Heiner Thiel

A work by Heiner Thiel

Heiner Thiel (born January 14, 1957 in Bernkastel-Kues ) is a German sculptor , artist and curator . He is a representative of Concrete Art .

Life

Heiner Thiel graduated from 1978 to 1982 the study of art history at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz before 1983-1985 at the State Academy of Fine Arts - Städelschule in Frankfurt Fine Art studied. Here he took part in Michael Croissant's sculpture class.

In 1985 he received the advancement award for visual artists of the city of Mainz , in the following year the advancement award of the state Rhineland-Palatinate . In 1988 he was awarded the Young Art Prize of Saar-Ferngas AG, Saarbrücken , and in the same year he was awarded the Art Prize for Plastic from ESWE Supply AG in Wiesbaden (3rd place). In 1990 he was also awarded the Art Prize for Graphics (2nd place) by ESWE Supply AG . In 1998 he received a grant from the Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation for Culture - Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral . Heiner Thiel is a member of the Darmstadt Secession and the Association of Visual Artists on the Middle Rhine (AKM).

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Sheet steel wall relief by Heiner Thiel, 1993

Heiner Thiel works with a variety of sculptural materials. While in the 1970s it was mainly bronze casting that fascinated him, in the 1980s he began to experiment with sheet steel , which he pre-treated in a complex painterly process.

He then shaped these steel sheets into abstract wall reliefs . Depending on the viewing angle, you seem to see a different object, parts of the relief come to the fore or disappear, bring out the deceptions of perception and thus invite you to reflect on the topic of perspective.

Thiel designed something similar in the 90s with his cube-like wall objects made of metal. Here, too, the perspective changes with the movement of the viewer in front of the work: "While the position is shifted, you can observe how the perspective space gradually unfolds until it has reached its optimal shape and depth."

Cube-like wall relief by Heiner Thiel, 1994

Playing with the different perspectives revolves around the central question in Thiel's work: “In my artistic work, I am particularly interested in the 'border area' between surface, space and color: when does a surface become three-dimensional and when does a body become two-dimensional? And what role does color play in this? "

Color is one of the central themes in Thiel's more recent works and adds the dimension of light or shadow to the play with perspectives and thus leads to new perceptual experiences for the viewer. At the end of the 1990s, works were made from aluminum sheets that were either concave or convex and provided with a paint application. The paint is applied by anodizing and is only 20 thousandths of a mm thick. The production and pre-processing of the aluminum sheets is also carried out industrially; they are parts of large spherical elements that are required for industry.

Michael Post characterizes this technique: "The anodizing method allows the production of colors without the material substance of the color becoming visible." In these works, Thiel again focuses on the perceptions of the viewer: viewed from a distance, the concave or convex element of the work is lost and the work appears like an ordinary square with normal edges. However, if you look from the side, the work begins to protrude from the wall and the curvature becomes clear. In addition, the lighting of the values also has an influence on perception; the shadow that the respective work casts thus becomes part of the puzzle of perception. Hans Zitko writes: "In this process, the objects variously acquire the character of phantoms that are able to change their shape and structure under the gaze of the subject."

Works in public collections (selection)

Bundeskunstsammlung , Berlin, Germany
Albright-Knox Art Gallery , Buffalo, USA
Art collection of Deutsche Bank AG , Frankfurt am Main
Art collection of the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau , Frankfurt am Main
Art collection of the Deutsche Bundesbank , Frankfurt am Main
Union Investment art collection , Frankfurt am Main
Museum for Concrete Art , Ingolstadt
Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern , Kaiserslautern
Landesmuseum Mainz , Mainz
Ministry of Education, Science, Youth and Culture (MBWJK), Rhineland-Palatinate
State Chancellery Rhineland-Palatinate , Mainz
State Theater Mainz , Mainz
Kunsthalle Mannheim , Mannheim
Museum of non-representational art (studio a), Otterndorf
Collection Maximilian and Agathe Weishaupt , Munich
Erhard Witzel Collection, Quadrart Dornbirn, Dornbirn

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2000: Heiner Thiel - New Works , Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Newport Beach, USA
2001: Heiner Thiel - New Works , Bergner + Job Gallery, Wiesbaden, Germany
2003: Heiner Thiel - New Works , Lindner Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2004: Heiner Thiel - Line - Surface - Color - Space , Metternich House , Koblenz, Germany
2008: La Vérité Tordue de L'éspace , Imprints Galerie, Piégros-la-Clastre, France
2009: Oktahedron , Galerie Lindner, Vienna, Austria
2011: Heiner Thiel - New Works , Mariette Haas Gallery, Ingolstadt, Germany
2013: Heiner Thiel - Surface - Color - Space , Saturday Gallery, Hofheim / Taunus, Germany
2016: La Surface de la Couleur , édition multiples un, Paris, France
2016: Heiner Thiel , Imprints Galerie, Crest, Drôme, France
2017: Heiner Thiel - retrospective 40 years , Museum Wilhelm Morgner , Schroth Soest Collection , Germany

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

2008: Works on Paper , Natalie and Irving Forman Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery , Buffalo, USA
2008: In the spotlight: sculpture , Kunsthalle Mannheim , Mannheim, Germany
2012: Heiner Thiel - Matthew Tyson , Emma Hill Fine Art-The Eagle Gallery, London, England
2013: Embodying Color , Kunsthalle Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
2014: Embodying Color , Vasarely Museum , Budapest, Hungary
2015: Black on white , highlights from the Maximilian and Agathe Weishaupt collection and the Foundation for Concrete Art and Design, Museum for Concrete Art , Ingolstadt, Germany
2017: Power Play , Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, USA
2018: Corners and Edges - Edges and Ridges , Galerie Renate Bender, Munich, Germany
2018: Stefan Forler, Heiner Thiel: Plastic objects , Kunstverein Pirmasens, Germany
2019: Mostly blue , Charlotte Kackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, USA
2019: Embodying Color V , Schroth Collection in the Museum – Wilhelm-Morgner , Soest, Germany
2019: shape and color. Cabinet exhibition Tatsushi Kawanabe, Gert Riel, Heiner Thiel , Galerie Linde Hollinger, Ladenburg, Germany
2019: Expositie Stephan Siebers en Heiner Thiel , Broft Galerie, Leerdam, Netherlands

Art in public space

Open square sculpture

1996: Open Square , Sculpture Path Rhineland-Palatinate

1999: Wall design in the conference room in the service center of the Nassauische Sparkasse , Wiesbaden

2000: Large sculpture labyrinth , primary school Mainz-Bretzenheim

2000: Large sculpture Maze , Gerlenhofen elementary school

2003: Design of the glass coat of arms wall in the coat of arms hall of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament (together with Michael Post)

2005: Mural Politeia in the foyer of the police headquarters West Palatinate, Kaiserslautern (together with Michael Post)

2006: Design and implementation of a second glass coat of arms in the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament , Salle d'Amitié , coats of arms of the twin cities and regions of Rhineland-Palatinate, (with Michael Post)

2009: Wall design in the office of the Prime Minister, State Chancellery Rhineland-Palatinate , Mainz

Without year: Eternal Light * , Ehrenbreitstein Fortress Church, Koblenz

Curatorial work

2013: Curator of the exhibition Embodying Color in the Kunsthalle Wiesbaden (with Michael Post)
2014: Embodying Color Vasarely Museum , Budapest , Hungary
2015: Embodying Color in Haus Metternich (Koblenz) (with Michael Post)

literature

Michael Post, Heiner Thiel (Ed.): Embodying Color. With contributions by Matthias Bleyl, Invar-Torre Hollaus, Urs Bugmann, Hans Zitko and others. Catalog for the exhibition in the Kunsthalle Wiesbaden, October 18 to December 15, 2013. Ippenschied 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-043205-7 .
Michael Post, Heiner Thiel (Ed.): Embodying Color. With contributions by Marcia Hafif, Dóra Maurer , Peter Fitz and others. Catalog for the exhibition in the Vasarely Museum , October 9, 2014 to January 11, 2015. Ippenschied 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-046982-4 .
Ruth Martius (ed.): The crooked truth of space. Catalog for the exhibition Der krumme Raum , November 5 to December 22, 2007 in the Kunstbüroberlin. Hachmannedition, Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-93-942937-1 .
Ulrike Schuck: Heiner Thiel. Works 1987-1989. Galerie-Dorothea-van-der-Koelen, Mainz 1989, ISBN 978-3-92-666308-5 .
Michael Post , Carl-Jürgen Schroth, Hans Zitko: Heiner Thiel. 40 years of retrospective . Foundation for Conceptual Art, Soest 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-055170-3 (English).

Web links

Commons : Heiner Thiel - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Heiner Thiel in the catalog of the German National Library
Heiner Thiel at artfacts.net
Heiner Thiel on kunstaspekte.de
Website from Heiner Thiel
Catalog for the exhibition New Acquisitions: Farben - Colors from the Schroth Collection from June 22 to August 11, 2013 , accessed on December 13, 2015

Individual evidence

^ Michael Post , Carl-Jürgen Schroth, Hans Zitko: Heiner Thiel. 40 years of retrospective. Pp. 39-45
^ Michael Post , Carl-Jürgen Schroth, Hans Zitko: Heiner Thiel. 40 years of retrospective. P.56
^ Heiner Thiel: Artistic Statement. In: Zeitzeit newspaper for current art. No. 2, 1990, ISBN 3-926663-52-9 , p. 13.
^ Michael Post , Carl-Jürgen Schroth, Hans Zitko: Heiner Thiel. 40 years of retrospective. P. 82.
^ Michael Post , Carl-Jürgen Schroth, Hans Zitko: Heiner Thiel. 40 years of retrospective. P. 19.
^ Michael Post , Carl-Jürgen Schroth, Hans Zitko: Heiner Thiel. 40 years of retrospective. P. 91
↑ Heiner Thiel - Untitled. (No longer available online.) In: Bundeskunstsammlung . 1990, archived from the original on July 12, 2016 ; Retrieved July 12, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Heiner Thiel - MIV / 94, 7/9, 1994. In: Albright-Knox Art Gallery . Retrieved July 12, 2016 .
↑ Heiner Thiel - New Work. In: Galerie Haas. March 11, 2011, accessed December 10, 2015 .
↑ Editorial team: Soest: Werkschau von Heiner Thiel. In: Westfalium.de. January 12, 2017. Retrieved February 4, 2017 .
↑ Heiner Thiel: Retrospective 40 years video for the exhibition, 2017.
↑ Mirjam Ulrich: Dialogue between color and form. The exhibition Embodying Color in the Kunsthalle am Schulberg shows sculptural works by eleven international artists. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . October 21, 2013, accessed December 13, 2015 .
^ Michael Post and Heiner Thiel: Embodying Color . In: Darmstadt Secession. 2013, accessed December 13, 2015 .
↑ Thiel, Heiner. (pdf, 260.04 kb) November 28, 2017, accessed on March 18, 2018 (PDF flyer on the page).
↑ Klaus Kadel-Magin: Two artist worlds collide. In: The Rhine Palatinate . October 18, 2018, accessed January 4, 2019 .
^ Exhibition history. In: charlottejackson.com. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .
↑ Body and color in interaction. In: www.soester-anzeiger.de. July 12, 2019, accessed September 24, 2019 .
↑ exhibitions. Current. In: galerielindehollinger.de. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .
↑ Exposities. In: broftgalleries.com. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .
↑ Heiner Thiel: Offenes Quadrat, location 29. In: Sculptures Rheinland-Pfalz eV 1996, accessed on December 12, 2015 .
↑ The coat of arms hall in the Deutschhaus. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 7, 2016 ; Retrieved December 12, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Ecumenism in the fortress church. In: Church of Koblenz. Retrieved on December 12, 2015 (picture Heiner Thiel Ewiges Licht ).
↑ Embodying Color. Catalog accompanying an ongoing Exhibition-Project, curated by German Artists Heiner Thiel and Michael Post. In: issuu.com. 2013, accessed December 12, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Thiel, Heiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German artist of concrete art
DATE OF BIRTH	January 14, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bernkastel-Kues

[1] Michael Post , Carl-Jürgen Schroth, Hans Zitko: Heiner Thiel. 40 years of retrospective. Pp. 39-45

[2] Michael Post , Carl-Jürgen Schroth, Hans Zitko: Heiner Thiel. 40 years of retrospective. P.56

[3] Heiner Thiel: Artistic Statement. In: Zeitzeit newspaper for current art. No. 2, 1990, ISBN 3-926663-52-9 , p. 13.

[4] Michael Post , Carl-Jürgen Schroth, Hans Zitko: Heiner Thiel. 40 years of retrospective. P. 82.

[5] Michael Post , Carl-Jürgen Schroth, Hans Zitko: Heiner Thiel. 40 years of retrospective. P. 19.

[6] Michael Post , Carl-Jürgen Schroth, Hans Zitko: Heiner Thiel. 40 years of retrospective. P. 91

[7] Heiner Thiel - Untitled. (No longer available online.) In: Bundeskunstsammlung . 1990, archived from the original on July 12, 2016 ; Retrieved July 12, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[8] Heiner Thiel - MIV / 94, 7/9, 1994. In: Albright-Knox Art Gallery . Retrieved July 12, 2016 .

[9] Heiner Thiel - New Work. In: Galerie Haas. March 11, 2011, accessed December 10, 2015 .

[10] Editorial team: Soest: Werkschau von Heiner Thiel. In: Westfalium.de. January 12, 2017. Retrieved February 4, 2017 .

[11] Heiner Thiel: Retrospective 40 years video for the exhibition, 2017.

[12] Mirjam Ulrich: Dialogue between color and form. The exhibition Embodying Color in the Kunsthalle am Schulberg shows sculptural works by eleven international artists. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . October 21, 2013, accessed December 13, 2015 .

[13] Michael Post and Heiner Thiel: Embodying Color . In: Darmstadt Secession. 2013, accessed December 13, 2015 .

[14] Thiel, Heiner. (pdf, 260.04 kb) November 28, 2017, accessed on March 18, 2018 (PDF flyer on the page).

[15] Klaus Kadel-Magin: Two artist worlds collide. In: The Rhine Palatinate . October 18, 2018, accessed January 4, 2019 .

[16] Exhibition history. In: charlottejackson.com. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .

[17] Body and color in interaction. In: www.soester-anzeiger.de. July 12, 2019, accessed September 24, 2019 .

[18] exhibitions. Current. In: galerielindehollinger.de. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .

[19] Exposities. In: broftgalleries.com. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .

[20] Heiner Thiel: Offenes Quadrat, location 29. In: Sculptures Rheinland-Pfalz eV 1996, accessed on December 12, 2015 .

[21] The coat of arms hall in the Deutschhaus. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 7, 2016 ; Retrieved December 12, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[22] Ecumenism in the fortress church. In: Church of Koblenz. Retrieved on December 12, 2015 (picture Heiner Thiel Ewiges Licht ).

[23] Embodying Color. Catalog accompanying an ongoing Exhibition-Project, curated by German Artists Heiner Thiel and Michael Post. In: issuu.com. 2013, accessed December 12, 2015 .