Almut Heise

Almut Heise (b. 1944 in Celle, Germany / lives and works in Hamburg) studied at the Hochschulinstitut für Kunst- und Werkerziehung in Mainz from 1965 to 1967, at the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst in Hamburg from 1967 to 1970, and at the Royal College of Arts in London from 1970 to 1971 as part of a DAAD scholarship. She went on to do a residency at the Villa Massimo, Rome, in 1978–79, and has been awarded art prizes such as the Edwin-Scharff Preis and the Kunstpreis Finkenwerder. She was a professor at the Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (HAW) in Hamburg between 1978 and 2005. Solo exhibitions include: Kunstverein Freiburg/Breisgau, 1990; Kunsthaus Hamburg, 1975; and Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 1974.