Uta Heinecke
ANIMA(L)
Artist's book
Book cover: Softcover
Binding: Saddle stitching
Paper/cover: Bilderdruck glossy, 350 g/sqm
Paper/book block: Bilderdruck glossy, 170 g/sqm
Print/cover: Digital print in color, Cellophane coating
Print/book block: Digital print in color
Font(s): Book Antiqua
Size: 21 x 29,7 cm
Weight: ca. 200 g
Number of pages: 64 pp.
Number of illustrations: 99 ill. in color
Language(s): German, English
Year of publication: 2026
Edition size: 250
ISBN: 978-3-900169-17-6
Euro 20,00
(10 % VAT incl., shipping excl.)
The word anima holds a particular fascination for Uta Heinecke. It not only refers to Carl Gustav Jung’s concepts of the anima and animus, but also means breath, wind, air, soul, spirit, and life. The word animal, too, contains ANIMA. For the artist, this linguistic kinship opens up a space of resonance between animal and spirit, corporeality and soul, vitality and memory. It becomes the starting point for her reflections and her painting. In her works, the animal therefore appears not merely as a body, but as a bearer of history, relationships, and something that eludes our grasp. What particularly interests Uta Heinecke is the question of how the separation between the human spirit and the animal body can be called into question. In this way, animals become surfaces onto which we project and through which we reflect—and, always, they also serve as stand-ins.
Uta Heinecke was born in East Germany in 1973. From 1984 to 1988, she fled via Hungary to (West) Germany. After completing her secondary education in Hamburg, she studied painting and graphic art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria, under Gunter Damisch, graduating in 1998. Uta Heinecke lives and works in Vienna, Pázmándfalu, Hungary, and elsewhere.
She has participated in numerous art fairs, solo and group exhibitions, and, above all, international symposia and artist-in-residence programmes in Belgium, Germany, France, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Romania, Senegal, Slovakia, Turkey, and Hungary.
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