DREI

Helena Huneke

Info: Drei is pleased to announce Der Plan, the gallery’s first collaboration with the Estate of Helena Huneke (1967–2012). The exhibition presents a focused selection of works that reflect the artist’s distinctive movement between industrial design, painting, installation, and performance. Born in Münster and based in Hamburg and from the early 2000s in Berlin, Huneke developed a practice that combined conceptual precision with a deep material sensitivity. After graduating in Industrial Design from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg (HfbK) in 1995, with a focus on interior architecture, furniture design, and theory, she cultivated an approach that is characterized by a great mastery of materials and a simultaneous fragility and intimacy, where thinking and making were inseparable. Her cross-media-practice reflects both a rigorous and critical intellect and a fragile, intimate sense of form. A founding member and central figure of the influential artist group Akademie Isotrop (1996–2000)—alongside André Butzer, Nina Könnemann, Birgit Megerle, and Jonathan Meese—Huneke was deeply committed to collective experimentation and dialogue. She also participated in formative workshops with William Firebrace and Cerith Wyn Evans, and collaborated with The Poor Boys Enterprise on 97 Stühle, a project spanning Vienna and New York.