Henriette Heise ^(DK)

Henriette Heise is a visual artist based in Copenhagen. Heise has co-founded and run several collaborative projects: The Info Centre in London, The Copenhagen Free University, the local TV-station tv-tv and most recently The Studio Whisperer’s Office. Heise combines collaborative work with a more introverted studio-based practice: While working through different materials and media (including text), Heise’s artistic work is a continuous investigation of what is considered overlooked and claimed as unmonumental. By critically disrupting the conventional hierarchies by paying attention to the disregarded, the ambition is to resuscitate what is otherwise professed hidden, useless or uninteresting – and to ratify those conditions and formations that include the tired, the invisible and the exhausted, as belonging to plausible futures. In recent years Heise has been researching late work by artists who found a way to continue in spite of – or perhaps because of – crisis and resistance.

This profile was last updated on 7 April 2025.