Heike-Karin Föll

Heike-Karin Föll lives and works in Berlin.

The artist is a professor for Contemporary Art, Drawing and Critical Digitality at Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK).

Heike-Karin Föll’s work examines the materiality and status of painting, drawing and writing in a culture increasingly dominated by the circulation of digital images. The quotation of pre-existing references and the appropriation of specifically non-pictorial techniques, such as collage and writing, are part of her work. Föll questions the authority of the medium of painting, historically linked to the larger format and the masculine, by paying particular attention to what is artistically considered as minor. Her work recalibrates the boundaries between painting and writing, the material and the digital.

She has participated in solo exhibitions at multiple institutions, such as over-painting at WeissFalk in Zurich (2023), blushing at Campoli Presti in Paris (2020), Speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin (2019), metal at Mathew Gallery in Berlin (2017), news at Galerie Francesca Pia in Zürich (2016) , oity at hacienda in Zürich (2015), L’idiot de la famille at Mathew Gallery in Berlin (2014), The Delphinium Version, ELAINE, Museum of Contemporary Art in Basel (2012).

Her work was featured in several group exhibitions including Attitudes and Compositions at IASPIS, Stockholm (2023); Neuzeit Grotesk at Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw (2022); Speed, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin(2019); Centre d'Art Neuchâtel, Switzerland (2018); Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin (2016); Mumok, Vienna (2016); Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (2014); The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2014); National Museum, Tbilisi (2014); Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel (solo exhibition 2012) and Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland (2011).