Jacqueline Heer

“To be an artist in the largest sense is to be fully awake to the totality of life as we encounter it, porous to it and absorbent of it, moved by it to translate those inner quickenings into what we make”.

Jacqueline Heer is a conceptual artist who works across diverse techniques and media, including collected and fabricated objects, 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. Through the integration of various disciplines and materials, Heer creates environments that aim to expand the mind, provoking new ways of seeing, thinking, and interacting with the world.

Jacqueline Heer has featured in a major joint photography exhibition with Hiroshi Sugimoto at Stockeregg Gallery in Zürich. 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 photography exhibitions include Art Basel Miami and 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 NC; Queens College in New York; TNT Gallery in Shenzhen, China; Kühlhaus Berlin; and Karl Oscar Galerie in Berlin.

Heer has also completed site-specific commissions and collections for prominent institutions, including Bank of America, Wachovia Bank, Duke Power Co., the Mary Riddle Duke Foundation, The Bechtler Museum, Bank Syz in 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.