Helga Schmidhuber A Heady, Hefty Upload.

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1 Pressrelease, August 2018 (Page 1 of 6) A Heady, Hefty Upload. 31st August to 21st Oktober 2018 Opening: 30th August 2018, from 6 pm With the solo exhibition A Heady, Hefty Upload. (* 1972, Wiesbaden) returns to the with a current survey of her work. The selection combines works that are shown first time in public as well as works that are created exclusively for the exhibition. The chosen title of the show A Heady, Hefty Upload. refers to the process of the exhibition conception, which was very compressed in time and performed with great intensity. Like a heady and hefty stream of data, the presentation of the works for the Kunstverein s exhibition space took shape, with some of the assembled works being even in the process of creation and now be shown publicly for the first time. The formal scope of the show extends - quite programmatically for the artist s oeuvre - from large-scale gestural-figurative paintings to objects and showcases to painterly miniatures, collages and tattoos. All this, however, is based on an intimate interconnecting network of ideas and feelings. s pictorial language is fed by these recurring sources. There is, above all, nature: in its living form as well as in its scientific graphic reproduction. In addition, everything found in everyday life plays a central role - as a visual and ideal starting point for the painterly work or directly as material in the form of painting grounds or in sculptural objects. Old printed works, partly quite profane, partly strange auratic artefacts or also fragments of it - and again the animal: skulls, bones, mussel shells, feathers. The artist sometimes uses popular folk tradition or the religious-sacral of other ethnic groups, and the depth psychology, their fantastic-dreamlike and magical-occult are constantly drawn through her works. Finally there are the very immediate sensory perceptions of the places where the respective image ideas found their origin and so decisively shaped them. Their colors, smells and sounds flow synesthetically into the works. At the center of her Heady, Hefty Uploads is the tripartite series Petrichor. The term refers to the smell of rain on dry soil or hot stone as we perceive it when the heat of summer discharges in a thunderstorm. Complemented by some works from other groups of works such as Buben or Wenig Zeit zwischen zwei Fingern, the artworks condense into an impetuous and violent show: Ghostly Kattas - a lemur species from the island of Madagascar - climb through imaginary trees and take their counterpart in view. Sometimes casually, sometimes with a piercing look. A sumptuous trophy seems to float in the air, flinching and tingling with subtle energies.

2 Pressrelease, August 2018 (Page 2 of 6) From pictures, showcases and shrines, mysterious fetishes and totems reveal their witchcraft. Branch forks, which once struck a tornado in the artist s garden, turn into massive, decorated divining rods - seismographs for the forces beyond our consciousness and the earthquake quiver. Raising plants and meandering root systems, fantastic gelatinous deep-sea dwellers and ominous men hiding their faces behind bizarre feather masks... All this in its splendor of colors and shapes throws back the existential question to the viewer: what are you and what do you mean, human, strangest of all mammals? About the artist / (*1972, Wiesbaden) comple ted her studies at the Art Academy Düsseldorf as master student of Albert Oehlen. In 2002 her first institutional exhibition Heimspiel, was on view at the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden. Exhibitions in Frankfurt am Main, Cologne, Zurich, Reykjavik, Vienna, Munich and Brescia followed. In 2016 returned to the as a curator of the exhibition My castle is your home, where she invited 10 internationally artists to the Hessian capital. lives and works in Berlin and Bad Schwalbach. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog and the edition Alexander from the series Buben.

3 Pressrelease, August 2018 (Page 3 of 6) The is institutionally promoted by the culture office of the city of Wiesbaden. The project is promoted by the SV SparkassenVersicherung and Teunen Konzepte, Schloss Johanissberg. We appreciate your interest. For further information and press pictures we are at your disposal via and telephone. Press Contact / / presse@kunstverein-wiesbaden.de

4 Pressrelease, August 2018 (Page 4 of 6) Exhibition programm / Opening Thursday, 30th August 2018, from 6 pm Guided Tour Every sunday and holidays (except monday), 3 pm and upon request Espresso Short Guided Tour with Espresso Every tuesday, 12:45 am to 1:15 pm Spritz Every thursday, 6 to 8 pm Kids inside for everybody Saturday, 22th September and 20th October 11 am to 1 pm Wilhelms Wanne Interactive Tour through the exhibition / from 8-88 Years Saturday, 1st and 29th September 3 to 5 pm Finissage Sunday, 21st October 2018, from 3 to 6 pm You can find all events and opening hours on our website:

5 Pressrelease, August 2018 (Page 5 of 6) Press Pictures / Please respect the copyright. There is no charge when used in reports on the exhibition. On request we can provide images in a printable resolution. In return we would be pleased to receive a copy and /or document link of your article. Holger Schmidhuber und VG Bild- Kunst, Bonn Untitled, 2017, off the series Petrichor, mixed media on canvas, 270 x 190 cm

6 Untitled, 2017, off the series Petrichor, mixed media on canvas, 190 x 130 cm Untitled, 2018, off the series Petrichor - Alpis, various materials in showcase, 51 x 42 x 8 cm Untitled, 2017, off the Serie Petrichor - Deep Sea, mixed media on silkscreen, 43 x 40 cm