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Biography
| EDUCATION | ||
| 2005-2009 | Meisterschüler | Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2004-2005 | BA (Hons) Fine Art | Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Mainz |
| ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2019 | Lovecraft Galerie | Bernhard Knaus, Frankfurt |
| 2018 | Paradise overdosed, Book release & 10 years Black Pop | Staufenstr. 42, Frankfurt |
| 2016 | ALLES WIRD GUT | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2015 | ...But the gods | Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2015 | Acid on tea | Galerie Römerapotheke, Zurich |
| 2013 | Der faule Biss | Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2013 | System of diplomatic Chaos | Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden |
| 2012 | Gesichtsverlust | Kunstverein Viernheim, Viernheim |
| 2012 | Troops would love to die | Kunstverein Heppenheim, Heppenheim |
| 2010 | Savee Couture | Velvet, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2010 | The last curs fight the bricks | Galerie Perpetuél, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2010 | Florian H., FFM | Moloko, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2010 | Love Kills Love | Commerzbank, Raum für Kultur, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2010 | Love Kills | Commerzbankplaza, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2009 | Living famous dreams | VIP Club, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2009 | Burn your past | Loftraum Goldman, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2009 | Still my own idol | PSM-Gallery, Berlin |
| 2009 | Florian Heinke | bKi, Darmstadt |
| 2009 | Apart from heaven | Galerie La Brique, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2008 | A fast way downstairs | Sammlung-Lenikus, Wien |
| 2008 | Paradise overdosed | Galerie Campagne Premiere, Berlin |
| 2008 | Pervers durchs Paradies | Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2007 | Alle guten Dinge sind sexy | Orban & Streu, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2007 | Youdas , Trilogy | 1st No return., Ausstellungshalle 1A, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2007 | 2nd No hide | Plagemann, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2007 | 3rd Cut past | Liebesdienste, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2007 | Heroes & Babes | Raum Scheidswald, Frankfurt am Main |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2019 | 10 Years | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2019 | Mexico / Alptraum | La estacion arte contemporáneo, Chihuahua |
| 2017 | In Memoriam Francesca Lowe | Old Truman Brewery, London |
| 2017 | Political Gestures | Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2017 | Part I: Street Semiotics (curated by Zavier Ellis) | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2016 | Doppelgänger | Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles |
| 2016 | Black Paintings (curated by Heike Strelow) | Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2015 | Black Paintings (curated by Zavier Ellis) | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2015 | Heim@FSP | Galerie Römerapotheke, Zurich |
| 2015 | PageArt | Kunstraum Neureut e.V., Karlsruhe |
| 2015 | Bergwelten | Scharzwälder Skimuseum, Hinterzarten |
| 2015 | This will not be here tomorrow | Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2015 | Alptraum | Visual Choice Gallery, Montreal |
| 2015 | Goa/Alptraum | Salon de Lirio, Salcete |
| 2014 | Saatchi’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT (curated by Zavier Ellis, Simon Rumley & Rebecca Wilson) | B1, Victoria House, London |
| 2014 | Cultus Deorum (curated by Zavier Ellis) | Saatchi Gallery, London |
| 2014 | The Great War (curated by Zavier Ellis) | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2014 | Alptraum | UGM Maribor Art Gallery Slovenia, Maribor |
| 2014 | Wurzeln weit mehr Aufmerksamkeit widmen | Kunstwerk Köln e.V., Cologne |
| 2013 | Das morph. Feld muss neu beackert werden | Rumbalotte Labor Politikon, Berlin |
| 2013 | Nevermind the Bollocks (curated by Alexander Hattwig) | JR Gallery, Berlin |
| 2013 | Pophits und Alptraum | Artspace Rhein-Main, Offenbach am Main |
| 2013 | Obscura | Villa Renata, Galerie Römerapotheke, Basel |
| 2013 | Wurzeln weit mehr Aufmerksamkeit widmen | Polarraum Hamburg, Hamburg |
| 2013 | Wurzeln weit mehr Aufmerksamkeit widmen | Bauhaus University, Weimar |
| 2013 | Wurzeln weit mehr Aufmerksamkeit widmen | Museum Lytke, Leipzig |
| 2013 | Painting of today! | Artspace Rhein-Main/Halle für zeitgenössische Kunst, Offenbach am Main |
| 2013 | Wurzeln weit mehr Aufmerksamkeit widmen | Shift e.V., Berlin |
| 2012 | Vom Walde | Skimuseum, Hinterzarten |
| 2012 | Alptraum The Nightmare never ends | X Project Space, Berlin |
| 2012 | Bang! Bang! Tatort Kunst | Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf |
| 2012 | Alptraum | Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila, Quezon City |
| 2012 | Six Flags - Trouble in Paradise | Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama |
| 2012 | Kein Gott und seine Kinder | Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden |
| 2012 | Alptraum | Goethe Institute Johannesburg, Johannesburg |
| 2012 | Kampfkunst oder die Schule des Sehens | Galerie Römerapotheke, Zurich |
| 2011 | Fragile Helden | Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2011 | Alptraum | Cell Project Space, London |
| 2011 | A Beer to spill them into Dust | Waikato Museum, Intraspace Project |
| 2011 | Alptraum | Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin |
| 2011 | Schwarzer September | CWO Atelierfrankfurt II, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2011 | Alptraum | The Company Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 2011 | Is this (a) painting? | Beta Pictoris Gallery, Raum 2, Birmingham, Alabama |
| 2011 | 100 Million Angels Singing... | Jens Fehring Gallery, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2011 | 3 Zaehne | Apartment Draschan, Vienna |
| 2011 | Verbrechen und Bild, Künstlerverein Walkmühle Wiesbaden | Städtische Galerie Villingen-Schwenningen |
| 2011 | When Poets die | Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2011 | Pop Hits | Tanzschuleprojects, Munich |
| 2011 | Saluting the end | JAUS Projects, Los Angeles |
| 2011 | Limits and desperate | Gail SCHOENTAG Gallery, Sag Harbor, New York |
| 2011 | Alptraum | Blanck Projects, Capetown |
| 2010 | The Last Curs Fight The Bricks | Galerie Perpetuél, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2010 | Alptraum | The Transformer, Washington D.C. |
| 2010 | Setzen!5! | Galerie Wolfstädter, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2010 | Nobel geht die Welt zu Grunde | Atelierfrankfurt, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2010 | Objects in the Mirror are closer than they appear | Ringstube, Mainz |
| 2010 | Home - EAST/WEST Project | Dam Stuhlgarter Gallery Brooklyn, Berlin |
| 2010 | Nobel geht die Welt zu Grunde | Atelierfrankfurt, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2010 | Setzen! 5! | Galerie Wolfstädter, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2009 | Product Without Rivals | Lebensraum Architecture Designed, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2009 | Die Dinge des Lebens | Galerie P13, Heidelberg |
| 2009 | Still my own Idol | PSM Gallery, Berlin |
| 2009 | Lob der Kritik. Ihre Meinung ist uns wichtig | Galerie Frühsorge, Berlin |
| 2009 | Viel vor, viel dahinter (2 Jahre Artsite.tv) | Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2009 | Dude, where's my career? | Absolventenausstellung Städelschule / Portikus / Zollamt MMK , Frankfurt am Main |
| 2008 | Black Power vs. White Power | Coney Island, New York |
| 2008 | A Fast Way Downstairs | Collection Lenikus, Vienna |
| 2008 | Stumbling Block For The Love | Römerberg (Steady Installation), Frankfurt am Main |
| 2008 | Paradise Overdosed | Campagne Premiere, Berlin |
| 2008 | Pervers durchs Paradies | Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2008 | Dirty Storm | Raum SOD, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2008 | Simple exploding men | Artnews Projects, Berlin |
| 2007 | Alle Guten Dinge Sind Sexy | Orban und Streu, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2007 | Signing the Shit | Lovesuite, Casablanca on the Ocean, Miami |
| 2007 | Lachende Zeugen | Raum Acapulco, Düsseldorf |
| 2007 | It takes something to make something - Die Sammlung Rausch | Portikus, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2006 | You can´t smile without changing the landscape | Georg Scholz Haus Kunstforum, Waldkirch |
| 2006 | Leidenschaft mich | Landungsbrücken, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2005 | Wetterbericht | Städtisches Museum Buchschlag, Reutlingen |
| 2005 | Verbrannt durch Hollywood | Timberlandshow, Mannheim, Berlin, Düsseldorf |
| 2005 | Leidenschaft Mich | Landungsbrücken, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2005 | Wetterbericht | Staedtisches Museum, Reutlingen |
| 2005 | Aussenstellen stellen aus | Unterer Hardthof, Giessen |
| AWARDS & RESIDENCIES | ||
| 2011 | Artist in residency, Kulturamt, Frankfurt am Main | |
| 2010 | Foundation of Publisher Dirty Lovers Books | |
| 2009 | Scholarship, Frankfurter Künstlerhilfe | |
| 2008 | Stumbling Block, Roemerberg, Frankfurt am Main | |
| 2008 | Sammlung-Lenikus, Wien | |
| PUBLICATIONS | ||
| 2012 | Heinke Myth & Truth | Undseld Verlag KG |
| COLLECTIONS | ||
| Hugo & Carla Brown, Den Haag | ||
| DiethARdT Collection, Graz | ||
| Stanley Hollander, Los Angeles | ||
| Michael & Susan Hort, New York | ||
| Lenikus Collection, Vienna | ||
| Thomas Pitrowksi Rönitz Collection, Celle | ||
| Sutter Collection | ||
| Private collections in Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, United Kingdom & United States | ||
Press Release
| Florian Heinke | Paradise Overdosed: Exodus |
| CHARLIE SMITH LONDON @ OHSH Projects |
| PREVIEW: Wednesday 15 February 6:00-8:30pm | RSVP | Please email direct@charliesmithlondon.com to book |
| EXHIBITION DATES: Thursday 16 February 2023 11:00am-6:00pm |
| ADDRESS: OHSH Projects, 106 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1HB |
| CHARLIE SMITH LONDON is delighted to present a much-anticipated Florian Heinke solo exhibition at OHSH Projects, New Oxford Street, central London. Heinke is known for his darkly mythological paintings that are rendered only in black oil paint. His unique position is one of an outsider, who critiques society and longs for a better reality. Heinke presents familiar worlds in which the relationships of their inhabitants, emotional conflicts, trauma and hope are paramount. His aesthetics are based on the beauty ideals of our time, but are charged with explosive content that can be provocative, comforting, aggressive, seductive or disturbing. As Heinke states: “My paintings were always a straight critique of systems and society. And it still is. They broach the issue of feelings, problems, reasons and circumstances behind social and economic concerns. I think the only decent and sustainable way to criticise something is to plant bombs right in the heart of it.” Indeed, Heinke approaches life and art with a sense of urgency, but also yearning. He moves away from a broken past and towards an unknown future. This notion of movement characterises his current work, where witches, hybrids, wise animals and demons join together to seek refuge. His subjects are empowered, often depicting women amongst familiars who demonstrate authority and autonomy. Heinke’s archetypes operate, therefore, as both personal and political ciphers. Suitably, the exhibition will take place for one night and one day only. It is fleeting, and urgent. Florian Heinke graduated from the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main in 2009. He has exhibited globally including Saatchi Gallery, London; Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles; Galerie Römerapotheke, Zurich; Goethe Institute, Johannesburg; & Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main. His work is placed in prominent private collections including Hugo & Carla Brown, Den Haag; Stanley Hollander, Los Angeles; and Susan & Michael Hort, New York. The event will take place at OHSH Projects, 106 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1HB, Wednesday 15 – Thursday 16 February 2023. For further information please contact direct@charliesmithlondon.com. Follow us @CHARLIESMITHIdn. Please contact gallery for images and further information |