Barbara Heé

Over a period of twenty years, Barbara Heé has photographed Lake Sils and its Chaviolas Island again and again. A subtle portrait of this high-mountain landscape in the Upper Engadin is captured in black-and-white panorama ­photographs, which possess entrancing depth and composition. The doubling caused by mirroring on the lake’s surface and the ever-changing light create spaces of a magical presence. A closer look at the similar motifs in Heé's works reveals a sculptural world of forms that goes beyond mere likenesses.

 

Barbara Heé was born in Saint Gallen, Switzerland in 1957. The artist has close ties to the Engadin since her childhood and spends time in this mountain landscape on frequent ­sojourns to the region. Barbara Heé works in the fields of drawing, painting, sculpture, and photography. Her works are displayed internationally at galleries and museums.

 

Works by Barbara Heé can be found in the public collections of the Kunsthaus Zurich/Switzerland, the Museé des Beaux Arts, Lausanne/Switzerland, the Albertina in Vienna/Austria, the Falcon Privatbank, Zurich/Switzerland and the Kunst(Zeug) Haus in Rapperswill/Switzerland - to name a few.

 

She lives with her family in Zurich.