Stefanie Heinze
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Biography
Ph: Billie ClarkenBorn 1987 in Berlin
Lives and works in New York
Stefanie Heinze’s paintings display ambiguous forms that become recognizable as unexpected subjects. From disembodied body parts, to everyday objects, to animal-like figures, her subjects melt into fantastical backgrounds to create vivid visual worlds, which reveal an interplay between high and low culture. Heinze’s brightly colored, imaginative compositions are tenderly subversive in their details and symbolism, complemented with equally lyrical titles. Pencil, ink, or ballpoint pen drawings – sometimes torn and collaged into multi-layered compositions – form a basis for Stefanie Heinze’s artistic practice, mapping for the opulent language of her paintings. Testing the fine line between abstraction and figuration, Heinze is categorically unique, as she explores new senses and possibilities of representation. Rejecting the pressure for things to align along certain expectations or norms, Heinze thinks of her paintings as a home for visual language to merely exist and belong to what she understands to be a state of being. She refers to her imagery as both mental and bodily experiences that can display a kind of otherwordliness or strangeness, figuring out transformative states of depiction that equally integrate the banal with the unexplainable. Feelings come up that are all too familiar: Uncertainty, insecurity, confusion, shame, excitement, or even disgust. However, "it’s not on me to tell you what to see or feel," she stresses. How do we speak about what we see when we enter a terrain that already left the breakfast table, bypasses art history and leaves us in a state of disorientation.
Stefanie Heinze recently had a solo exhibition at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. The artist had further solo shows at Petzel, New York (2024), Capitain Petzel, Berlin (2022), Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2021); LC Queisser, Tbilisi (2019); Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf (2019); Mary Boone Gallery, New York (2018); among others. Stefanie Heinze participated in numerous group shows including The Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire (2024-2025), Consortium Museum, Dijon (2023); Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2022); Boros Foundation at Berghain, Berlin (2020); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2020); Saatchi Gallery, London (2018); Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2017); Good Press, Glasgow (2016); and Basis, Frankfurt (2015).Stefanie Heinze’s works are held in various collections worldwide, such as the AMA Collection, Venice; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Musée d‘Art Moderne de Paris; MAMCO, Geneva; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; The Hepworth Wakefield, UK; Marguerite Hoffman Collection, Dallas; The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas; Mead Gallery at Warwick Arts Centre, UK; the Delfina Collection, UK; and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. -
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Works
Stefanie Heinze
O.T. (HM, DEEPL) + O.T. (NO MATTER HO), 2022Ink, ballpoint pen, pencil and cardboard on paper, collaged, double-sidedSigned, dated and titledPaper dimensions:
14.9 x 20.1 cm / 5.9 x 7.9 inches
Framed dimensions:
24.1 x 29.5 cm / 9.5 x 11.6 inchesB-SHEINZE-.22-0017Exhibitions-
Sweet Sixteen
Celebrating 16 years of Capitain Petzel 7 June — 3 August 2024On the occasion of Capitain Petzel’s sixteenth anniversary, the gallery is excited to present Sweet Sixteen , a group exhibition celebrating the artists who have been integral to its program...Explore -
Stefanie Heinze
Dimensions of the Fool 5 November — 23 December 2022Fooling Around By Mason Leaver-Yap Zero We begin as idiots. Barely part of it, we take nothing in this brand-new world for granted. We receive everything as a question—a curiosity...Explore -
omelette papier
15 January — 5 March 2022Karla Black, Andrea Bowers, Joe Bradley, Isabella Ducrot, Jadé Fadojutimi, Hadi Fallahpisheh, Anna Gaskell, Georgia Gardner Gray, Stefanie Heinze, Charline von Heyl, Sanya Kantarovsky, Maria Lassnig, Marcel Odenbach, Pieter Schoolwerth,...Explore -
Infinite Games... 2
Jadé Fadojutimi, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Stefanie Heinze, Jacqueline Humphries, Rodney McMillian, Sarah Morris, Seth Price, Pieter Schoolwerth, Amy Sillman, Monika Sosnowska, Wim Wenders 26 February — 17 April 2021Capitain Petzel is pleased to present the second iteration of Infinite Games , extending the concept of the group show initiated at the gallery late last year, which reflected on...Explore -
Infinite Games
Jadé Fadojutimi, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Stefanie Heinze, Jacqueline Humphries, Sanya Kantarovsky, Rodney McMillian, Sarah Morris, Virginia Overton, Laura Owens, Jorge Pardo, Seth Price, Pieter Schoolwerth, Wim Wenders 21 November 2020 — 30 January 2021The exhibition takes its starting point from a recent project initiated by Capitain Petzel during the Corona lockdown called Rhizome . Among the works presented online and later at the...Explore -
Stefanie Heinze
Odd Glove 26 April — 8 June 2019Gallery Weekend Berlin Saturday, April 27 – Sunday, April 28, 11 am – 7pm Capitain Petzel presents the first solo exhibition of Berlin based artist Stefanie Heinze. The starting point...Explore
External ExhibitionsStefanie Heinze, Your Mouth Comes Second, 2024-25
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
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The Red Bulletin: "Stefanie Heinze"
Anne Waak, 10 March 2025 -
Art Frame: "Prima del linguaggio, al centro di tutto. Viaggio nella poetica di Stefanie Heinze"
Francesco Liggieri, 15 November 2024 -
Monopol: "Was mit und nach der Sprache kommt" (Stefanie Heinze)
7 November 2024 -
PAPER Magazine: "Stefanie Heinze Interviews Stefanie Heinze (Again)"
Justin Moran, 5 June 2024 -
Das Wetter: "Aus der Betonnische"
Fid. Fischer, 28 March 2024 -
Artnet: "Stefanie Heinze Paints Richly Ambiguous Worlds. Collectors Are Obsessed"
Taylor Dafoe, 11 December 2023 -
CULTURED MAG: "STEFANIE HEINZE IS REORDERING REALITY"
Chiara Di Leone , 31 December 2022 -
KUNSTFORUM: "Stefanie Heinze: Dimensions of the Fool"
Jens Asthoff, 16 December 2022 -
Monopol: "Zur Malerei von Stefanie Heinze. Die Dimensionen des Narren"
Oliver Koerner von Gustorf, 15 December 2022 -
Plus Magazine: "Stefanie"
Christopher Chow, 1 June 2022 -
Spike: "The Downward Spiral: Zombie Figuration and the Death Ritual" (Stefanie Heinze, Peter Schoolwerth)
Dean Kissick, 14 October 2021 -
Collection Issue: "Stefanie Heinze"
Donna Salek, 24 September 2021 -
Wall Street International "Stefanie Heinze. Stories of the imaginary"
13 May 2021 -
Paper Magazine: "Stefanie Heinze Interview About "Frail Juice" at Petzel"
Justin Moran, 23 October 2020 -
BLAU: "Stefanie Heinze"
Oliver Körner von Gustorf, 19 October 2019 -
Texte zur Kunst: "FAIL BETTER: Colin Lang on Stefanie Heinze at Capitain Petzel, Berlin"
Colin Lang, 1 June 2019 -
Sleek: "Introducing the Berlin artist transforming symbolic objects into dark social critique" (Stefanie Heinze)
26 April 2019 -
Art in America: "Stefanie Heinze"
Alina Cohen, 1 March 2018 -
Artnews: "Stefanie Heinze"
Alina Cohen, 1 March 2018 -
Vice: "Stefanie Heinze: Hallucinatory Paintings Depict the Bodily Impossible"
Kevin Holmes, 4 April 2016
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