Biography

Biography

Kris Heide

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Member of bbk berlin e. V.
(Berufsverband Bildender Künstler*innen Berlin)

kris_heide@yahoo.de

Art is life – life is perception – perception is thinking and feeling – thinking is social criticism – feeling is just beautiful.

1980 ‑ 1984Studies at Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn
History of Arts, German Literature, Classical Archeology
1993PhD in History of Arts
Thesis: Form und Ikonographie des Stillebens in der Malerei der Neuen Sachlichkeit, Weimar 1998
1991 ‑ 1994Freiburg
1994 ‑ 2019Tübingen
since 2020Berlin

Art Studies

1977 ‑ 1979with Arno Reins, Bonn
2008 ‑ 2011with Frido Hohberger at Zeicheninstitut Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen

Awards/Scholarships

1987 ‑ 1989Doctoral scholarship in accordance with the Graduierten‑Förderungsgesetz NRW
1998Printing of the doctoral thesis funded by Geschwister Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung für Geisteswissenschaften 
2015Funding: Myths of Malawi – Malawian German Art Symposium 2015, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany Malawi
2019/20Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 19/20 in Silber
Category: Conceptual-Artistic
2021Funding of the project E • X • P • R • E • S • S • I • V 2021 by rbbKultur Berlin

Long Term Stays

two months in Kyoto (1992) and Dundee (1994), six months in Seattle (1996), Cincinnati/Montréal (1999), San Diego (2005) and Shanghai (2010/2011), two years in Blantyre/Malawi (2014-2016)