HEIKE LIN TRIEBEL ART
Contemporary Artist - New Narrative Painting
HEIKE LIN TRIEBEL
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.
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.
Short Biography
Heike Lin Triebel is a German visual artist and curator.
She studied Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mainz and Graphic at the University of 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.
Education & Training
• University of Erfurt – Studies in Graphic Art
• University of Applied Sciences, Mainz – Painting
• Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) – Certificate in Curatorial Practice
Solo Exhibitions
2026 - Frankfurt - “Layers of Memory - Painting Between Movement, Depth, and Remembrance” | Rüdesheim - "Sediment of Silence - Between Time, Landscape and Memory"
2023 - Nastätten - "Horsepower"| Mainz - "Wild and Free"
2022 - Mainz - "Water"
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 - Mainz - "Submerged"/ Curated exhibition | Berlin / Kunstquartier Bethanien - Monster Exhibition “Berlin meets Tokyo”
2025 - Wiesbaden "New-BBK" | Limburg - Lahn Artists Annual Exhibition - “Light” | ARTE Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden (October)
2024 - Limburg - "Preserve" | Valencia - "Stories" | Vancouver - "Look At Me" | Hadamar - "Roses" | London - "Wildlife" | Laurenburg - "Pictures Tell Stories"
2023 - Limburg - "Dreams"
2022 - Limburg - "Fire and Water"
2021 - Wiesbaden - "Arte" | Zurich - "World" | Milan - "Kromatikart" | Milan - "Coming Out"
2020 - Monaco - "Art Fair" | Madrid - "New Artists"
Awards & Nominations
2025 - Selected Artist, Evolving by Monster Exhibition – Berlin meets Tokyo, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin 2026
2024 - Audience Award, Preserve, Limburg
2024 - Finalist, David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year, London
2023 - Audience Award, Out of the Blue, Limburg
2021 - Finalist, Artbox Gallery, Zurich
Press & Publications (Selected)
2025 - Wiesbadener Kurier
2024 - GlobalArtTimes, London | The Heroine’s Journey, Netherlands
2022 - ArtistCloseUp, Berlin
2020 - Discovery Art Fair, Frankfurt
Techniques & Media
Acrylic, oxidation, gauze, pigments and varnish on canvas. Her multi-layered approach evokes transparent depth and submerged worlds, addressing themes of fragility, climate change and memory culture.
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