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.

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born in Mainz/GER, based in Brussels/BE

represented by Annie Gentils Gallery Antwerp/BE

since 2024- ongoing Researcher in Art & Ecology Research Group at Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp/BE since 2022- ongoing Researcher under Prof. Claudia Mareis, Institute for Cultural Sciences, Humboldt-University, Berlin/GER since 2022- ongoing Researcher at School of Arts KASK & Conservatorium, Ghent/BE since 2021- ongoing Researcher at FHNW School of Arts and Design Basel/CH and University of Art Linz/AUS and member of MAKE/SENSE Programme
since 2019- ongoing Research/Teaching Position at the Chair of Visuals Art in Architecture Department at RWTH Aachen University/GER
2018-2019 Post-academic Research Program HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts), Ghent/BE
2012-2013 Painting studies, Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg/GER, Prof. Nick Mauss
2006-2012 Painting studies, Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe/GER, Prof. Erwin Gross
2004-2006 Studies in Mathematics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz/GER

2024 SOFAM Grant, Brussels/BE 2024 Imagining Ecological Futures Residency, KIKK Festival in collaboration with TRAKK, Goethe Institute Brussels and CCN Namur/BE 2023 Residency La Wayaka Current, Reserva Nacional Los Flamencos, Atacama Desert/CL 2022/23 Villa Empain Residency, Foundation Boghossian, Brussels/BE 2022/23 Development Grant, Departement Cultuur, Jeugd en Media, Flanders/BE 2021 Fellowship Program, CCA- Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu/JPN 2020 Selection STRABAG Art Award International, Vienna/AUS 2019 Residency Hangar, Center for art research and production, Barcelona/ES
2018 Libitum Residency, Luberon National Park/F (supported by Roi Baudouin Foundation)
2017 Pscheuench Residency, Tatra National Park, Zakopane/PL
2017 STEP Travel grant by the European Cultural Foundation
2017 Penthouse Art Residency by Harlan Levey Projects Gallery, Brussels/BE
2016 Beta-Beta Residency, Braemar, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland/UK
2016 Project funding, Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst/GER
2015 Selection Art Award, Museum Ettlingen/GER
2015 Project funding, Kulturamt Karlsruhe/GER
2012-2014 Studio grant, Baden-Württemberg/GER
2011 Travel Grant of Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, Florence/ITA
2010 Scholarship Art House 19/21, Pforzheim/GER

2024 ArtZero, Kunsthalle Trier/ GER EAT THE RAINBOW, IKOB- Museum for Contemporary Art, Eupen/BE Chroma Care, Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe/ GER Open Studio, Imagining Ecological Futures, CCN Namur/BE 2023 La Wayaka, Cultural Center, San Pedro de Atacama/CL Climate Wunderkammer- La Biennale di Venezia, IUAV Palazzo Badoer, Venice/IT Open Studio, Villa Empain, Foundation Boghossian, Brussels/BE 2022 Pale Burnt Lake, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp/BE SANS DIEU, SANS MAÎTRE, SANS ROI, SANS DROITS (Anniversary Exhibition), Verbeke Foundation, Museum and Sculpture Garden/BE Poetics of Hospitality, Het Paviljoen, Ghent/BE 2021 Urgent Translations, PACT Zollverein, Essen/GER Ava, Beursschouwburg- Multidisciplinary Art Center, Brussels/BE tba, CCA- Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu/JPN (postponed due COVID-19) 2020 Petrichor, CIAP Kunstverein, Genk/BE Selection STRABAG Art Award International, Vienna/AUS Momental Reliques in an ever-changing Globe, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp/BE 2019 Make the future: hope/despair, Albert van Abbehuis art center, Eindhoven/NL
An Island of Multiple Bridges (HISK Final Show curated by Daniella Géo), Coupure Rechts, Ghent/BE Chain (curated by Daniella Géo and Koen van den Broek), Studio Koen van den Broek, Antwerp/BE Failures of Cohabitation (curated by Daniella Géo),M HKA- Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp/BE Seeing together: A Synopsis (curated by Alice Lefebvre and Bert Puype), Zwarte Zaal, KASK, Ghent/BE Open Studios, HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Art), Ghent, BE 2018
BEATS SOUP (with Pieter De Clercq, Hannah Mevis), HISK, Ghent/BE
Une double enveloppe, la peau, les murs, curated by Alice Marquaille, La Chaufferie, Strasbourg/FR
At the edge of Abstraction, CAS, Zottegem/BE
Fiocco bianco, Kunstverein Germersheim/GER
How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken, Kunstverein Paderborn/GER Bring back the mountains, South Block, Glasgow/UK Open Studios, HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Art), Ghent, BE. 2017 Results of Pscheuench Residency, pop-up Gallery, Zakopane/PL (with Jasmine Bakalarz)
Eye Contact, Final Exhibition of Penthouse Art Residency by Harlan Levey Projects Gallery, Brussels/BE Open Studio, Penthouse Art Residency by Harlan Levey Projects Gallery, Brussels/BE (with Emeline Depas)
Étude et métaphore du vivant, LeKabinet, Brussels/BE (curated by Lucie PInier)
ZOVEEL MANY TREES > < ABATTRE, Lavallée, Brussels (curated by Fabien Defendini)
L'apropos, Kultura, Nivelles/BE
Cocktail, LaVallée, Brussels/BE
Résidence à Carmin sur Mer, Sous les Tropiques, Brussels/BE
Carte de Visite, initiated by Karin Lalieux, Head of the Culture Department, Brussels/BE
2016
If wishes were fishes, LaVallée, Brussels/BE
Serendipity Park, Kunstverein Offenbach/GER Beta-Beta, Braemar, Scotland/UK
Slow Stories, Neuland, Bochum/GER
Colours and Words, Hidden, Brussels/BE
La Montagne, LaVallée, Brussels/BE
We are nowhere but here, Kunsthaus L6, Freiburg/GER
In between, T66 Kulturwerk, Freiburg/GER
2015 entre chien et loup, Luis Leu, Karlsruhe/GER
Anonyme Zeichner, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin/GER
Sun kIlls Moon, Fleischmarkthalle, Karlsruhe/GEr
Sensuality in Contemporary Art, Arts Cabinet, Magdeburg/GER
22. Artist Fair Karlsruhe, Government Headquarters, Karlsruhe/GER Art Award 2014, Museum Ettlingen/GER
Liquid Rooms, Palazzo Ca‘Zanardi/Venice Art House Gallery, Venice/IT
2014
Gallery Ahnen II, Luis Leu, Karlsruhe/GER
Visit to the Sea, Workshop 212, Bremerhaven/GER
2013
Gallery Ahnen, Luis Leu, Karlsruhe/GER
Postgraduate Exhibition of Baden-Württemberg, Karlsruhe/GER
2012
Postgraduate Exhibition of Baden-Württemberg, Karlsruhe/GER
Young Artists at Villa Böhm, Kunstverein Neustadt a.d.Weinstraße/GER
Westsouth- Students Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, gallery Knecht&Burster, Karlsruhe/GER
UND 7, Karlsruhe/GER
2011
Consultation, Orgelfabrik, Karlsruhe/GER
Young Artists of the Collection, Art House 19/21, Pforzheim/GER
2010
Summer Exhibition, Offspace Alte Apotheke, Karlsruhe/GER
2009
Class of Erwin Gross, Kunstverein Schwäbisch-Hall/GER

2024 Publication Present Tense- Working in Critical Times, published by Kunstbüro der Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg (Regina Fasshauer & Antonia Marten) and OnCurating Academy Berlin 2023 Publication HYDE (Hybrid Tools for Thought), with Christina Klug and Hannah Groninger, Chair of Visual Arts, RWTH Aachen University/GER 2020 Publication with Gagarin - Das Wort Ozean ist ca. 2 Quadratmillimeter groß, in collaboration with Wilfried Huet 2019 Article Color-searching among the tiny: Cyanobacteria and Microalgae, In: Inmaterial, diseño, arte y sociedad, Vol. 6 No. 11 (2021): Design Research: Practices and Forms, with Anja Neuefeind, Barcelona/ESP