Broek)
Studio Koen van den Broek
Antwerp, BE

01/08/2019- 28/08/2019
Residency at Hangar- Center for Art Research and Production
Barcelona, ES

24/05/2019- 27/05/2019
Open Studios
HISK
Ghent, BE

16/05/2019- 19/05/2019 (Antwerp Art Weekend)
Failures of Cohabitation (curated by Daniella Géo)
M HKA- Museum of Contemporary Art
Antwerp, BE

from 22/04/2019 on
Research position at the Chair of Visual Arts, Architecture Department, RWTH Aachen, GER

09/12/2018
BEATS SOUP (with Pieter De Clercq, Hannah Mevis)
HISK
Ghent, BE

01/12/2018- 16/12/2018
Une double enveloppe, la peau, les murs
curated by Alice Marquaille
La Chaufferie, Strasbourg, FR

25/09/2018 - 30/09/2018
Participation of HISK at The Swamp Pavilion
Lithuanian Pavilion, 16th Venice Biennale of Architecture, IT