HENNING HAUPT

BIO

Born in Itzehoe, Germany

Henning Haupt moved to Fort Lauderdale in the fall of 2008. Before that he lived in Berlin, Germany where he finished his praxis-based Ph.D. on the relationship between color, painting and architecture in regard to architectural design education. He taught for 6 years at the Technical University in Braunschweig and is currently Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture at FAU in Florida. Haupt focused intensively on painting while joining the Masters program of Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1996 and produced a large body of work.

ARTIST STATEMENT

The series of paintings in this exhibition were completed in the summer of 2009, after relocating myself from Berlin to Fort Lauderdale. Because of this, the work was informed by my own transition to the subtropical climate and my discovery of its wonders of fauna and flora on land and in water. This experience was combined with the troubling idea of how this might change under the current influence of the changing climate. With this in mind, the series of these non-representational paintings became a dream-like fiction, which develops a lyrical theme when viewed together.

In general my paintings are strongly dependent on the use of the color material in combination with a process that is driven by the search for spaces or atmospheres, which only can exist within color. This series differs from others by integrating a distinct use of brush strokes in some areas, forming more intimate ‘events’ within the larger scale of the blurred color-space. These ‘events’ and the entire painting express the production process and reveals the presence of the painter.

HISTORY

10.2008 Color Space, Second Avenue Gallery, FAU Fort Lauderdale
09.2007 Stage design for the opening event of the Asian Pacific Weeks, at the              Konzerthaus Berlin
08.2007 Open Air Gallery, Berlin Kreuzberg
05.2005 Painting, DaimlerChrysler Services, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
12.2004 Gallery Kleinode, Kunstagenten, Berlin
08.2004 Kampf und Liebe der Magenta (Fight and Love of Magenta) Gallery Laden             V-17, Berlin
05.2004 Painting, Junghans und Radau, Berlin Wilmersdorf
10.2003 Diorama, art club united party at Cookies Art Forum Berlin
09.2003 UIA Berlin - rethinking: space time architecture: blue on the edge,             painting and installation, with S.Sterf 09.2003 Testbild, Gallery subsolar,             Berlin
08.2003 Diorama, Gallery Laden V-17, Berlin
06.2002 Identità Europa: linguaggi e artisti a confronto, Milan (participation in             exhibition Project)
12.2001 Wissenschaftsforum am Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin
09.1999 Raumbilder, Privatgalerie Bresinsky Weitz, Berlin
09.2000 Tomasa, Hauptstrasse, Berlin
02.1996 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, USA

ACADEMICS

since 2008 FAU, School of Architecture, Fort Lauderdale
            Assistant Professor for Architectural Design
2000 – 07 Technical University at Braunschweig, School of Architecture wiss.             Mitarb. /Asst. Prof. for Architectural Design /Color and Space
2005 - 08 praxis-based Phd on Color, Painting and Architecture
1995 – 96 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, Postgraduate studies
1987 – 93 Technische Hochschule Darmstadt (Diploma in Architecture)
1990 - 91 State University of New York at Buffalo