Book launch with Almut Heise at DISTANZ Verlag

DISTANZ Verlag invites to celebrate the launch of Almut Heise’s catalogue raisonné, edited by Marie-Catherine Vogt. On this occasion, they hold an artist talk with Kito Nedo.⁠

December 4, 2024, 6:30–9 pm ⁠
DISTANZ Verlag ⁠
Hallesches Ufer 78⁠
10963 Berlin⁠

Almut Heise patiently labors to create meticulously finished paintings and works on paper. Heise first turned to painting in the 1960s and studied in Mainz, Hamburg, and London. Bucking shifting art-world trends, her works deftly avoid bearing any index of their time. The brilliantly executed interiors with numerous references to the furniture and design of postwar Germany are an ode to representational painting, but they never veer into narrative, let alone value judgment. A similarly dispassionate attitude speaks from Heise’s portraits, a genre that has been predominant in her output since the mid-1970s.⁠

The “catalogue raisonné” is the first to present Almut Heise’s oeuvre in its entirety to allow for comprehensive study of the artist’s signature richly detailed visual idiom. The two volumes gather her paintings, drawings, and prints from 1966 until the present. Produced in close collaboration with the artist over the course of almost a decade, the catalogue also includes previously unpublished visual materials. With writings by Brigitte Kölle, Petra Lange-Berndt, Kito Nedo, Thomas Scheibitz, and a foreword by Michael Hering and Marie-Catherine Vogt.