Distanz Verlag, 2026

What does it mean to experience time? How do images generate reality? Where in the visible does the invisible reside? Heike Baranowsky’s (b. Augsburg, 1966; lives and works in Berlin and Nuremberg) works explore light phenomena, motion sequences, spatial constellations, and architectonic structures. Her videos, sculptures, cyanotypes, and photographic series are based on painstaking observation, conceptual elegance, and probing reflections on time, space, and perception.

At the Still Point documents Baranowsky’s oeuvre, gathering central sets of works and methodological approaches from the past ten years. With essays by Kerstin Starkemeier and Maj Smozna.

December 2025 – January 18, 2026

Der Kunstverein Bamberg e. V. zeigt eine Übersichtsausstellung mit Arbeiten aus Heike Baranowskys Werk der letzten 30 Jahre – darunter Videos, Skulpturen und Cyanotypien.

Baranowskys Werk bewegt sich zwischen dokumentarischer Beobachtung und poetischer Konstruktion von Wirklichkeit. Mittels Video untersucht sie Zeit, Raum und Bewegung und macht auch unsichtbare Phänomene wie Sonnenlicht, Wind oder Luftdruck visuell erfahrbar.

Zentrales Werk der Ausstellung ist Soliloquio (2025), eine Stop-Motion-Animation, die die Bewegung des Sonnenlichts in der Kirche Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rom über ein Jahr hinweg dokumentiert – entstanden während der COVID-Pandemie. Weitere Arbeiten wie Mondfahrt 2001 oder Death/breath tomb/womb evil/live (1998) zeigen ihren experimentellen Umgang mit Zeit und Wahrnehmung.

14 August 2024
It/D, 2023, Lecture Performance, 25 min

Text and film are the result of Heike Baranowsky’s intensive study of the meridian line in the Roman church of Santa Maria degli Angeli. The meridian was laid in front of the altar 320 years ago in order to take astronomical measurements and calculate the dates for Easter in advance. It was laid at a time when the geocentric view of the world was still the doctrine of the church. As an astronomical instrument, however, the meridian was able to prove the opposite.
The film shows the sunspot, or more precisely the image of the sun, as it moves across the floor and the furnishings of the church over the course of an entire year. The soundtrack, spoken live, describes the architectural, historical and political context as well as the narrator’s observations under the special conditions of the Covid pandemic and compares it with previous pandemics such as the Spanish flu.

CAMERA: Volker Gläser, Heike Baranowsky
TEXT: Ursula Rogg
SPEAKERS: Heike Baranowsky, Sophie Hüsler
POSTPRODUCTION: Volker Gläser
SOUNDMIX: Titus Maderlechner

14 to 28 August 2024

Franz Ackermann, Heike Baranowsky, Baatarzorig Batjargal, Nomin Bold, Badam Dashdondog, Karl-Heinz Jeron, Simone Körner, Munguntsetseg Lhagvasuren, A.R. Penck, Nadine Rennert, Tuguldur Yondonjamts, Dalkh-Ochir Yondonjunai,

From July 26 to August 15, 2024, artists have the opportunity to participate in an Art Camp in Mongolia.

During the first three days in Ulaanbaatar, we will visit the Zanabazar-Museum and the Chinggis Khaan National Museum and meet with curators and artists to learn more about Mongolia’s cultural background, which is characterized by Tengrism, Buddhism, Khanate cultures and shaman traditions that are still alive in a post-nomadic republic and give women a stronger role in gender relations.

The Art Camp will be set up near a nomadic ger village located near Bayannur in Bulgan province, halfway between Ulaanbaatar and Kharakhorum.

The stay will take place in gers (Mongolian traditional yurts), far away from electricity and water connections. From there, historical sites and sacred mountains will be visited, as well as the old capital Kharakhorum. During this time, the participants share the nomadic-style yurts. No electricity, no running water, sleeping and eating together in the gers (with an occasional break in the next settlement for refreshments).

From August 14 to 28, an exhibition will be held at the Fine Arts Zanabazar Museum featuring the works created during the Art Camp.