Jacqueline Heer is a conceptual artist who works across diverse techniques, media and materials to construct immersive mental and physical spaces. Her practice focuses on the relationship between perception and reality, challenging conventional boundaries and inviting viewers to engage in deeper contemplation of their surroundings and their role within them. In recent years she has been integrating technology (as it becomes available) with self made and found objects, painting and performances to create environments that aim to expand the mind, provoking new ways of seeing, thinking, and interacting with the world.

Her work has been exhibited and collected internationally, with museum shows at the North Carolina Museum of Art, SECCA (Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art), and The Light Factory Museum of Photography. Notable solo exhibitions include Stockeregg Gallery Zürich (with Hiroshi Sugimoto), Art Basel Miami, Bill Lowe Gallery in Atlanta, GA and Santa Monica, CA. She has presented multimedia installations and performances at venues such as The Knight Gallery in Charlotte, NC; The Light Factory; The Moving Poets Berlin; Queens College in New York; TNT Gallery in Shenzhen, China; Kühlhaus Berlin; and Karl Oscar Galerie Berlin.

Heer has also completed site-specific commissions for prominent institutions, including Bank of America, Wachovia Bank, Duke Power Co., the Mary Riddle Duke Foundation, The Bechtler Museum, Bank Syz Geneva, Switzerland, as well as various hospitals and public buildings. Her work is also held in private collections in the US, EU, and China.

In addition to her artistic practice, Jacqueline Heer is the founder and current operator of ping-pong between ART and Knowledge, a project space and residency program in Berlin. She also founded and operated The Limbo, an alternative gallery and the Eight Street Art Collective in Charlotte, NC. Heer has led various international public actions and held a guest professorship at HISK in Antwerp.

Jacqueline Heer has been traveling extensively including Central- and South-America, Russia, Japan and China and now lives and works in Berlin, Germany and in North Carolina, USA. Her interest is the complex dynamics of global systems humanity has created and the ways in which they interact—or fail to interact.

“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