Contemporary Artist - New Narrative Painting 

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Heike Lin Triebel works within a contemporary narrative painting practice in which memory, perception, and materiality intersect. Her paintings emerge through slow processes of layering pigment, gauze, and translucent surfaces. What initially appears blurred or submerged gradually condenses into a quiet space of resonance.

 

Water is not used as a motif, but as a condition: a carrier of memory, loss, and transformation. Her work addresses fragile spaces, cultural, ecological, and emotional, that are at risk of disappearing.

 

Her paintings ask for time.

They do not explain.

They open.

 

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Submerged – Sancta Profunda

 

 

Submerged - Sancta Profunda is a long-term artistic project exploring water as a medium of memory. The works reflect on endangered cultural sites such as Venice and Palmyra. Each layer functions as sediment - a trace of what remains when certainty begins to erode.

 

Painting, text and occasional sound merge into immersive situations that invite viewers to enter into their own relationship with time, loss, and transformation.

 

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Short Biography

 

 

Heike Lin Triebel is a German visual artist and curator and a member of the German Association of Visual Artists (BBK)

She studied painting in Mainz and graphic in Erfurt and completed the Certificate in Curatorial Practice at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK).

 

Her work has been exhibited in Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, the UK, and the USA.

Awards include Audience Awards in 2023 and 2024 and finalist nomination for the David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year 2024.

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Education & Training

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    •    University of Erfurt – Studies in Graphic Art 

    •    University of Applied  Sciences, Mainz – Painting

    •    Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) – Certificate in Curatorial Practice

 

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Solo Exhibitions

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2026 – Layers of Memory – Painting Between Movement, Depth and Remembrance, Frankfurt  

2026 – Sediment of Silence – Between Time, Landscape and Memory, Rüdesheim  

 

2023 – Horsepower, Nastätten  

2023 – Wild and Free, Mainz  

 

2022 – Water, Mainz

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Selected Group Exhibitions​​

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2026 – Submerged, curated exhibition, Mainz  

2026 – Monster Exhibition – Berlin meets Tokyo, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin  

 

2025 – New BBK, Wiesbaden  

2025 – Lahn Artists Annual Exhibition – Light, Limburg  

2025 – ARTe Wiesbaden  

 

2024 – Preserve, Limburg  

2024 – Stories, Valencia  

2024 – Vancouver  

 

2023 – Pictures Tell Stories, Laurenburg  

2023 – Dreams, Limburg  

 

2022 – Fire and Water, Limburg  

 

2021 – Arte Wiesbaden  

2021 – World, Artbox Gallery, Zurich  

2021 – Kromatikart, Milan

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Art Fairs (Selection)

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art3f Monaco - Monaco

Discovery Art Fair - Frankfurt

ARTE Wiesbaden (2×)

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Awards & Nominations

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2025 – Selected Artist, Evolving by Monster Exhibition – Berlin meets Tokyo  

 

2024 – Audience Award, Preserve Exhibition, Limburg  

2024 – Finalist, David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year, London  

 

2023 – Audience Award, Out of the Blue, Limburg  

 

2021 – Finalist, Artbox Gallery, Zurich

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Press & Publications (Selected)

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2025 – Wiesbadener Kurier  

 

2024 – Global Art Times, London  

2024 – The Heroine’s Journey – artist feature

 

2022 – ArtistCloseUp Magazine, Berlin  

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2021 – CRELALA Kunst – feature on ARTe Wiesbaden (selected works)

 

2020 – CRELALA Kunst – feature on Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt (Wild Horses series)

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Techniques & Media

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Acrylic, pigments, oxidation processes and gauze on canvas.

 

Heike Lin Triebels multi-layered paintings explore submerged worlds and address themes of memory, fragility and

environmental transformation.

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Studio locations: Germany / Spain

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