Heike-Karin Föll

Heike-Karin Föll (Bad Cannstatt, 1967) 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 had several solo exhibitions including Over-painting at WeissFalk, Zurich (2023); Blushing at Campoli Presti, Paris (2020); Speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2019); Metal at Mathew Gallery, Berlin (2017); News at Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich (2016); Oity at hacienda, Zürich (2015), L’idiot de la famille at Mathew Gallery, Berlin (2014); The Delphinium Version, ELAINE, Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel (2012).

Her work has been showcased in several group exhibitions, including Graffiti, at Museion - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano, Bolzen (2025); Attitudes and Compositions at IASPIS, Stockholm (2023); Neuzeit Grotesk at Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw (2022); Centre d'Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel(2018); at Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin (2016); at Mumok, Vienna (2016); at Kunsthalle Bern, Bern (2014); at The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2014); at the National Museum, Tbilisi (2014); at Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich( 2011).