Leo Heinik’s artistic practice involves sculpture, drawing, collage and publication. From time to time it also extends to forms of teaching, curation and organisation. His artistic interest lies in the interactions between artworks, their forms of presentation and their recipients. Leo Heinik’s sculptures often feature interfaces that make them compatible with infrastructural contact points such as electrical outlets or light sockets. Other works aim to open up the boundaries of prevailing visual exhibition cultures towards tactile experience by incorporating actual or implied functionalities or appealing to the visitors‘ desire to touch the objects. After studying art education, Leo Heinik was artistic director of Fahrender Raum (2020 – 2021), a project space primarily aimed at children and young people. He has been teaching in the Fine Arts/Sculpture department at AdBK Munich since 2021.
Leo Heinik’s works have been shown at Lenbachhaus, Florida and the Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism (Munich), Burg Galerie im Volkspark (Halle), Golden Pudel Club (Hamburg), Circuits & Currents (Athens) as well as Federation House (Manchester), among others.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION
since 2021
Assistant lecturer in the class of Nicole Wermers at Akademie der Bildenden Künste München (AdBK)
since 2017
Shared artistic and curatorial practice as Ruine München, together with Maria VMier and Jan Erbelding
2020 – 2021
Artistic director of Fahrender Raum
2015 – 2021
Conceptualisation and realisation of art educational mediation projects at Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau Munich
2021
Teaching Assignment at the Department of Philosophy & Aesthetic Theory at AdBK Munich
Prize for Galeries and Off-Spaces awarded by the City of Munich for Ruine München
2019 – 2020
MA Study Programme Art & Mediation at AdBK München, Supervisors: Maria Muhle, Stephan Dillemuth
2019
Prize of LfA Förderbank Bayern: edition 12 – junge kunst in bayern 2019
2011 – 2018
Studies of art education at AdBK, Supervisors: Stephan Dillemuth, Michaela Eichwald, Madeleine Bernstorff, Karolin Meunier
2016
Participant of the project class of Melanie Gilligan at AdBK
2014 – 2016
Participant of the DAAD Exchange Programme Survival Kit between AdBK and Athens School of Fine Art (GR), Supervisors: Blaise Kirschner, Nikos Arvanitis
2014
Participant of the interdisciplinary project class of Claire Denis at AdBK and Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen Munich
2013 – 2014
ERASMUS Study Grant: guest studies at the Department of Sculpture and Time-Based Art at Manchester School of Art (UK) Supervisors: Keith Brown, Brigitte Jurack
EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
2024
JAHRESGABEN, group show, Kunstverein München
JETZT, NOW AND FOREVER, group show, Atelier Empfangshalle Gabelsbergerstraße 85
2023
THINK BEFORE YOU PRINT, group show, Galerie von Empfangshalle
CONVERSATION PIECE, group show & dinner with Paula Erstmann, Paulina Nolte, CAConrad, Jakob Braito, Georgia Kaw, Maria VMier & Jan Erbelding, Ruine München Companions
DAS BIOTOP AUF DEM NAZISOCKEL, performative intervention with Maria VMier, Jan Erbelding & Leon Zmelty, Ruine München Companions in cooperation with the Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism
2022
HIÊN HOÀNG & LEO HEINIK, duo show with Hiên Hoàng, Florida Lothringer 13 (Munich)
DRIFT, group show, Kaulbachstraße 1A (Munich)
2021
RUINE MÜNCHEN ZEIGT IHREN FÖRDERVEREIN, exhibition by Ruine München, Lucky (Inning/Ammersee)
SWEAT, group show, contribution to an artwork by Philipp Gufler, Haus der Kunst (Munich)
TACKER, group show, Galerie der Künstler*innen (Munich)
2020
TWITTERING MACHINE, group show, Burg Galerie im Volkspark (Halle/Saale)
RADIO-ACTIVITY – COLLECTIVE APPROACHES TO ART AND POLITICS, group show, contribution with Ruine München & friends, Lenbachhaus (Munich)
2019
RUINE MÜNCHEN, group show with Maria VMier & Jan Erbelding, Kluckyland (Vienna)
RUINE MÜNCHEN, pop-up show & reading by Ruine München & friends, Golden Pudel Club (Hamburg)
MAGIC CHANNELS, Aktionsraum & keynote lecture, Fahrender Raum (Munich)
Z COMMON GROUND, group show, Gewerbehof Zschokkestraße (Munich)
2018
EXAMENSAUSSTELLUNG, group show, AdBK (Munich)
5 JAHRE HAMMANVONMIER, group show, IV (Munich)
2017
I WANNA GIVE YOU DEVOTION, contribution to an exhibition by Philipp Gufler, Platform (Munich)
RECHERCHE GEGEN RECHTS/DEINE HEIMAT, group show, Willi-Bleicher-Haus (Stuttgart)
LIEDERLICHE SUBJEKTE, group show, Weytterturm (Straubing)
2016
ANIMAL OF THE STATE, performance & publication release by Survival Kit, Lenbachhaus (Munich), Circuits & Currents (Athens)
HYBRIDS, group show, We Are Hercules (Munich)
ALGORITHM OF MY LIFE, group show, AkademieGalerie (Munich)
2015
FLROIAN NETZETR & LEO HEINKI PRÄSENTIEREN: DAS EREIGNISBÜRO, duo exhibition with Florian Netzer, MMK (Munich)
REALITY THROUGH FICTION, group show & symposium with Survival Kit, Circuits & Currents (Athens)
2014
HOW TO PROJECT & SPELL, film screening with Survival Kit, Chisenhale Gallery (London), Circuits & Currents (Athens), Galerie Kullukcu & Gregorian (Munich)
LO6, group show, Federation House (Manchester)
ORGANISATIONAL PRACTICE
2024
Klasse Wermers – AIRING, with Nicole Wermers and Janis Strobl at AdBK
2023
Klasse Wermers & friends – POLITICS OF DISPLAY/ STRUKTUREN DES ZEIGENS, with Nicole Wermers at Vitsoe Store Munich
Shanzhai Lyric – BABYLON SCHWABYLON, with Ruine München Companions at Schwabinger Tor
Mako Sangmongkhon & Clara Laila Abid Alsstar – PAUSE NOT POSE, with Ruine München Companions at LUISE
Klasse Wermers – LOCALIZED PRESSURES, with Nicole Wermers at AdBK
Jonathan Penca & Anna Hjalmarsson – SESSILE, with Ruine München Companions at Paleontological Museum Munich
Cosy Pièro & Philipp Gufler – COSY BEI COSY, with Ruine München at Werkstattkino and LEZ
2022
Klasse Wermers & friends – EXTERNAL STORAGE SOLUTIONS INC., with Nicole Wermers at MyPlace Neuaubing
Klasse Wermers – OUTER EDGE OF THE GROTTO, with Nicole Wermers at AdBK
2021
Gülbin Ünlü & Aribert von Ostrowski – ALEXANDER KLUGE SCHEISSE WER WAR DENN NOCH DABEI, with Ruine München at Fahrender Raum
PlusX – UNTITLED, with Ruine München at Fahrender Raum
Mako Sangmongkhon, Raphael Daibert & Coll Coll – *PAILLETTE*ETIKETTE*, with Ludwig Bader at Fahrender Raum
Cordula Schieri & kollektiv flexen – SATELLITEN AUF DER STRASSE, with Ludwig Bader at Fahrender Raum
Mirja Reuter – SALE SALE SALE, with Ruine München at Wiegand von Hartmann
Magdalena Emmerig – HOUSE OF INTERSTITIUM, with Ruine München at Westpark
2020
FAM_Events – FAMilia stradale, with Ruine München at Kreativquartier
Melissa E. Logan & Laura Ziegler – DIE-ARBEIT.INFO, with Ludwig Bader at Fahrender Raum
Paulina Nolte – DESERT OF UNREST, with Ruine München at Lenbachhaus
Felicitas Sonvilla & Patrik Thomas – CINÉVÉLOCITÉ, with Ludwig Bader at Fahrender Raum
Sebastian Stein – IM FELD, with Ruine München at Lothringer13 Studio
2019
Diogo Da Cruz – WISDOM WARRIORS, with Ruine München in front of Alte Pinakothek
Laura Ziegler – HANSEWURST DES EKELS, with Ruine München at Spielplatz Danklstraße
Nathalie Brück – FESTKLEBEN. EIN SPRECHSTÜCK, with Ruine München at Z Common Ground
2018
Adelaide Ivánova – THE GÖRLI FROM IPANEMA (AND OTHER TEXTS), with Ruine München at Bellevue di Monaco
Transmission Gallery – THE PHONE IS THE KEYHOLE; THE PENPOT THE HEART, with Ruine München at Königsplatz
Kyrill Constantinides Tank – ALS HALLO DIE MÜNDLICHE WELT VERLIESS, with Ruine München at 404
Max Grau – YOU SEE, I’VE ALWAYS WANTED THINGS TO BE BEAUTIFUL, with Ruine München at Florida Lothringer 13
2017
Rb E Moran – MIXED EMULSIONS, with Ruine München at Atelierhaus Baumstraße
Johanna Gonschorek – ALTE TAGE, with Ruine München at Kiste