CV Michael Heym
born 1978 in Trier, Germany, lives and works in Cologne.

2012 Postgraduate Diploma, Art Media School Cologne (KHM)
2009 MA in Philosophy and English, University of Düsseldorf.
2007 Akademiebrief  and Meisterschüler of Rita McBride, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

Grants
2018 Kunststiftung NRW, publication grant
2017 Tel Aviv Grant, NRW Ministry for Art and Science. 
2016 Tel Aviv Grant, Bronner Residency Israel.
2015 USA Grant, NRW-Ministry MfKJKS.
2014 Grant and Residency, Künstlerdorf Schöppingen.
2013/14 Grant of Kunststiftung NRW.
2010 Paris-Grant, Cité Internationale des Arts via Schloss Balmoral.

Exhibitions S = Solo
2018 „November Room presents Düsseldorf Video Classics“, Düsseldorf.
2017 „Following a black line“,  Artists Studios Gallery Tel Aviv. (S)
2017 „Fake Muse“, Ex-Capitol Theater, Worringer Platz, Play-Festival Düsseldorf. 
2016 „Some Lines from Tel Aviv“, Artists Studios, Tel Aviv.
2016 „Open Studios“, Villa Romana, Florenz, invited by Nico Joana Weber..
2016  „Mental Archaeology“, Exhibtion Space, Mainz Art School. (S)
2015 „November Room“, Gladbacher Str 56, Düsseldorf
2014 Kunstfilmtage Düsseldorf, W57. (S)
2013 „Schnell Zerlegt“, Presentation at KHM booth, 47th Art Cologne.
2012 „Imaginary Film“, Moltkerei Werkstatt, Cologne (Postgraduate Diploma). (S)
2011 „Under Construction“, Philara Collection, Düsseldorf.
2011 „km500/4“, Rhineland-Palatinate grant holders exhibition, Kunsthalle Mainz.
2010 „Echoraum Opening“, Art & Exhibition Hall of Germany, Bonn.
2010 „Sugary Photographs with Tricks, Poses & Effects“, NICC Antwerp.
2010 „Ideenbilder“, curated by Vanessa Joan Müller, Kunstverein Düsseldorf.
2008 „Fever deep in my pockets“, Castle Waldthausen, Mainz.
2007 „Turtle“, curated by Michael H. Shamberg, Woburn Studios London.
2007 „Monika Stricker, Michael Heym“, curated by Katharina Bittel, Gallery Jürgen Becker, Hamburg. (S)
2007 „Aporia Ich Fahrte Zu Die Elefanten Michael Heym", Degree Show, Art Academy Düsseldorf. (S)
2006 "Das Letzte Wort der Kunst", Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.
2006 "Elmar Hermann, Michael Heym, Christian Aberle", Maxim Off-Space, Cologne.
2006 "The Enormous Space", C2C-Gallery, Prague.
2005 "Post-Notes", curated by Adam Carr, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis and ICA London.

Lecture Performances
2010 „The Metaphorical Rest - an Aesthetic Epistemology of Visual Thinking“.
2006 „Metaphor is Form, Form is Metaphor“.

Texts / Writings
2013 Texts on artists: Riccardo Parratore, Alexander Wissel, Alexandra Wolf
2010 „The Invisible in the Gaze“ (On Gesine Grundmann), catalogue of the exhibition„New Rhineland -
The Postironic Generation“, Museum Leverkusen.
2010 „Between Meditation and Meditonsin - Why Epistemology is a question of Anschauung since Plato“ in:
„Eine Hölle für Platon“ [A Hell for Plato], Supplement of the Béton Brut - Magazine / Kunstverein Düsseldorf
for the exhibition„Ideenbilder“, Düsseldorf. Authors: Hans Belting, Wilhelm Salber, Kristina Szepanski,
Vanessa Joan Müller and others.
2009 „The Metaphorical Rest - an Aesthetic Epistemology of Visual Thinking“ (MA)
2007 „The Progress of the Avantgarde“ (On Yvonne Rainer). In: PROP-Magazine, nüans Düsseldorf.