born 1982 in Hamburg, Germany
initiator of the Sensory Threshold LAB
member of Billytown artist initiative
mail[at]katherinaheil.de
IG @katherinaheil
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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 Intangible Scopes – Katherina Heil & Alexander Kadow, qvartr GALLERY Hamburg, DE
____past
2023 L∞p – Katherina Heil & Rik Möhlmann, Galerie 21, Vorwerkstift, Hamburg, DE
2023 gegenSÄTZE – Thematische Gruppenausstellung, Xpon-art Gallery, Hamburg, DE
2023 Intangible Scopes – Katherina Heil & Alexander Kadow, Villa Heike Berlin, DE
2023 This Is One Landscape, Divided – Jiajia Qi, Katherina Heil, Meta Drčar, Billytown Gallery The Hague, NL
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 – Katherina Heil & 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
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
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
2023 Stroom Den Haag, SPOT exhibition grant
2023 Bezirkskulturfonds (BKF) Berlin Lichtenberg, Project Grant
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 Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Corona support for Artist
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
2023 Artist Talk w/ Billytown, Frans Masereel Centrum, BE
2023 Lecture/Symposium, Udstillingstedet Spanien19c, Aarhus, DK
2022 Artist interview w/ Carsten Rabe & Madeleine Lauw, '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
Artist talks / Lectures / Teaching
2022 Artist Talk w/ Gili Crowel (Fonds Kwadraat), Petra Laper (CBK Rotterdam), Tent/ Melly, Rotterdam, NL
2022 Artist Interview on FSK Radio Hamburg, 'Der Lächelnde Hase - Künstler*innengespräche'
w/ Carsten Rabe und Madeleine Lauw
2021 Artist Talk w/ Carsten Rabe (curator), Lucia Heffner and Madeleine Lauw (curatorial assistance), on the occasion of
POSITION2.0, Fabrik der Künste, Hamburg, DE
2018 NAC-Reading Group, initiated as part of my residency at Nida Art Colony, Nida, LT
2019 Performance lecture/ reading at Symposium & Exhibition of Sensory Threshold LAB 2019 at A-DASH, Athens, GR
2019 Residency Talks / Generator, De Fabriek, Eindhoven, NL
2016 Artist Talk, Text and language within artistic practice (talker), w/ Anabel Lange, Bas vd Hurk, Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, NL
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 Artist Talk, Thesis Event MFA St. Joost, BREW, Brussels, BE
2015 Workshop supervisor for BFA students, Artistic Choices – the meaning in the materials, AKV St. Joost, Den Bosch, NL
2014 Workshop supervisor for BFA students, How to use – sources and working conditions, AKV St. Joost, Den Bosch, NL
2014 Workshop, Building up an exhibition - developed as part of the MFA program, in conversation with Marnix van Boetzelaer, Amsterdam, NL
2012 Guest tutor (lecturer), Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule, Berlin, DE
Collaboration
Founder and co-curator, Sensory Threshold LAB - Platform For Interdisciplinary Exchange Through Art (since 2019)
Member of Billytown artist-run initiative, The Hague
Reviews and Publications/ offline & online (selection)
2023 Exhibition Review on 'This Is One Landscape, Divided' at Billytown by Junghyun Kim
2023 Lost Painters art blog | Exhibition Review | Niek Hendrix on 'This Is One Landscape, Divided' at Billytown (online)
2023 ArtViewer | Online Publication of the exhibition 'This Is One Landscape, Divided' at Billytown (online)
2023 YYYYMMDD | Online Publication of the exhibition 'This Is One Landscape, Divided' at Billytown
2023 HAMBURG JOURNAL | TV | on the exhibition 'Jetzt:Alle at Kunstahaus Hamburg' | 04.02.2023, NDR-Fernsehen
2023 ZEIT.DE | online | Elbvertiefung Newsletter on the exhibition 'Jetzt:Alle at Kunsthaus Hamburg' | 07.02.2023
2023 Abendblatt | print & online on the exhibition 'Jetzt:Alle at Kunstahaus Hamburg' | 15. Februar
2023 Unser Norden | TV | Regional Culture News TV, group exhibition feature, NDR Germany
2023 Exhibition Catalog, Jetzt:Alle at Kunsthaus Hamburg
2022 FSK Radio Hamburg | Artist interview | 19.02.2022
2023 Exhibition Catalog, Jetzt:Alle at Kunsthaus Hamburg
2022 Booklet: Landesverband Hamburger Galerien e. V., Galeries in Hamburg, Spring | Summer 2022
2021 Exhibition catalog | POSITION. of the BBK Hamburg (concept and editing: Carsten Rabe, Hamburg)
2021 Exhibition catalog | Sensory Threshold Lab - Ohriversum (concept and editing: Katherina Heil, Alexander Heil)
2017 Exhibition review on Things can be seen more easily in motion, by Gemma Medina Estupiñán
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