STEFAN HEYER IS A CONTEMPORARY GERMAN ARTIST WORKING IN CATALUNYA, SPAIN
Stefan Heyer’s work evokes universal emotional responses through highly layered, gestural abstraction. His paintings emerge from beneath the surface, where fragments of memory, spectral traces, and half-formed ideas rise and metamorphose into painterly matter. Heyer’s art explores histories both personal and shared and is inspired by pop culture, esoteric thought, and philosophical concerns of our postmodern age.
He creates directly on canvas without preparatory sketches; each composition unfolds in the “eternal now,” marked by dynamic, intuitive energy and constant decision-making. Showing and concealing, expression and silence, remembering and forgetting are identical gestures in his work. Color is pushed to excess and reduced, often buried and reactivated, inviting uncertainty rather than resolution.
Heyer’s paintings resist fixed meanings and avoid narrative closure. They function more like music—mute yet emotionally charged—inviting the viewer to participate in completing the work through imagination. His pieces appear across private collections worldwide and are represented by galleries in the USA and Germany.
“I want to pull a universal string.”
SOLO EXIBITIONS
2026
coming soon (May):
”Sophia dreaming about the earth” exposition
with the release of the catalogue “Paintings 2020 - 2025”, David Behning Contemporary Art,
Düsseldorf Germany
2025
”The secret garden of Hildegard von Bingen”,
Gallery MAR (Utah)
2024
”Echos of Depth”, Galerie SLP (Germany)
”Introducing”, Yudianart Gallery (China)
”New work”, RNP Fine Arts, (Germany)
”The secret garden”, Gallery MAR (USA)
2023
“A universal string”, Grainger Gallery (Australia)
”Another hymn”, Stross Gallery (Austria)
2022
”New works”, Gallery MAR (USA)
2021
”Songs of earth”, Grainger Gallery (Australia)
”The desert sands”, Gallery MAR (USA)
2020
”Into another dimension”, DBCA (Germany)
Solo booth, Art Karlsruhe, with DBCA (Germany)
2019
The Other Art Fair (Los Angeles, USA)
Gallery MAR (USA)
Pryor FineArts (USA)
Lanoue Gallery (USA)
2018
JPB Art Gallery (France)
Mash Gallery (USA)
2017
The Other Art Fair (London, UK)
”Reality Poems”, stilwerk (Germany)
2015
”Corridors”, GudbergNerger (Germany)
2014
”Music is love”, Liga 01 Hamburg (Germany)
2013
”New work”, Hanse Office (Belgium)
”Restrooms/ Resteräume”, GudbergNerger (Germany)
2011
”Anmutige Gegend”, Mono Gallery Hamburg (Germany)
2008
picnic industries Berlin (Germany)
2007
”Paintings”, Fronline Gallery (Germany)
”Music is love”, 25 Music Hannover (Germany)