Hecker (b. 1975, Kissing, Germany) had exhibited and performed internationally. In 2012 his work was featured in dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany. Recent solo exhibitions include Articulação, Lumiar Cité & Jardim Botânico, Lisbon; Mehringdamm 72, Berlin; Event, Stream, Object, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; Chisenhale Gallery, London and Ikon, Birmingham, both 2010. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions including In the Holocene, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, USA; and No night No day, collaboration with Cerith Wyn Evans, 53rd Venice Biennial, Italy, 2009. Recent live performances include Speculative Solution, Nouveau Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2012; Tate Modern Live: Push and Pull, A Two-Day Performance Event, Tate Modern, London (with Mark Leckey), 2011; and INSTAL 10, Tramway, Glasgow, 2010. In 2009, a major publication on his work was produced in conjunction with Event, Stream, Object at MMK, Frankfurt. In addition, he has an extensive discography, with three new vinyl recordings of Chimerization being released to coincide with this exhibition. In February 2013 Primary Information will publish an artist book by Florian Hecker.
