Heike Weber
Heike Weber
born in Siegen in 1962
After studying visual communication at Aachen University of Applied Sciences and completing an artist residency followed by a teaching position at the Glasgow School of Art, Heike Weber received numerous scholarships in Germany and abroad, including: Artist in Residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Casa Baldi in Olevano Romano in Italy, and the Transfer Scholarship Türkiye-NRW in Istanbul, as well as national grants such as the working scholarship from the Kunstfonds Foundation and the travel scholarship from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2020, she received the LVR Women's Culture Prize for Fine Arts, in 2021 the cityARTists Cologne Prize from the Kultursekretariat NRW, and in 2024 she was nominated for the longlist of the Gabriele Münter Prize.
Exhibitions at institutions incl. Kölnischer Kunstverein, Transmission Gallery Glasgow, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Museum Friedericianum Kassel, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, Museum Bochum, Kunstmuseum Thun, Kunsthalle in Vienna, Marta Herford and Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Mönchehausmuseum in Goslar, Museum Villa Zanders Bergisch-Gladbach, Arter, Istanbul, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Kerava Art Museum, Helsinki, Museum Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Pitcairn Museum, Groningen, Landesmuseum Bonn, Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen and Situation Kunst (for Max Imdahl), Bochum.
2025 at Kunsthalle Göppingen and Kunsthalle Tübingen (together with Walter Eul) and in the three chapells on the field of Kirkeby, Raketenstation, Foundation Museumsinsel Hombroich.
- since 2011, awards for international Public Art Projects.
- since 2014, in collaboration with Walter Eul.
- since 2005, member of the German Association of Artists (DKB)
Heike Weber lives in Cologne