ABOUT

Nina Heimlich is a German-born artist based in Berlin.

Her work moves between material, image, and atmosphere — shaped by an ongoing dialogue with nature, time, and transformation. She works with natural materials, color, and process as a way of making visible what is often overlooked: the quiet shifts of matter, the memory held within surfaces, the subtle language of change.

Her artistic path began within the international fashion world, where she lived and worked in Paris, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., collaborating with leading photographers and designers of her time. This early immersion in visual culture formed her sensitivity to image, composition, and the emotional resonance of form.

Over time, her focus shifted from the production of images to a more essential engagement with material itself. Her work today unfolds through slow processes, where transformation, intuition, and attention guide the outcome as much as intention.

Underlying her practice is an interest in perception — how we see, how we sense, and how we relate to the world through material presence. Influenced by contemplative traditions and embodied practices, her work invites a different rhythm: one that is quieter, slower, and rooted in awareness.

She studied at the Art Students League of New York.