Heck has been described as a ?post-feminist? because of her confrontational representation of the female body. Reminiscent of Rita Ackerman's portraits of corrupted innocence and Franz West's innuendo laden collages, Heck's monumental sized paintings draw from both personal experience and popular culture, creating a heightened sense of drama or glamour from the everyday. Often depicting herself and people she knows, her works operate as theatres of fantasy projection, using the diversity of painting as a means to engage with the potential of imagination.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006

Art brussels, galerie annie gentils

Mary Boone gallery, New York

2005

Group Exhibition curated by C.Dalrymple,

Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles

59 STE Badischer Kunstpreis, Museum Baden, Solingen, St?dtisches Galerie, Remscheid Germany

Fiesta, Galerie Annie Gentils, Antwerp

Bonds of Love, John Connelley Presents, New York

Art K'ln, Annie Gentils Gallery

Lineart, Gent, Annie Gentils Gallery

2004-05

Freundschaftsmaschine: Kati Heck, Charlotte schleiffert, Maddy Arkesteyn, Cindy Wright,

Galerie Annie Gentils, Antwerp

2004

Probeweise Gewalt auf Vorrat:Bianca Voss, Kati

Heck, Sonja Engelhardt, Galerie Annie Gentils, Antwerp,

ART COLOGNE, Annie Gentils Gallery

Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, Group Show curated by Clarissa. Dalrymple, New York

Coming People- Leere X Visionen, curated by Jan Hoet, Herford, Germany

2003

Camille-Huysmansprijs, Kunstcentrum Elzenveld, Antwerp, Belgium

?Ithaka?, STUK, Leuven, Belgium

Sugar & Spice , Galerie Annie Gentils, Antwerp

Diplome exhibition, Galerie Campo/Campo, Antwerp

Crass? Punkgroup Crass with Rotkop,CC Luchtbal, Antwerp

These are presented in photo or video form, set in theatrical surroundings (?I regret-Ich Bedauerlich?, Heia Bube drueckt mich?). For the artist, Hitchcock also stands as symbol for the investigation into a reality where we are inevitably drawn, like it or not. The photographs are further worked with acrylic-markers and paint which add text to accompany the image and provide a pertinent message of sorts. The paintings, often in large format, are a compilation of classically painted human bodies and lines, flecks and texts, seemingly hurled upon the canvas. The spontaneity emerges in the confrontation between the overall composition with the perfectly painted bodies. Humour and Seriousness, and the translation of this body of ideas into an art of wholly masterful expression, is the foundation stone for the power emanating from Katie Heck's work

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