In 2015, Martin Creed realized a range of site-specific installations for the Kunstverein Heilbronn in the six large halls of the Kunsthalle Vogelman; the following year he did an equally site-specific presentation at Taxispalais in Innsbruck. These exhibitions were both premieres, in Germany as well as in Austria. Martin Creed does not settle for any medium in particular, he produces videos, paintings, sculptures and works in neon, and he makes music and stages ballet productions. The physical environment always plays an important role. In 2001, the  London-based Scottish artist was awarded the prestigious Turner Prize, for a work that »only« consisted of regularly switching the light in a room on and off. What at first glance appears rather reduced, is highly relevant for the entire room and the visitors who move through it. Martin Creed's brilliant work on one hand appears playful and amazingly friendly, but the result is preemptory and rigorous. In a very personal interview, Martin Creed was asked why he made art. His answer was: to make myself feel better. This statement is as disarming as it is frank, and it challenges the viewer of his work to participate in the process of engaging with art, with space and with the world in general.

Exhibitions:
Kunstverein Heilbronn, 27/6–20/9/2015
Galerie im Taxispalais Innsbruck, 10/9–20/11/2016

Martin Creed, born 1968 in Wakefield, England, studied at the Slade School of Fine Arts in London, between 1986 and 1990. After art school, he lived and worked in London until 2001—the same year he was the winner of the Turner Prize. Since that time, he has participated in numerous group exhibitions; his calendar for 2018 registers nearly 20 shows. He had solo exhibitions and projects all over the world, among others at Camden Arts Center London (1995), Tate Britain London (2000), Hessel Museum/Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson NY (2007), Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2009), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2010), Cleveland Art Museum (2012), The Warhol, Pittsburgh (2013), Kunstverein Heilbronn / Kunsthalle Vogelmann Heilbronn, The Museum Ontario (2015), Brooklyn Bridge Park New York (2016), Museum of Recent Art Bucharest (2019).

Matthia Löbke, born 1963, is artistic director of the Kunstverein Heilbronn; is curator and published monographic catalogs for Yoshitaka Amano, Markus Lüpertz, Olaf Metzel, Enoc Perez, Michael Schmidt, Michael Venezia, and actually Silke Wagner, among others. In 1990, she was an assistant to Donald Judd in Cologne,  and gained her doctorate on Dan Flavin’s work on fluorescent light.