Alexander
Johannes Heil
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"Architects tend to talk and write more than they build, because it
takes an effort before you get the expensive assignment. As an architect,
Alexander can write, no doubt. But what he learned the past years, and
that’s how he used his studies perfectly, is how to listen. That fabulous
fact made him change from seeing space as something to use at will into an
entity to listen to and react to. Alexander might have become something of
an anti-architect — someone who is not filling space with things, but
embracing space to leave it, and emphasize its existence as such.
Alexander did not only initiate wonderful events-in-space during his
studies, but he also re-worked them in a portfolio that does not only
clarify his ideas in a consistent way, but also functions as a manifest
towards how we could experience space as such."
Taconis Stolk,
Head of Department ArtScience Interfaculty
Graduation speech, Den Haag 2020
Alexander Johannes Heil is a German artist and
architect currently based in The Hague. He received his B.Sc. Architecture
at the Technical University in Berlin in 2017 with a focus on architecture
theory and design. He graduated with a M.Mus ArtScience from the Royal
Conservatory The Hague. His thesis project "Substanzraum, the space of
substance", was nominated for the KABK Master Department Award. Alexander’s
work, which usually takes the form of performative installations and spatial
interventions, is a playful exploration of space, form and the human within.
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