Heiko Blankenstein
Heiko Blankenstein creates strongly linear compositions that depict
natural unseen phenomena. In lightboxes and large works on paper,
Blankenstein explores the cognitive principles of humanist metaphysics
and systems of chaos theory.
Copyright The Drawing Room
1970 born in Rheydt/NRW, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Education
MFA, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Grants
Residency, Nairs Foundation, Switzerland
Gilroy Roberts scholarship
Gray Trust stipend
Governor's Award of Pennsylvania
Lucy Glick memorial prize
Maple Wilson Woodrow memorial prize
Angelo Pinto memorial prize for experimental art
Thouron prize
William Emlen Cresson travel scholarship
Sylvia G. Wexler memorial prize
Wharton Esherick Museum award
Morris Blackburn prize
Jeanne Culver award
Rubinson award
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 'three biosonic rooms', box , Berlin
2006 'Zeichnungen', Galerie Alexandra Saheb, Berlin
2005 'New Works', Galerie Alexandra Saheb, Berlin
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 'every eye sees differently as the eye', the drawing room, London
2007 'ladies and gentlemen...', Stephanie Sacco Gallery, Miami
2007 'beauty spot', Galerie Alexandra Saheb, Berlin
2007 'current d'ajer', Fundaziun Nairs, Scuol, Switzerland
2007 'donn roca x-mas show', Gallery Donn Roca, Odense, Denmark
2006 'team', Galerie Arndt &Partner, Berlin
2006 'among the trees', New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey
2006 'Die schöne Nacht im Liebeskraut', Kampagne, Berlin
2005 'festival of dreams'. Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York
2004 '1.Berliner Kunstsalon', Berlin
2004 'drawing the line between fact and fiction, Rocketshop, Berlin
2004 'u build it', Rocketshop, Berlin
Bibliography
imaginary cities, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
explosives Zeichengut, Berlin artinfo
Links
www.alexandrasaheb.de
www.saccogallery.com
www.drawingroom.org.uk
Shown by
Galerie Alexandra Saheb, Berlin
Sacco Gallery, Miami
natural unseen phenomena. In lightboxes and large works on paper,
Blankenstein explores the cognitive principles of humanist metaphysics
and systems of chaos theory.
Copyright The Drawing Room
1970 born in Rheydt/NRW, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Education
MFA, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Grants
Residency, Nairs Foundation, Switzerland
Gilroy Roberts scholarship
Gray Trust stipend
Governor's Award of Pennsylvania
Lucy Glick memorial prize
Maple Wilson Woodrow memorial prize
Angelo Pinto memorial prize for experimental art
Thouron prize
William Emlen Cresson travel scholarship
Sylvia G. Wexler memorial prize
Wharton Esherick Museum award
Morris Blackburn prize
Jeanne Culver award
Rubinson award
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 'three biosonic rooms', box , Berlin
2006 'Zeichnungen', Galerie Alexandra Saheb, Berlin
2005 'New Works', Galerie Alexandra Saheb, Berlin
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 'every eye sees differently as the eye', the drawing room, London
2007 'ladies and gentlemen...', Stephanie Sacco Gallery, Miami
2007 'beauty spot', Galerie Alexandra Saheb, Berlin
2007 'current d'ajer', Fundaziun Nairs, Scuol, Switzerland
2007 'donn roca x-mas show', Gallery Donn Roca, Odense, Denmark
2006 'team', Galerie Arndt &Partner, Berlin
2006 'among the trees', New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey
2006 'Die schöne Nacht im Liebeskraut', Kampagne, Berlin
2005 'festival of dreams'. Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York
2004 '1.Berliner Kunstsalon', Berlin
2004 'drawing the line between fact and fiction, Rocketshop, Berlin
2004 'u build it', Rocketshop, Berlin
Bibliography
imaginary cities, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
explosives Zeichengut, Berlin artinfo
Links
www.alexandrasaheb.de
www.saccogallery.com
www.drawingroom.org.uk
Shown by
Galerie Alexandra Saheb, Berlin
Sacco Gallery, Miami
