born 1982 in Hamburg, Germany
initiator of the Sensory Threshold LAB
member of Billytown artist initiative
mail[at]katherinaheil.de
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"Cosmic phenomena have always served as inspiration for mythologies and stories. Exploring them and imagining the ‘self’ in the ‘big picture’ inspires our creative urge, and helps us make sense of ourselves and our lives in the universal context. The interpretations and visualizations of the cosmos’ create spaces, give us an awareness, and a broad idea of experiencing space and time. Placing the human being as a thinking being with a mind and a body - with a ‘self’ - in the context of the idea of an expanding universe is a recurring theme in my artistic work."
(Katherina Heil 2022)
Education
2013-2015 MFA Fine Art, AKV St.Joost, Den Bosch/ Breda, Netherlands
2011 Master class of James Higginson, Fine Art Photography,Berlin, Germany
2009 - 2011 Culture Science Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
2006-2009 BA Photography/ Visual & Motion Design, Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule, Germany
Exhibitions
____CURRENT & UPCOMING
2023 This Is One Landscape, Divided – Jiajia Qi, Katherina Heil, Meta Drčar, Billytown Gallery The Hague, NL
2023 Intangible Scopes – Alexander Kadow & Katherina Heil, Villa Heike Berlin, DE
2023 Intangible Scopes – Alexander Kadow & Katherina Heil, qvartr GALLERY Hamburg, DE
____past
2023 Jahresausstlellung des BBK, Kunsthaus Hamburg, DE
2022 RSVP #2, Billytown Gallery The Hague, NL
2022 Nice To See You, Exgirlfriend Gallery, Berlin DE
2022 We are just sitting in a room, drawing, until the walls are full – Katherina Heil & Rik Möhlmann, home gallery Den Haag, NL
2022 Sensory Threshold LAB 2022 - Holy Grid, Billytown Gallery, The Hague NL
2022 (Duo) Zwischen oben und Unten, with Alexander Kadow, Galerie LinksRechts, Hamburg DE
2022 RSVP Billytown Gallery, The Hague NL
2021 POSITION. 2.0, Fabrik der Künste, Hamburg DE
2021 Sensory Threshold LAB 2021 – OHRIVERSUM, De Fabriek Eindhoven NL
2020 No View, The Radio, WEST Den Haag NL, online
2020 not cancelled Netherlands, online
2020 (Duo) Spacial Drift – works by Andrea Acosta & Katherina Heil, Exgirlfriend Gallery, Berlin DE
2019 Ceramic on the Spot, Willem Twee Kunstruimte, 's-Hertogenbosch NL
2019 (Solo) Dunes, Meteors, and Spaceships, The Orchid and The Wasp, Amsterdam NL
2019 Cosmographia, Symposium, A-DASH project space, Athens GR
2019 (Solo) Sensory Thresholds III – Cosmographia, A-DASH project space, Athens GR
2018 DayTrippe, Kioskas, Neringa LT
2018 (Solo) Sensory Thresholds II – Passerby, Nida Art Colony, Nida LT
2018 (Solo) Sensory Thresholds I – Spinning on the grid, galerieGallery Rotterdam NL
2017 (Solo) Things can be seen more easily in motion, De Fabriek Eindhoven NL
2017 On Air, Stichting Kaus Australis, Rotterdam NL
2017 Identify your limitations, acknowledge the periphery, VITRINE Gallery, Basel CH
2016 in the corner of the eye, Stichting Kaus Australis, Rotterdam NL
2016 Time out of mind, (curated by Whatspace), Billytown Gallery, The Hague NL
2016 Official Opening of the new location, European Ceramic Workcenter, Oisterwijk NL
2016 Test case V, European Ceramic Workcenter, Oisterwijk NL
2015 Several Species of Small Furry Animals ..., WHATSPACE, Tilburg NL
2015 the collection - Graduation show MFA, Greylight Projects, Brussels BE
2015 It could be the goldfish is mistaking the bow-tie for a football, Gallery Boetzelaer | Nispen, Amsterdam NL
2014 A presentation for Bucharest, Make A Point, Bucharest RO
2014 There & There - no(w)here, VORT platform, Den Bosch NL
2013 XOHOUILLE, in conversation with Emmanuel Lambion, W-O-L-K-E, Brussels BE
2013 Two-headed monster, Space Shuffle project space, 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin DE
2013 Macht Kunst, Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin DE
2012 I Have Nothing To Say. EINmagazine Issue#1 launch, exhibition & artist's talk, Liebig12, Berlin DE
2012 De-Construction-Re-Construction, Month of Performance Art Berlin, Galerie L’Atelier-KSR, Berlin DE
2012 kaleidoskop anniversary, Raum, Berlin DE
2012 Altered States, curated by Kevin Bright, Panke Gallery, Berlin DE
2012 Transient Museum, Freies Museum Projektraum, Berlin DE
2011 modern classic, Your Mum, Berlin DE
2011 Let them eat cake, 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin DE
2010 HOST @ Crane Kalman, Crane Kalman Gallery, Brighton UK
2010 The Foto8 Summershow, HOST Gallery, London UK
2010 The moment in between, kaleidoskop gallery, Berlin DE
Residencies / working periods
2021 De Fabriek Eindhoven, NL
2019 A-Dash, Athens, GR
2018 Nida Art Colony, Nida/ Vilnius, LT
2017 De Fabriek, Eindhoven, NL
2016 Stichting Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, NL
2016 EKWC, Oisterwijk, NL
2015 working period/ MFA, supervised by George Korsmit, New York, USA
2014 Bucharest AiR, working period/ MFA, supervised by Tudor Bratu, Bucharest, RO
2013 W-O-L-K-E, working period/ MFA, supervised by Emmauel Lambion and Marjolijn Dijkman, Brussels, BE,
2007 working period/ BA Photography, supervised by Prof. Matthias Leupold and Todd Weinstein, New York, USA
Grants
2022 Mondriaan Fund Amsterdam, Project Grant
2022 Stroom Den Haag, SPOT exhibition grant
2021 Stroom Den Haag, SPOT exhibition grant
2021 Mondriaan Fund Amsterdam, Project Grant
2020 Scholarship of Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Artist Grant
2019 Mondriaan Fund Amsterdam, Project Grant
2018 CBK Rotterdam, O&O Research and development grant
2016 Mondriaan Fund Amsterdam, Tijdelijke Binnenlandateliers
Artist talks / Lectures / Workshops
2022 Artist interview with Carsten Rabe & Madeleine Lauw, Radio show 'Der Lächelnde Hase - artist talks', FSK Radio Hamburg, DE
2022 Artist Talk with Gili Crowel (Fonds Kwadraat) in collaboration with CBK Rotterdam, Tent/Melly Rotterdam, NL
2019 Symposium, Sensory Threshold LAB: Cosmographia - Symposium & Exhibition, A-DASH space, Athens, GR
2019 Residency Talks / Generator, De Fabriek, Eindhoven, NL
2018 Lecture/ Reading groups (initiator) - in collaboration with artists in residence at Nida Art Colony, LT
2016 Text and language within artistic practice, artist talk w/ Anabel Lange, Bas vd Hurk, Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, NL
2015 Thesis Event MFA St. Joost, Artist Talk, BREW, Brussels, BE
2012 Guest lecturer, Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule, Berlin, DE
Workshops/ Collaboration / Other
2022 Coordinator Sensory Threshold LAB, curated in collaboration w/ Alexander Johannes Heil, Billytown The Hague, NL
2021 Coordinator Sensory Threshold LAB, curated in collaboration w/ Katherina Heil, Alexander Johannes Heil, Rik Möhlmann, De Fabriek Eindhoven NL
2019 - Member artist-run initiative Billytown The Hague
2019 Coordinator Sensory Threshold LAB, curated in collaboration w/ Rik Möhlmann, PACTO collective, initiated as part of my residency at A-DASH, Athens, GR
2018 NAC-Reading Group, initiated as part of my residency at Nida Art Colony, Nida, LT
2016 Studio visit for students of the Laurens College during my residency at Kaus Australis, in collaboration with Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NL
2015 Workshop supervisor for BFA students, Artistic Choices – the meaning in the materials, AKV St. Joost, Breda/ Den Bosch, NL,
2014 Workshop supervisor for BFA students, How to use – sources and working conditions, AKV St. Joost, Breda/ Den Bosch, NL
2014 Building up an exhibition - workshop developed as part of the MFA program, in conversation with Marnix van Boetzelaer, Amsterdam, NL
Sensory Threshold LAB
A platform for interdisciplinary exchange
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