HEIKE METZ - Germany
Contacts kontakt@heikemetz.de
Torre femmina
Walking house
Bronzo cm 44 x 13 x 12
Bronzo cm 14 x 10 x 8
Torre con scale
Homeland
Bronzo cm 46 x 40 x 27
Bronzo cm 16 x 10 x 10
Kolosseum
Tor
Bronzo cm 7 x 13 x 14
Bronzo cm 49 x 22 x 22
About her Art
Lindenstraße 46 I 97657 Langenleiten I Germany
Tel: 09701 908185 I Mobile: 0173 1918747
www.heikemetz.de kontakt@heikemetz.de Instagram: @metz.heike
BIOGRAPHY
Born and raised in Bad Kissingen in 1970
1987-1989 Vocational school for childcare 1989-1992 Specialist academy for social pedagogy Münnerstadt
1992-1994 Worked as a nursery school teacher
1994-2002 Curative education teaching assistant at the SVE of the Maximilian Kolbe School
Parallel to her training and work as an educator, she learnt the basics of art from the sculptor Klaus Metz
Freelance artist in Langenleiten since 2002
2010-2012 Commissioned by the town of Schmalkalden to erect a stone for the blind
2013-2014 Village portrait Langenleiten
2014 Project realisation Kunstanger Langenleiten
2014 -2015 Commissioned by the city of Erding to create a portrait of the old town centre
2018 Cooperation partner of the Triennale IV Schweinfurt
2018 Participation in the sculptor symposium of the Kunsthalle Schweinfurt as part of the Triennale IV RaumZustände
2018 First prize at the Kunsthalle Schweinfurt Triennale IV symposium with the sculpture "Tower of Remembrance
2020 - 2021 Historical town portrait of Löhnberg an der Lahn
EXHIBITIONS
2004 Schlossvilla - Burgsinn I Studio exhibition - Lohr am Main I Small gallery - Sommerhausen
2005 Rhön Salon - Kleinsassen I Henneberg Museum - Münnerstadt
2006 Old church - Wernfeld I Bad Königshofen - Schranne
2007 Old prison - Bad Neustadt
2008 House of Art - Schmalkalden
2009 Gallery Ulrich Jung - Veitshöchheim
2010 House of Bavarian Agriculture - Herrsching I Psychosomatic Clinic - Bad Neustadt
2013 Brother Franz House - Kreuzberg Rhön
2014 Wechterswinkel Monastery Cultural Centre
2015 Art centre - Schmalkalden
2016 Wine-Culture-Gaden - Thüngersheim
2016 Resort A-Rosa - Sylt
2018 Art gallery - Schweinfurt
2019 District gallery - Mellrichstadt
2020 Gallery Späth - Coburg
2021 Hofmeisterei Hirtzberger - Wachau Austria
2022 Otto Müller Museum of Modern Art - Schmalkalden I 2022 Kunsthalle Schweinfurt
2023 Ada Municipal Gallery Meiningen I Else 3 Münnerstadt I Giechburg - Scheßlitz I
2023 Cultural centre "Alte Turnhalle" Lohr am Main
CONTRIBUTIONS ON TELEVISION
2003 "Marienweg" by Andrea Kammhuber BR 2010 "Unser Franken" by Ulla and Michael Ballhaus BR
2014 "Kunstanger Langenleiten" TV Touring 2018 "Triennale IV" Main-Media-TV
2022 „Magic of the black mountains“ BR
The artist Heike Metz
For Heike Metz, "home in the distance" is a fundamental principle of her artistic expressions. Concepts such as nature, home and homeland therefore run like a red thread through the work process. Her architectures resemble artistic creations of the imagination with an almost inexhaustible supply of forms. Her choice of motifs is rooted on the one hand in real cityscapes, which she realises in commissioned city models, and on the other hand in holiday memories, in that she creates characteristic houses, churches and monasteries as architectural quotations. The relationship between her and her surroundings is a metaphor for the dialogue between "man and space". Drawing from the subconscious is a mainstay of her work and her symbolic formal language. In doing so, she defines a spiritual or inner home for herself, which does not necessarily describe a specific place.
Andrea Brandl
Director of the Kunsthalle Schweinfurt