Ute Heim lives and works as a visual artist and musician in Munich and on the prairie. From 2000 to 2008 she studied fine art/sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Prof. James Reineking and Prof. Stephan Huber. From 1997 to 2000 she lived in England, performed as a jazz musician and trained as a violin maker. She also has a journeyman's certificate in wood sculpture.
Since 2019 she has been working as an artistic-scientific assistant at the Chair of Fine Arts, Prof. Tina Haase, TUM. From 2014 - 2019 she was a lecturer at the Chair of Design Principles and Artistic Practice, Prof. Karl-Heinz Einberger, Faculty of Landscape Architecture at Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University.
Ute Heim researches the poetic and literary connotations of spatial structures. Her artistic work is broad: from sculptures and installations to performances and videos. Interpretation and improvisation are essential working principles. Reality and fiction are played off against each other.
She mostly works at the interface between fine art and music, creating works that revolve around transience, construction and preservation of romantically transfigured conditions. One fine spring she rode her bicycle and covered wagon from Munich to Einödhausen, the former death strip where she grew up, and sang all the songs from Schubert's Winterreise in her summer dress along the route.
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