Heiner Thiel (born January 14, 1957) is a German sculptor and curator. He is an exponent of concrete art.
Life and work
Thiel studied history of art from 1978 to 1982 at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, and then went to the Städelschule in Frankfurt from 1983 to 1985. There he studied sculpture under Michael Croissant. In 1985 he received an award for most promising artist in visual arts of the town of Mainz. The following year he won the most promising award of the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1998 Thiel was awarded a scholarship by the Stiftung Rheinland-Pfalz für Kultur – Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral. Thiel is a member of the Darmstädter Sezession and the Arbeitsgemeinschaft bildender Künstler am Mittelrhein ("association of visual artists in the Middle Rhine").
Bundeskunstsammlung, Berlin, DeutschlandAlbright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USAArt collection of the Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, GermanyArt collection of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt, GermanyArt collection of the Union Investment, Frankfurt, GermanyMuseum für Konkrete Kunst ("museum of concrete art"), Ingolstadt, GermanyMuseum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, GermanyLandesmuseum Mainz, Mainz, GermanyMinistry of Education, Science, Youth and Culture of the Federal State Rhineland-Palatinate, GermanyState Chancellery of the Federal State Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz, GermanyStaatstheater Mainz, Mainz, GermanyKunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, GermanyMuseum gegenstandsfreier Kunst ("museum of non-objective art"), Otterndorf, GermanyArt collection of Maximilian und Agathe Weishaupt (Sammlung Maximilian und Agathe Weishaupt), München, Germany1994: Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen, Mainz, Germany1998: Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, USA2000: Heiner Thiel - New Works, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Newport Beach, USA2000: Collegium Oecumenicum Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany2001: Heiner Thiel - Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Bergner+Job, Wiesbaden, Germany2003: Heiner Thiel – Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Lindner, Vienna, Austria2004: Heiner Thiel - Linie - Fläche - Farbe - Raum, Haus Metternich, Koblenz, Germany2008: La Vérité Tordue de L’éspace, Imprints Galerie, Piégros-la-Clastre, France2009: Oktahedron, Galerie Lindner, Vienna, Austria2011: Heiner Thiel - Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Mariette Haas, Ingolstadt, Germany2013: Heiner Thiel - Fläche - Farbe - Raum, Sonnabend Galerie, Hofheim/Taunus, Germany2016: La Surface de la Couleur, édition multiples un, Paris, France2016: Heiner Thiel, Imprints Galerie, Crest, Drôme, France2017: Heiner Thiel – Werkschau 40 Jahre, Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Sammlung Schroth, Soest, Germany2000: Walter Storms Galerie, München, (with Albert Hien)2006: In a Silent Dialogue I, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, USA, (with Michael Post)2007: Die krumme Wahrheit des Raums, Kunstbüroberlin, Berlin, Germany (with Norvin Leineweber, Norbert Müller-Everling and Dirk Radtke)2008: Works on Paper, Natalie and Irving Forman Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA2008: Im Blickpunkt: Skulptur, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany2009: Minimal Variety Forms, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia2009: Room to Move, Galerie La Ligne, Zurich, Switzerland (with Michael Post)2010: Michael Post, Heiner Thiel – Wall Pieces und Projekte für den öffentlichen Raum, Permanent Representation of Rhineland-Palatinate in Berlin, Germany (with Michael Post)2010: Balmoral Blend, 15 Jahre Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral – Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, Germany2011: Neuzugänge III Ausstellung Licht – Raum, Kaiserhaus, Sammlung Schroth, Neheim-Hüsten, Germany2012: Heiner Thiel – Matthew Tyson, Emma Hill Fine Art-The Eagle Gallery, London, England2012: Zeichnungen und Drucke aus der Sammlung Schroth, Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Sammlung Schroth, Soest2013: Espaces Silencieux - Heiner Thiel & Matthew Tyson, Imprints Galerie, Piégros-la-Clastre, France2013: Neuzugänge V, Farben-Colours, Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest, Germany2013: The Eye of the Beholder, Galerie Art Affairs, Amsterdam, The Netherlands2013: Embodying Colour, Museum Wiesbaden, Germany (with Joachim Bandau, Emil Müller, Michael Post, Ann Reder, Gert Riel, Eduard Tauss, Jeremy Thomas, Bill Thompson, Roy Thurston, Matthew Tyson)2013: Colours of Space, Galerie Mariette Haas, Ingolstadt, Germany (with Michael Post)2014: Reliefreduktiv 3, Quadrat Dornbirn, Austria, (with Andrew Leslie, Andreas Kocks, Vesna Kovacic, Gert Riel, Jan Maarten Voskuil)2014: Heavy Metal, Galerie Renate Bender, München, Germany2014: Embodying Colour, Budapest, Vasarely Museum, Hungary (with a.o. Joachim Bandau, Emil Müller, Michael Post, Ann Reder, Gert Riel, Eduard Tauss, Jeremy Thomas, Bill Thompson, Roy Thurston, Matthew Tyson, András Gál, Tibor Gáyor, István Haász, Tamás Jovánovics)2014: Painting Black, Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, New York, USA, (u.a. mit Alain Biltereyst, Paul Brand, Edgar Diehl, Michael Jäger, Ivo Ringe, Rolf Rose)2015: Embodying Colour, AKM, Haus Metternich , Koblenz, Germany (with a.o. Joachim Bandau, Emil Müller, Michael Post, Ann Reder, Gert Riel, Eduard Tauss, Jeremy Thomas, Bill Thompson, Roy Thurston, John Carter, Julia Farrer, Astrid Lincke-Zukunft, Dora Maurer, Cecilia Vissers)2015: Schwarz auf Weiss, Highlights aus der Sammlung Maximilian und Agathe Weishaupt und der Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst und Design, Museum für Konkrete Kunst (Highlights of the Collection of Maximilian and Agathe Weishaupt and the Foundation for Conrete Art and Design of the Museum of Concrete Art), Ingolstadt, Germany2016: Konstruktion – Construction. 25 internationale mathematisch konstruktive Positionen, Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest, Germany (with a.o. Douglas Allsop, Hellmut Bruch, Vanessa Henn, Jan van Munster, Jean d’Imbleval2016: Genzenlos – Himmlische Perspektiven, Schlosskirche Bonn, Deutschland (mit Aljoscha, Christoph Dahlhausen, Michael Denhoff, Christoph Gesing, Naho Kawabe, Silke Koch, Harald Naegeli, Johanna Reich, Petra Siering)2016: Vicissitudes of Color - Heiner Thiel & Michael Post, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, USA1996: Offenes Quadrat, Skulpturenweg Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany1999: Mural in the conference room of the Nassauische Sparkasse, Wiesbaden, Germany2000: Large sculpture Labyrinth, elementary school in Mainz-Bretzenheim, Germany2000: Large sculpture Maze, elementary school in Gerlenhofen, Germany2003: Design and configuration of a huge glass mural with coat of arms in the Coat of Arms-Hall of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (together with Michael Post) (temporary installation)2005: Mural Politeia in the foyer of the police headquarters, Westpfalz, Kaiserslautern, Germany (with Michael Post)2006: Design and configuration of a second huge glass mural in the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate, Salle d'Amitié, the coat of arms of the twin towns and regions of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (with Michael Post)2009: Mural in the office of the regional premier of Rhineland-Palatinate in the State Chancellery Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz, GermanyWithout year: Eternal Light (Ewiges Licht), Festungskirche Ehrenbreitstein2013: Kurator der Ausstellung Embodying Colour in der Kunsthalle Wiesbaden (with Michael Post)2014: Embodying Colour Vasarely Museum, Budapest atranslationnd Embodying Colour in Haus Metternich, Koblenz (with Michael Post)