ANDREA HELLER
Andrea Heller (born in 1975) has for a number of years been one of the most high-profile Swiss artists, whose work is shown at national and international exhibitions.
After doing a preliminary art course and graphics training in Zurich, from 1998 to 2003 she studied Fine Arts at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg and the Zurich University of the Arts, from where she graduated in 2003. She was awarded a studio scholarship to work for several years in Paris, and today Andrea Heller lives and works in Biel/Bienne.
She has held exhibitions in Switzerland and elsewhere since 1999, including solo exhibitions, for example at the Helmhaus gallery in Zurich in 2012 and the Museum Franz Gertsch in Burgdorf in 2015. In 2019, she will be presenting a comprehensive solo exhibition at the Centre d’art Pasquart modern art museum in Biel/Bienne. Her creative work has won her a studio grant from the Binz 39 Foundation, a grant from the Canton of Zurich, a studio grant from the City of Zurich at the Cité des Arts cultural centre in Paris, the Anderfuhren Prize and a research grant from the Culture Fund.
Andrea Heller has had a number of written works published by Nieves and Artspeak. Her first monograph, “Die Wurzeln sind die Bäume der Kartoffeln” [Roots are the Trees of Potatoes] was published in 2012 by Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich. In 2015, she brought out a monograph entitled “Paradoxie des Haufens” [The Paradox of the Heap], published by Modo Verlag, Freiburg i.B., to accompany her exhibition at the Museum Franz Gertsch.