Caspar Heinemann
Untitled (Study for Sod All), 2025
£100
A limited edition risograph print by Caspar Heinemann, exclusive to House of Voltaire
Edition Size
100
Dimensions
40 x 28.5 cm
Finishing
Risograph
Signed and numbered by the artist. This edition will increase in price as it sells out.
Caspar Heinemann, Grandfathers-Axe, 2023, Courtesy the Artist, Edouard Montassut, Paris and Cabinet, London
About The Artwork
Drawing from the aesthetics of folk art and vernacular architecture, Caspar Heinemann explores the interconnectivity of spiritual, political and sexual counterculture. Developing narratives across sculpture, performance, writing and drawing, Heinemann considers how queer storytelling might be harnessed as a mode of opposition. This edition has been made in conjunction with Heinemann's first solo institutional exhibition in the UK, 'Sod All' at Studio Voltaire, 2025, in which Heinemann furthers his explorations of the politics of land, folk revival and spiritual histories. The unifying concept for this body of work is the word sod. The term has multivalent applications, variously meaning the ground, the soil itself, or a person’s native ground. It can also refer to an unfortunate man, a gay man, a lucky man; used to express something difficult, or feelings of anger. In Biblical Hebrew, sod is an untranslatable word, often interpreted as ‘secret’, but also as meaning a council or circle, and the highest level of mystical interpretation.
About Caspar Heinemann
Caspar Heinemann (b. 1994, London) is an artist and writer living in Glasgow. Solo exhibitions have included Édouard Montassut, Paris (2024); Cabinet, London (2022); Outpost Gallery, Norwich (2018); Almanac, London (2017); and Kevin Space, Vienna (2016). His work has been included in group exhibitions at Casa di Goethe, Rome (2024); Maureen Paley: Morena di Luna, Hove (2024) EACC, Castellón (2023); ICA, Los Angeles (2022); ICA, London (2019); and Cabinet, London (2019). Heinemann participated in the 2019 Bergen Assembly, and has held readings of his writing at Spike Island, Bristol; Camden Arts Centre, London; Partly, Copenhagen; Sussex Poetry Festival, Brighton; and Tate Modern, London. His first poetry collection, Novelty Theory, was published in 2019 by The 87 Press.