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until 04.10. | #4773ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider (Linienstrasse) shows from 12. September 2025 (Opening: 11.09.) a Solo-exhibition by the artist Thilo Heinzmann.
Thilo Heinzmann’s third solo exhibition at neugerriemschneider combines selected works from various series of the artist’s oeuvre, thus following on from their dialogue-based juxtaposition in his new monograph and offering a pointed insight into his work. Both the book and the presentation demonstrate Heinzmann’s analytical approach to painting in their conceptual density. By using materials that are supposedly foreign to the medium – including polystyrene, chipboard, aluminium, glass splinters and grains of sand – he examines its fundamentals, expands it with new object-based and technical possibilities and makes the artistic process visible in dynamic compositions whose visual reception evokes haptic sensations.
In Heinzmann’s works, form, scale, surface, colour and light do not serve as classical means of finding an image, but are the elementary components of the composition in their specific characteristics. The artist combines irregular polystyrene panels with crystalline glass fragments and thin shards that cast coloured shadows on and next to the white surfaces. He breaks the edges of the pressboard by hand, revealing the chaotic inner structure of the material. He pours, drips and paints glossy epoxy resin onto the matt surface, into which he integrates small fragments of chip. Heinzmann’s interest in the interplay between industrially produced smoothness and individual structure also led him to aluminium, which he perforates and confronts with leather and parchment.
Thilo Heinzmann, O.T., 2021, © Thilo Heinzmann. Courtesy the artist and neugerriemschneider, Berlin. Photo: Roman März, aluminum, leather and parchment, 130 × 160.5 × 19.2 cm
With precise gestures that do not exclude chance, he adds unbound pigments to structured canvases and accentuates them with coloured glass. The different elements enter into a dialogue that creates a lively whole. In his latest series of works, the artist works with black oil paint, which he applies evenly or impasto and smudges in sweeps. Grains of sand shimmer on these surfaces, while individual fragments of coloured glass refract the light, corresponding with the reflections of the paint and creating a depth that varies depending on the point of view and movement. In exchange, the pictures testify to a continuity in the experimental exploration of technique and composition that lends Heinzmann’s works a dynamic and at the same time consistent quality.
Thilo Heinzmann, MM 02, 2019, © Thilo Heinzmann. Courtesy the artist and neugerriemschneider, Berlin. Photo: Roman März, resin on chipboard, two parts: 60 x 80 cm, 140 × 280 cm
This monograph on Heinzmann’s work, published by Scheidegger & Spiess, is the first in ten years. It sheds light on his work from his studies at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main to the black sand paintings. In addition to numerous reproductions and detailed photographs, the book contains an interview between the artist and curator Mark Godfrey as well as an essay by art critic Kristian Vistrup Madsen. In addition, the author Vanessa Onwuemezi explores Heinzmann’s work in poetic prose.
Thilo Heinzmann, O.T., 2018, © Thilo Heinzmann. Courtesy the artist and neugerriemschneider, Berlin. Photo: Roman März, styrofoam, glass behind acrylic-glass cover, 113.5 × 104.5 × 19 cm
Thilo Heinzmann (b. 1969) has been the subject of solo exhibitions at international institutions, including Too much is not enough!, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz (2019); Per Amor a l’Art Collection. Ornament = Crime?, Bombas Gens Centre d’Art, Valencia (2017); Painting Fo-rever! KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2013); Masterpieces of Painting in the IVAM Collection: Past, Present and Future, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia (2011); Hotel Marienbad 002: Sammlung Rausch, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2008); Curator 2007/2008: Das Grosse Nichts, Gebert Foundation for Culture, Rapperswil-Jona (2008); Ketzer & Co, Dům umění/The Brno House of Arts, Brno (2006); 36 x 27 x 10, Volkspalast, Berlin (2005); deutschemalereizweitausenddrei, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main (2003); Viva November, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (2001); Painting, INIT Kunsthalle, Berlin (1999); Offencia Europa, Gal-leria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna (1999); and Junge Szene, Secession, Vienna (1998). Heinzmann lives and works in Berlin.
Opening: Thursday, 11. September, 6 – 10 pm.
Exhibition dates : Friday, 12. September– Sayurday, 04. October 2025
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Title image caption: Thilo Heinzmann, O.T., 2020, © Thilo Heinzmann. Courtesy the artist and neugerriemschneider, Berlin. Photo: Roman März, oil, pigment and glass on canvas behind acrylic-glass cover, 195 × 265 × 11 cm
Exhibition Thilo Heinzmann – Galerie neugerriemschneider | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
