Astrid Köppe

Astrid Köppe

03 April — 24 May 2026

Astrid Köppe

Fuzzy Logic

Fuzzy Logic

Astrid Köppe creates precise yet enigmatic compositions that invite viewers into a space between recognition and uncertainty.

Working at an intimate scale, Köppe’s drawings often begin with careful observation of the ordinary. Rather than working directly from photographs, she carries mental snapshots of objects and forms encountered in everyday life until they are filtered through memory and reinterpreted on the page. The resulting images are rendered with striking clarity while resisting easy identification. Köppe intentionally avoids titles, encouraging viewers to rely on their own perception and imagination when encountering the work.

The exhibition’s title, Fuzzy Logic, refers to the state of cognitive dissonance viewers often experience while looking at Köppe’s subjects. Presented with the precision of scientific or anatomical illustrations, the forms appear as though they should represent something specific, yet their identity remains elusive. The result is a tension between certainty and ambiguity, and for Köppe, this moment of confusion is valuable: it prompts closer looking and opens the possibility of seeing ordinary things in new ways.

Alongside drawings, the exhibition includes Köppe’s vitreous enamel works, which translate her visual language into a large-scale and layered process. A technique she began in 2005, the enamels allow her to create her signature biomorphic shapes on the flat white plane she sees in her mind’s eye without viewers or critics questioning her lack of background, as they did in viewing her paintings. Often developed from

a separate body of sketches, the enamel pieces are built through stenciled layers of color fired onto steel. Despite their material complexity, the works maintain a light presence on the wall, allowing form and composition to remain the central focus against a neutral background.

In Fuzzy Logic, Köppe invites viewers to slow down and embrace ambiguity, transforming the familiar into something quietly strange and newly wondrous.

Astrid Köppe was born in Köthen, Germany, in 1974. She studied a Braunschweig University of Art, Brunswick, Germany, where she earned her diploma in Fine Art with Meisterschüler honors in 1999. Köppe has completed a number of residencies, including those at Lost Generation Art Space / Goethe-Institut, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2010, 2011-2012), and at the Young Eun Museum for Contemporary Art, Gwangjusi, South Korea (2011). She is widely exhibited in Europe and Asia. Recent solo exhibitions include Seizan Gallery, New York, USA, Gallery Sekiryu, Matsumoto, Japan, Galerie Carolyn Heinz, Hamburg, Germany, Arte Giani, Frankfurt/ Main, Germany, Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin, Germany, and Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson Hole, USA. Her recent group exhibitions include Art Osaka, Nakanoshima, Japan and Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany. Köppe’s work can be found in the public collections of Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany, Berlinische Galerie – Museum of Modern Art, Berlin, Germany, and the collection of Young Eun Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwangju-si, South Korea, among others. She is the recipient of the Junge Akademie, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany scholarship. Köppe lives and works in Berlin.

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ASTRID KÖPPE

German, born in 1974 in Köthen/ Anhalt, Germany

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

EDUCATION

1992–99 Braunschweig School of Arts, diploma Fine Art and Meisterschüler degree

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026 Fuzzy Logic, Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson, WY, USA

2025 Changelings, ten to the n, Seoul, KR

Pretty Shiny Stuff, Kunstverein Landshut, DE

2024 Paramnesia, Gallery Sekiryu, Matsumoto, JP

Fabulöse Figments, Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson, WY, USA

Paramnesia, Gallery Sekiryu, Tokyo, JP

Flora Fantastica (with Sujin Kim), Galerie Carolyn Heinz, Hamburg, DE

2023 Pretty Shiny Stuff, Arte Giani, Frankfurt/Main, DE

Pretty Shiny Stuff, Seizan Gallery, New York, USA

Look deep into Nature –backstage, Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin, DE Concrete Matters (with Susanne Piotter), Galerie Carolyn Heinz, Hamburg, DE

2022 Pretty Shiny Stuff, Galerie

Inga Kondeye, Berlin, DE

2021 Von Eierschneidern und Fischwimpern (with Miriam Zadil), Galerie Carolyn Heinz, Hamburg, DE

2020 konfabulasi, Gallery Sekiryu, Tokyo, JP konfabulasi, Gallery Sekiryu, Matsumoto, JP

Spontaneous Paradise, Galerie

Inga Kondeyne, Berlin, DE

2019 konfabulasi, Arte Giani, Frankfurt/Main, DE untitled (untitled) (with Lukas Troberg), LAGE EGAL, Berlin, DE

pretty shiny stuff, Galerie Carolyn Heinz, Hamburg, DE konfabulasi, LostGens Art Space, Kuala Lumpur, MY

Berlin – New York (with Vicki Sher), Galerie Louis Gendre, Chamalières, FR 2018 pretty shiny stuff, Fata Morgana Galerie, Berlin, DE 2017 Fusiforme, Galerie Louis Gendre, Chamalières, FR 2016 Fusiform, Galerie Carolyn Heinz, Hamburg, DE Fusiform, Arte Giani, Frankfurt/Main, DE Astrid Köppe – New Work, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, USA Fusiform, Galerie Carolyn Heinz, Berlin, DE 2014 Pareidolia, Arte Giani, Frankfurt, DE 2013 Pareidolia, galerie weisser elefant, Berlin, DE shape up, Galerie Carolyn Heinz, Hamburg, DE 2012 Drawings, Gallery DAM, Seoul, KR

Bakemono, fruehsorge contemporary drawings, Berlin, DE Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, DE Annexe Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, MY 2011 100 Drawings, Young Eun Museum for Contemporary Art, Gwangju-si, KR Malaysian Species, Arte Giani, Frankfurt/Main, DE 2010 Weiße Ware, Kunstverein Heppenheim, DE Galerie Friebe, St. Gallen, CH Malaysian Species, whitebox@ MAP, Kuala Lumpur, MY it’s a flat world, fruehsorge contemporary drawings, Berlin, DE 1 a flachware, Galerie Carolyn Heinz, Hamburg, DE 2009 brandneu, galerie weisser elefant, Berlin, DE Arte Giani (with Conny Bosch), Frankfurt/Main, DE 2008 ein bißchen weniger (with Gabriele Jerke), fruehsorge contemporary drawings, Berlin, DE Tastschärfe (with Reinhold Engberding), Galerie Carolyn Heinz, Hamburg, DE

2007 Galerie Carolyn Heinz (with Grit Richter), Hamburg, DE 2006 Schöne Ausstellung, galerie weisser elefant, Berlin, DE 2004 INTRO Gallery, Vilnius, LT

2002 Kunstförderverein Schöningen, DE

Kunstkreis Kloster

Brunshausen, Bad Gandersheim, DE

2001 Künstlerhaus Meinersen, DE

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Auf den Punkt gebracht, Galerie Inga Kondeye, Berlin, DE

Kunst und Floristik im Dialog, Schloss Bonndorf, Landkreis Waldshut, DE

Vierhändig +, Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin, DE FORMA in der Roten Flora, Hamburg, DE

20 Jahre Galerie Carolyn Heinz, Galerie Carolyn Heinz, Hamburg, DE

Anonymous Drawings, Kunstraum Erfurt, DE

2024 Anonymous Drawings 2024, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, DE

30 Jahre Arte Giani, Arte Giani, Frankfurt, DE Lines, Lost&Found by FUKT Magazine, Berlin, DE Nature Unlimited, Museum Art.Plus, Donaueschingen, DE Everyone but Caspar, Kunsthalle Niendorf, Hamburg, DE

2023 Ornament und Verbrechen 6, LAGE EGAL, Berlin, DE

2022 Wall of Sound, LAGE EGAL, Berlin, DE Meet us on Jupiter, Galerie Carolyn Heinz/Jupiter, Hamburg

Anonymous Drawings 2022, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin

Three Tales of Plants, Gallery Sekiryu, Tokyo, JP

Three Tales of Plants, Gallery Sekiryu, Matsumoto, JP In a Dream, the Journey is Within Reach, Centpure Higashikawa, JP

Images in Fashion – Clothing in Art, Berlinische Galerie –Museum of Modern Art, Berlin, DE

2021 Chaosmos 6 – Into the Silent Spring, Sakura City Museum of Art, JP

2020 ARTvent, Galerie Carolyn Heinz, Hamburg, DE

Spektrale 9, Luckau, DE 2019 small matters, Galerie Carolyn Heinz, Hamburg, DE L’Artiste et les Commissaires, LAGE EGAL, Berlin SEER – European Painting and Drawing, Gallery Punto, Tokyo Not so a white cube 2, LAGE EGAL, Berlin, DE Weltenwechsel oder: wesentlich gewesen, galerie weisser elefant, Berlin, DE Sense of White, Galerie Carolyn Heinz, Hamburg, DE

2018 Anatomie der Melancholie, Zagreus Projekt, Berlin, DE Sehnsucht, Arte Giani, Frankfurt/Main, DE

Anonymous Drawings 2018, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, DE

2017 Ende Neu, LAGE EGAL, Berlin, DE

Turning Point, Galerie Jens Walther, Berlin, DE

If this then that (2), LAGE EGAL Off Site at Reinbeckhallen, Berlin, DE Zeichnung 17, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, DE Paradigmes indécis, Goethe Institut Paris, FR 2016 papierverliebt #2, Galerie Carolyn Heinz, Hamburg, DE papierverliebt, Galerie Carolyn Heinz, Berlin, DE Zeichnungsräume/Drawing Rooms, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, DE Extending Ideas, Muzium & Galeri Tuanku Fauziah, USM, Penang, MY

Extending Ideas, Feeka, Kuala Lumpur, MY

2015 Die Spur des Anderen, galerie weisser elefant, Berlin, DE

Anonymous Drawings 2015, Galerie Geyso20, Braunschweig, DE

Anonymous Drawings 2015, ArtQ13, Rome, IT

Anonymous Drawings 2015, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, DE

Prolog – Heft für Zeichnung und Text, Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin, DE 2014 Joy!, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, USA

The Drawer, Paris, FR Lust auf Linie, Arte Giani,

Frankfurt/Main, DE

Anonymous Drawings – based in Berlin, Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin, DE

Thinking Drawing, Galeri Serdang, Selangor, MY

2013 Vielleicht sehe ich auch zu tief in die Dinge hinein, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, DE Line, Color and Form, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, USA Itinéraires, espace despalles, Paris, FR Stopover, fruehsorge contemporary drawings, Berlin, DE Young Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwangjusi, KR

KL Triennial: Barricade, whitebox@MAP, Kuala Lumpur, MY 2012 at the parkhaus, Parkhaus Projects, Berlin, DE FUKT Magazine for Contemporary Drawing, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, NO Berlin Status (1), Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE

Anschlüssel London – Berlin, Centre for Recent Drawing, London, UK

WEISS, Arte Giani, Frankfurt/ Main, DE

2011 Zwaan Kleef Aan, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, NL Tekenend voor Diepenheim, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, NL

Terra Incognita, Altana Galerie/ Universitätssammlungen Kunst + Technik, TU Dresden, DE

Anschlüssel London – Berlin, fruehsorge contemporary drawings, Berlin, DE

Die Linie überschreiten.

Eine Zeichnungsausstellung, Westwendischer Kunstverein, Gartow, DE

Die Linie überschreiten.

Eine Zeichnungsausstellung, Schau Fenster. Schauraum für Kunst, Berlin, DE drawn to drawing, Galerie Carolyn Heinz, Hamburg, DE 2010 Generationen II – abstrakt konkret gegenstandslos, Kunsthalle Brennabor,

Brandenburg, DE Zeichnung 10, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, DE Hand Joy, Centre for Recent Drawing, London, UK Facebook, Patrick Heide Gallery, London, UK 2009 junger westen 2009, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, DE

2008 In 7 Feldern. Stipendiaten der Akademie der Künste 2007, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, DE

2007 Zeichnung – Aktuelle Positionen, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, DE 2006 Gärten – über die Ordnung der Natur, falschgelb* raum für kunst, Berlin, DE 2005 Zeichnung, falschgelb* raum für kunst, Berlin, DE Damenwahl, Galerie Karin Friebe, Mannheim, DE 2003 Zeitgenössisch! Kunst in Berlin, KPM-Quartier, Berlin, DE

2002 Mitten ins Herz, Galerie Tammen&Busch, Berlin, DE 2000 art prize of Gifhorn county, Objekte zwischen Kunst und Design, Schloß Gifhorn, DE 1999 art prize of Gifhorn county, Kunst am Wasser, Künstlerhaus Meinersen, DE

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2011/12 residency, Lost Generation Space/Goethe Institut Kuala Lumpur, MY 2011 residency, Young Eun Museum for Contemporary Art, Gwangju-si, KR 2010 residency, Lost Generation Space/Goethe Institut Kuala Lumpur, MY 2007 stipend Junge Akademie, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, DE

2000 residency, Künstlerhaus Meinersen, DE

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Museum of Prints and Drawings, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, DE

Museum of Prints and Drawings, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, DE

Akademie der Künste, Berlin, DE Berlinische Galerie – Museum of Modern Art, Berlin, DE Museum of Prints and Drawings, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, DE Museum Art Plus, Donaueschingen, DE Young Eun Museum for Contemporary Art, Gwangju-si, KR

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (G = group show)

2021 Pretty Shiny Stuff. exhibition catalog Galerie Carolyn Heinz, Hamburg

2016 Zeichnungsräume/Drawing Rooms. exhibition catalog Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (G)

Extending Ideas. exhibition catalog Goethe Institut Kuala Lumpur (G)

2014 Thinking Drawing. exhibition catalog Galerie Serdang / Goethe Institut, Kuala Lumpur (G)

2012 Berlin . Status (1). exhibition catalog Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (G)

2011 Zwaan Kleef Aan. exhibition catalog Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem (G)

Tekenend voor Diepenheim. exhibition catalog Kunstvereniging Diepenheim (G)

Terra Incognita. exhibition catalog Altana Galerie / Universitätssammlungen

Kunst + Technik, TU Dresden (G)

2009 junger westen 2009. exhibition catalog Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (G)

Astrid Köppe: brandneu. exhibition catalog galerie weisser elefant (with a text by Mark Gisbourne and an interview with Sven Drühl), Berlin

2006 Astrid Köppe: Emaillen. exhibition catalog galerie weisser elefant, Berlin (with a text by Klaus Honnef)

2001 Astrid Köppe: Zeichnungen. exhibition catalog Künstlerhaus Meinersen (with a text by Horant Fassbinder)

TEXTS IN ENGLISH

Achim Drucks: The Beauty of Mold, 2018

Stephanie Buhmann: Interview with Astrid Köppe, in: Berlin Studio Conversations, Berlin, 2017, S. 196 ff. Barbara Soyer: Interview with Astrid Köppe, in: The Drawer, Volume 7 – Le Rire, Paris, 2014, S. 47

Christoph Tannert: Interview with Astrid Köppe, in: FUKT drawing magazine, issue #10, Berlin, 2011, S. 11 ff.

Charlotte Lindenberg: Interview with Astrid Köppe, in: Idealist, issue #1 –Kampfgeist, Berlin, 2011, o. S.

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This catalog complements Astrid Köppe’s exhibition

Fuzzy Logic

Maya Frodeman Gallery

03 April - 24 May 2026

Images courtesy of the artist

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