Heinz Mack

Heinz Mack is a German Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1931. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Kunsthalle Mannheim have featured Heinz Mack’s work in the past.Heinz Mack’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $4 USD to $902,798 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2002 the record price for this artist at auction is $902,798 USD for Small Jungle, sold at Van Ham Fine Art Auctions in 2018. Heinz Mack has been featured in articles for caa.reviews, ArtDaily and Deutsche Welle. The most recent article is ‘Pushing the Boundaries’: The Collection of Gerard Valkier written for Christie’s Daily in October 2021.

Artist’s alternative names: Otto-Heinz Mack

Past exhibitions

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
  • Heinz Mack: Mack – The Language of Colors, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany
  • Heinz Mack: Paragold, Galeria Nara Roesler, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Heinz Mack: Sculptures, Sculpture Park Waldfrieden, Wuppertal, Germany
  • Heinz Mack, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Heinz Mack: Ink drawings and ceramics, Beck & Eggeling Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • ONLINE: Artwork in Focus: Two paintings by Heinz Mack, Olivier Malingue Gallery, London, UK
2020
  • Heinz Mack: If the Eyes Were not Sun-Like…, Parra & Romero, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  • ONLINE: Exhibition in Focus: Heinz Mack, Olivier Malingue Gallery, London, UK
2019
  • Heinz Mack: The Breath of Light Works 1962 – 2018, Cortesi Gallery, Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland
  • Heinz Mack: The Breath of Light, Cortesi Gallery, Milan, Milan, Italy
  • Heinz Mack: Licht Im Blick – Blick Im Licht. Work 1958 – 2018, Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Bern, Switzerland
2018
  • Heinz Mack, Olivier Malingue Gallery, London, UK
  • Heinz Mack: Rhythm, Light and Colour, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany
2017
  • Heinz Mack: Zero Painting, Beck & Eggeling Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • HEINZ MACK: Structures, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Heinz Mack, Sperone Westwater, Lower East Side, New York, USA
2016
  • Heinz Mack: Zero, Beck & Eggeling Vienna, Vienna, Austria
  • Heinz Mack: Silver Stele, Beck & Eggeling Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Heinz Mack: The Sky Over Nine Columns, Beck & Eggeling Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Heinz Mack: The Visible Reminder of Invisible Light, Cortesi Gallery, Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland
  • Heinz Mack, Galerie Perrotin, Paris (Turenne), 3e, Paris, France
  • Heinz Mack: In Honor of his 85th Birthday, Beck & Eggeling Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Heinz Mack, ARNDT Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
  • Heinz Mack: Just Light and Colour, Sakip Sabanci Museum, Emirgan, Istanbul, Turkey
2015
  • Heinz Mack: Apollo in meinem Atelier, MKM Museum Küppersmühle of Modern Art, Duisburg, Germany
  • Heinz Mack: Light Shadow, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-baden, Germany
  • Heinz Mack: ZERO & More, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, London, UK
2014
  • Heinz Mack: From ZERO to Today, 1955-2014, Sperone Westwater, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • Heinz Mack, ARNDT Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
  • Mack. The Sky Over Nine Columns, Beck & Eggeling Dusseldorf, Venice, Italy
2012
  • Heinz Mack in Berlin — Works 1958-2012, ARNDT Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2011
  • Heinz Mack: Colour Light Rhythm: Paintings and sculptures 1957 – 2011, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Mack: The Language of My Hand, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Heinz Mack: Light – Space – Colour, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  • Heinz Mack: Early Metal Reliefs 1957-1967, Sperone Westwater, Lower East Side, New York, USA
2009
  • Heinz Mack: Paintings, 1957-1964, Sperone Westwater, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • Heinz Mack – Licht der ZERO-Zeit, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
  • Adam, Eve and The Serpent: Works From the Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  • Recent Acquisitions Fall 2021, Gallery Ludorff, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Spaces Of Light: Piero Dorazio and the International Zero Movement, Cortesi Gallery, Milan, Milan, Italy
  • Optical Vibes, Galleria Nazionale d`Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
  • Esprit de géométrie, ML Fine Art, Milan, Italy
  • Small is beautiful!, Galerie Denise René, Espace Marais, 3e, Paris, France
  • Back to Reality. Artworks from our online viewing rooms, Olivier Malingue Gallery, London, UK
  • Recent Acquisitions Spring 2021, Gallery Ludorff, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • ONLINE: Notations, Craig F. Starr Associates, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2020
  • Recent Acquisitions Fall 2020, Gallery Ludorff, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Summer Breeze, Beck & Eggeling Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • The Sky as a Studio. Yves Klein and his contemporaries, Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz, France
  • Ben Brown Fine Arts: Celebrating 10 Years in Hong Kong, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Group Exhibition, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany
  • Lichtblicke, Galerie Koch, Hannover, Germany
  • Stunning Spaces, Cortesi Gallery, Milan, Milan, Italy
  • ONLINE: Exhibition in Focus: Modern and Surreal, Olivier Malingue Gallery, London, UK
  • TEFAF Selection, Beck & Eggeling Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Zero Is Infinity: Zero And Yayoi Kusama, Yayoi Kusama Museum, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
  • 65 Jahre Galerie Koch, Galerie Koch, Hannover, Germany
  • New Acquisitions Spring 2020, Gallery Ludorff, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Post-War. European Masterpieces, Cortesi Gallery, Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland
  • Multiplied: Edition MAT and the Transformable Work of Art, 1959–1965, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
  • Printing Without Ink: Graphic Experiments from 1960, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
2019
  • Perfect Matches, Beck & Eggeling Vienna, Vienna, Austria
  • L’empreinte, Olivier Malingue Gallery, London, UK
  • Relief: A New Perspective in Post-War Art, Cortesi Gallery, London, London, UK
  • Black & White, ML Fine Art, London, Mayfair, London, UK
  • Kinetic Serendipity, Galerie Eva Meyer, 3e, Paris, France
  • 25 Years of Passion, Beck & Eggeling Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • The Large Sculptures of the Daimler Art Collection, Daimler Contemporary, Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
  • Manzoni in Holland, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, Netherlands
2018
  • Around Zero: 1958 – 2018, Cortesi Gallery, London, London, UK
  • Visual Play, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen Am Rhein, Germany
  • A Gathering: Sculpture from the Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, New York, USA
  • Thomas Lenk & Friends, Galerie Schlichtenmaier (Schloss Dätzingen), Germany
  • Mack: ZERO-Amicizie. Germania – Italia. 1958-1967, Beck & Eggeling Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Heinz Mack & Otto Piene: From Zero to Hero, Plutschow Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Light and Movement in European Post-War Art, Cortesi Gallery, London, London, UK
  • Light in/as Image, Daimler Contemporary, Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
  • Pictures without shadows, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Black & White: Painting from Dürer to Elíasson, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Neuerwerbungen Frühjahr 2018, Gallery Ludorff, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Heinz Mack & Otto Piene, Plutschow Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
2017
  • Aspects of German Art (Part Two), Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, London, UK
  • Kinderstern, Galerie Boisséree, Cologne, Germany
  • Kunstsalon Art Salzburg, Beck & Eggeling Dusseldorf, Salzburg, Austria
  • From the collection: Europe 1960 – Azimuth, Concrete Art, Nouveau Réalisme, Zero, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
  • Serielle Formationen. 1967/2017, Daimler Contemporary, Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
  • Socle du Monde 2017, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark
  • Jubilee Exhibition, Ketterer Kunst Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2016
  • Cosmic Connections, TOTAH, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • Zero Group, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow / Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
  • Checkmate. Games of International Art from the Sixties to Now, Cortesi Gallery, London, London, UK
  • Retrospect: Kinetika 1967, Lower Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
  • Rethinking Space: Work from Post-War Italy, De Buck Gallery, New York, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Memory and Continuity: A Selection from the Huma Kabakcı Collection, Pera Museum, Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey
2015
  • A TREE IS A TREE IS A TREE, Beck & Eggeling Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Painting after Painting, Jerome Zodo Contemporary, Milan, Milan, Italy
  • Aspects of German Art (Part One), Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • References, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
  • Zero: Countdown To The Future, Sakip Sabanci Museum, Emirgan, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Le Onde: Waves of Italian Influence, 1914–1971, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, National Mall, Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
  • Destructive Beginnings: Works from Post-War Masters, De Buck Gallery, New York, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • zero: let us explore the stars, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Space and Matter, Sperone Westwater, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • Prime Paper, Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany
  • Mack, Piene, Uecker: Works on Paper from 1962-2012, The Mayor Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK
  • Fontana, ZERO and the Results, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-baden, Germany
  • ZERO: The international art movement of the 50s and 60s, Gropius-Bau, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
  • 20 + 2 YEARS, ARNDT Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2014
  • ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60s, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • The Art of Zero: Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, Günther Uecker & Friends, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, New York, USA
  • Forty Years of the Collection – Ten Years of the Museum, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-baden, Germany
  • Happy Birthday Franz!, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris (Belleville), 20e, Paris, France
  • Post-Op, Galerie Perrotin, Paris (Turenne), Paris, France
  • MOVE, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
2013
  • The Sixties: Art and Culture of the 60ies in Germany, Daimler Contemporary, Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
  • Novecento Mai Visto, Daimler Contemporary, Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
  • Kotter Luther Mack, Patrick Heide Contemporary, St. John’s Wood, London, UK
  • Howard Wise Gallery: Exploring the New, Moeller Fine Art New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2012
  • Ghosts in the Machine, New Museum, New York, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • Ashes and Gold A World’s Journey, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
2011
  • Piero Manzoni: Azimut, Gagosian Gallery, London (Davies Street), Mayfair, London, UK
  • OpArt = Illusion, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
2010
  • Heinz Mack/Lucio Fontana, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, London, UK
  • Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art: Against Exclusion, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
  • 55 Years of Art in Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Geometry in the Twentieth Century: The Daimler Collection, Fundación Malba, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2009
  • From Picasso to Warhol – Avant – Garde Artists’ Jewellery, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
2008
  • ZERO in New York, Sperone Westwater, Greenwich Village, New York, USA

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