Heinz Hego Goevert

Born and grown up in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

In my abstract paintings I attempt to visualize the transitoriness, the decay of life (and things) as a necessary condition for the emergence of something new. I realize works where the energy of colour, the texture and the partitioning are essential, trying to give each work of art some power and depth. It can be said that my works express primordial feelings controlled by reason - finally showing something organic in a tidy ambience.

Besides black and white I like using warm, earthy colours (acrylics, pigments, rust effect colours) - mixed with plaster, cement, marble dust, sand or modelling paste in different layers - painted, smoothed over in rough, often archaic looking patterns. Sometimes I also use mull, pack-twine, packing material, copper- and zinc plates, denim, pc-scrap, and metal flakes. All my artworks are finished with a glossy varnish to protect them from dirt or UV-rays. All paintings are ready to hang. You just need ONE nail to hang them.
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I have studied English and social sciences (1st and 2nd State Exam) and ended up as a headmaster of a bilingual secondary modern school. For four years I have worked for the ministry of education – doing some research on teachers’ in-service training and I have published the results in several papers. I am also working as an author of training books for students and teachers.

Exhibitions/art books: 2008: Stockholm (Sweden, Galleri Lyktan, group exhibition); 2009: New York (USA, Mount Beacon Fine Art Gallery in Beacon, New York, travelling exhibition "Freedom and Art”, February - May); 2009: Wetter (Germany, Wohnstättengenossenschaft, March - June); 2009: Stockholm (Sweden, Ostra Gymnasiet Trangsund, “The Mirca Tour for Human Rights Exhibition”, group exhibition, November - December); 2010: Cape Town (South Africa, Belinda Anvil - The Rainbow Experience Gallery, "Freedom & Art"- project/travelling exhibition, April - May); 2010: Cologne (Germany, Kahlshof, "Planet Earth, Planet Art", group exhibition, September - December); 2011: Cologne (Germany, Kahlshof, “Cologne meets New York”, group exhibition, January – March); 2011: Witten (Germany, Gemeinschaftspraxis Marienplatz, “International Art Show”, group exhibition, February – May); 2011: Witten (Germany, Marien Hospital Witten, “New York im Marien-Hospital”, group exhibition, April - July); 2011: Malta (University of Malta, “The Mirca Tour For Human Rights”, group exhibition, July – August); 2011: New York (USA, Skylight Gallery NYC, “Gestalt – German Artists in Conversation”, group exhibition, July – August; published my art book “VIEW – Exclusively Ab...