NICOLE HEINZEL
CONTACT
Nicole Heinzel
Atelierhaus Mengerzeile 1-3 [207]
12435 Berlin
Germany
Telephone: +49 (0)177 600 7476
CV
1969 born in Libya
Lives and works in Berlin
Education
1997-98 Kingston University, London, UK
1988-91 Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art, Dundee, UK
1987-88 College of Commerce, Aberdeen, UK
Solo exhibtions
2009 one artist show, Art Karlsruhe Galerie Degenhartt, Berlin
2008 in and out of line, Galerie Degenhartt, Berlin
2001 Nicole Heinzel - new work, The Foundry, London UK
Selected group exhibtions
2009 Unbegrenzt, Kunsthalle m3, Berlin
2009 AAF: London, Amsterdam, New York, Will's Art, London UK
2009 Glasgow Art Fair Will’s Art, London UK
2009 konjunktionen, Kunsthalle m3, Berlin
2008 Anonyme Zeichner N°10 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2008 Nur der Schein trügt nicht. Das Sehen als interaktiver Prozess, Situation Kunst, Bochum Germany
2008 Gedanken zur Revolution Universal Cube, Spinnerei, Leipzig
2008 Ooh Yeah! Galerie Degenhartt, Berlin
2001-08 AAF: Miami, New York, Glasgow, London, Melbourne, Bristol, Amsterdam
2007 Haussalon IIII, Kunsthalle m3, Berlin
2007 A Match Made In Heaven - how painting and photography are falling in love, Kunsthalle m3, Berlin
2006 Haussalon III + Performance of 'The Tower' Atelierhaus Mengerzeile, Berlin
2006 Punch! Will's Art, London UK
2005 Handverlesen, Design Mai, Josetti Höfe, Berlin
2005 Spreeblick, Josetti Höfe, Berlin
1991-05 Group shows, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen UK
2003 Paint, Will's Art, London UK
2002 6th Anniversary Exhibition, Will's Art, London UK
2002 Surface Tourist, Art House, London UK
2001 5th Anniversary - our most successful artists, Will's Art, London UK
2001 Emerging Artists, Will's Art, London UK
2000 Raw Talent, Will's Art, London UK
1996-01 Group shows: The Roving Eye Gallery at the Horse Hospital, Strata Gallery, London UK
1996 Heinzel + Hulley, Aberdeen University UK
Collections
Situation Kunst für Max Imdahl
Work held in private collections worldwide
Galleries
m-Bochum Kunstvermittlung, Bochum Germany
Galerie Degenhartt, Berlin Germany
Will's Art, London UK
Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen UK
Publications/Catalogues
2008 Nur Der Schein trügt nicht, Das Sehen als interaktiver Prozess, Situation Kunst
2008 Ooh Yeah! Galerie Degenhartt
2001 Our most Successful Artists, Will's Art, London
Nicole Heinzel was born in 1969 in Bengasi, Libya to German
parents. After a spell in Iran (Persia) and Trinidad & Tobago the family
moved to Scotland where they lived for 22 years. Heinzel went to Duncan
of Jordanstone School of Art in Scotland. After seven years living and working
as an artist and designer in London, she moved to Berlin in 2003.
Heinzel has shown work in several galleries in the UK and Germany, and has work in private
collections worldwide.
Nicole Heinzel’s work expresses the complex and personal beauty she finds in the apparent simplicity of the line. She is inspired by everyday encounters with repetitive lines or elements in natural and man-made environment.
“electricity wires, pylons, string, hair, contour lines on maps,
ferris wheels and rollercoasters, the scribblings of a child, the scratches
and cracks in walls, architectural lines, lightning, seismographs and polygraphs,
the grooves in a record, textiles, the grain of wood, the invisible lines
found in the flights of birds and insects or in paths of commuters at a
train station and how they move and interact within structured spaces……..
for me the line also symbolises the interconnectedness within everything”
Heinzel is first and foremost a painter, however she also produces work
in a variety of other media, including photography, film, sound, sculpture
and drawing. Of all of these photography is arguably the most integral to
her practice, acting both as inspiration and tool, forming an almost symbiotic
relationship with the other mediums – one that is of mutual dependence
and continual exchange. Most often her vision finds resolution in paint.
Here, the lines are scratched repetitively into layers of oil paint using
a variety of different tools including a stanley knife, twigs or palette
knife. The repetitive nature of her creating processes takes the artist
through many stages of being. For Heinzel it is this process which forms
the soul of the work, and connects the simplicity of the line with the complexity
of being. The resultant works are complex webs of lines that simultaneously
reference both their minimalist and expressionist heritage.
WORK
#2/60 | oil on canvas | 2009 | 60 x 60 cm
#2/61 | oil on canvas | 2009 | 60 x 60 cm
#2/30 | oil on canvas | 2009 | 120 x 180 cm