CV : Heike Berl
2025
Lecturer 'Craft Academy Sweden', Sensus Stockholm-Gotland & Helliden Folk Craft School Tidaholm, paper workshop
2024
Organizer 'Handpressenprägung Dresden 2024' in collaboration with Grafikwerkstatt Dresden
since 2011
Study trips to Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland
2004 – 2006
Master class programme with professor Elke Hopfe (drawing), Dresden University of Fine Arts, post-graduate degree
2003
Visiting studies with professor Andreas von Weizsäcker (paper study workshop), Munich University of Fine Arts
2000 – 2004
Studies of Fine Arts, Dresden University of Fine Arts, university degree (MFA)
1999 – 2000
Studies of Fine Arts, Bremen University of Fine Arts
1995 – 1999
Studies of design, University of Applied Sciences Dessau, university degree
Study trips to Italy
1993 – 1996
Graphic workshop with Karl Heinz Jacob, Galerie am Domhof, Zwickau
1976
Born in Zwickau (Heike Keller), Saxony
Prizes
2026/11
Art Connects Women Award from Zee Arts Gallery under UNESCO patronage, United Arab Emirates
2022
Nominated for the 12th Nordhausen Graphic Award (shortlist), Germany
2012
Lithography Prize awarded by the Munich House of Artists Foundation (II. Prize), Germany
Grants & Residencies
2026
Selected artist: IAPMA Bulletin handmade paper swatches: 'Stars on a Tiepolo Blue Sky'. edition of 800
Selected artist: Paper Mail Art Exchange Program by North American Hand Papermakers, United States
2025
Walz scholarship to European graphic workshops & museums from the Verein für die Schwarze Kunst (Museum Papiermühle Homburg, Museum für Druckkunst Leipzig, Supersense Vienna, Austria etc.)
Selected artist: Paper Mail Art Exchange Program by North American Hand Papermakers, United States
Selected artist: Solo livepainting 'Piano Nights', Neuer Sächsischer Kunstverein & Palaissommer Dresden
2024
Handpressenprägung - embossed prints on handmade paper study days, Grafikwerkstatt Dresden
Selected artist: IAPMA Bulletin cover artist in collaboration with Papierwerk Glockenbach: 'Imagine', edition of 780
2022 - 2025
Artist in residence & lecturer, Lithographic Academy Tidaholm, paper workshop, Sweden
2022
Work scholarship from the City of Dresden
Selected artist: Paper Land Art Symposium, Großderschau (near Berlin)
2021
Project funding from the Erwin & Gisela von Steiner-Foundation, Munich
Artist in residence, Papierwerk Glockenbach, Munich
2020
Exhibition funding from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
2019
Project funding from the City of Dresden & Kulturpaten Dresden
Selected artist: 'International Paper Event', Historical Paper Mill Museum De Middelste Molen, Loenen (near Apeldoorn), The Netherlands
2014
Work scholarship from the Dresden University of Fine Arts, anniversary edition of the grapic workshops (paper workshop, letterpress)
2012
Artist in residence, Lithographic Academy Tidaholm, Sweden
2011
Travel grant from the City of Dresden, Lithographic Academy Tidaholm, Sweden
2005
Art-on-building competion, invited artist by the Saxon State Ministry of Finance, Amtsgericht Meißen (participation with "Glass Garden")
2003
Drawing pleinair with professor Max Uhlig, Forstbotanischer Garten Tharandt (near Dresden)
Artists Lectures, Talks & Presentations (selection)
2026
Heike Berl 'Experimental Printmaking on Handmade Paper', Artist lecture, Paper Symposium on Printmaking, Centre for Print Research, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
'Anschöpfen', Hand papermaking and presentation, Museum Papiermühle Homburg am Main, DE
Heike Berl 'Material Prints on Handmade Paper', Artist presentation on the occasion of 'Tag der Druckkunst'. Käthe-Kollwitz-Haus, Moritzburg, DE
2025
Heike Berl 'Hand Papermaking', Artist presentation & workshop, Craft Academy Sweden. Sensus Stockholm-Gotland & Helliden Folk Craft School Tidaholm, SE
Heike Berl 'Walzstipendium 2025 des Vereins für die Schwarze Kunst'. Artist lecture, Kreishandwerkergesellschaft, Cologne, DE
'Wegzeichen Papier'. Artists Talk, Galerie im Heinrich-Hartmann-Haus, Oelsnitz (Ore Mountains), DE
2024
Heike Berl 'Pure Romance in Paper. Selected watermarks, old master prints, Katagami and contemporary editions'. Artist lecture on on the occasion of 'Handpressendrucke 2024'. Print Room, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, DE
2023
Heike Berl 'Paper Gems. Selected master works on paper from Jacopo de’ Barbari to Günther Uecker'. Artist lecture on the occasion of 'IAPMA Congress Dresden'. Print Room, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, DE
Heike Berl & Fides Linien 'Papermaking in the Elbe River'. Demonstration at the opening ceremony of 'Paper Alive! IAPMA Congress Exhibition'. Kunstgewerbemuseum, Wasserschloss Pillnitz, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, DE
2022
Heike Berl 'Pulp Painting'. Artist lecture on the occasion of the fair 'art book berlin', Druckwerkstatt BBK Berlin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, DE
Heike Berl 'Hand Papermaking'. Artist presentation at the 'Lithographic Symposium', Lithographic Academy, Tidaholm, SE
Heike Berl 'Blaue Blume Flachs'. Artist presentation at the 'Paper Land Art Symposium', Großderschau (near Berlin), DE
2021
'Interview with Heike Berl by Alina Klitzke and Denise Piel'. ARTEMAK - Archiv für Techniken und Arbeitsmaterialien zeitgenössischer Künstler:innen, Dresden University of Fine Arts, DE
2020
Heike Berl 'Interview with Andreas Schüller' on the occasion of the exhibition 'Weiße Rose - Natur & Symbol', Galerie Laterne, Chemnitz, DE
Heike Berl in conversation with Christiane Oertel, moderated by Verena Schneider: 'Basics and Experiments - from anatomy to the video lab'. Papermaking workshop, Dresden University of Fine Arts (catalog), DE
2019
Heike Berl 'Paper & Printmaking'. Artist presentation at the 'Paper Event', Historical Paper Mill Museum 'De Middelste Molen', Loenen (near Appeldorn), The Netherlands
2018
'In conversation: The artist Heike Berl'. Singulart Magazine, edited by Sylvia Schneider and Andrea Toulous, Paris, France