Heike Klussman

Heike Klussmann is an artist and a professor of art and architecture at the University of Kassel. She is a graduate of the Berlin University of the Arts and also studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Her work has been shown in recent exhibitions at the Zeche Zollverein in Essen, the KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin, China Art Objects in Los Angeles, the Berlinische Galerie Museum of Modern Art, Óbudai Társaskör in Budapest, and the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. Her many honors and awards include first prize in an international competition to design Düsseldorf’s new Wehrhahn subway line, as well as an Artists Grant from Villa Aurora in Los Angeles, the Goslar Kaiserring Grant, and a foreign residency stipend from the city of Berlin. She has presented workshops and lectures at the Bauhaus Kolleg in Dessau, Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, and the BAU trade fair in Munich, among other institutions. Since 2009, she has headed the BlingCrete transdisciplinary working group, which is devoted to the experimental development of new material concepts in the context of art, architecture, and science.