Artist Statement
Jaqueline Heer is a visual artist whose work has been collected and exhibited internationally. Museums shows include the North Caroline Museum of Contemporary Aart, SECCA (South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art). The Light Factory Museum for Photography. Major solo exhibitions (photography) include Stockeregg Gallery, Zürich, Art Basel Miami, Bill Lowe Gallery Atlanta GA / Santa Barbara CA. Major multimedia installations / performances include: The Knight Gallery, Charlotte NC, The Light Factory, The Moving Poets NC, Queens College, New York.
Site specific commissions and collections include Bank of America, Wachovia Bank, Duke Power Co, Mary Riddle Duke Foundation, The Bechtler Museum, Bank Syz, Geneva, Switzerland, various hospitals and public buildings. Her work is in various private collections in US and EU.
Other activities include: founding and operation the Limbo, an alternative Gallery in Charlotte NC, founding and operation the Eight Street Art Collective in Charlotte, founding the collective ‘ping-ping’ between Art and Knowledge, Berlin, various international public actions, guest professorship at HISK, Antwerp, Belgium.
Reviews and critical texts include: Essays by John Grande, Montreal, Canada, Richard Vine, Art in America, Reviews by Matthias Harder in Art in America, by Marc Spiegler in Art News, by A.D. Coleman, Hamptons Country Review, Art Papers.
Jacqueline Heer has been traveling intensively including Central- and South-America, Russia, Japan and China and now lives and works in Berlin, Germany and in North Caroline, USA.
“In a world where change is the opus, where all known things are in flux and flow and where even time has been recognised as malleable, it’s challenging to find stable footing.
My life, as an artist, mother, wife, builder of things, lover, inventor, analyst, thinker, dreamer, has lead me to a place of wonder and awe about the sheer mystery of the existence of all things. But it has also led me to a place of deep concern in the light of the fragility and complexity of the nature of the world as we know it.
With my basic life experience and my education rooted firmly between the Arts and the Sciences, my “experiments” and projects are informed by both. The quest always being, to find a way to reflect and visualise some hidden connections, some interconnected systems, to make an image of the unseen. Is the world really the way we see it, is our biology really the measure of all things? Is our math? What dimensions are we missing? Is human happiness or misery simply a byproduct of some asymmetry in a field of energy?
In my daily life, I celebrate the world as I can see it, the people around me, my family, friendships, the natural world, good food (I cook!), adventure, solitude, travel, reading, and the space and time to work.
My sorrow is that same world, the shortfall in human organisation, the tragic cultural misunderstandings, the inadequacies of human compassion, the resistance to change.
My hope is for knowledge to become the worlds currency, for Creativity to become the goods that are traded. For compassion and tolerance to be the sole common trait.”
Jacqueline Heer
Bio
2023
The N.C. Zeitgeist Foundation, Curator of TEASE, Transatlantic Exhibition of Art in the SouthEast
2022
Karl Oskar Gallery Berlin Group Exhibition
2021
BLISS GLITCH installation, part of “Beyond Belief”, exhibition in Kunst Haus Mitte, Berlin
2020
“29 tears” installation in Novilla, Berlin, part of “Heaven Upside Down”, produced by Moving Poets Berlin
“Black coal, red soil, yellow flames”, installation in Novilla, Berlin, produced by Moving Poets Berlin
2019
“AUGE UM AUGE, ZAHN UM ZAHN” multimedia installation in Novilla, Berlin, part of “Iustitia – ein verlorener Mythos?”, produced by Moving Poets Berlin
Two exhibitions at TNT Gallery, Shenzhen, China
WonderWoman ART b!tch, Bar Babette, Berlin
2018
FEINDBILD, installation at Novilla, Berlin, produced by Moving Poets Berlin
(im)probable life: sightings from the event horizon + Fauna of Mirrors, Kühlhaus Berlin
Fauna of Mirrors, installation, various media, Kühlhaus Berlin
2017
ARIADNE waking up in times of Drown wars, performance, exhibit, Novilla, Berlin
Elysium, "… far from the deathless gods”, Novilla, Berlin
2016
Lost Connection, multi media installation, Asheville, NC
2015
Gallery Whiteconcepts, Art Fair Karlsruhe, Germany
2012
Featured exhibits at Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta
„What do you mean when you say I“, multi media installation, performance, digital painting, audio. Artist collective, Asheville, NC
2010
FLUXOMAT, a concept art gallery with a twist. Ongoing
2008
„Lustgarten“, Galerie Forum am Amalienpark, 3 person show cur. by Gabriele Muschter
2007
Various studio shows, installations and events in Berlin
several public Installations on the Art boat Stralau, a Spree boat
Tony Torn Film challenge - set and costume design
2006
Cologne Art Fair, Pernkopf Gallerie
2004
Galerie Pernkopf, Berlin, 3 person show
“Not in my name”, solo show at Prora Documentation Center, Jürgen Rostock
2003
Galerie Pernkopf: Art Fair, Cologne
Video installation at "Frische Fische," Palais für Aktuelle Kunst, Glückstadt, Germany, cur. by Matthias Harder
"Project-NeverAgain," solo exhibition of new imagery in response to U.S. foreign policy at the Documentationszentrum in Prora, Germany
Installation and performances for "Homeland Insecurity," a group show in Charlotte, NC
“Just say no to war”, International action of resistance
2002
"The Big Squawk," multi media installation. Charlotte, NC
"Topography of Desire," The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC. The project: The city as a phenomenon. 2 person show. Multimedia Installation, (Objects, photography, video, audio and performance)
“Just say no to war”, International action of resistance
2001
Bill Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Toxic Landscapes: artists examine the environment," a touring show in US and Cuba of the work of selected national artists, by The Puffin Foundation of NJ
Art Basel Miami, solo at Stockeregg Galerie
"Facing South," a solo exhibition, Galerie zur Stockeregg, Zurich
"Art in Transition: Memories of Nature," Contemporary Arts Museum, Raleigh, NC, cur. by Rafaela Platow
Juror's Choice Award, The Light Factory Charlotte, NC
Rites of Passage, Tenth Annual Art Exhibition, Trizec Hahn, Charlotte, NC
"Urban Distress," The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
"Urban Distress," Kulturbrauerei, Berlin, Germany
2000
Solo exhibition, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
"Homegrown: Celebrating the Arts of North Carolina", a group show at SECCA Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts, cur. by Jeff Fleming, Winston-Salem, NC
"Carolina Contemporary" Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC (invitational)
1999
"Our Public Image, " invitational show at Hans and Walter Bechtler Gallery, Carillon, Charlotte, NC
"Turning Point: South 2000" Bank of America Plaza, Charlotte, NC, (invitational)
1998
"Facing South," a solo exhibition, Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, NC
“Tales Unclaimed," multi-media installation at Knight Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Context Visual Art Center, Charlotte, NC, cur. by Michael Godfrey
1997
Vision Explosion, Warehouse on 8th Street Charlotte, NC
1993
Our Public Image (invitational), Studio Show, Hans and Walter Bechtler Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Craven Arts Council, New Bern, NC (invitational)
1992
"On The Issue of Choice", Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), (invitational)
1991
Solo exhibition, Benjamin Rosenthal Gallery, Queens College, CUNY (City University of NY
"4 In A Different Light," The LIMBO Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1990
Solo exhibitions, Freie Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
OTHER ACTIVITIES
2019
Artist Residency TNT, Shenzhen, China
2017
Re-establishing “ping-pong, between art and knowledge” as a Project Room in Berlin
2007-2009
Founding of ping-pong & associates, a team of artists, scientists and cultural workers of various disciplines, focused on producing interdisciplinary works.
2001
Guest professorship at HISK - Higher Institut For Fine Arts, Gent, Belgium
1985-2005
Establishing and operating Artist collective “Warehouse on 8. street” in Charlotte, NC, incl. multiple exhibits, performances and concerts
Curating various exhibits
Organising various cultural initiatives
Major Public Art commissions
establishing and running Limbo Gallery, a non-profit gallery, Charlotte, NC
PUBLICATIONS
Tales unclaimed, with an essay by Richard Vine, Art in America, Charlotte, NC, 1998
PRESS REVIEWS, Critical texts
Essay by G. Muschter: Lustgarten, 2008
Essay by John K. Grande, Montreal, 2003
Art in America, Review by Matthias Harder, February 2002
ARTnews, Review by Marc Spiegler, February 2002
Zurich Tip, December 2001
Hamptons Country, Review by A. D. Coleman, July 1999
Creative Loafing, Best Visual Artist, July 1998
Art Papers, Jacqueline Heer, Facing South, September-October 1998
Creative Loafing, Review by Linda Brown, February 1997
Creative Loafing, Review by Bell Goranda, April 1992
L.A. Times: Images of Choice, July 1992
Basler Zeitung, April 1990
Basler Zeitung, Gästeliste, May 1990
Q.C. Quad, Queens, NY, Herbert Hartel, October 1990
Radio Basel, portrait, May 1990