Mat Hennek

Mat Hennek (born 1969 in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German fine art photographer.

Mat Hennek worked for newspapers and radio stations before starting his artistic training at Europäische Akademie für Bildende Kunst in Trier and at Lette-Verein in Berlin.

In 1995 Hennek became assistant to Hermann Stamm the photographer Uwe Arens.

His photographs were published in magazines worldwide: Cosmopolitan, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, GQ, Marie Claire, Max, Playboy, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Vogue, ZEITmagazin.

In 1998 Hennek was founding the agency "Kasskara" in Berlin.

Beyond others Mat Hennek worked for big record companies and music labels such as Deutsche Grammophon, Four Music, EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group and Virgin Records.

Since then Mat Hennek took numerous portrait photographs of classical Musicians and artists: soloists such as Hilary Hahn, Krystian Zimerman, Hélène Grimaud, Lang Lang, Nelson Freire, Alison Balsom, conductors such as Simon Rattle, Kent Nagano, Claudio Abbado, Valery Gergiev and opera singers such as Rolando Villazón, Anna Netrebko, Thomas Quasthoff, Bryn Terfel and in another musical repertoire artists such as David Byrne, Lizz Wright, Rammstein, Seeed, Sting, Tracy Chapman, Rufus Wainwright, Daniel Libeskind, Alex Katz and Giora Feidman.

Furthermore, Hennek photographed advertising campaigns for well-known brands like Montblanc, Lufthansa, Rolex and Volkswagen.

In 2006 Hennek shifted the focus of his work to art photography.

His fine art photography has been featured in solo exhibits in galleries, museums and art fairs in Europe, Asia and in the USA.

In 2017 the art book "Woodlands – Mat Hennek" was published by Steidl.

"Woodlands", published 2017 by Steidl

In 2020, Steidl published Hennek's second book "Silent Cities".

Hennek lives with his partner, the French pianist Hélène Grimaud in Upstate New York, United States.

"Silent Cities", published 2020 by Steidl

"Sounds of Spheres", published 2023 by Steidl