Heidi Vogels

Biography

Heidi Vogels (1978, NL) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Amsterdam, where she studied Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Her practice unfolds through long-term research into the garden as a layered and heterotopic space – a place that connects nature and culture, the domestic and the public and the tangible and the imagined. Through this lens she charts narratives that lie beyond immediate perception, tracing the complex stories embedded within an urban environment in collaboration with local residents. The outcomes of which take the form of film, and extend to installations and participatory programs that activate and share these findings. As co-initiator of Bureau Postjeswe...