Heike Baranowsky

THE WORLD:REGLITTERIZED, Haus der Kunst München

THE WORLD:REGLITTERIZED Paradise is exactly like where you are right now … only much much better 55th Biennial in the Haus der Kunst Munich Presented by Künstlerverbund at Haus […]

182 1/2, 2020 – ongoing

182 ½ consists of camera obscura shots of the course of the sun from its highest to its lowest position over a period of six months. The cameras were positioned at […]

ALLES III, Studio im Hochhaus, Berlin

(Opening on January, 2020) Now online

wosa (Coyote’s Burden Basket), Kino Arsenal Berlin

(screening 29 September 2019, 16:30) Weeks of Sand, Months of Ash, Years of Dust Rita Macedo Work in progress Digital file 19 min Coyote’s Burden Basket Heike Baranowsky D […]

Wosa (Coyote’s Burden Basket), 2019

Two cameras circle the Ubehebe crater in Death Valley on opposite sides . The cameras move at the speed of the sun, taking a still image every 20 seconds from […]

ANTIKINO (The Siren’s Echo Chamber), Forum Expanded at Berlinale, 2019

(September 5 – October 9, 2019) CINEMA GALERIES and The Goethe-Institut Brussels bring to Brussels a selection of works of the collective exhibition ANTIKINO (The Siren’s Echo Chamber) presented […]

wosa, Berlinale 2019

stop/motion animation, 9:23 min Loop, digital images transferred to 35 mm film, without sound Camera: Volker Gläser, Heike Baranowsky, Anne Hubmann, Johanna Brunner Post production: Volker Gläser, Heike Baranowsky Editing: Heike […]

Blind Fold, 2018 – ongoing

My interest in photograms lays in their immediacy and their essential documentary quality. We feel an immediate simultaneity due to the direct exposure of an object and its contact to […]

Coyote’s Burden Basket, 2018

In 2017 Baranowsky traveled to Death Valley, a desert basin straddling California and Nevada to document, what is today known as the Ubehebe crater. Wosa (Coyote’s Burden Basket) was […]

In Search of, 2017

This work is a series of photogram cyanotypes, which I exposed in the shade of Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels. The surface of the concrete tubes is perforated. The round holes […]

Equinox, 2016

When the sun shines on the Berlin Fernsehturm’s tiled stainless steel dome, the reflection usually appears in the form of a cross. This effect was not anticipated by the Swedish […]

Krater (Keri∂), 2015

Filmed in southern Iceland, Baranowsky encircled the crater’s edge of the Kerið volcano whilst taking more than 2000 photographs. The images were subsequently arranged in chronological order, creating a stop-motion […]

Gigur, 2015

The form of a crater was directly dug into the foundry sand, contradicting the usual idea of casting in the foundry for multiplying a certain form. The only positive form left at the […]

Barometer (iiii), 2013

Barometer was made in the low pressure chamber of the training centre BLZ Kienbaum in Brandenburg, which was built in the former GDR. Here, the conditions of high altitude training […]

Mondfahrt | parallax, KH Nürnberg, 2013

Mondfahrt 2001, 2001 Baranowsky filmed the full moon from a boat for this full-wall projection. Like a ball in an old-fashioned computer game, the satellite seems to glide […]

Barometer (i), 2012

In the late 70s the GDR built an underpressure chamber to simulate high altitude as an exclusive sport training camp for top athletes. The facility was kept secret even from […]

Mondfahrt 2001, 2001, Seoul Square, 2011

Baranowsky filmed the full moon from a boat for this full-wall projection. Like a ball in an old-fashioned computer game, the satellite seems to glide slowly up and down, […]

Ubehebe, 2009 – ongoing

The photo works Crater, Ubehebe I and Ubehebe II were made on the basis of found photographs showing the geological remains of silent volcanoes and craters in Arizona and California. […]

Racetrack, 2010

Racetrack centers around the sailing stone of Racetrack Playa, which play a significant role in the local mythology of the Death Valley, since from time to time they move over […]

Pflanze, 2010

The Swiss Cheese Plant, also known as monstera, is a fast growing house plant that comes from the tropics of Central America and belongs to the araceae family. The plant […]

probe, BDI Berlin, 2008

2-channel video installation, 15:43 min. loop, colour, stereo, two 16:9 flat screens, in sync camera: Volker Gläser | sound: Titus Maderlechner The two monitors of the video installation probe show […]

T Square, 2006

The film T Square consists of a long zoom into Tiananmen Square, the Square of Heavenly Peace in the centre of Beijing, which is bordered by the Forbidden City, Mao’s […]

Cue II, 2006

The basic material for the work CUE 2 was shot from the window of a car crawling through the traffic jam at a roundabout in the Chinese capital. The beginning […]

Looming, ZKM Karlsruhe, 2006

Synchron/4-channel video projection, 16:9 and 4:3 projection screens 55 in. height, 16:33 min. loop, colour, stereo, in sync in collaboration with Waszem Khan camera: Volker Gläser Looming is a […]

American Skies, GFineArt Washington, 2006

The five videos that complete this series were shot in the US and Mexico between 2002-2005 and are seen here for the first time in their entirety. The […]

Schwarm, AdK Berlin, 2005

2-channel video installation, dimension variable, 8:20 min. loop, colour, silent, in sync Schwarm is a take of huge swarms of starlings, which find each other in Winter. The birds […]

Blown in the Wind, 2002

During her stay in America, it was the Californian desert that made the biggest impression on Baranowsky. This landscape with its charged visual language found a way into several of […]

Radfahrer (Hase und Igel), 2000

On three adjacent projection areas, the work presents an eight-second sequence from a cycling race in a velodrome. The two cyclists are wearing the same strip and riding the same […]

Schwimmerin (1:24), KH München, 2000

1-channel video installation, 0:02 min. loop, colour, silent Das Video zeigt eine kraulende Schwimmerin in einem schwarzen Badeanzug. Der in einem Berliner Freibad aufgezeichnete Loop ist zwei Sekunden lang und umfasst […]

parallax, 1999

This work is based on a drive through what appears to be a typical German conifer forest in the spring time. The 28-second loop is shown with a slight time […]

death | breath tomb | womb evil | live, 1998

The same film is shown on the two adjacent monitors of this work: a man’s hands dismantle, clean and repair the motor of a motorbike. While the first screen shows […]

PASSAGE I III, Berlin Biennale, 1998

PASSAGE I (Schiff), 1998 1-channel video installation, 3:09 min. loop, colour, silent, monitor 28“ On the open sea: seen from a moving boat, a container ship floating parallel to the horizon […]

AutoScope, 1996/1997

For the video installation AUTO SCOPE, Baranowsky drove around Paris’ périphérique – the ring road that separates the centre of the city from the banlieues. The drive took about one […]