CV

Therese Henningsen

b. 1987 in Aarhus, Denmark

lives and works in London


Films

All These Summers, 2025, 66 mins (nominated for the New Vision Award CPH DOX 2025)

After Time, 2023, 34 mins

Baby Jesus, 2023, 15 mins, in collaboration with Sidsel Meineche Hansen

Slow Delay, 2018, 16 mins

Maintenancer, 2018, 13 mins, in collaboration with Sidsel Meineche Hansen

Sublet, 2017, 3 mins, in collaboration with Aki Ilomäki


Selected Screenings and Exhibitions

2025 Maintenancer, The Queen’s Breasts Carved from Wood, CCA Kronika, Bytom

2025 After Time, Carousel, The Wicker Arms, Staffordshire St. Gallery, London

2025 Cittipunkt x Weathergirl, Cittipunkt Berlin and Avalon Café London

2025 All These Summers, UK Premiere, Creative Nonfiction Film Weekend, Rio Cinema, London

2025 All These Summers, World Premiere, CPH DOX, Copenhagen

2025 After Time and Baby Jesus, Weathergirl, curated by Freya Finn Field-Donovan and Bronte Dow, Avalon Café, London

2024 Baby Jesus and Maintenancer, Kiosk, KASK Cinema, Ghent

2024 Baby Jesus, Purge launch, St George in the East, London

2024 Baby Jesus, Loop Art Fair, Barcelona

2024 After Time, Close Up Film Centre, London

2024 After Time, The Lock-In, Monokino, KAAP, Oostende

2024 After Time, Artists and the City, The Barbican Cinema, London

2024 After Time, At Home in Hackney, Hackney Picturehouse, London

2024 Sublet, Weathergirl, Pelican House, London

2023 Slow Delay, Casual Encounters programmed by Denna Cartamkhoob, LUX, London

2023 Maintenancer, In the Darkness Bind Them, HFKD Cinema, Huset for Kunst og Design, Holstebro

2023 Baby Jesus, Missionary, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Éduoard Montassut, Paris

2023 Baby Jesus, Missionary, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Company Gallery, New York

2022 Slow Delay, Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter, book launch and screening, Whitechapel Gallery, London

2022 Maintenancer, The Milk of Dreams, Venice Biennale, Venice

2021 Maintenancer, online screening, response by and Q&A with Mandy Merck, Plattform, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen

2021 Maintenancer, online screening and talk, Art Sonje Center, Seoul

2021 Maintenancer, online screening, Mascara Film Club, London

2021 Slow Delay, online film programme curated by Andrea Luka Zimmerman for Cryptofiction, London

2019 Maintenancer, Welcome to End-Used City, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Chisenhale Gallery, London

2019 Maintenancer, Are you difficult to work with? Sidsel Meineche Hansen, SMK Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

2019 Maintenancer, Bodies of Work, curated by Benison Kilby, Bus Projects, Melbourne

2018 Maintenancer, Real Doll Theatre by Sidsel Meineche Hansen, KW, Berlin

2018 Slow Delay, The Liberated Film Club, curated by Stanley Schtinter, Close Up Film Centre, London

2018 Slow Delay, Artists’ Short Film Programme, Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable

2018 Slow Delay, Artists’ film programme curated by Gareth Evans, Whitechapel Gallery, London

2018 Slow Delay, Shitty Heartbreaker, Adam Christensen, Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen

2018 Sublet and Slow Delay, I Met Myself in the Kitchen, Oslo House, London

2018 Sublet, Open Screening, Whitechapel Gallery, London


Selected Talks and Presentations

2025 The Lock-In Monograph and After Time (dvd) launch, Barbican Cinema, London

2025 Introduction to Les Rendezvous d’Anna by Chantal Akerman, programmed by A Nos Amour, Close Up Film Centre, London

2023 Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter, talk and conversation, with Lauren Elkin, Xiaolo Guo, Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Barbican Library, London

2023 Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter, book launch and screening, SIC SoundImageCulture, Projection Room, Brussels

2023 Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter, book launch and screening, with Jon Bang Carlsen and Ruth Beckermann, Terrassen, Cinemateket, Copenhagen

2022 Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter, book launch and responses to Strangers by Toni Morrison,  with Umama Hamido, Andrea Luka Zimmerman, 
Ruth Beckermann and Adam Christensen, Open City Documentary Festival, London

2021 Invitations, four conversations for Technecast, co-organised with Mark Aerial Waller, Judah Attille and Astrid Korporaal


Publications and Texts

2025 After Time (dvd) and edited conversation with Anne Billson and Anouk de Clercq, in The Lock-In, artist’s monograph by Stanley Schtinter, Tamara Press

2024 Rehearsal for Life, a conversation with Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Adrian Jackson on the making of Here for Life, 
Selected films by Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Second Run DVD

2022 Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter, interdisciplinary anthology co-edited with Juliette Joffé, published by Prototype Publishing

2020 Otherwise: Notes on being perenially in-between, with Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Another Gaze 04

2015 How to work together, Sharna Pax, commissioned by How to work together (Chisenhale Gallery, The Showroom and Studio Voltaire)


Curation

Terrassen, www.terrassen.bio

Sharna Pax, www.sharnapax.org

2024 Artists in Residence: London, Art Making, Space and Everyday Life, film season, Barbican Centre, in collaboration with Matthew Harle and Matthew Barrington

2024 Two Films from West Jutland, Jon Bang Carlsen and Carl Th. Dreyer, film programme curated for Sunset Cinema, Country Town, Lemvig

2023 The Social Life of Film, gathering for nomadic film collectives in Europe, organised by Terrassen (Copenhagen) and PRISMS (Oslo)

2022 Acts of Affection, seven films by seven filmmakers, online programme curated for Cryptofiction: Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Viet Vu, Adam Christensen, Juliette Joffé, 
Mary Jimenez Freeman Morris, Xiaolu Guo, and Pierre Creton

2018 Film programme curated for Shitty Heartbreaker, Adam Christensen, Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art

2017 Programmer, film club Baroque Home Theatre, Copenhagen


Teaching

2022-present Mentor and senior tutor, MA Docfiction and MA Documentary and Ethnographic Film, UCL Anthropology Department

2023-present Mentor MA Performance: Screen, Central Saint Martins

2020-2022 Editing tutor, MA Documentary and Ethnographic Film and MA Docfiction, UCL Anthropology Department

2020-2021 Course tutor, Critical Theory and Textual Analysis, BA Media Arts, Royal Holloway University

2021-present Course tutor, Documentary as Encounter, Online Short Course, Open City Documentary School

2017-present Moderator at DOX:ACADEMY, Hybrid class, CPH DOX

2012-14 Guest lecturer Visual Anthropology with Emma Tarlo and Massimiliano Mollona


Education

2019-2025 PhD Media Arts, Royal Holloway University, London, UK

2012-2014: MA Visual Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, London, UK

2008-2011: BA Anthropology & Media, Goldsmiths College, London, UK


Grants/Awards

2025 Nominated for the New Vision Award CPH DOX

2024 Necessity Development Grant

2023 Necessity Production Support

2021 Danish Arts Foundation Production Grant

2019 Techné DTP Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Training Grant

2016 The Danish Institute in Athens, residency grant

2012 Arts and Humanities Research Council Professional Preparation Grant

2011 Professor Brian Morris Prize, Goldsmiths University


Collaboration

2024 Wayfaring Stranger, contributor, with Andrea Luka Zimmerman

2019 Here for Life, associate director and co-devisor, with Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Adrian Jackson

2015 Estate A Reverie, collaborator, with Andrea Luka Zimmerman