Heike Bollig

Heike Bollig (born December 19, 1973 in Karlsruhe ) is a German artist .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a wood sculptor at the vocational school for carpentry and wood carving in Berchtesgaden , Bollig studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at the Karlsruhe University of Design from 1997 to 2004 . She passed the first state examination in art education in 2003 and received her diploma as a master student from Asta Gröting and Jürgen Drescher in 2004 . She has lived in Berlin since 2004 . In addition to her artistic work, she works as an art mediator.

Heike Bollig is the granddaughter of the anthroposophical educator and Nazi resistance fighter Hubert Bollig .

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Bollig's artistic work includes sculptures , installations , photographs and actions in public space . She gained international attention with the Errors in Production project , which is dedicated to errors in industrial production .

Awards (selection)

2005: DAAD grant France
2005: Scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation
2008: IASPIS (International Artists Studio Program in Stockholm)
2010: Working grant from the Rhineland-Palatinate Cultural Foundation in the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral
2014: Working grant from the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation
2016: Working grant from the Berlin Senate at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

2006: Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
2008: 2 rooms for the Sandwich Man , Kunstraum Munich
2008: On the Spot # 3 , Badischer Kunstverein , Karlsruhe
2009: Body and Objects , Municipal Gallery in the Kornhaus, Kirchheim / Teck
2012: Recreatión , Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile

Group exhibitions

2003: Insights , House of Art , Munich
2003: Real Presence , Museum of May 25th , Belgrade
2004: Deutschland sucht , Kölnischer Kunstverein
2004: Being active , New Society for Fine Arts , Berlin
2007: Your Latest Trick, Bug # 1 , Jet, Berlin
2009: Optical Art from Brunswick , Kunstverein Wolfsburg
2009: Show. An audio tour through Berlin (by Karin Sander ), Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
2009: Failure , Kunsthalle Exnergasse , Vienna
2012: Amateurism , Heidelberger Kunstverein
2012: Getting it Wrong , das weisse haus, Vienna
2012: The declared exhibition , Kunstverein Kärnten , Klagenfurt
2012: km 500 4 , Kunsthalle Mainz
2013: Public Abstraction, Private Construction , Kunstverein Arnsberg
2013: Cummuli - To collect things , L40, Berlin
2015: Vous-avez dit bizarre? , Biennale Internationale du design de Saint-Étienne
2016: Les rencontres de la photographie d´Arles

Publications

Heike Bollig: On errors. Revolver Publishing | Revolver - Archive for Current Art, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-86588435-0 .
Heike Bollig: Forms of Public Communication - Heike Bollig. Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe 2008.
Heike Bollig: Untitled (regional culture). Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral, Bad Ems 2011.

literature

Errors in production. In: ELSE Magazine No. 4, ( Musée de l'Elysée ), Lausanne 2012, pp. 74–77.
Anne-Laure Griveau: La belle imperfection. In: Marie Claire France. Paris, March 2016, p. 96.
Erik Kessels. In: Volkskrant Magazine, No. 626, Amsterdam 2012.
Erik Kessels: Failed It! Phaidon, London 2016, ISBN 978-0-71487119-6 .
Erik Kessels: Almost perfect. DuMont, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-83219913-5 .
Chris Köver: Untitled (regional culture). In: Missy Magazine , Berlin, May 2012, pp. 30–35.
Lisa Le Feuvre: Failure (Documents of Contemporary Art). Whitechapel Gallery, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-26251477-4 .
Susanne Schneider: Something is wrong there. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin , Munich, March 20, 2020, pp. 10–17. on-line