Tiergarten, Berlin
Heike Kabisch
Memories in Deep Creeks
ChertLüddeIn her solo exhibition at ChertLüdde, Heike Kabisch invites visitors on a journey into imagined futures. The exhibition unfolds like an uncharted map, its spaces evoking the protective embrace of a cave or sanctuary inhabited by hybrid marine creatures. Drawing from the deep ocean floor—a realm of immense pressure yet profound stillness—Kabisch explores how humanity might adapt to weather the shifting environmental and societal currents. Heike Kabisch (b. 1978, Münster, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. She obtained a Master's degree at Glasgow School of Art. In 2009, she won the Bergischer Kunstpreis. Kabisch has held both professorships (2021-2022) and lectures (since 2017) at Berlin University of the Arts and Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle. Informed by archival materials, family heirlooms, or objects otherwise facing extinction, Heike Kabisch presents fragmentation as a poetic tool for regeneration. Her practice unfolds across figurative sculpture, installation, drawing, and collage. To capture a sense of vulnerability, her sculptures often have wires, cracks, or raw material exposed as a way to resist completion and remain open to revision, chance, and time. In the smudges, impressions, and careful tearing apart of materials, the viewer is given a glimpse into the labor of taming the fleeting elements of our lives. This continues with her drawings, all of which are obscured or antiqued through their titles, which follow a fictional archiving system invented by the artist. Across her mediums, Kabisch is able to explore the unfixed timelines of a beating and pulsing body of work. Her works have been exhibited in venues such as Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem; Nomas Foundation, Rome; Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome; Kunstverein Kirschenpflücker, Köln; Künstlerhaus Dortmund; Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen; Kunstmuseum Baden Solingen; Kunstverein Leverkusen, Leverkusen; Städtische Galerie Markdorf, Kunstverein Markdorf e.V.; Wewerka-Pavillion, Münster; Cornerhouse, Manchester and Drei Raum für Gegenwartskunst, Cologne. Collections: Nomas Foundation, Rome; Vergez Collection, Buenos Aires; Kunst aus Nordrhein-Westfalen, Aachen.