Born: 1966 in Coesfeld, Germany
Media: Oil Painting, Ceramics, Sculpture and Installation
Education: Freie Kunstakademie Rhein Ruhr; Academy Diploma, 2005
Membership: German Artists’ Association
Artistic Position
Beate Höing’s work brings together painting and ceramic sculpture to create a distinctive visual universe. Fairy tales, folk art, rituals, memories and bourgeois domestic culture converge in works where familiar figures and decorative forms oscillate between beauty and unease.
Her ceramic sculptures incorporate porcelain figurines, floral ornaments and found objects. These materials evoke traditional craftsmanship and popular culture, yet are deliberately transformed and reassembled into unexpected compositions. Her paintings likewise move between dream and nightmare, tenderness and tension. Humour and irony prevent these poetic worlds from becoming merely nostalgic.
Selected Highlights
- Recipient of the Bernd and Gisela Rosenheim Foundation Art Prize (2008) and the Aldegrever Society Scholarship (2018).
- Works represented in collections including the Hetjens Museum Düsseldorf, Stadtmuseum Siegburg and the Keramikmuseum Westerwald.
- Solo exhibitions at museums, art associations and galleries throughout Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Spain and Italy.
The janinebeangallery has presented Beate Höing’s paintings and ceramics for many years, including the exhibitions meet me there, It’s a Match and Memento Abstract.