Heiko Müller
info (at) heikomueller.de


My art comes from an urge to explore. I like the countryside. I like a good view. And once I’m face to face with a lovely scenery, I feel immediately tempted to find out what it’s concealing. The dark goings-on behind the façade of nature, you might say, or the hidden machinations of the animal kingdom.

To imagine and express this, I usually tap the lines linking religious icon art, renaissance painting and comic culture. I am particularly thrilled by the kind of spiritual terror you find expressed in the paintings of the old Flemish masters, and I’m trying to find out what happens when you apply that mood to the serene and harmless world of rural folk art.

I am based in Hamburg, Germany, but my stuff has also been shown in such diverse places as Estonia, New York, Paris, Saint Petersburg, Los Angeles, Seattle and Chicago. When not busy with art or media work, I can usually be found painting pictures with my 7-year-old-son.




  • 1968 born in Hamburg
  • 2000 Diploma at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences faculty of illustration and design

Solo Shows

  • 1997 Foyer for young Art of the Vereinsbank in Harburg
  • 2001 “PXP-Guy presents: Black Lines” at the Gallery Hinterconti, Hamburg
  • 2004 "Legendae Aureae" at the German Culture Institute in Tartu/Estonia (photos)
    upcoming:
  • 2009 Solo Show at the Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco, CA

 

Heiko Müller painted by Till Gerhard 
Selected Group Shows
  • 1997 "Junge Hamburger" 3 man show together with Henning Kles and
    Till Gerhard at the Studio Gallery, Hamburg
  • 1997 "Experiment Bilderbuch" at the City Museum Oldenburg
  • 1998 several shows together with Büchergilde Gutenberg in Hamburg, Frankfurt and Berlin.
  • 2001 "S.K.A.M.finale" at the S.K.A.M. Studio in Hamburg
  • 2001 “Kopfankopf in AUGENHÖHE” at the Kunststück, Hamburg
  • 2003 “Tag der Toten” 3 man show together with Henning Kles and Till Gerhard at Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg (photos)
  • 2005 "Territory #4" exhibition & release party, OFR Publications, Paris
  • 2005 "14 Illustratoren" at Galeria Pequena, Frankfurt am Main (photos)
  • 2005 "Spezialitäten" at Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg (photos)
  • 2006 "Visual Residue" at CB's 313 Gallery, New York (photos)
  • 2006 "Winged Doom vs. Reeperbahn Rumble" 2man show together with
    Marcus Schäfer at Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg (45 photos 2,5MB )
  • 2006 "Haare" at Galeria Pequena, Frankfurt am Main (photos)
  • 2006 "That New Dork Smell " at Toyroom, Sacramento (photos)
  • 2006 "Beasts" at Belle & Wissell, Seattle (photos)
  • 2006 "Don't Wake Daddy" at Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany (photos)
  • 2006 "NeighborWOOD" at Compound Gallery, Portland, OR (photos)
  • 2007 "The Wurstminster Dog Show", Portland, OR (photos)
  • 2007 "Charity by Numbers", Los Angeles, CA (photos, Vox11 News Clip)
  • 2007 Happily Ever After? Seattle, WA (photos)
  • 2007 Art Dorks Collective at Thinkspace Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (video, photos, more photos)
  • 2007 Art Dorks Squared at The McCaig-Welles Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC (photos, more photos)
  • 2007 Rome is Burning/The New School at The Foster Gallery - Haas Fine Arts
    Center in Eau Claire, WI (photos)
  • 2007 Don't Wake Daddy II at Feinkunst Krüger & RAUM 21, Hamburg, Germany (photos)
  • 2007 December Charity Show at The Project Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (photos)
  • 2008 Deep Pop at the Kenneth Chapman Gallery, New Rochelle, NY (photos)
  • 2008 Pop Subversion at Ad Hoc Art, Brooklyn, NY (photos)
  • 2008 A Cabinet Of Natural Curiosities at the Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA (photos)
  • 2008 The World of Urban Contemporary Art at Intoxicated Demons, Berlin, Germany (photos)
  • 2008 Art Dorks Collective at the DVA Gallery, Chicago, IL (photos)
  • 2008 4 Faces of Foofaraw together with Femke Hiemstra, Fred Stonehouse and Anthony Pontius
    at Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany (photos)
  • 2008 10 Jahre Feinkunst Krüger at the Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany (photos)

    • upcoming:
  • 2008 The Inaugural Show at T & P Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
  • 2008 Don't Wake Daddy III at Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
  • 2008 X-MAS 08 at Galleri Chritoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark


Art Fairs

  • 2007 Fountain New York, NYC
  • 2007 Scope Basel, Switzerland (photos)
  • 2007 Red Dot Fair, Miami, FL
  • 2007 Fountain Art Fair, Miami, FL


Selected Publications


Other Feastures

  • 2007 hdfest (HDFEST is the world's only high-def film festival)
 

Art Dorks


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