CLOVER & FINCH is a gallery project by HT Kløver

As an artist and art collector,

I have a strong passion for literature, photography and pop art. Thanks to my extensive experience working in the fields of exhibition curation, artist portfolio reviewing and managing art auctions, I have developed a keen eye for the needle in the haystack, meaning I can identify art which can gain appreciation and value. I have written for diverse publications such as the New York Times, Artinvestor and the Lumas Art Magazine. In terms of my artistic skills, I am an expert in book design, illustration, photography and framing.
My academic background is in anthropology and art history, which I studied at the Free University of Berlin and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. During this time, I completed an internship at the House of World Cultures(HKW) in Berlin, where I also worked as a freelancer. My latest exhibition projects were executed in cooperation with the House of Literature (Literaturhaus) Berlin. Below, you will find examples of my work in more or less chronological order. If you would like to learn more about exhibitions, awards and curated events, please click here.

Oh, and I almost forgot:

I love drawing finches. Keep scrolling to see more projects +

Poster Design: The First Sentence

My twelve posters on internationally acclaimed works of literature and their authors were displayed in the stairwell of the Berlin Literaturhaus 2023-2024. These posters are the result of an experiment: While re-reading the texts, I tried to transform them into collages, using historical prints, details from book covers and my own photographs.
Within a year, I had a dozen drafts that I kept pulling out, revising, looking at together, putting back, adding to, and simplifying. At some point it didn’t work anymore, no revision seemed to make sense, mostly it just restored a previous state. A writer may recognize parallels to his own work here.
I incorporated the first sentence of the text into the design in order to connect the individual graphics. You can see all twelve posters on a separate website following this link.

Exhibition and Book Design

In 2019, I initiated and hosted two successful events on the work of writer and filmmaker Ulf Miehe at Literaturhaus Berlin. This included an exhibition of 18 photographs based on the novel “Ich hab noch einen Toten in Berlin” (I left a Dead One in Berlin).
In 2020, the exhibition moved on to the Ulf Miehe’s birthplace in Brandenburg. Together with the museum, I expanded the exhibition to include a “biography in fragments”, generously supported by Angelika Miehe. The result was a book with 82 pages. I was also responsible for the conversion of the material into exhibition cubes for the museum.
Under the title “Drehorte – Fotografien nach einem Kriminalroman” (Locations – Photographs after a Crime Novel) I have published a catalog for the photo exhibition. Available online and in bookstores:
Drehorte – Fotografien nach einem Kriminalroman ISBN/EAN 9783751948654
ULF MIEHE – Facetten eines Autors ISBN/EAN 9783751936316

Honorable Mention and Exhibition of two portraits at the Hellerau (Dresden) Photography Awards 2018

Writing about Photography for the New York Times and other publications

I have written several articles for the New York Times magazine LENS and published them since 2009. Two examples you can find online, follow this link to the article about Russian photo artist Oleg Videnin with twenty reader comments. The article about Adam Panczuk’s photography from Poland you can find here: lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/showcase-defying-the-odds-acting-oddly

New York City Collages

Photographing NYC with an experimental camera using mirrors to create in-camera-collages, published on Lens Culture 2010.