ART Galerie 7
HEIKE SISTIG
ARTWORK
Illustrations: © Klaus Tenner
Heike Sistig has used painting and drawing as a medium of expression since her early childhood. Besides creating art herself, she also deals with the pedagogic and therapeutic aspect of art and has also worked as an editor for children’s television for many years.
Since ten years her collages have been exhibited in different galleries, exhibitions, as well as the Cologne City museum. Her works are developed during varying day times and situations. Sistig thereby creates universes full of phantasy that appear like altered realities. She puts things, we are hardly aware of in everyday life, into a new context, makes them interact and communicate. The painstaking way Sistig works is essential to her collages: for those, she layers several collected images or newspaper cut outs and her droll drawings, which leads to a convoluted and composed appearance. Through this layering some of the works become three-dimensional . Sistig’s collages and drawings are her constant companions that may reflect her different emotions throughout the day – her secret friends to whom she opens up to. Although the works are rich of details and feature a complex composition, they are unedited, which gives them a spontaneous and unbiased character. The artist’s secret friends tell stories that are boundless to their creator, as well as the spectator.
© Lorena Bahlmann
ABOUT THE ARTIST
VITA
Heike Sistig studied art as part of her studies
special education and trained as an art therapist.
Since 1980 she has worked as an illustrator and visual artist, since 1986 as an author
and director, since 1993 as an editor for children's television.
She regularly exhibits her paintings in various galleries.
She lives and works with her family in Cologne.
Exhibitions/ Participation
2017
»Das kleine Format «group exhibition, Art Galerie 7, Cologne
2016
»Heimliche Freunde – Zeichnungen und Collagen« solo exhibition, Galerie INTERART, Stuttgart
2015
»Secret Friends« exhibition with Terence Carr, Art Galerie 7, Cologne
2014
»Neue Räume« exhibition with Klaus Tenner and Anna Maier
Galerie Maier Contemporary Art, Berlin
2013
»The Madcap Laughs« solo exhibition, Galerie Skala, Cologne
»Neue Räume« exhibition with Klaus Tenner, Kunstverein Bad Godesberg
2012
»wet painting in Königswinter« art auction
2011
»wet painting in Königswinter« art auction
2010
»Kunst im Garten« group exhibition, von Schürmann + Müller
»wet painting in Königswinter« art auction
2009
»Winterausstellung« group exhibition, Interart Galerie Reich, Cologne
On the Edge – Kunst an der Grenze« group exhibition, Galerie Skala, Cologne
»Blalla W. Hallmann und viele andere...«
group exhibition, Galerie Müller, Schütz and Rohs in the Galerie Lutz Rohs, Düren
»wet painting in Königswinter« art auction
2008
»Sommer! – photography and paintings « group exhibition, Galerie Skala, Cologne
2007
»Quark, Strangeness and Charme – The Strange Worlds of
Blalla W. Hallmann, Alexia Kutzner and Heike Sistig«
group exhibition, Galerie Skala, Cologne
2006
»Märchenstunde« group exhibition, Galerie Skala, Cologne
2005
»et cetera «group exhibition, Interartgalerie Reich, Cologne
»Highlights« group exhibition, Galerie Skala, Cologne
2004
»Winterausstellung «group exhibition, Interartgalerie Reich, Cologne
»Zeichnungen und Collagen «exhibition together with objects and
drawings by the artist Uli Winters in the Galerie Skala , Cologne
»Querblick« group exhibition, cologne city museum
2003
»Gut Aufgehoben« solo exhibition, Galerie Müller, Schütz und Rohs, Cologne
»Künstler der Galerie« Group exhibition, Interartgalerie Reich, Cologne
2002
»Heimliche Freunde« solo exhibition, Galerie Müller, Schütz und Rohs, Cologne