Henk Hannemann is a Dutch artist who constantly works on his collages and assemblages. Even during his travels he brings a pair of scissors, glue and paper. He picks up his vintage leaflets, magazines, books etc. along the way.
In his hometown Leiden in The Netherlands he works in an old classroom both on his collages and assemblages. Regularly he has exhibitions. You can also find him on Facebook. Since summer 2014 he works on his art in the former mental hospital Schakenbosch on the border of Leidschendam.
The books and magazines he uses for his collages are often half a century old or even older. The assemblages (boxes) are made from objects found on the streets or on flea markets and second hand shops.
Hannemann got selected in 2014 for Kunstwerkt in Belgium with a collage about the First World War. His work was exposed in Muzee in Oostende. In 2015 his collage Great Balls of Fire was selected for the Zomerexpo in Haags Gemeentemuseum. In January 2016 Henk Hannemann was accepted as a member by Ars in Leiden, the oldest Art society in The Netherlands. In 2017 Hannemann was rejected for the Zomerexpo but selected for the Salon des Refusés in Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.
Update. On the first of May 2016 Henk Hannemann moved to a new studio in Hazerswoude-Rijndijk. And guess what? He got asked back to Schakenbosch-Leidschendam. So at the moment there are two studio's. One for the collages and another one for the assemblages.
Contact: henkhannemann@yahoo.nl. Or mail or phone: rikhasselbach@yahoo.com-(0031)612222263.
Full A4 format.21×29.7cm. More then 30 pieces out of more then 5 books/leaflets: Bulgarian travelbook from the fifties, book about Lenin, Picture book 1966 etc.
Made for a special occasion in The Aurora Hostel in Nis-Serbia.
Format fully A4. 21×29,7cm. About 30 pieces coming from various books and magazines: Sport in Polen, Warszawa 1976, Picture dictionaire Ladybird Books Ltd 1966, a Lenin Book, Serbian book for children and a comic book.
Another one in the Lenin series from the Slavija Hotel in Beograd. Used a book of Lenin, Picture Vocabulary English and Serbocroatian from the fifties and an Exakta brochure from 1957. Around fifteen pieces in total. 18x24cm. Inner part 10x16cm.
Lenin Revisited part 2 (The walls have ears/Der Feind hort mit). Just for fun. Got a picture off from my room in Hotel Slavija in Belgrado. Unframed it, turned it around and got my Lenin collage in. If you want it, it’s in room 441.
Number one of the Lenin Line. Today a day of long walks and visits to book stalls. Made this one in The Slavija Hotel in Belgrado. Tomorrow another episode of Comrade Lenin. 18x24cm.
This one is made in the Slavija Hotel in Belgrado. A hotel built in 1979 in Tito’s former Yugoslavia. Now it’s old and there are some bursts and cracks. Step into the seventies if you don’t mind the few stains on the carpet and that the water is a bit brownish. 18x24cm.
Rather complex collage made in my room in Hostel S in Novi Sad. Pieces from An old 1957 brochure of Exakta, Hungarian books for children (Az Elvarazsolt Erdo en Oreg Nene Ozikeje) and a Hungarian book from the thirties called Travel Around the World. Total of 20 pieces. 18x24cm.