Alexander Johannes Heil

“In my artistic research, I engage deeply with the concept of space. Central to this is my concept of Substanzraum (the space of substance), which refers to the materiality of global space in all its states of matter — solid, liquid, gaseous, organic, and inorganic — constantly changing, permeating one another, and ultimately interconnected.”

Alexander Johannes, 2024

Alexander Johannes Heil (*1986 in Hamburg) is an artist, who explores the phenomenology and poetics of natural and architectural spaces through various media, aiming to establish alternative relationships with them and reconfigure our perception of the environment.

In 2017, Alexander completed his architecture studies (B.Sc.) at the Technical University of Berlin, where his final project, “Metaphysics of Architecture,” examined analogies between natural and architectural structures.

At the ArtScience Interfaculty (formerly Interfaculty Image and Sound) in The Hague, Alexander expanded his artistic practice and research interests, particularly in the field of sound. In 2020, he earned his M.Mus in ArtScience from the Royal Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. His project “Substanzraum, A New Approach To Global Space” addressed global space as a dynamic unified body.

Alexander has participated in residency programs such as De Fabriek Eindhoven and Fieldexplorer Berlin and has presented his work internationally. He is a co-curator of the Sensory Threshold LAB and, from 2022 to 2024, curator of his experimental project space, the Home Gallery, in The Hague. Currently, he is developing his artistic research project “The Whalesong Project,” which includes experimental sound installations, walks, and performances exploring the relationship between architecture, space, place, sound, and perception.