Opening: 21 June 19, 7 pm
Heike-Karin Föll, linguistic operations/spatial concepts, 2017, Courtesy the artist
Berlin-based artist Heike-Karin Föll (born 1967, DE) works on the materiality and mechanisms of drawing, painting, and writing. The exhibition speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art is her first institutional solo show and presents an overview of various groups of work. Her work interacts with everyday media reality and styles, analogue and digital texts and displays. Föll works “post-post” – emerging from no longer solid, former postmodernist strategies such as appropriation, quotation, and repetition. Drawing, and therefore also its smallest unit, the line, are prominent in this context. From here, different artistic formats unfold: a page of a book, a sheet of paper, a canvas, all becoming seemingly translucent towards digital screens. The individual works are embedded in a structure of correlation that blurs their respective boundaries.
The exhibition at KW is Heike-Karin Föll’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, and presents an overview of various groups of work.
Curator: Maurin Dietrich
Public Program
Book launch and reading with Dean Kissick
22 June 19, 3 pm
Venue: Courtyard
In case of bad weather the event will take place in the studio at KW’s front house.
Exhibition Folder (PDF)
Heike-Karin Föll, installation view speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, photo: Frank Sperling
Heike-Karin Föll, my brain, 2010–19; installation view (detail) speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, photo: Frank Sperling
Heike-Karin Föll, installation view speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, photo: Frank Sperling
f.l.t.r.: Heike-Karin Föll, made of violence and light, 2014; Darboven hated Richter’s paintings, 2016; nu moves, 2014, Courtesy die Künstlerin und Privatsammlung, Berlin; Installation view speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Photo: Frank Sperling
f.l.t.r.: Heike-Karin Föll, Table of content, 2019; total femme, 2016; Installation view speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Photo: Frank Sperling
Heike-Karin Föll, Artist books (unique), installation view (detail) speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Photo: Frank Sperling
Heike-Karin Föll, my brain, 2010–19; installation view speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Photo: Frank Sperling
Heike-Karin Föll, Installation view at allgirls gallery, 1993 (reprint); installation view speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Photo: Frank Sperling
Heike-Karin Föll, iconic signature, 2016; weightless studio, 2019; installation view (detail) speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Photo: Frank Sperling
f.l.t.r.: Heike-Karin Föll, table of content, 2019; pretty boy, 2016; refresh, 2016; tangled, 2019; installation view speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Photo: Frank Sperling
Heike-Karin Föll, installation view speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, photo: Frank Sperling
Heike-Karin Föll, my brain, 2010–19; installation view (detail) speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, photo: Frank Sperling
Heike-Karin Föll, installation view speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, photo: Frank Sperling
f.l.t.r.: Heike-Karin Föll, made of violence and light, 2014; Darboven hated Richter’s paintings, 2016; nu moves, 2014, Courtesy die Künstlerin und Privatsammlung, Berlin; Installation view speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Photo: Frank Sperling
f.l.t.r.: Heike-Karin Föll, Table of content, 2019; total femme, 2016; Installation view speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Photo: Frank Sperling
Heike-Karin Föll, Artist books (unique), installation view (detail) speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Photo: Frank Sperling
Heike-Karin Föll, my brain, 2010–19; installation view speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Photo: Frank Sperling
Heike-Karin Föll, Installation view at allgirls gallery, 1993 (reprint); installation view speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Photo: Frank Sperling
Heike-Karin Föll, iconic signature, 2016; weightless studio, 2019; installation view (detail) speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Photo: Frank Sperling
f.l.t.r.: Heike-Karin Föll, table of content, 2019; pretty boy, 2016; refresh, 2016; tangled, 2019; installation view speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Photo: Frank Sperling