Heiko Müller - Bio







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 8-year-old-son.


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Photo by Alexander Babic
  • 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
    "Stay Awake" at the Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco, CA


Selected Group Shows

  • 1997
    "Junge Hamburger" 3 man show together with Henning Kles and Till Gerhard at the Studio Gallery, Hamburg
  • "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
  • “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
  • "14 Illustratoren" at Galeria Pequena, Frankfurt am Main (photos)
  • "Spezialitäten" at Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg (photos)

  • 2006
    "Visual Residue" at CB's 313 Gallery, New York (photos)
  • "Winged Doom vs. Reeperbahn Rumble" with Marcus Schäfer at Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg (45 photos 2,5MB )
  • "Haare" at Galeria Pequena, Frankfurt am Main (photos)
  • "That New Dork Smell " at Toyroom, Sacramento (photos)
  • "Beasts" at Belle & Wissell, Seattle (photos)
  • "Don't Wake Daddy" at Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany (photos)
  • "NeighborWOOD" at Compound Gallery, Portland, OR (photos)

  • 2007
    "The Wurstminster Dog Show", Portland, OR (photos)
  • "Charity by Numbers", Los Angeles, CA (photos, Vox11 News Clip)
  • "Happily Ever After?" Seattle, WA (photos)
  • "Art Dorks Collective" at Thinkspace Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (video, photos, more photos)
  • "Art Dorks Squared" at The McCaig-Welles Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC (photos, more photos)
  • "Rome is Burning/The New School" at The Foster Gallery - Haas Fine Arts Center in Eau Claire, WI (photos)
  • "Don't Wake Daddy II" at Feinkunst Krüger & RAUM 21, Hamburg, Germany (photos)
  • "Wishful Thinking" at The Project Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (photos)

  • 2008
    "Deep Pop" at the Kenneth Chapman Gallery, New Rochelle, NY (photos)
  • "Pop Subversion" at Ad Hoc Art, Brooklyn, NY (photos)
  • "A Cabinet Of Natural Curiosities" at the Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA (photos)
  • "The World of Urban Contemporary" Art at Intoxicated Demons, Berlin, Germany (photos)
  • "Enjoy it while it lasts" at the DVA Gallery, Chicago, IL (photos)
  • "4 Faces of Foofaraw" at Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany (photos)
  • "10 Jahre Feinkunst Krüger" at the Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany (photos)
  • "The Inaugural Show" at T & P Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA (photos)
  • "Don't Wake Daddy III" at Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany (photos)
  • "X-MAS 08" at Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark (photos)

  • 2009
    "Mixed Palette" at the Recoat Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland (photos)
  • "Superschool" (curated by Lola) at Copro Nason Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (photos)
  • "OCHO número atómico" at ROJO Artspace Barcelona, Spain (photos)
  • "Boarding Gat"e (curated by Alexandra Kollaros) at K-art, Athens (photos)
  • "Kunst im Tresor", Munich, Germany (photos, more photos)
  • "Urban Art" at Galleri Jan|Zen, Aalborg, Denmark (photos)
  • "Wanderlust 333", at Wanderlust Gallery and Studio, Nothampton, UK (photos)

    • upcoming:
  • 2009
  • "Don't Wake Daddy IV" at Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany

  • 2010
    " DEAD_lines" (curated by Prof. Dr. Birgit Richard & Dr. Oliver Zybok, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
  • "Tag der Toten II" at Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany



Art Fairs


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



Selected Publications
 

 


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