In ‘Wild Mind Kind Matter’, Katherina Heil presents a vivid landscape of thoughts, an expansive composition of sculpture, drawing and installation-based language. Her works are not fixed answers, but rather open states, tentative explorations, proposals for a different way of seeing material, the body and the world.
Heil works with “a lot of material” — not only in terms of quantity, but also in its depth and emotional resonance. Kind matter, as she calls it: material that is gentle and generous, not dominant, offering itself as a resonator, mediator, or carrier of ideas. Yet this material is far from passive, it holds thoughts, carries them forward, develops its own life. It becomes autonomous, standing as an equal presence within the space.

Her works are building blocks of a larger architecture of thought. Heil continuously recombines media, forms, and surfaces. Her constellations are never final, they shift, reorganize and create new narratives and perspectives.
There are no boundaries between media: line, mass, space, and gravity all come into play and everything can become a vehicle of expression.

A central motif is repetition: objects, forms, and gestures return, shifting and transforming their meanings. The vocabulary of forms remains open, language and material enter into a dialogue, sometimes in tension, sometimes in emptiness. There’s crackling, rustling, splintering — like shattering glass. It’s not stillness that matters here, but movement. Traces, gestures, directions.

The connection to the body remains palpable. Some works invite physical interaction, they demand movement, closeness, spatial orientation. A photograph of the starry sky lies on the floor — the sky is no longer above us, but all around. A shift in perspective. Space becomes something we can enter, a space for reflection, a model — perhaps a sculpture park within the mind.

In Heil’s work, you wander through thoughts. The exhibition becomes a manifestation of thinking itself, through fragments, ruptures and leaps. A wild mind taking shape through process, simultaneity, and flexibility. It’s an art that doesn’t offer answers, but instead creates states of possibility — spaces where we can reorient ourselves. Text by Lucia Kaufmann, translated.

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