Cordula Heuer

A German painter based in Milan, I work exclusively in oil following an international career outside the arts. Decades of living across cultures inform a practice shaped by observation, movement, and a sustained sensitivity to color.

My work centers on the dialogue between brush and palette knife. While the brush establishes structure and tonal nuance, the palette knife engages the medium directly—depositing and shaping pigment with a physical immediacy that resists full control.

This tension defines the surface. Paint is not only descriptive, but material: layered, displaced, and built into a tangible presence. The resulting works occupy a space between image and object, where depth is both perceived and physically asserted.

Increasingly, this materiality guides my transition toward pure abstraction. As representational anchors dissolve, the canvas becomes a space dedicated entirely to form, gesture, and emotional resonance. The focus shifts from depicting the external world to exploring the internal landscape through the vocabulary of color and texture.

The paintings are not resolved images, but evolving surfaces—holding traces of decision, interruption, and change. They invite a form of looking that is at once optical and sp...

1996 - 1997 MBA, Stirling University

April 25, 2026
Billboard Residency | Billboard Exhibition
Piazza del Liberty, Milan, Italy

August 2025 ongoing until August 2026
Arte Laguna World | Online Exhibition
artelaguna.world/artist/heuer-cordula/

April 2025
Individual Exhibition
Robella Castle, Monferrato, Piedmont, Italy

March 2025
Individual Exhibition
Spazio Sottocorno, Milan, Italy

January 2024 - January 2025
Individual Exhibition
LiQuido Rooftop Bar, IQ Hotel, Milan, Italy