Damien & The Love Guru

HC is a collective endeavour exploring modes of thinking and working with more than one mind. Founded in Brussels in 2016 by Friedemann Heckel (based in Berlin) and Lukas Müller (based in Frankfurt). It is a format that allows the two artists to create unexpected and at times participatory situations and environments. The initials that make the name were diced – a fact that speaks about how chance and play might influence the transformative nature of this collective.

Education

Friedemann Heckel

• Meisterschüler, class of Michaela Meise, Universität der Künste, 2012, Berlin, DE
• BA Fine Art, class of Lothar Baumgarten, Universität der Künste, 2011, Berlin, DE
• Universidade de Belas Artes, 2010, Lisbon, PT

Lukas Müller

• Guest Student, class of Michael Krebber, Städelschule, 2018, Frankfurt, DE
• BA Fine Art, class of Albert Oehlen and Andreas Schulze, 2013, Düsseldorf, DE

Solo Exhibitions

• Figuring Things Out, Sweetwater, 2022, Berlin, DE
• Non Dentro Ma Intorno A Noi, hosted by Damien & The Love Guru, Conceptual Fine Arts, 2021, Milan, IT
• Art-O-Rama, invited by Lucas Hirsch, 2019, Marseille, FR
• Damien & The Love Guru, Damien & The Love Guru, 2019, Brussels, BE
• Transparencies, Sauvage, 2018, Bonn, DE
• Die Lange Weile, Lucas Hirsch, 2018, Düsseldorf, DE
• Alle Pizze Fast Rund, Pogo Bar at KW Institute, 2017, Berlin, DE
• Art Cologne, invited by Lucas Hirsch, 2017, Cologne, DE
• Incident, Kunstaele, 2016, Berlin, DE

Selected Group Exhibitions

• Matchmaker, hosted by Damien & The Love Guru for Various Others, Loggia, 2021, Munich, DE
• Act 1, A Piece of Furniture, Salon am Moritzplatz, 2021, Berlin, DE
• City’s, Sweetwater, 2021, Berlin, DE
• Friend of a Friend, hosted by Croy Nielsen, SVIT and Damien & The Love Guru for FOAF, Piktogram, 2021, Warsaw, PL
• Where Do Streams Run To?, hosted by Damien & The Love Guru and Lucas Hirsch, Conceptual Fine Arts, 2019, Milan, IT
• To Eggs and Other Shells, Thomas Fischer, 2018, Berlin, DE
• To Lie In The Cheese, To Smile At The Butter, Kunstaele, 2016, Berlin, DE
• Grand Café, Apes & Castles, 2016, Brussels, BE

Related Activities

• Exhibition In the On-Board-Bistro Collaborative Curating, seminar, HFG Karlsruhe, 2022, Karlsruhe, DE

• Two Hands Painting, 2019
• Transparencies, 2017

• Matchmaker, Art Viewer, 2021
• ‘HC: Thinking With More Than One Mind’, Francesco Tenaglia, Conceptual Fine Arts, 2021
• Non Dentri Ma Intorno A Noi, GalleriesNow, 2021
• Die Lange Weile, ArtForum, 2018
• Die Lange Weile, KubaParis, 2018