Heike Lin Triebel - Contemporary Artist | New Narrative Painting

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New Narrative - Painting as Resonance

 

Heike Lin Triebel’s work belongs to a new narrative movement in contemporary painting, where figurative elements and emotional storytelling merge into immersive visual spaces. Her images reveal themselves slowly: what first appears blurred or submerged unfolds into layered meaning.

 

Water is central to her artistic language. Through multiple layers of pigment, oxidation, and gauze, she creates transparent depths that evoke the sensation of entering an underwater world, quiet, fragile, and insistently alive. Her paintings address themes of vulnerability, disappearance, and the shifting balance of our climate, while series such as Wild Horses and Wings of the Wild explore urgency, motion, and the fragility of nature.

 

Triebel’s work is not designed to be consumed quickly.

It invites presence.

It asks to be felt.

It opens rather than concludes.

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Submerged - Memory Beneath the Surface

 

With her long-term project Submerged - Sancta Profunda, Triebel deepens her exploration of water as a medium of memory. The works reflect on endangered cultural spaces such as Venice and Palmyra, places where history becomes fragile. Each layer of gauze or pigment becomes a quiet archive: a trace of what once was, and what may be lost.

 

Painting, text and occasional sound merge into a single immersive experience. Her installations create spaces where viewers step into a conversation with disappearance and transformation.

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Biography

 

Heike Lin Triebel is a German visual artist and curator whose work interweaves painting, memory, and site-specific installation. She studied Graphic Design at the University of Erfurt and Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mainz. She completed the Certificate in Curatorial Practice at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), shaping her interdisciplinary approach that connects artistic and curatorial practices.

 

Her work has been exhibited in Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Monaco, the UK and the USA, and has received several distinctions, including Audience Awards in 2023 and 2024 and a nomination as Finalist for the David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year 2024 in London.

 

Upcoming exhibitions include solo shows at RheinWeinWelt Rüdesheim and Galerie Drei König Frankfurt, as well as her participation in MONSTER Exhibition - Berlin meets Tokyo at Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin (2026).

 

For Triebel, painting is a slow act of remembrance - a way to make visible what is about to disappear.

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Education & Training

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    •    University of Erfurt – Studies in Graphic Design

    •    Academy of Fine Arts, Mainz – Painting

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

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Solo Exhibitions

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2023 - Horsepower, Nastätten | Wild and Free, Mainz

2022 - Water, Mainz

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Selected Group Exhibitions

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2025 - New-BBK, Wiesbaden | Lahn Artists Annual Exhibition - “Light”, Limburg | ARTE Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden (October)

2024 - Preserve, Limburg | Stories, Valencia | Look At Me, Vancouver | Roses, Hadamar | Wildlife, London | Pictures Tell Stories, Laurenburg

2023 - Dreams, Limburg

2022 - Fire and Water, Limburg

2021 - Arte, Wiesbaden | World, Zurich | Kromatikart, Milan | Coming Out, Milan

2020 - Art Fair, Monaco | New Artists, Madrid

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Upcoming Exhibitions 2026

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RheinWeinWelt, Rüdesheim - Solo Exhibition

Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin - MONSTER Exhibition “Berlin meets Tokyo”

Galerie Drei König, Frankfurt / Sachsenhausen - Solo Exhibition

The Pier, Mainz - Curated autumn/winter exhibition

Lahn Artists Annual Exhibition, Limburg

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Awards & Nominations

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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

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Press & Publications (Selected)

2025 - Wiesbadener Kurier

2024 - GlobalArtTimes, London | The Heroine’s Journey, Netherlands

2022 - ArtistCloseUp, Berlin

2020 - Discovery Art Fair, Frankfurt

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Techniques & Media

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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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