Filip
Henin

Filip Henin, Art Brussels 2026, Installation View, Robert Grunenberg, Brussels, 2026

was born in Mayen (DE) in 1986. He lives and works in Berlin (DE).

The scenes in Filip Henin’s paintings take place in a kind of timeless, placeless Beckett world as if on an empty stage stripped down to just the essentials. It’s hard to tell if it’s a coastal landscape or a sea, or a karstified hillside up in the mountains, the sea is a blue strip of sky. Henin draws out not only people but also landscapes, taking out the specific features, leaving basic shapes that are reminiscent of the Eifel, or could be in Tuscany. Antiquity, romantic landscape painting, postmodernism, Italian transavanguardia, and the mysticism of Francesco Clemente and Sandro Chia can be found, as well as the figurative painting of the 1990s. Henin’s painting combines, without drama or pathos, two completely contrary forces: the reflection of painting and painting history and the need to simply be.
Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, under Prof. Walter Dahn.
2025 Is this really me!, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin (DE)
2023 Regarding Past at Noon, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin (DE)
2022 Home no Home, Painters Painting Paintings, Online (GB)
2025 Über den Zaun, DOD x THK Gallery, Köln (DE)
2025 Where are we now, Miettinen Collection, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf (DE)
2025 Nous N’irons plus au bois…, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin (DE)
2025 Artartist, Düsseldorf (DE)
2025 Elegy, As it stands, Los Angeles (USA)
2024 Night Stroll, Mathilde le Coz: Gallery, Paris (FR)
2023 IMAGINE — 10 Unrealized Projects, Robert Grunenberg (DE)
2022 Das neue Tafelbild – Fragmente, Bergérie des Arts, Dusseldorf (DE)
2022 Purple Rain, Kunstgruppe Cologne, Cologne (DE)
2021 Never seen ever seen, Akkurat lab. Fahrenheit Berlin, Berlin (DE)
2021 Sculturale la successiva, Conzenhof Cologne, Cologne (DE)
2020 Sculturale annuale, la prima, Conzenhof Cologne, Cologne (DE)
2019 20 Jahre Kunstgruppe Cologne, Cologne (DE)
2019 A beast called Sunn, Contemplation Gallery, London (GB)
2019 Ich kaufe mir einen Fluss, Bergerie des Arts, Düsseldorf (DE)
2019 Wer kann, der soll, Kunstgruppe Cologne, Cologne (DE)
2018 Mi chiedo se c’è un posto in questo mondo…, KM Galerie, Berlin (DE)
2018 MAXWELL, Compiler, Berlin (DE)
2018 A.S.I.T.D., Salon Gallery, Berlin (DE)
2018 You too, Salon Schmitz, Cologne (DE)
2017 Artwork in the dark, Keith, Berlin (DE)
2017 Wahnsinn, Salon Schmitz, Cologne (DE)
2016 2 Artworks sitting in the dark, Keith, Berlin (DE)
2016 Bruce Haines Mayfair, London (GB)
2016 The snoring princess, Salon Schmitz, Cologne (DE)
2015 Die Dinge, das sind die Anderen, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover (DE)
2015 Triggerlone, Diplomausstellung HBK Braunschweig, Braunschweig (DE)
2014 Ein Stiefel voll Glück, Pfeifen Linzbach, Düsseldorf (DE)
2014 On&On&On, Salon Schmitz, Cologne (DE)
2013 Cookin‘ up something gooood, Penny Temporary Arts, Neumünster (DE)
2013 Die Welt muss schöner werden, statt-museum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (DE)
2012 Im Auge des Fuchses, Projektraum HBK Braunschweig, Braunschweig (DE)
- 2026Einzelpräsentation mit Resonanz, Handelsblatt
- 2023 In Berlin untersucht FILIP HENIN die Grenzen der Realität, Monopol Magazin
- 2023Ausstellungen in Berlin huldigen der Malerei von Martin Kippenberger, Georg Baselitz und Filip Henin, Handelsblatt