Heike Baranowsky

Soliloquio (German), 2022

Text and film of Soliloquio is the result of Heike Baranowsky’s intensive study of the meridian in the Roman church of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri. The meridian […]

Eppur si muove, 2020

Stop/Motion animation, 45 sec loop, no sound, 16:9 portrait format on LED Wall minimum 150 cm x 250 cm Infinitely following the golden balloon with the camera Heike Baranowsky‘s 45 sec video Eppur […]

Perimeter, 2020

‘peri’ – ‘metron’ [Greek] means the distance around a given two-dimensional form. My interest in photograms lays in their immediacy and their essential documentary quality. We feel an immediate simultaneity […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

KviKvi, 2015

Summer 2012: The artists Heike Baranowsky and Ursula Rogg had come from Berlin to hike in the mountains of Iceland. It was at the foot of the volcano Eyjafjallajökull that […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]