Heidrun Rathgeb b. 1967

  • Heidrun Rathgeb was born in 1967 in southern Germany. She studied painting in London at the Slade School of Fine... Heidrun Rathgeb was born in 1967 in southern Germany. She studied painting in London at the Slade School of Fine... Heidrun Rathgeb was born in 1967 in southern Germany. She studied painting in London at the Slade School of Fine... Heidrun Rathgeb was born in 1967 in southern Germany. She studied painting in London at the Slade School of Fine... Heidrun Rathgeb was born in 1967 in southern Germany. She studied painting in London at the Slade School of Fine...

    Heidrun Rathgeb was born in 1967 in southern Germany. She studied painting in London at the Slade School of Fine Art (MFA) 1996-99 and the Byam Shaw School of Art (1993-96). After a year and a half of living and painting on Dartmoor she decided to move back to southern Germany. Since 2001 she has lived with her family in a remote farmhouse close to Lake Constance and the Alps, using two studios, one for painting and one for printmaking. From her copious sketchbooks which chronicle her environment and daily life, Heidrun develops small, intimate paintings using egg tempera on gesso panels. Heidrun has been awarded several artist residencies in Scotland (Isle of Lewis), Denmark and Norway.

  • "Her images discover Wonder and Innocence in the Everyday. As a young art student in London, she was already devoted to the example of Paula Modersohn-Becker; now she has emerged thirty years later as a true heir, achieving that same miraculous “simplicity”, neither insipid nor sentimental, resonant with passionate feeling".

     Timothy Hyman RA

  • Exhibitions
  • Biography
    Heidrun Rathgeb

    Solo Exhibitions

    2024 North of the Sun, John Martin Gallery

    2023 My Yellow Room, 532 Gallery, New York

    2022 Nordic Lights, John Martin Gallery, London

    2018 Kloster Sießen, Torhaus Gallerie, Bad Saulgau

    2003 Beldam Gallery, Brunel University Uxbridge

    2001 Glyndebourne Opera, England

    2000 Deborah Bates Gallery, London

    Selected Group Exhibitions

    2022 Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Sweden

    2021 Preview, John Martin Gallery, London

    2021 Oliver Projects, London

    2021 mothflower.com

    2020 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

    2018 – 2020 Browse & Darby Gallery, London

    2019 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

    2017 Kloster Hegne, Bodensee

    2014 Art Capsule Gallery, London

    2010 Travel Exhibition with Francis Hoyland in Berlin, Halle, Marburg

    2008 – 2013 Browse & Darby Gallery, London

    2000 Orchard Gallery, Mall Galleries, London

    2000 Stephen Lacey Gallery, London

    1999 The Slade School, MFA show

    1999 Duncan Terrace Gallery, London

    1997 Student’s Interpretations, National Gallery, London

    1997 Art Next Gallery, London

    1995 Galerie Mitten, Wasserburg

    Artist in Residence (AiR) / touring residencies

    2021 AiR KH Messen, Norway

    2020 AiR Kulturhaus Vemb, West Jütland, Danmark

    2019 AiR Künstlerh.user Worpswede, Germany

    2019 AiR Bhaltos Trust Residency, Isle of Lewis, Scotland

    2017 Wales, Offa’s Dyke

    2014 Scotland, Isle of Skye, walking and drawing across the Island

    2003 Paris, studying Corot and Chardin

    2002 Barcelona Montjuik, study of medieval mosaics

    1997 Tuscany, Italy, three months study of Etruscan and Sienese Art

    1994 Ladakh, Indian Himalayas, crossing the Himalayas on foot for three months and drawing / painting

    1993 Ladakh, Indian Himalayas, crossing the Himalayas on foot for three months and drawing / painting

    Education

    1996 Slade School of Fine Art, MFA, London

    1999 Master of Fine Art

    1993 Byam Shaw School of Art, London

    1996 Byam Shaw Diploma of Fine Art

    1991 UTS School of Design, Sydney

    1987 Fachhochschule Wiesbaden; Design