Exhibition: Freda Heyden "Hell's Paradise"

Vernissage April 6, 11.30 am
"In my work, I try to explore dimensions that are hidden from everyday view. Presence and absence occupy me, as well as the loud and the silent, the touchable and the untouchable," says Freda Heyden about her artistic work, into which an exhibition at the Forum Jacob Pins now offers a deep insight.
From April 1 to June 9, the Forum Jacob Pins will be showing paintings and collages, sculptures and installations by the artist, who is based in Hiddensen, Lower Saxony. Freda Heyden, born in Hamburg in 1955, first spent time in Israel in 1978 out of an interest in Jewish life, initially in a kibbutz and later in Jerusalem. There she was briefly a guest student at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. Heyden received her actual academic training in her native Hamburg, where she studied press drawing, illustration and sculpture at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, consciously opting for a wide range of artistic forms of expression. Together with her partner at the time, the journalist Michael Holzach, Freda Heyden published the children's book I'm called Feldmann and I'm a dog 
In 1983, the year he died, Freda Heyden gradually developed her very own visual language, moving away from the human figure and the representational. Heyden is receptive to thinking in opposites, as well as to the literature of antiquity and the present. The exhibition title HÖLLENPARADIES suggests that the exhibited works are dedicated to special states and moments of human existence in which happiness or unhappiness has not yet been decided, in which - still - everything is possible.
At the vernissage on Sunday, April 6 at 11:30 a.m., Elisabeth Brügger, curator of the Forum Jacob Pins, will introduce Freda Heyden's work and lead into a discussion with the artist.