Balance of Material, Form, and Structure
In Heidi Gerullis’s work, chance and calculation go hand in hand. The essence of her work lies in the compositional diversity within the tension between strictly geometric arrangement and the partly random, partly deliberately contrasting arrangement of the individual elements. She deliberately juxtaposes order and chaos, the fundamental principles of creation, very much in the tradition of Arthur Schnitzler: “Order is something artificial. The natural is chaos.”
Thus, Heidi Gerullis opens up a dynamic playing field of spatial arrangements and dynamic fields on the painted plane. In her incisions, she applies acrylic paint, which she then breaks up with parallel chisel marks. She alternates between ordered sequences and opposing structures, confronts colors with one another, or reduces them to tone-on-tone families. Through the interplay of superimposed colors, a sense of space is evoked, sometimes of simple foreground and background, sometimes of a deep structural network.
Exhibitions (Selection)
2026
Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf
2025
Neuss, Schloss Reuschenberg
Donaueschingen, Museum ArtPlus
2022
Donaueschingen, Museum ArtPlus
2021
Galerie Fetzer, Sontheim
2020
Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Stuttgart
2019
Morat-Institut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft. Freiburg im Breisgau
Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf
2018
Donaueschingen, Museum ArtPlus
6. Triennale der Skulptur, Bad Ragaz und Vaduz, Schweiz
2017
Galerie Linde Hollinger, Ladenburg
2014
Art Karlsruhe
Kunsttage Winningen
Galerie Linde Hollinger, Ladenburg
2013
Art Karlsruhe
Skulpturenpark Prinzengarten, Sigmaringen
2012
Art Karlsruhe
Galerie Linde Hollinger, Ladenburg
1996
Palais Universitaire, Straßburg, Frankreich
Galerie du Faison, Straßburg, Frankreich
Kunstmuseum Swiradow, Polen
Sammlung Blum, Hünfeld
1994
E-WERK, Freiburg im Breisgau
1993
Städtische Galerie Schwarzes Kloster, Freiburg im Breisgau
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Heidi Gerullis studied under Professor Will at the Cologne Academy of Fine Arts from 1968 to 1973. She subsequently spent time abroad in London, Milan, and Florence. Since her stay in London in 1972, she has maintained a close artistic collaboration with the artist Reiner Seliger, which continued through shared living and working periods in Milan, Florence, and Castello di Montefioralle in Tuscany, where they have both resided since 1983.
In 1980, her twin daughters Violetta Elisa and Anne Janina were born in Düsseldorf, her adopted home.
After moving to Freiburg im Breisgau, she created a significant portion of her painting oeuvre, as well as important spatial installations, in her studio at the E-Werk cultural center. For these works, she received the art prize “La Fondation des Prix Européens” in 1994. Her installations “Rochade 1” and “Rochade 2,” exhibited at the Palais Universitaire in Strasbourg, were the subject of a film by the television channel ARTE.
Alongside her independent artistic practice, Heidi Gerullis developed her own product design line in the field of creative jewelry under her own label and collaborated with international jewelry galleries. She ended this activity in 2012 to focus entirely on her independent artistic work once again.
