Jürgen Heinz

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Jürgen Heinz (* 1969 in Bensheim ) is a German metal sculptor . He is a representative of New Concrete Art and Abstract Art . His artistic position arises from a fascination with movement, change and contradiction.

Life

After training as a metal designer, Heinz spent his apprenticeship and traveling years in Germany and Switzerland, among others with Hans-Ueli Baumgartner in Lucerne, Jochen Wünsche in Kassel and Ernst Schindler in Stuttgart. The degree was completed in 1995 by studying at the Werkakademie für Gestaltung, Kassel. An activity as a lecturer there followed. In 1996, Heinz passed the master craftsman's examination at the Oberursel Metallfachschule, and has been working as a freelancer since 1997. Heinz lives in Darmstadt , he has his studio in Lorsch .

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Communication (2009), by Jürgen Heinz, installation in public space, Lorsch
Pause (2011), by Jürgen Heinz, Installation Kunsttage Brauweiler

In a first group of works, ensembles were created that derive their effect from how the individual parts or figures relate to each other in terms of their similarity or difference, including the installation Kommunikation, created in 2009 as art in public space for the city of Lorsch, or the installation created in 2011 Installation pause - a snapshot of reflection in the social collective. The group of figures consists of 80 individual reduced body silhouettes, distributed on plinths with 2 or 3 figures each, which the artist dismantled after staging three times and given them individually.

In a further creative phase, Heinz experimented with the subject of movement. The modularly structured works are not mobile by themselves, but they encourage the viewer to freely arrange the individual parts, reduced in their form, and to sound out their relationship and effect on one another, as in People (2015).

Stele of Friendship (2017), by Jürgen Heinz, Moving Sculpture in Public Space, Hemsbach

In 2013, Heinz created his first moving sculpture . In the works of this group of works, steel objects up to two meters high swing with poetic grace - silently and apparently weightless - when the viewer sets them in motion by touch. These sculptures get their partly lyrical effect from the contrast between their closed, block-like form, which appears heavy and static, and the ease of movement when they are set in vibration and the body shape dissolves and reassembles in rhythmic alternation. »The works communicate with the viewer. They encourage and challenge us to act. «An example of this is the 220 cm high stele of friendship , which was set up on the occasion of the Hemsbach Sculpture Symposium 2017 in the public space at Wiesensee in Hemsbach .

Moving Clouds , by Jürgen Heinz, 9th International Wind Art Competition Moving Wind, 2018

As part of the international wind art festival moved wind , Heinz installed works in the open air that can be assigned to wind art ; For example, the wind kinetic sculpture Moving Clouds 2018 was set up on Hohen Dörnberg .

Exhibitions (selection)

2008

  • Art Days Brauweiler (as well as 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014)

2011

2014

2016

  • Movement in space, Jürgen Heinz + Uwe Krafczik, Gerdi Gutperle art space
  • Emotions, Jürgen Heinz + Günter Uttecht, Offenbach Art Association

2017

  • Interface, solo exhibition at the Municipal Gallery Mörfelden Walldorf
  • Moving Sculpture, solo exhibition Frankfurter Künstlerclub
  • The space within, Jürgen Heinz + Katharina Lehmann, Benjamin Eck I + II

2018

  • Encounters, Jürgen Heinz + Adelka John, Atelier Westfalenhütte
  • Moving emotions, Jürgen Heinz + Sussi Hodel, Galerie Obertor Chur

2019

  • Art touched , group exhibition room S4 Mannheim, art competence Petra Kern (also 2018)
  • Fieseler + Heinz , Liebau Gallery, Burghaun

In addition, Heinz regularly exhibits at art fairs and the like. a. in Karlsruhe, Frankfurt am Main, Basel, Brussels and Strasbourg.

Prices

  • 2015 winner of the jury award of the 18th Sculpture Park Mörfelden Walldorf

bibliography

  • MOVING SCULPTURES, 2nd edition, 2016, publisher: Büro für Kunst am Bau und im Raum, Heppenheim 2016
  • Leaving a piece of your soul behind , Marjana Gaponenko Chamisso Literature Prize winner 2013, Matchbox Diaries Lorsch, publisher: Zukunft Metropolregion Rhein Neckar eV and Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar GmbH, Mannheim 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Juergen Heinz , Vita at Galerie Luzia Sassen, Cologne
  2. ↑ Monk's Circle . KunstImKreisverkehr.de
  3. ↑ Heinz, Jürgen . Artist CV with Petra Kern, Heidelberg
  4. ↑ Bergstrasse artist Jürgen Heinz represented at Art Karlsruhe . Die-stadtredaktion, MeinungsBildung eV, Heidelberg, February 19, 2019
  5. ^ Atelier visit with: Jürgen Heinz . kunstblog-mannheim.de, September 26, 2018
  6. ^ Kunstraum Metropol , issue III / 2017, art magazine, Art Media Edition Verlag Freiburg, July 1, 2017
  7. ↑ Summer symposium 2017 , Förderverein KunstPlatz Hemsbach eV
  8. ^ Jürgen Heinz - Moving Clouds . moved-wind.org, 2018
  9. ↑ A mass for the third dimension | Sculpture Network. Sculpture Network, 2019, accessed January 12, 2020 (German, /, English).
personal data
SURNAME Heinz, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bensheim