Heike Müller

Heike Müller was born in Winterthur, grew up in Frauenfeld and trained as a drawing teacher in Basel after graduating from high school. A study visit to the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam sparked her love of painting, which she pursued continuously from then on. She took part in numerous exhibitions and spent six months at the Cités des Arts in Paris in 2000. From 2011 until the gallery closed in 2017, her work was represented at Galerie Franz Mäder in Basel, and from 2013 it was also shown at Galerie Kunst2 in Heidelberg, at ART Karlsruhe and at the Positions Art Fair in Berlin. After a longer stay in St. Petersburg, she was able to gain another gallery there, the Leslie Curran Gallery. Thematically, the artist is interested in people and landscapes, which she takes from collected old black and white photographs. The scenes and people are placed in a new context, memories are transferred, pleasurable moments are captured. This is done in a color-intensive, powerful mode of expression.
In 2015 and 2016, her work was purchased by the University Psychiatric Clinics in Basel and the art collection of the Canton of Thurgau. In 2017, she received a grant from the Esther Matossi Foundation.
www.heikemueller.ch