About us
This group is for anyone in Berlin who is passionate about art and eager to improve their skills through hands-on workshops. Whether you're a beginner looking to learn the basics or a seasoned artist wanting to experiment with new techniques, we offer a variety of workshops to suit your interests. Join us to connect with like-minded individuals, explore your creativity, and grow as an artist in a supportive and collaborative environment. Let's gather, create, and inspire each other to make stunning works of art!
If you are curious what we are up to, you can already get in touch directly via email to mail@kunstraum-heartspace.de or check out our website: https://www.kunstraum-heartspace.de/ and social media. See you in the Heartspace!
Upcoming events
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"Zwielicht" Opening of Solo Exhibition by Ingrid Simons
kunstraum heartspace, Danziger Straße 172, Berlin, DEYou are cordially invited to "Zwielicht", the solo exhibition by Dutch artist Ingrid Simons in Kunstraum Heartspace. A special programme will engage you in conversations about art, nature, and the moon...
Programme
06.08. 18:00 Vernissage and Artist Talk by Ingrid Simons
07.08. 18:30 Special Guest: Poetic encounter with visual artist Manfred Schneider
08.08. 16:00 Special Guest: Poetic encounter with writer Dan Ayres
09.08. 15:00 Finissage (with guest)During the opening hours, Ingrid Simons will be present, so please feel free to come by to connect and a talk about art, nature and the moon. She might be working on location also.
The title of Ingrid Simons' solo exhibition, Zwielicht, is derived from the German word for the mysterious half-light of twilight. It refers to the transitional moment between light and darkness, when forms begin to dissolve, contours blur, and the world exists somewhere between seeing and not seeing. It is the threshold between two worlds—a fleeting state in which certainty gives way to ambiguity, intuition and imagination.
This dual meaning makes Zwielicht particularly compelling. It is not only a description of a time of day, but also of a mental and emotional condition: a space where opposites coexist, where the visible and the invisible, presence and absence, clarity and mystery continuously overlap.
This liminal state lies at the heart of Ingrid Simons' artistic practice.Rather than representing landscape, she explores it as a physical, energetic and temporal condition. Spending long periods immersed in nature, she investigates the subtle forces that shape our experience of place: changing light, weather, gravity, movement and time. Nature becomes both subject and collaborator, leaving its traces within the work.
The exhibition brings together monumental ink works on paper (500 × 125 cm), video performances, intimate drawings on paper—the first presented in many years—oil paintings, recent acrylic paintings, and five new textile works created during her residency here in Berlin. Together they reveal an expanded painting practice in which material, body and environment continuously interact.Working with fluid materials such as ink and pure oil paint, Simons embraces processes of construction and dissolution simultaneously. Gravity, viscosity, gesture and natural forces actively shape the image. Painting becomes not a representation of landscape, but an event in which matter, movement and time become visible.
Like Zwielicht itself, the exhibition unfolds in the space between worlds. It invites viewers into a realm where landscape is not simply observed, but experienced as atmosphere, energy and transformation—where seeing gradually gives way to sensing.
About the Artist
Ingrid Simons (1976) graduated in 1999 from the Akademie voor Kunst en Vormgeving, ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. She is a Dutch visual artist, who works in several techniques: a painter who works with oil paint on linen, lithography, silkscreen printing, photopolymer printing, ceramics, short film and performance. Since 2022 a new direction was added: work on papier, painting with ink and laque.
A defining characteristic of her artistic practice is that she spends half of each year working in international artist residencies.In 2005 and 2008, she was shortlisted for the Royal Award for Modern Painting and these works were shown at Museum GEM in The Hague (The Netherlands), in 2016 she was granted the Stipendium for Established Artists (Mondriaan Fonds, The Netherlands) and in 2019 she was nominated for the Berlin Prize by the ISPP International Studio & Presentation Program of Livingstone Gallery.
In 2020, she was nominated for the International Senefelder Award (Germany).
Works of Simons were presented in public museums, biennials, galleries and art fairs in The Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Italy, U.S.A, Russia and Japan. In 2020-21 Simons was awarded the Brill Fellowship as independent researcher by the Scaliger Institute of Leiden University. Ingrid Simons presented her eight solo exhibition in Portugal in 2023 at Museu Nacional Frei Manuel do Cenáculo, Évora (Portugal).Website: www.ingridsimons.com
4 attendees"Zwielicht" Solo Exhibition by Ingrid Simons: Poetic Encounter
kunstraum heartspace, Danziger Straße 172, Berlin, DEYou are cordially invited to "Zwielicht", the solo exhibition by Dutch artist Ingrid Simons in Kunstraum Heartspace. A special programme will engage you in conversations about art, nature, and the moon...
Programme
06.08. 18:00 Vernissage and Artist Talk by Ingrid Simons
07.08. 18:30 Special Guest: Poetic encounter with visual artist Manfred Schneider
08.08. 16:00 Special Guest: Poetic encounter with writer Dan Ayres
09.08. 15:00 Finissage (with guest)During the opening hours, Ingrid Simons will be present, so please feel free to come by to connect and a talk about art, nature and the moon. She might be working on location also.
The title of Ingrid Simons' solo exhibition, Zwielicht, is derived from the German word for the mysterious half-light of twilight. It refers to the transitional moment between light and darkness, when forms begin to dissolve, contours blur, and the world exists somewhere between seeing and not seeing. It is the threshold between two worlds—a fleeting state in which certainty gives way to ambiguity, intuition and imagination.
This dual meaning makes Zwielicht particularly compelling. It is not only a description of a time of day, but also of a mental and emotional condition: a space where opposites coexist, where the visible and the invisible, presence and absence, clarity and mystery continuously overlap.
This liminal state lies at the heart of Ingrid Simons' artistic practice.Rather than representing landscape, she explores it as a physical, energetic and temporal condition. Spending long periods immersed in nature, she investigates the subtle forces that shape our experience of place: changing light, weather, gravity, movement and time. Nature becomes both subject and collaborator, leaving its traces within the work.
The exhibition brings together monumental ink works on paper (500 × 125 cm), video performances, intimate drawings on paper—the first presented in many years—oil paintings, recent acrylic paintings, and five new textile works created during her residency here in Berlin. Together they reveal an expanded painting practice in which material, body and environment continuously interact.Working with fluid materials such as ink and pure oil paint, Simons embraces processes of construction and dissolution simultaneously. Gravity, viscosity, gesture and natural forces actively shape the image. Painting becomes not a representation of landscape, but an event in which matter, movement and time become visible.
Like Zwielicht itself, the exhibition unfolds in the space between worlds. It invites viewers into a realm where landscape is not simply observed, but experienced as atmosphere, energy and transformation—where seeing gradually gives way to sensing.
About the Artist
Ingrid Simons (1976) graduated in 1999 from the Akademie voor Kunst en Vormgeving, ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. She is a Dutch visual artist, who works in several techniques: a painter who works with oil paint on linen, lithography, silkscreen printing, photopolymer printing, ceramics, short film and performance. Since 2022 a new direction was added: work on papier, painting with ink and laque.
A defining characteristic of her artistic practice is that she spends half of each year working in international artist residencies.In 2005 and 2008, she was shortlisted for the Royal Award for Modern Painting and these works were shown at Museum GEM in The Hague (The Netherlands), in 2016 she was granted the Stipendium for Established Artists (Mondriaan Fonds, The Netherlands) and in 2019 she was nominated for the Berlin Prize by the ISPP International Studio & Presentation Program of Livingstone Gallery.
In 2020, she was nominated for the International Senefelder Award (Germany).
Works of Simons were presented in public museums, biennials, galleries and art fairs in The Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Italy, U.S.A, Russia and Japan. In 2020-21 Simons was awarded the Brill Fellowship as independent researcher by the Scaliger Institute of Leiden University. Ingrid Simons presented her eight solo exhibition in Portugal in 2023 at Museu Nacional Frei Manuel do Cenáculo, Évora (Portugal).Website: www.ingridsimons.com
2 attendees"Zwielicht" Solo Exhibition by Ingrid Simons: Poetic Encounter
kunstraum heartspace, Danziger Straße 172, Berlin, DEYou are cordially invited to "Zwielicht", the solo exhibition by Dutch artist Ingrid Simons in Kunstraum Heartspace. A special programme will engage you in conversations about art, nature, and the moon...
Programme
06.08. 18:00 Vernissage and Artist Talk by Ingrid Simons
07.08. 18:30 Special Guest: Poetic encounter with visual artist Manfred Schneider
08.08. 16:00 Special Guest: Poetic encounter with writer Dan Ayres
09.08. 15:00 Finissage (with guest)During the opening hours, Ingrid Simons will be present, so please feel free to come by to connect and a talk about art, nature and the moon. She might be working on location also.
The title of Ingrid Simons' solo exhibition, Zwielicht, is derived from the German word for the mysterious half-light of twilight. It refers to the transitional moment between light and darkness, when forms begin to dissolve, contours blur, and the world exists somewhere between seeing and not seeing. It is the threshold between two worlds—a fleeting state in which certainty gives way to ambiguity, intuition and imagination.
This dual meaning makes Zwielicht particularly compelling. It is not only a description of a time of day, but also of a mental and emotional condition: a space where opposites coexist, where the visible and the invisible, presence and absence, clarity and mystery continuously overlap.
This liminal state lies at the heart of Ingrid Simons' artistic practice.Rather than representing landscape, she explores it as a physical, energetic and temporal condition. Spending long periods immersed in nature, she investigates the subtle forces that shape our experience of place: changing light, weather, gravity, movement and time. Nature becomes both subject and collaborator, leaving its traces within the work.
The exhibition brings together monumental ink works on paper (500 × 125 cm), video performances, intimate drawings on paper—the first presented in many years—oil paintings, recent acrylic paintings, and five new textile works created during her residency here in Berlin. Together they reveal an expanded painting practice in which material, body and environment continuously interact.Working with fluid materials such as ink and pure oil paint, Simons embraces processes of construction and dissolution simultaneously. Gravity, viscosity, gesture and natural forces actively shape the image. Painting becomes not a representation of landscape, but an event in which matter, movement and time become visible.
Like Zwielicht itself, the exhibition unfolds in the space between worlds. It invites viewers into a realm where landscape is not simply observed, but experienced as atmosphere, energy and transformation—where seeing gradually gives way to sensing.
About the Artist
Ingrid Simons (1976) graduated in 1999 from the Akademie voor Kunst en Vormgeving, ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. She is a Dutch visual artist, who works in several techniques: a painter who works with oil paint on linen, lithography, silkscreen printing, photopolymer printing, ceramics, short film and performance. Since 2022 a new direction was added: work on papier, painting with ink and laque.
A defining characteristic of her artistic practice is that she spends half of each year working in international artist residencies.In 2005 and 2008, she was shortlisted for the Royal Award for Modern Painting and these works were shown at Museum GEM in The Hague (The Netherlands), in 2016 she was granted the Stipendium for Established Artists (Mondriaan Fonds, The Netherlands) and in 2019 she was nominated for the Berlin Prize by the ISPP International Studio & Presentation Program of Livingstone Gallery.
In 2020, she was nominated for the International Senefelder Award (Germany).
Works of Simons were presented in public museums, biennials, galleries and art fairs in The Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Italy, U.S.A, Russia and Japan. In 2020-21 Simons was awarded the Brill Fellowship as independent researcher by the Scaliger Institute of Leiden University. Ingrid Simons presented her eight solo exhibition in Portugal in 2023 at Museu Nacional Frei Manuel do Cenáculo, Évora (Portugal).Website: www.ingridsimons.com
1 attendee"Zwielicht" Finissage of Solo Exhibition by Ingrid Simons
kunstraum heartspace, Danziger Straße 172, Berlin, DEYou are cordially invited to "Zwielicht", the solo exhibition by Dutch artist Ingrid Simons in Kunstraum Heartspace. A special programme will engage you in conversations about art, nature, and the moon...
Programme
06.08. 18:00 Vernissage and Artist Talk by Ingrid Simons
07.08. 18:30 Special Guest: Poetic encounter with visual artist Manfred Schneider
08.08. 16:00 Special Guest: Poetic encounter with writer Dan Ayres
09.08. 15:00 FinissageDuring the opening hours, Ingrid Simons will be present, so please feel free to come by to connect and a talk about art, nature and the moon. She might be working on location also.
The title of Ingrid Simons' solo exhibition, Zwielicht, is derived from the German word for the mysterious half-light of twilight. It refers to the transitional moment between light and darkness, when forms begin to dissolve, contours blur, and the world exists somewhere between seeing and not seeing. It is the threshold between two worlds—a fleeting state in which certainty gives way to ambiguity, intuition and imagination.
This dual meaning makes Zwielicht particularly compelling. It is not only a description of a time of day, but also of a mental and emotional condition: a space where opposites coexist, where the visible and the invisible, presence and absence, clarity and mystery continuously overlap.
This liminal state lies at the heart of Ingrid Simons' artistic practice.Rather than representing landscape, she explores it as a physical, energetic and temporal condition. Spending long periods immersed in nature, she investigates the subtle forces that shape our experience of place: changing light, weather, gravity, movement and time. Nature becomes both subject and collaborator, leaving its traces within the work.
The exhibition brings together monumental ink works on paper (500 × 125 cm), video performances, intimate drawings on paper—the first presented in many years—oil paintings, recent acrylic paintings, and five new textile works created during her residency here in Berlin. Together they reveal an expanded painting practice in which material, body and environment continuously interact.Working with fluid materials such as ink and pure oil paint, Simons embraces processes of construction and dissolution simultaneously. Gravity, viscosity, gesture and natural forces actively shape the image. Painting becomes not a representation of landscape, but an event in which matter, movement and time become visible.
Like Zwielicht itself, the exhibition unfolds in the space between worlds. It invites viewers into a realm where landscape is not simply observed, but experienced as atmosphere, energy and transformation—where seeing gradually gives way to sensing.
About the Artist
Ingrid Simons (1976) graduated in 1999 from the Akademie voor Kunst en Vormgeving, ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. She is a Dutch visual artist, who works in several techniques: a painter who works with oil paint on linen, lithography, silkscreen printing, photopolymer printing, ceramics, short film and performance. Since 2022 a new direction was added: work on papier, painting with ink and laque.
A defining characteristic of her artistic practice is that she spends half of each year working in international artist residencies.In 2005 and 2008, she was shortlisted for the Royal Award for Modern Painting and these works were shown at Museum GEM in The Hague (The Netherlands), in 2016 she was granted the Stipendium for Established Artists (Mondriaan Fonds, The Netherlands) and in 2019 she was nominated for the Berlin Prize by the ISPP International Studio & Presentation Program of Livingstone Gallery.
In 2020, she was nominated for the International Senefelder Award (Germany).
Works of Simons were presented in public museums, biennials, galleries and art fairs in The Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Italy, U.S.A, Russia and Japan. In 2020-21 Simons was awarded the Brill Fellowship as independent researcher by the Scaliger Institute of Leiden University. Ingrid Simons presented her eight solo exhibition in Portugal in 2023 at Museu Nacional Frei Manuel do Cenáculo, Évora (Portugal).Website: www.ingridsimons.com
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