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1944
born at Rathenow (near Berlin)
1969 Studies under Joseph Beuys, Art Academie Düsseldorf
1973 – 1978 Studies painting under, amongst others, K. H. Hödicke, Art Academy Berlin
1978 Master Disciple (final Academy degree), Art Academy Berlin
1979 German Art Critics Prize for the Figurative Arts, Berlin
1982 – 1983 Grant from DAAD for MoMA PS1, New York
1984 Art Academie, Oslo (Visiting Professorship)
1985 Grant from the Kunstfonds (Art Fund), Bonn
1985 – 1986 Art Academie Berlin (Visiting Professorship)
2016 - 2018 Lecturer in Painting - Performance Art, European Academy of Fine Arts, Trier

Barbara Heinisch is well-known nationally and internationally through one person and group shows, amongst others:
2022 - 2023
EUROPEAN ARTS ENCOUNTER, traveling exhibition (Press-D) | invitation Chaumont-F
2022
THE LIVING CANVAS [83.570 KB] , KI-Style Flow with tte Art Collective LUNAR RING AI, Tübingen
2021 FIERY DANCE, Studio Bad Nauheim
2020
BLACK AND RED DANCE, Studio Bad Nauheim (Corona conditional)
2017
ZWISCHEN DEN WELTEN, Museum am Dom, Trier(Geistliche Performance | TransArts)
2017
THE WALL. European Academy of Fine Arts (EKA), Trier (Multimedia Performance Art | TransArts)
2016 ENCOUNTER IN THE IMAGE, European Academy of Fine Arts (EKA), Trier (transdisciplinary Process Painting)

2016 HOSIANNA... HOSIANNA ! (In Memoriam Paris November, 13th 2015), Jesuitenkirche Trier (Mass with Process Painting)
2014 THE ORIGIN OF PAINTING, Museum Ratingen (one person show and transdisciplinary Process Painting)
2012 INCLUSION, Haus der Stadtgeschichte, Offenbach (transdisciplinary Process Painting)
2011 KUNSTKÖRPERLICH - KÖRPERKÜNSTLICH, Kunsthalle Osnabrück (transdisciplinary Process Painting MACHTKAMPF)
2010 Städtische Galerie (Trinkkur), Bad Nauheim (one person show)
2010 ARIANNA A NAXOS, Lions Club / Kunstverein Mannheim (transdisciplinary Process Painting)
2009 Galerie Meta Weber, Krefeld (one person show)
2008 EKSTASE, Universität Gießen (transdisciplinary Process Painting)
2007 MALEREI ALS EREIGNIS, Oberhessisches Museum, Gießen (one person show)
2006 FEUERVOGEL, Gustav – Lübcke – Museum, Hamm (transdisciplinary Process Painting)
2005 TANZ DIE SPIRALE, Oberhessisches Museum, Gießen (transdisciplinary Process Painting)
2004 AUFSCHWUNG, DASA – Stahlgalerie, Dortmund (transdisciplinary Process Painting)
2001 Luth. Pfarrkirche St. Marien zu Marburg (one person show)
2000 BEGEGNUNGEN, Städtische Galerie (Trinkkur), Bad Nauheim (group show)
1996 SCHWINGUNGEN, Tonhalle Düsseldorf (transdisciplinary Process Painting)
1996 INTERNATIONALE KUNSTBIENALE, Kairo (group show)
1995 Johannes – Gutenberg – Universität, Mainz (Visiting Professorship)
1994 ANDERE KÖRPER, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz (group show)
1993 Konrad – Adenauer – Haus, Bonn (one person show)
1992 TV LIVE KUNST, ZDF, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
1992 Wilhelm – Lehmbruck – Museum, Duisburg (one person show)
1990 Kunstgeschichtliches Museum, Osnabrück (one person show)
1990 Kunstverein Dortmund (one person show)
1990 GEGENBILD, Museum Ludwig, Köln (transdisciplinary Process Painting KÖRPERKREIS)
1990 Galerie Inge Koppelmann, Köln (one person show)
1989 Galerie Bernd Slutzky and Mouson – Galerie, Frankfurt (one person shows)
1989 Suermondt – Ludwig – Museum, Aachen (one person show)
1988 PHOENIX, Museum Folkwang, Essen (transdisciplinary Process Painting)
1988 TV WDR III, LYRICS, Spiegelzelt, Düsseldorf
1987 Gallery Walter Bischoff, Chicago (Group show)
1987 Kunsthalle Berlin (group show)
1986 TV LIVE KUNST, SFB III, LITERARISCHES CAFE, Berlin
1986 DIE MALER UND DAS THEATER IM 20. JHDT, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (group show)
1986 Neuer Berliner Kunstverein / Overbeck – Gesellschaft, Lübeck (one person shows)
1985
Kunstverein Braunschweig / Kunstverein Mannheim / Museum Ulm (one person shows)
1984 Märkisches Museum, Witten (one person show)
1983 DIE LIEBE II, Galerie Dibbert, Berlin (one person show)
1983 Clocktower, New York (transdisciplinary Process Painting)
1982 THE AMERICAN BLUE, MoMA PS1, New York (one person studio show)
1982 Galerie Thomas, München (one person show)
1981 TV LIVE KUNST, RB, III nach 9, Bremen
1981 BILDWECHSEL, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (group show)
1981 PHOENIX, Alte Oper, Frankfurt (group show)
1981 – 1989 Galerie Elke und Werner Zimmer, Düsseldorf (one person shows)
1980 REALISM AND EXPRESSIONISM IN BERLIN ART, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles
1980 OSTERN II, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1980
Galerie Diagonale, Paris (one person show)
1980 Galerie Canal, Kopenhagen (one person show)
1980 Performance Festival, ARC – Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris
1979 TV WDR III, PERFORMANCE – EIN GRENZBEREICH?
1979 Fundatie Kunsthuis, Amsterdam (one person show)
1979 Performance – Symposion, Centre de Danse, Lyon
1978 Performance – Symposion, Neue Galerie – Museum Ludwig, Aachen
1978 European Performance Series, Brooklyn – Museum, New York
1978 I AM, Performance Festival, Remont – Gallery, Warschau
1978 TV LIVE KUNST, SFB III, BERLINER FENSTER, Galerie Zellermayer, Berlin
1977 – 1981 Galerie Carsta Zellermayer, Berlin (one person shows)
1975 - 1977 Erste Aktionen mit Durchbruch und 1. transdisciplinary Process Painting, studio Barbara Heinisch, Berlin

Ostern II, Prozess-Dias 1980