Stefan Heyer is a german contemporary artist working in the baix empordà, catalunya, spain.
Stefan Heyer and his gestural abstracts are an exploration of histories, both personal and shared, and are inspired by pop culture, esoteric and philosophical issues of our postmodern digital age alienation, nature and history in general. Coming from a working-class background, his journey to a career in the arts was not born of privilege, but of passion. Experiencing the DIY Attitude of the 80s and 90s, it was this aesthetic underground rather than through academic training that has developed Stefan Heyer’s style and consciousness of art. After a career in streetfashion as an art and creative director he went full time artist in 2008.
His work can be found in private collections around the world.
He is represented by galleries in the USA ( Gallery MAR and Simchowitz/ Creative Partners), Australia (Grainger Gallery), Spain (Casa Studio Granados), Germany (dbca, Kunsthaus Artes , France (JPB-ART Gallery and Asia (Yudian Art).
“I want to pull a universal string.”
Stefan Heyer’s works are extremely layered, as he drips paint, scrawls words on the canvas, and mixes mediums including oil and acrylic paints, crayon, pencil, marker, and photo transfer. He describes his process as a combination of the intuitive physicality of highly energetic trance-like strokes and mark makings and a more cerebral highly conscientious process. It’s this masterful blend of spontaneity and premeditation that give Heyer’s abstract pieces their intriguing complexity.
Selected exhibitions.
2024
”Echos of Depth”, Galerie SLP (Berlin, Germany)
”Introducing Stefan Heyer”, Yudianart Gallery (Hangzhou, China)
2023
“A universal string”, Grainger Gallery, Canberra, Australia
”Another hymn”, Ursula Stross Gallery, Graz, Österreich
2022
”New works”, Gallery Mar, Park City, USA
2021
”Songs of earth”, Grainger Gallery, Canberra, Australia
”The desert sands”, Gallery Mar, Park City, USA
2020
”In another dimension”, DBCA Sylt, Germany
Solo booth, Art Karlsruhe, with DBCA, Germany
2019
The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles, USA
Gallery Mar, Solo Feature, Park City, USA
Pryor FineArts, Solo Feature, Atlanta, USA
Lanoue Gallery, Solo Feature, Boston, USA
2018
JPB ART GALLERY, St. Tropez, France
Mash Gallery, Group, Los Angeles, USA
2017
The Other Art Fair, London, UK
”Reality Poems”, stilwerk Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2015
”Corridors”, GudbergNerger, Hamburg, Germany
2014
”Music is love”, Liga 01, Hamburg, Germany
2013
”New work”, Gallery at Hanse Office, Brusells, Belgium
”Restrooms/ Resteräume”, GudbergNerger, Hamburg Germany
2011
”Anmutige Gegend”, Monostore Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2008
picnic industries, Berlin, Germany
2007
”Paintings”, Fronline Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
”Music is love”, 25 Music, Hannover, Germany