dieFirma announces An Unquiet House, Kati Henning’s debut solo exhibition on view at 32A Cooper Square from Thursday, April 30 through Saturday, July 25, 2026. 

In Kati Henning’s debut New York solo exhibition, An Unquiet House, images float and hover, threatening to liquesce and slide off into the ether. Reminiscent of immersive video games and painted film backdrops, this series of paintings presents sites of imagination and world-building: spaces that bridge the gap between reality and fantasy.

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Kati Henning

Kati Henning (b. 1983) grew up in the rural areas of Union County, Ohio. She received her BFA from Ohio Wesleyan University in 2006, with a focus in  painting.

Henning’s paintings create the alternate realities she dreamed of in childhood. Her imagined interiors are ornate dreamscapes, a response to her impoverished upbringing in a conservative and intensely religious household: a forceful rebuttal to memories of home as a drab, brown shell deplete of comfort, beauty and color.

Henning’s lineage of skilled tradesmen prioritized building a life with their hands, surviving by working the land alongside the nearby Amish and Mennonite communities, living a parallel and meager existence. Henning sublimates her formative experiences into paintings packed with architectural details, fanciful trompe l’oeil, and sumptuous furnishings, showing viewers “the way I wish it could have been instead of the way it actually was.”