Mara Heuer
lives and works in Halle/Saale, Germany.
In her artistic work, Mara Heuer explores the curiosities of action figures, fluffy cuddly toys and plastic toys of all kinds. Thematically, she often moves herself back to pop culture worlds of the past, back to the early 90s, when Heuer was a little child. In countless serial revisions, Heuer translates the toy worlds into new contexts in which repetition, alienation or the aspect of collecting always revolve around themes such as personal memory, fun and consumer culture or nostalgia.
Her work occupies an area somewhere between drawing, painting and illustration. Printmaking and collaging completes her visual universe, where she explores the weirdness of action figures, fluffy cuddly toys and other crazy plastic stuff she finds interesting. Her influences range from 90‘s kids cartoons & comics over outsider & naive art, to weird 80‘s (horror) movie aesthetics or diy punk & tattoo culture.
She is also available for collaborations or commissions.
For any kinds of questions or requests,
feel free to contact her:
︎ hello@maraheuer.com
follow her:
︎ mara_heuer
or buy her stuff ︎:
︎maraheuer.bigcartel.com
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Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2022: Monsters In My Pocket, Fumetto Festival, Kleintheater Luzern, Switzerland
2021: Monsters In My Pocket, Schleifweg, Halle/Saale, Germany
2019: When Puppets Are Your Only Friends, Atelier Aichinger Leipzig, Germany
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Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2022: GameOn Vol. 3,
Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
2022: Lindenow 18: Keine große Sache
Hostel Blauer Stern, Leipzig, Germany
2022: GameOn Vol. 2,
Ateliergemeinschaft, Neugersdorf, Germany
2022: GameOn Vol. 1,
C. Rockefeller, Center for Contemporary Arts, Dresden, Germany
2022: Art Volkmarsdorf, Riso Club, Leipzig, Germany
2022: Kunstwochen Radewell, Kunststandort Papierfabrik Radewell, Halle/Saale, Germany
2022: Mirrors, Snail Eye Festival, Kollonadenstraße, Leipzig, Germany
2019: Wo die wilden Bilder wohnen, Krumulus, Berlin, Germany
2015: Lindenow 11
Yacht Club Leutzsch, Leipzig, Germany
2015: Stil und Gewalt,
Kunstraum Tankstation, Enschede, Netherlands
2013: Aki Electric,
Kunstraum Tetem, Enschede, Netherlands
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Art Book Fairs (Selection)
2023: Illustrade, Rostock, Germany
2023: Fumetto, Luzern, Switzerland
2022: Snail Eye, Leipzig, Germany
2022: Fumetto, Luzern, Switzerland
2022: Its A Book, Leipzig, Germany
2021: Comicfestival Hamburg, Germany
2021: Its A Book, Leipzig, Germany
2019: Fumetto, Luzern, Switzerland
2019: Millionaires Club, Leipzig, Germany
2018: Comicsalon Erlangen, Germany
2018: Millionaires Club, Leipzig, Germany
2017: Fumetto, Luzern, Switzerland
2016: Seoul Art Book Fair, South Korea
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Publications (Selected)
2023: Kleiner Gelber Hund, booklet, self-published
2021: Hungry For Attention, booklet, self-published
2021: Monsters In My Pocket, book, self-published
2020: Childhood Dreams, booklet, self-published
2019: When Puppets are your only friends, booklet, self-published
2019: Acht Löwen, book, self-published
2018: Banale Beobachtungen des Alltags 1, book, self-published
2018: Das hässliche Händlein, book, self-published
2018: Schweiß und Tränen, booklet, self-published
2017: 651 Rabbits Occupied This Book, book, self-published
2016: Furry Friends, booklet, self-published
2015: Group Constellations, booklet, self-published
2012: Hopes and Fears 1, booklet, self-published
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Education
2017 — 2021:
Master Studies at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle
(Master class of ATAK/Georg Barber)
- Master of Arts
2009 — 2014:
Bachelor Studies at University of Applied Sciences Mainz
- Bachelor of Arts
2012— 2013:
Fine Art Studies at AKI, Academy of Art & Design, Enschede, Netherlands
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IMPRESSUM
© by Mara Heuer. All rights reserved. 2023