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Heike Lin Triebel in her studio, standing in front of two large-scale paintings - expressive portraits and textured compositions reflecting her distinctive artistic signature.

                                                                                      

 

Heike Lin Triebel - Contemporary Artist | New Narrative Painting

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New Narrative - A New Approach to Contemporary Painting

 

Heike Lin Triebel’s art is part of a new narrative movement that merges figurative painting with emotional storytelling. Her works are immersive experiences, where reality and imagination flow into one another. At first glance, the motifs seem hidden, but they gradually reveal their deeper meaning.

 

Water plays a central role in her art: Through multiple layers of color, oxidation, and gauze, Triebel creates a unique depth and transparency, evoking the feeling of submerged worlds. Her series like Wild Horses and Les Ailes de Bleu capture movement and urgency, addressing pressing themes like climate change and species protection.

 

Her paintings are not just visual compositions; they are stories waiting to be discovered.

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Coming into Narrative - Painting as Presence

 

With Submerged, Heike Lin Triebel deepens her exploration of immersive, narrative painting. The series is not only a reflection on water as a symbol of transformation and memory, it is a visual declaration of vulnerability, urgency and resistance. Every layer of gauze and pigment becomes a voice: fragile, quiet, and insistently present.

 

Her work stands for a form of art that demands to be felt rather than consumed. She creates spaces where painting is not just an object, but resonance. Where images do not conclude, but open.

 

Her approach is part of a broader movement she calls New Narrative: a return to storytelling in contemporary art, but with the depth and fracture of our time. Her works are not designed to please. They are meant to speak. And to stay.

This is not a career. It is a conversation.

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Short Biography

 

Heike Lin Triebel is an award-winning artist from Germany, whose work has been exhibited in Monaco, Switzerland, the USA, Italy, the UK, and Spain. She studied Graphic Arts at the University of Erfurt and specialized in Painting and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mainz.

 

Her art explores themes of climate change, hidden perception, and the fragility of nature. With her distinctive layering technique, she creates paintings that draw the viewer into a world beneath the surface.

 

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​Awards & Recognition 

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  •   2024: Membership in the Association of Visual Artists – Recognition of artistic achievements: BBK Germany

  •   2024: FINALIST 2024 DAVID SHEPHERD WILDLIFE FOUNDATION / London, UK 

  •   2024: AUDIENCE AWARD at the Annual Exhibition of the Lahn-Artists for „PRESERVE“ / Limburg, Deutschland

  •   2023: AUDIENCE AWARD at the Annual Exhibition of the Lahn-Artists for „Out Of The Blue“ / Limburg, Deutschland

  •   2021: FINALIST Artbox Gallery Zürich, Schweiz

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Exhibitions 

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 GROUP EXHIBITION:

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  • ​2025: "New-BBK" / Wiesbaden, Germany         

  • 2024: "Bewahren" / Limburg, Germany

  • 2024: "Stories" / Valencia, Spanien

  • 2024: "Look At Me" / Vancouver, Kanada

  • 2024: "Roses" / Hadamar, Deutschland

  • 2024: "Wildlife" /  London, UK : MALL GALLERIES LONDON, 01.-06.07. 24

  • 2023: "Pictures Tells Stories" / Laurenburg, Deutschland

  • 2023: "Träume" Limburg, Deutschland

  • 2022: "Fire And Water" /  Limburg, Deutschland

  • 2021: "Arte" /  Wiesbaden, Deutschland

  • 2021: "World" /  Zürich, Schweiz

  • 2021: "Kromatikart" /  Mailand, Italien

  • 2021: "Coming Out" / Mailand, Italien

  • 2020: "Art Fair" / Monaco

  • 2020: "New Artists" / Madrid, Spanien

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 SOLO EXHIBITION:

 

  • 2023: „Horsepower“/  Nastätten, Deutschland

  • 2023: „Wild And Free“ / Mainz, Deutschland

  • 2022: „Water“ / Mainz, Deutschland

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Techniques & Materials 

 

Triebel creates her striking compositions with acrylic, oxidation, gauze, pigments, and lacquer on canvas. Her unique layering technique gives the artworks both depth and transparency, creating the sensation of being submerged in water.

 

The materiality of her work plays a crucial role: the rough textures and structured layers underline the tension between beauty and loss, highlighting the urgency of preserving nature and the fragile balance of ecosystems.

 

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