Henry
Baumann
Henry Baumann is an artist living in Berlin, who specialises in using materials that seemingly have no value and turning them into something extraordinary. Strawberry boxes and large industrial cable drums are just two of the sources that he has transformed into reclining chairs and tables, recycling these and giving them new life.
For Baumann, taking something apart is as interesting as making something new. Never drawing initial sketches but instead working instinctively, he says: “When I’m trying out these materials and testing them, I often start with an initial idea and it fails. But through this failure something else comes. I’m fascinated by this process.”
His shapes derive from the materials themselves, using their inherent qualities to create a new form. He turns cable drums into a single spiral using just one cut, then gluing and clamping these together into organic shapes; he deconstructs strawberry boxes so that they are just wood panels and nails, shifting these into three- dimensional forms that are reminiscent of ornate North African patterns. For him, refuse is about re-use: “I’m interested in how to find the right purpose and the beauty in discarded matter.”
Baumann has a Bachelor’s degree in Product Design from the Akademie beeldende Kunsten Maastricht, the Netherlands and won his first Recycling Design Award in 2012. He has private clients in Maastricht and commercial clients include Novotel. His work has been exhibited in Vienna, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Watou, Maastricht, Washington, Milan, Berlin, Hamburg, Hasselt, Munich, Eindhoven and Amsterdam, and his objects are in museum collections including Kunstfestival Watou, Belgium and Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig.
Baumann is available for both private and commercial commissions.
Please contact him at: info@henrybaumann.de
Education
2012
Bachelor Product design Akademie beeldende Kunsten Maastricht
Awards
2012
1st prize award, Recycling Design Award, Marta Herford
2014
2nd price Talentenfoerderer Award, Eindhoven
2019
3nd price, Blooom Award, Art Düsseldorf
Exhibitions
2024
"Masterpieces (And Tulips)" MOVIMENTO´s exhibiton
Milan Design Week, Mailand
2023
"The blue flower" MOVIMENTO´s exhibiton
Lake Como Design Festival, Italie
2023
CASELLI 11-12, Milan, Italie
2021
Corona Culture, Alte Münze, Berlin
Opening Exhibition, bock, Berlin
Design Week Berlin, Berlin
2020
Kiscell Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2019
Art Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Novotel, Paris
2018
5 Jahre KAOS, Berlin
2017
Designersopen 2017, Kraftwerk, Leipzig, Germany
Nachtschicht KAOS, Berlin
Kulturelle-Landpartie 2017, Bühlitz, Germany
2016
Winterausstellung, Kröte, Germany
EUNIQUE, Karlsruhe, German
Habit – Jardin Expo Beaulieu Lausanne, Lusanne, Switzerland
Passagen – Interior design week, Köln, Germany
2015
Transformationen. Konzepte der Umnutzung von Dinge rauch Museum, Freundenberg/Main, Germany
Recycling Designaward 2015, MARTa Herford, Germany
Kunst Tour Maastricht – Open Atelier AINSI, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy
2014
Reuse Retouch Redutch, Dutch Embassy, Washington D.C., US
2. Award winner Foederer Talentenfonds 2014, GLOW Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Recycling Design Award, Vienna Design Week, Austria
Kunstenfestival Watou 2014, Watou, Belgium
Beating around the bush, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Recycling Design Award, Stilwerk, Düsseldorf, Germany
Recycling Design Award, Stilwerk, Berlin
Transformationen – Konzepte der Umnutzung von Dingen, Museum der Dinge, Berlin
Recycling Design Award, Stilwerk, Hamburg
Passagen – Interior Design Week, Köln
2013
Toegepast 18 – It ́s all in the air, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
Recycling Design Award 2013 (First prize), MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
Upcycling Festival, Creazi, Hasselt, Belgium
TALENTE 2013, München, Germany
2012
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, The Netherland
Inside Design, Amsterdam
Akademie beeldene Kunsten Maastricht, Graduation Show, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Design Destict, Zaandam, The Netherlands