Heike Mack

“Heike Mack’s ongoing transformation of subtle pictorial forms is accompanied by a reflection on her own work, which is hard to surpass in terms of uncompromising nature and radicalism:
As if all the artistic manifestations of her own ideas were timelessly available in her own perception, as if on a vast palette, her body of work spanning decades is documented and presented, organised into objective categories (“Cat 01” et seq.), without titles or dates. Full of presence and immediacy, the paintings thus present themselves, even on a documentary level, as works that appear analytical on the one hand and uncontrived on the other, in the sense of art practised as “a game that takes itself seriously”, as the Berlin art historian Eberhard Roters aptly put it in another context. For those not yet familiar with Heike Mack’s paintings, her website equally aptly recommends “DISCOVER” … “

Manfred Miersch, 2015