https://kochxbos.com/112/records/670/_cache/1600w/2063.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/670/_cache/1200w/2063.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/670/_cache/640w/2063.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/670/_cache/280w/2063.jpg,Harma Heikens 'Volkskrant Review **** stars' | 2014 |  |  | SOLD
https://kochxbos.com/112/records/664/_cache/1600w/1980.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/664/_cache/1200w/1980.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/664/_cache/640w/1980.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/664/_cache/280w/1980.jpg,Harma Heikens 'O.G. (hij doet niks)' | 2014 | synthetic wood | 140x150x110cm /  55x59x43 inch | SOLD
https://kochxbos.com/112/records/661/_cache/1600w/1971.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/661/_cache/1200w/1971.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/661/_cache/640w/1971.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/661/_cache/280w/1971.jpg,Harma Heikens 'A Good Year' | 2014 | synthetic wood | 105 x 90 x 30 cm / 42 x 36 x 12 inch | SOLD
https://kochxbos.com/112/records/663/_cache/1600w/1978.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/663/_cache/1200w/1978.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/663/_cache/640w/1978.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/663/_cache/280w/1978.jpg,Harma Heikens 'Trick or Treat' | 2014 | synthetic wood | 155 x 65 x 45 cm / 61 x 26 x 18 inch | SOLD
https://kochxbos.com/112/records/668/_cache/1600w/1986.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/668/_cache/1200w/1986.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/668/_cache/640w/1986.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/668/_cache/280w/1986.jpg,"Harma Heikens 'Untitled' | 2012 | composite | 70x55x7cm / 27,5 x22x3inch / Edition of 5 / Please mail our gallery for the price. | SOLD"
https://kochxbos.com/112/records/662/_cache/1600w/1976.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/662/_cache/1200w/1976.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/662/_cache/640w/1976.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/662/_cache/280w/1976.jpg,Harma Heikens 'Toys in the Attic' | 2014 | synthetic wood | 95 x 66 x 60 cm / 38 x 30 x 34 inch | SOLD
https://kochxbos.com/112/records/665/_cache/1600w/1981.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/665/_cache/1200w/1981.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/665/_cache/640w/1981.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/665/_cache/280w/1981.jpg,Harma Heikens 'All Is Fair in Love and War' | 2013 | synthetic wood | 65x35x35cm / 23x14x14inch | SOLD
https://kochxbos.com/112/records/669/_cache/1600w/1989.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/669/_cache/1200w/1989.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/669/_cache/640w/1989.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/669/_cache/280w/1989.jpg,"Harma Heikens 'Goldfinger' | 2014 | plaster | 26x17x5cm / 10,3x6,7x2inch | SOLD"
https://kochxbos.com/112/records/667/_cache/1600w/1985.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/667/_cache/1200w/1985.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/667/_cache/640w/1985.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/667/_cache/280w/1985.jpg,Harma Heikens 'Book Harma Heikens' | 2014 | 144 pages quality book hard cover | 24x28 | SOLD
https://kochxbos.com/112/records/666/_cache/1600w/1983.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/666/_cache/1200w/1983.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/666/_cache/640w/1983.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/666/_cache/280w/1983.jpg,Harma Heikens 'A2 second publicity poster Harma Heikens' | 2014 | UV glass 250 grams offset print | 42x60 cm | SOLD
https://kochxbos.com/112/records/671/_cache/1600w/2064.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/671/_cache/1200w/2064.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/671/_cache/640w/2064.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/671/_cache/280w/2064.jpg,Harma Heikens 'O.G. He doesn't bite with Good Year' | 2014 |  |  | SOLD
https://kochxbos.com/112/records/672/_cache/1600w/2065.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/672/_cache/1200w/2065.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/672/_cache/640w/2065.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/672/_cache/280w/2065.jpg,Harma Heikens 'O.G. Close up' | 0 |  |  | SOLD
https://kochxbos.com/112/records/673/_cache/1600w/2066.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/673/_cache/1200w/2066.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/673/_cache/640w/2066.jpg,https://kochxbos.com/112/records/673/_cache/280w/2066.jpg,Harma Heikens 'All is Fair in Love and War & Untitled [Osama]' | 0 |  |  | SOLD
 

2014

Harma Heikens

All is Fair in Love and War

2014 Sep 20 - 2014 Oct 25

(voor de Nederlandse tekst naar beneden scrollen)
 

Read the reviews here

 

Opening speech by Anton H.J. Dautzenberg

 

 

 

English


Sculptor Harma Heikens uses a visual language known from the popular culture with seduction techniques that are used in the world of advertising. Her life size sculptures evoke associations with comics, animation and Manga. But in this playful and colorful idiom Heikens calls visions of a world plagued by economic and sexual exploitation. Touching cartoonish shaped children are in hopeless situations. This contrast delivers images that sometimes are difficult to digest, One can experience them as cynical, but they meanwhile seem to offer consolidation, like saints, in their reference to martyrdom.

Her recent work is uncompromising. From the infamous girl-with-the-bomb belt 'Virgin' to the very graphic ‘OG / Original Gangster’ sculpture. Hollywood's post-apocalyptic fantasy has given way to the actuality of, among other, religious conflict.

Violent images that daily invade our homes through TV and the Internet are processed into detailed, life-sized ensembles, which act through their cartoonish stylization as obscure allegories.

Nothing is what it seems.

"Heikens 'work is not a soapbox stance, but she does not resort to" leaving it all up to the viewer' either. What we make of it is an amalgamation of artist intention and our own built-in perceptions culled from our own reference banks. "- Annie Owens, chief editor Hi-Fructose

Harma Heikens
Harma Heikens debuted in 1995 at the Dutch Groninger Museum along with contemporaries like Micha Klein and Inez van Lamsweerde. Her work has been included in the collection of the Groninger Museum and in the possession of private collectors all over the world.

Book launch
KochxBos Publishers also present September 20 our art book ‘Harma Heikens - Sculptures’. A monumental retrospective of the work by Heikens from the past decennium. 144 pages, printed by the best printers in Amsterdam. On request, we will send you a press copy.

KochxBos Galllery is an independent Amsterdam gallery, headstrong and experimenting with conventions. Because there is enough art that is merely pretty. Besides Harma Heikens KochxBos include Ray Caesar, Sarah Maple, Ciou and Sauerkids. KochxBos is in the Guardian Top 10 Independent Galleries and Critics' Choice in Time Out magazine.

© Opening pictures by Bara Lockefeer.

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Nederlands

 


[NL] Beeldhouwster Harma Heikens maakt gebruik van een beeldtaal die is ontleend aan de populaire cultuur, en van verleidingstechnieken uit reclame. Haar werk roept associaties op met strip en animatie, met Hummeltjes en Manga. Maar in dit speelse en kleurrijke idioom roept Heikens visioenen op van een wereld die geteisterd wordt door economische en seksuele uitbuiting. Aandoenlijk cartoonesk vormgeven kinderen bevinden zich in hopeloze situaties. Dit contrast levert soms moeilijk te verteren beelden op die je als cynisch kunt ervaren. Maar tegelijkertijd lijken ze, zoals heiligenbeelden, ook troost te willen bieden in hun verwijzing naar martelaarschap.

Haar recente werk is compromislozer. Van het infame meisje-met-de-bomgordel 'Virgin' tot het zeer grafische 'O.G.': Hollywood's post-apocalyptische fantasie heeft plaatsgemaakt voor de actualiteit van onder andere het religieuze conflict.

Gewelddadige beelden zoals die dagelijks onze huiskamers binnendringen via tv en internet worden verwerkt tot gedetailleerde, soms levengrote ensembles, die door hun cartooneske stilering fungeren als duistere allegorieën.

Daarbij is niets wat het lijkt.

"Heikens 'work is not a soapbox stance, but she does not resort to" leaving it all up to the viewer' either. What we make of it is an amalgamation of artist intention and our own built-in perceptions culled from our own reference banks. "- Annie Owens, chief editor Hi-Fructose

Harma Heikens
Harma Heikens debuteerde in 1995 in het Groninger Museum samen met generatiegenoten als Micha Klein, Inez van Lamsweerde en Piet Hein Eek. Haar werk is o.a. opgenomen in de collectie van het Groninger Museum en in het bezit van particuliere verzamelaars in binnen- en buitenland.

Boekpresentatie
KochxBos Publishers presenteert 20 september tevens de uitgave Harma Heikens – Sculptures – in aanwezigheid van de kunstenaar. Een monumentaal overzicht van het werk van Heikens uit het afgelopen decennium. 144 pagina’s dik, gedrukt en gebonden door de beste drukkers en binders uit Amsterdam. Op verzoek sturen wij u graag een persexemplaar.

KochxBos Galllery is een onafhankelijke Amsterdamse galerie, prettig dwars en wars van conventies. Omdat er al genoeg kunst is die alleen maar mooi is. Naast Harma Heikens vertegenwoordigt KochxBos onder andere Ray Ceasar, Ciou, Sauerkids en Sarah Maple. KochxBos staat in de Guardian Top 10 Independent Galleries en is Critics' Choice van Time Out magazine.

© Opening pictures by Bara Lockefeer.

 

All is Fair in Love and War