Henrike Naumann reflects socio-political problems on the level of design and interior and explores the frictional relationship between opposing political opinions in dealing with taste and personal everyday aesthetics. In her immersive installations, she arranges furniture and objects into scenographic spaces into which she integrates video and sound works. Her practice reflects on the mechanisms of radicalization and their connection to personal experience. Although she has dealt intensively with German history in her work, Naumann constantly questions this perspective through her work in various international contexts.

The Hard Style project by artist Henrike Naumann deals with her grandfather Karl Heinz Jakob's work "The Mechanization of Agriculture". Created in 1960 for the Karl-Marx-Stadt City Council, it was covered up with drywall around 2000. It will be uncovered again for the Pochen Biennale - with a performance in the Chemnitz Stadthalle with Chem Valley Line Dance e.V. and the hardstyle jumpers de Nischlhupper. In the Wirkbau, the mural will be repainted on the wall by Leipzig artist Susanne Rische and continued by the people of Chemnitz.

In memory of Christa Gräf (1935 - 2024).

Henrike Naumann is a fellow at the Berlin Artistic Research Program 2024/25.