Astrid Heibach

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Astrid Heibach (* 1949 in Düsseldorf ) is a German artist and filmmaker .

education

From 1972 to 1974 Heibach studied theater and film with Wolf Seesselberg and Ole John Povlsen at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and from 1986 to 1987 computer graphics and animation with Bruce Wands at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She lives and works in Cologne.

life and work

In the early 1970s Astrid Heibach began her artistic work with photographs and Super 8 films. She participates in three Sigmar Polke exhibitions with slide projections . In 1975 articles were made for the exhibition catalog Je.Nous / Ik.Wij and the exhibition newspaper Day by Day… they take some brain away in collaboration with Sigmar Polke, Achim Duchow and Katharina Steffen. Heibach produced her first video tapes in 1978 in the Oppenheim Studio, Cologne. In 1981, together with Gábor Bódy , Georg Pinter and Józef Robakowski, she founded Infermental, an international picture periodical on video tapes, and curated the first edition with Bódy from 1981–1982.

“Astrid Heibach's narrative works are equally shaped by a socially critical examination of the medium of electronics. She reflects on the perverted aesthetics of weapons in Caution Ready Los (1978), transforms into an electronic being in New Fire (1981), in the Japan Portrait Universal Input Output (1982/83) links symbolic aspects of ancient Japanese culture with the high-tech present. Goya's Maya lures you into a seductive, fascinating world behind the screen in Silent Catastrophe (1986). In Believe it or Not (1987) a porcelain pig ballerina in front of the silhouette of New York becomes transparent to the point of complete dissolution through the permanent consumption of electronically multiplied images. A Tale of Love (1988) is a modern version of the famous eulogy of Eros from Plato's 'Banquet' and I Did it (1989/90) a fictional representation of the exaggerated reality of the 'American Way of Life' using the example of the famous New York Marathon over the Brooklyn Bridge. Her installation Besetzt (1990) uses sculptural elements in addition to the electronic equipment. In 1996 the feature film With My Eyes was made , produced by the SWF. "

Astrid Heibach's artistic work has been accompanied by lecture tours in Japan, Europe, the USA and Canada. In 1988 she was guest artist in residence at the Western Front in Vancouver, Canada. From 1990 she works as a freelance film and video editor and teaches editing and editing at the Mediadesign Akademie in Düsseldorf between 2000 and 2003. From 2012 to 2017, Heibach oversees the digitization and indexing of Sigmar Polke's 16 mm film.

Awards and grants

  • 1981: Art Fund Foundation, Bonn
  • 1987: Scholarship from the Carl Duisberg Society
  • 1988: Artist in Residence, Western Front, Vancouver BC, Canada
  • 1988: Peter Mertes grant, Bonn
  • 1991: German Special Prize, 14th Tokyo Video Festival
  • 1992: German Video Art Prize of the SWF and ZKM

Works (selection)

  • 1975: "Crystal Ball", slide show
  • 1976: “We petty bourgeoisie - contemporaries”, slide show
  • 1978: "Ready to go", video slide installation
  • 1979: "The New Jungle Book", collages
  • 1979: “Pas de Deux”, collages
  • 1980: “The absolute dance”, Super 8 film installation
  • 1981: “New Fire”, video
  • 1984: "Universal Input Output", 16 mm film, video
  • 1986: "Silent Catastrophe", video,
  • 1987: "Believe It Or Not", video
  • 1988: " A Tale of Love", video (with Gusztáv Hámos)
  • 1990: "I Did it", video
  • 1990: “Occupied”, installation with objects
  • 1996: "With my eyes", feature film
  • 1999: "Zigeunerstück", video
  • 2005: "Charley's Girls", video
  • 2007: "The gallery owner", video
  • 2017: "Hidden Messages - Je / Nous - Ik / Wij, Supplements I - IV", photographs and texts

Exhibition participation and solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1975 "Mu Nieltnam Netorruprup" (with Sigmar Polke and Achim Duchow), Kunsthalle zu Kiel and Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstverein, Kiel
  • 1976 "Neighborhood", Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • 1976 “schilderijen, diaprojekties, films” (with Sigmar Polke and Achim Duchow), Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
  • 1976 "We petty bourgeois - contemporaries" (with Sigmar Polke, Achim Duchow and Katharina Steffen), Toni Gerber Gallery, Bern
  • 1978 "Caution-ready-go", Gallery Oppenheim, Cologne (single)
  • 1980 "The absolute dance", Galerie Gugu Ernesto, Cologne (single)
  • 1981 “Highlights. Review Oppenheim Studio Cologne 73-79 “, Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn
  • 1982 "Video art in Germany 1963–1982", Kölnischer Kunstverein
  • 1985 “Japan Syndroom”, Stichting Montevideo, Amsterdam
  • 1988 "About Japan", International Center of Photography, New York
  • 1990 "Peter Mertes Scholarship 1988", Bonner Kunstverein
  • 2000 “Hommage à Achim Duchow”, Erhard Klein Gallery, Bad Münstereifel
  • 2002 "Back to Concrete", Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • 2009 “Sigmar Polke: We petty bourgeois! Contemporaries ”, Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • 2010 "Pictures in Motion", Museum Ludwig, Cologne
  • 2017 “ Singular / Plural - Collaborations in the Post-Pop-Polit-Arena” , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • 2018 “ Sigmar Polke and the 1970s. Networks, Experiments, Identities ” , Museum for Contemporary Art Siegen

Film and video festivals (selection)

  • 1981 “Film Show”, Rote Fabrik, Zurich.
  • 1982 "2nd International Video Festival “, San Sebastian, Spain
  • 1984 "1. Videonale ”, Bonner Kunstverein
  • 1986 "World-Wide Video Festival Kijkhuis", The Hague
  • 1990 "European Media Art Festival", Osnabrück
  • 1991 "Realité - Reaction - Fiction", La Cour des Chaines, Mulhouse, France
  • 2005 "51. International Short Film Festival ”, Oberhausen
  • 2007: "Infermental I", transmediale.07 unfinish !, Academy of the Arts , Berlin
  • 2012 “transmediale. 2K + 12 in / compatible “, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
  • 2015 "Videonale.152", Kunstmuseum Bonn

Works in public collections

  • Museum Ludwig, Cologne
  • nbk - New Berlin Art Association, Berlin
  • Art Museum Bonn, Bonn
  • The Lima Collection, Amsterdam
  • Western Front, Vancouver BC, Canada
  • ZKM, Center for Art and Media Technology

Catalogs (selection)

  • Singular plural. Collaborations in the Post-Pop-Polit-Arena 1969–1980. Cat. Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, ed. by Petra Lange-Berndt, Dietmar Rübel, Max Schulze and Gregor Jansen, Cologne 2017
  • Achim Duchow & Astrid Heibach: We Petty Bourgeois, 1976/2008, in: Sigmar Polke: We Petty Bourgeois! Comrades and Contemporaries.The 1970s.Ed. by Petra Lange-Berndt and Dietmar Rübel, Cologne 2011
  • Pictures in motion. Artist & Video & Film 1958–2010 . Edited by Barbara Engelbach, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2010
  • Achim Duchow & Astrid Heibach: Wir Kleinbürger , 1976/2008 , in: Sigmar Polke: Wir Kleinbürger! Contemporaries. The 1970s. Edited by Petra Lange-Berndt, Dietmar Rübel, Cologne 2009
  • Keeping yourself happy: art from the 70s from the Ingrid Oppenheim donation, Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2005
  • Thomas Bernstein - Astrid Heibach: Peter Mertes scholarship 1988, Bonner Kunstverein, 1990
  • Naked in the art of the 20th century : paintings, sculptures, graphic works, video films and performances , Hanover 1984
  • Highligts review. Oppenheim Studio Cologne 1973–1979 , Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, 1981
  • Art exhibitions Gutenbergstrasse 62a eV Galerie Hetzler, Stuttgart 1980

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sigmar Polke, Achim Duchow, Astrid Heibach, Katharina Steffen: Je.Nous / Ik.Wij. 15-page article with 36 illustrations and text . In: Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels, 23.5 - 13.7.1975 (Ed.): Exhibition catalog, 280 pp. POUR écrire la liberté., Ixelles 1975.
  2. ↑ Sigmar Polke, Achim Duchow, Astrid Heibach, Katharina Steffen: Day by Day ... they take some brain away. Sigmar Polke. XIII. Bienal de São Paulo, Federal Republic of Alemanha. Exhibition newspaper. Wienand KG, Cologne 1975.
  3. ↑ Marlis Grüterich: Astrid Heibach . In: Dieter Bechtloff (Ed.): Kunstforum International . tape 26 . Dieter Bechtloff, Mainz 1978.
  4. ↑ Astrid Heibach: "Universal Input Output" . In: Dieter Bechtloff (Ed.): Kunstforum International . tape 77/78 . Dieter Bechtloff, Cologne 1985, p. 136 .
  5. ^ Rudolf Frieling and Dieter Daniels: Media Art Interaction / Media Art Interaction. The 80s and 90s in Germany / The 1980s and 1990s in Germany. Ed .: Rudolf Frieling and Dieter Daniels. Springer, Vienna / New York 2000.
  6. ^ Jo Eckhardt: Astrid Heibach . In: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Ed.): Video forum of the NBK. Inventory catalog . Berlin 2001, p. 133 .
  7. ↑ Kathrin Barutzki, Nelly Gawellek, Astrid Heibach, Anke Mebold: On Sigmar Polkes' Films / On Sigmar Polke's Films. In: Barbara Engelbach, Ursula Frohne , Museum Ludwig (ed.): Sigmar Polke. Film and Art / Film and Art. Walther König, Cologne 2016, ISBN 3-86335-983-6 , p. 360-365, 366-371 .
  8. ↑ Monika Funke Stern: E-Film Experimentalfilmtage in Osnabrück . In: Women and Film . No. 31 . Berlin 1981, p. 48 .
personal data
SURNAME Heibach, Astrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf