Heike Berl
Artist based in Dresden working in drawing, printmaking, pulp painting & paper sculpture
since 2019
IAPMA Archive Keeper / The International Association of Hand Papermakers & Paper Artists
2023 IAPMA Congress Dresden / Committee Member
2026 IAPMA Ruby Jubilee Collection / Curator of International Paper & Print Mail Art Project
since 2011
Study trips to Sweden
2004 – 2006
Master class program with professor Elke Hopfe (drawing), Dresden University of Fine Arts, post-graduate degree
2003
Visiting studies with professor Andreas von Weizsäcker (paper workshop), Munich University of Fine Arts
2000 – 2004
Studies of Fine Arts, Dresden University of Fine Arts, university degree
1999 – 2000
Studies of Fine Arts, Bremen University of Fine Arts
1995 – 1999
Studies of design, Anhalt University Dessau, university degree
Study trips to Italy
1993 – 1995
Drawing workshop with Karl Heinz Jacob, Galerie am Domhof, Zwickau
1976
Born in Zwickau (Heike Keller)
Grants & Prizes
2025
Walz - Travel Grant to European graphic workshops & museums by Verein für die Schwarze Kunst I "Quodlibet : Paper & Poetry". Graphic editions & poems by Heike Berl
2024
IAPMA Bulletin cover artist (in collaboration with Papierwerk Glockenbach, Munich)
Embossed Prints on Handmade Paper Study Days. Grafikwerkstatt Dresden 2024 – Handpressendrucke
2022
Work scholarship of the City of Dresden
Nominated for the 12th Nordhausen Graphic Award
Invited artist at Paper Land Art Symposium, Großderschau (near Berlin)
2021
Project funding by the Erwin & Gisela von Steiner-Foundation, Munich
2020
Exhibition funding by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
2019
Project funding by the City of Dresden & Kulturpaten Dresden
Invited artist at International Paper Event, historical paper mill "De Middelste Molen", Loenen (near Apeldoorn), The Netherlands
2014
Work scholarship of the graphics workshops, Dresden University of Fine Arts, anniversary edition (paper workshop, letterpress)
2012
Lithography Prize awarded by the Munich House of Artists Foundation (II. Prize)
2011
Travel scholarship of the City of Dresden, Lithographic Academy, Tidaholm, Sweden
2005
Invited artist at art-on-building competion, Saxon State Ministry of Finance, Amtsgericht Meißen (participation with "Glass Garden")
Works in public collections
Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst - Sammlung Malerei, Grafik, Skulptur / Germany
Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum Leipzig, Grafische Sammlung / Germany
Douro Museum, Regua / Portugal
Erwin und Gisela von Steiner-Stiftung, München / Germany
Grafikwerkstatt Dresden / Germany
Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden / Germany
Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, Kalamazoo / USA
Kunstfonds der Landeshauptstadt Dresden / Germany
Kunsthaus Grenchen / Switzerland
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Grafische Sammlung / Germany
Lithographic Academy, Tidaholm / Sweden
Musee des Beaux-Arts (BAL), Liege / Belgium
Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig / Grafik des 20.+21. Jahrhunderts
Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Graphische Sammlung / Germany
Neue Sächsische Galerie - Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Chemnitz / Germany
Papiermuseum Düren / Germany
Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta / USA
Sächsische Landesärztekammer, Dresden / Germany
Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden / Germany
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett / Germany
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Kupferstichkabinett Berlin / Germany
Stadtarchiv Dresden / Germany
Städtische Galerie Dresden / Germany
University Libraries at the University of Denver, Anderson Academic Commons, Denver / USA
Weiße Rose Stiftung, München / Germany