Event
Gallery Weekend Berlin 2019
26 Apr 2019 – 28 Apr 2019
Gallery Weekend Berlin
Berlin, Germany
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Stefanie Heinze, "Vim", 2019, oil and acrylic on linen, 195 x 155 cm, 76.7 x 61 inches
Exhibition
Stefanie Heinze. Odd Glove
26 Apr 2019 – 8 Jun 2019
Regular hours
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
free admission
Travel Information
- U5 Straussberger Platz
Event map
Capitain Petzel presents the first solo exhibition of Berlin based artist Stefanie Heinze.
About
he starting point of her paintings are small-format drawings that often emerge from a collage process in which shapes are added or removed. Throughout the transfer to larger-sized canvases, translation errors occur and are actually welcome: failure is not only always an option, but an integral part of Heinze’s images.Her works depict scenes rife with fantastic encounters, composed of playfully transformative, and (a)sexual motifs. Themes such as psychology, social class, gender, sexuality, the nature and procurement of food, digestion and everyday weather exert a major impact on her work. Anti-achievement and impossibility are embedded in her iconography in the form of flaccid penises, flying carrots or melting creatures. Accordingly, she proclaims “newsense,” a kind of pseudo-optimistic invention of her own making, as a retort to nonsense. The artist looks for the unexpected and subversive into which she integrates the perverse. Her works oscillate between high and low culture, embracing failure as a necessity and a better way of being.
