born in Helsingborg, Sweden 
lives and works in Falkenberg, Sweden and Berlin, Germany  
Education
1993
Konstfack, Stockholm
Exhibitions
2022
Beyond the Darkness, Ala Scaligera at the Rocca di Angera, Varese, Italy
2022
The Circle of a Square and the Effect of a Butterfly, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK (SOLO) 
Trajabos de campo – Field Works, Centro Cultural La Mondena, Santiago, Chile 
Woodland, NITTO ATP FINALS, Turin, Italy 
Floating Cinema – Unknown Waters’, Giudecca, Venice, Italy 
2021
Paintings of Trees for Birds, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy (SOLO) 
A Painting of A Tree, Meyer Riegger, Berlin, Germany (SOLO) 
In the Pupil of the Panther, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden
2020
– a breath? a name? – the ways of worldmaking, Biennale Gherdëina 7, Urtijëi, Italy 
2019
BLINDED BY THE LIGHT, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy (SOLO) 
One Hundred and One Pieces of a Tree (Norwegian Wood), Kode Art Museum Kode 4, Bergen, Norway (SOLO) 
Come together, Meyer Riegger, Berlin, Germany 
Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy
Fragmented Realities, Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden
2018
A Hundred Pieces of a Tree, Kode Art Museum - Kode 2, Bergen, Norway (SOLO) 
The Beetle, Korjaamo, IHME Contemporary Art Festival, Helsinki, Finland (SOLO) 
NATURvitenskap (Video screening), Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Norway (SOLO) 
NATURvitenskap, Trondheim Kunstmuseum - TKM Gråmølna, Trondheim, Norway 
L’ARTE INCONTRA I SOGNI (ART MEETS DREAMS), Cloister of Bramante, Rome, Italy 
The Art of the Treasure Hunt, Contemporary Artists in Chianti Classico 2018, Italy 
IHME Festival – 2018 IHME Projects, Helsinki, Finland 
Journeys with 'The Waste Land', Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
2017
And Then There Were None, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany 
Disruption – Remapping Nature, Lustwarande – Platform for Contemporary Sculpture, Tilburg, Netherlands
Karin Sander: ZEIGEN. An audio tour through the collection of the GfZK Leipzig, GfZK Leipzig, Germany 
2016
A Tree Suspended, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany (SOLO) 
The End, Auditorium Grimaldi III, “Nuit Blanche Monaco 2016” curated by Jorg Heiser, Monaco (SOLO) 
Ecovention Europe: Current Art to Reimagine Ecologies, Museum Het Domeinen in Sittard, Netherlands 
The End, Nuit Blance Monaco, Monaco, France 
Emscherkunst 2016, Emscher, Germany 
2015
Swedish Institute, Paris, France (SOLO) 
SupraEnvironmental, Kantonah Museum of Art, Kantonah, USA 
Terrapolis, NEON Foundation, French School Athens, Athens, Greece 
D’après nature, Swedish institute, Paris, France 
O.K. Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria 
#Catcontent, Kunstpalais, Erlangen, Germany 
2014
Indefinite Swarms, Selected Works 2009 – 2012, Meyer Riegger, Berlin, Germany (SOLO) 
You Imagine What You Desire, Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia 
2013
Internaturalism, PAV- Parco Arte Vivente, Turin, Italy 
2012
AUG.11, 2012 The Symptoms of the Universe Studies, Meyer Riegger, Berlin, Germany (SOLO) 
Art Parcours, Art Basel, Basel (Screening of Monarch - The Eternal), Switzerland (SOLO) 
A Forest Divided, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden (SOLO) 
A man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the
recollection escapes him. Automatically, he slows down. (cur. by Luiza Teixeira de Freitas and Thom
O’Nions), Cristina Guerra Contemporary Arts, Lisbone, Portugal 
Magic Moments: The Screen and the Eye–9 Artists 9 Projections, Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum, Boston, USA 
The Worldly House, DOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany 
2011
The End, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK (SOLO) 
Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan
La carte d’après Nature (cur. by Thomas Demand), Matthew Marks Gallery, New York City, USA 
Raumsichten/spacespectives (sculpture project), Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn, Germany 
2010
Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy (SOLO) 
Carl Larsson & Co, En resa genom Helsingborgs museers samling,
Dunkers Kulturhus Helsingborg, Helsingborg, Sweden 
La Carte d’Apres Nature, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco, Framce 
Che cosa sono le nuvole? Opere dalla Collezione Enea Righi, Museion, Bolzano, Italy 
Rethink, Rogaland Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway 
Doppler Effect. The nature of images in art and science, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany 
Résilience - Espace d’Art Contemporain La Tôlerie, Clermont Ferrand, France 
Mutinity seemed a probability - Fondazione Giuliani, Roma, Italy 
2009
Henrik Håkansson, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art – MIMA, Middlesbrough, UK (SOLO) 
Rethink – The Implicit, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark 
Life forms, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden 
Radical Nature, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK 
Universal Code, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada 
The Eventual (cur. by Eva Gonzalez Sancho), Futura Projects, Prague, Czech Republic 
Werke zeitgenössischer Kunst aus der Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin, Galerie Neue Meister -
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany  
Footprints, Wånas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden  
No Sound, Aspen Art Museum, USA  
Paesaggi e natura dell’arte (cur. by Danilo Eccher), ARCOS Museo d’Arte Contemporanea del Sannio,
Benevento, Italy  
Green Platform: Art, Ecology and Sustainibility, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea
Strozzina (cur. by Lorenzi Giusti and Valentina Gensini), Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italy  
 
2008
Henrik Håkansson. Novelas de la selva, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico (SOLO) 
Fare una scenata/Making a scene, (cur. by Jörg Heiser), Fondazione Morra Greco, Napoli, Italy  
 
2007
Aug. 26, 2003 - Aug. 27, 2003 (Vespa vulgaris), CAG, Vancouver, Canada (SOLO) 
Three days of the condor, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK (SOLO) 
Silence. Listen to the show (cur. by Francesco Bonami), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo,
Torino, Italy  
Solo24Ore24Stunden, Museion, Bolzano, Italy  
Timeout. Art and Sustainability, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein 
Say it isn’t so, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany 
Romantic Conceptualism (cur. by Jorg Heiser), Kunsthalle Nuernberg, DE & Bawag Foundation,
Vienna, Austria 
Pensée Sauvage, Frankfurter Kunstverein & Ursula Blickle Foundation, Germany 
The 8th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2006
Cyanopsitta spixii Case Study #001, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, artist-in-residence
exhibition, Boston, USA (SOLO) 
A travers bois pour trouver la forêt (with Allora-Calzadilla and Sergio Vega), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (SOLO) 
Henrik Håkansson & Edward J. Muybridge, VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal, Canada (SOLO) 
The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK (SOLO) 
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata, Japan 
Where the Wild Things are, Dundee Conteporary Arts, Scotland, UK
Lofoten Art Festival, Norway 
2005
July 20, 2004 (pieris napi), Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy (SOLO) 
Frieze Art Fair Project, London, UK (SOLO) 
Art Unlimited, Art36Basel, Galleria Franco Noero, Basel, Switzerland (SOLO) 
Experiencing Duration, Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France 
Feldversuche, Westwendischer Kunstverein, Gartow, Germany 
Remagine: oeuvres du Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France 
The Order of Nature, Ok-Centrum für Gegenwartskunst Linz, Austria 
Camera Fissa, Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy 
The Transgressed Landscape/El Paisatge Trasgredit, La Plataforma, Fundació Espais d’Art
Contemporani, Girona, Spain 
2004
Henrik Håkansson, The Dunker Culture Centre, Helsinborg, Sweden (SOLO) 
Henrik Håkansson, The Breeder projects, Athens, Greece (SOLO) 
An Introduction to the birds, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany (SOLO) 
São Paulo Bienal, São Paolo, Brasil 
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany 
2003
An Introduction to the birds, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands (SOLO) 
Moderna Museet c/o Riddarhuset, Stockholm, Sweden (SOLO) 
Galleri Index, Stockholm, Sweden (SOLO) 
Art Unlimited, Art34Basel, Galleria Franco Noero, Basel, Switzerland (SOLO) 
An Introduction to the birds, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (SOLO) 
The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK (SOLO) 
Sound Systems, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Germany 
Beyond Paradise, Shanghai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China 
Ars Viva 02-03 Landschaft, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany 
Städtische Museen Zwickau, Zwickau, Germany 
Kunstsammlungen Zwickau, Zwickau, Germany 
2002
Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy (SOLO) 
Secession, Wien, Austria (SOLO) 
Beyond Paradise, National Gallery Bangkok/National Gallery Kuala Lumpur,
Bangkok, Thailand, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 
Mystic Mountains, Assessorato dell’Istruzione e della Cultura Regione Autonoma
Valle d’Aosta, Aosta, Italy  
Frequencies.Radar, Tycho Brahe Planetarium, Copenhagen, Denmark  
The Power of Art, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan  
Beyond Peace and War, Umong Sippadhamma Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand  
Full Contact, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea, Siracusa, Italy  
Ecovention, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA  
Netzwerke, 40 jahre Fluxus, Wiesbaden, Germany  
Ars Viva, Neue Galerie in Homan-haus, Augsburg, Germany  
 
2001
The Tunnel, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France (SOLO) 
Nightingale, Love Two Times, Pinksummer, Genova - in collaboration with
Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy (SOLO) 
The Blackbird-Song for a New Breed, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (SOLO) 
Tirana Bienale, Tirana, Albania  
Paesi Nordici: Interferenze, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy  
Ars 01, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland  
Artificial Neural networks, Zeewolde, Netherlands  
Effetto Natura, Fondazione Trussardi, Milano, Italy  
Wild Gliders, Aschenbach & Hofland Galleries, Amsterdam, Netherlands  
Berlin Biennale, (cur. by Saskia Bos), Berlin, Germany  
Zero Gravity, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy  
Making Nature, Edsvik Konst och Kultur, Sollentuna, SE/Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark 
Absolut. LA, Burnett Miller, Los Angeles, CA, USA  
2000
LightBlueLight, Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy (SOLO) 
Sweet Leaf, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany (SOLO) 
Syndrome, IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden (SOLO) 
Park (cur. by Jonas Ekeberg), Momentum 2000, Moss, Norway 
Pyramids of Mars, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburg/ Barbican Centre, London, UK/Trapholt
Museum, Denmark 
The Greenhouse Effect, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Organising Freedom, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE/Charlottenburg, Copenhagen, Denmark 
1999
Tomorrow and Tonight, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (SOLO) 
Evol Gardens, 1%, Copenhagen, Denmark (SOLO) 
Birdland, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra, Austria (SOLO) 
Mirror’s Edge (cur. by Okwui Enwezor), BildMuseet, Umeå, SE/Vancouver Art, Vancouver, Canada 
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Torino, IT/Tramway, Glasgow, UK, 
Charlottenborg, Denmark 
Natural reality, Ludwigforum, Aachen, Germany 
Skulptur Biennale, Münster, Germany 
Hiroshima, Art Document, Hiroshima, Japan 
A Window, Kwangju City Art Museum, Kwangju, Croatia
Live in Tokyo, The Deluxe, New Life project Tokyo, Japan 
The Edge of Awereness, Gent, BE/New York City, US/São Paolo, Brasil 
1998
After Forever (ever all), Galleri Andreas Brändström, Stockholm, Sweden (SOLO) 
Nuit Blanche, Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France 
Crossings, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria 
Roundabout, Ujazdowski castle, Warsaw, Poland 
Come Closer, Liechtenstein, LI/Budapest, HU/Copenhagen, Denmark 
Last House on the left, Archipelag, Stockholm, Sweden 
Art Grandeur Nature, Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris, France 
1997
Heaven, PS 1, New York City, USA 
Waves in, Particles out, Center of Contemporary Art, Glasgow, UK 
Letter and event, Apex, New York City, USA 
Preservations, Museum Hasselt, Old Bonnefanten, Maastricht, Netherlands 
Art in crushing force of Nature, Double Pleasure, New York City, USA 
You can’t get there from here, Thomas Nordanstad gallery, New York City, USA 
The Summer of Love, Foutohai Cramer gallery, New York City, USA 
Work in progress and or finished (cur. by Toby Webster & Jonathan Monk), Übermain,
Los Angeles, USA 
1996
The Monsters of Rock, Tour, Thomas Nordsanstad Gallery, New York City, USA (SOLO) 
Nowhere, Louisiana, Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark 
I’m curious, Transmission, Glasgow, Hales Gallery, London, UK
I’m curious, Hales Gallery, London, UK
9 Dimensional Theory, Nikolaj, Center for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark 
See what it feels like, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden 
Borealis;The Scream, Arken, Copenhagen, Denmark 
Videoportraits VIII: Henrik Håkansson, Café Rooseum Espresso, Malmö, Sweden 
Shot, Roger Smith Gallery, New York City, USA 
Open House, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Fransisco, USA 
Re-view II,TRE, Stockholm, Sweden 
Alone Together, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden 
Inner and Outer Space (Living Texture) Ars Futura, Zurich, Switzerland 
 
1995
Frog For.e.s.t, TRE, Stockholm, Sweden (SOLO) 
RAM, Portalen, Hundinge, Copenhagen, Denmark  
A night at the show, Fields, Zurich, Switzerland  
Art Attack, Gallery Struts/Tre, Oslo, Sweden  
Oslo One night stand, Oslo, Sweden  
I rörelse, Uddevalla konsthall/Borås Konstmuseum, Sweden  
 
1994
Saga Basement, Copenhagen, Denmark  
Apartment/Lägenhet, Malmö/Göteborg, Sweden  
Hemma hos, Linderoth & Fornander,Göteborg, Sweden  
Monitor 94 (video screening), Frölunda Kulturhus, Göteborg, Sweden  
Video nights (video screening), Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark  
Das Boot M/S Stubnitz (performance), Malmö hamn, Malmö, Sweden  
Multiple show, TRE, Stockholm, Sweden  
Pluralis, Galleri 1+1, Helsingborg, Sweden  
Opening, Rum för aktuell konst, Göteborg, Sweden  
Index Christmas edition, Galleri Index, Stockholm, Sweden 
Re-view, TRE, Stockholm, Sweden  
 
1993
Overground, Konsthallen Göteborg, Sweden  
Prospekt, Moderna Muséet, Stockholm, Sweden  
Monitor-93 (video screening), Frölunda Kulturhus, Göteborg, Sweden  
Nordfotoart, Ujazdowski Castle Centre of Contemporary Art, Warszaw, Poland  
 
1992
SEX, TRE, Stockholm, Sweden  
Bastard, Nordic house, Reykjavik, Island 
4, (Antonsson, Givell, Håkansson, Zimmerman), Forumgalleriet, Malmö, Sweden 
Group Show, Galleri Index, Stockholm, Sweden  
Visual movements (video screening), Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden  
Salongen III, Lido, Stockholm, Sweden  
Natursyn, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden