Renate Heyne

Year of birth, place

1947

Germany

Biography

Renate Heyne studied under Joseph Beuys at the Arts Academy of Düsseldorf from 1969 to 1974. Beginning in 1972, she collaborated on Fotoforum Kassel exhibitions and publications, and was artistic contributor in the experimental photography class at the Kunsthochschule [University of Arts] Kassel.

Since 2001 she has been working with Floris Neusüss on developing the exhibition »Leibniz’ Storehouse«, a collection of photograms of objects and exhibit pieces from museums of natural history, technology, and art history. In 2009 Renate Heyne was a co-editor of the catalog raisonné »Moholy-Nagy – The Photograms«.

In 2015, Floris Neusüss and Renate Heine donated the extensive »Photogram Archive HeyneNeusüss« to ZKM | Karlsruhe.

Bibliography (Selection)
•	Floris M. Neusüss and Renate Heyne (ed.), »Fotogramme. 1918 bis heute«, Goethe-Institut, Munich, 1987.
•	Floris M. Neusüss in collaboration with Renate Heyne (ed.), »Das Fotogramm in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts: die andere Seite der Bilder – Fotografie ohne Kamera«, DuMont, Cologne, 1990.
•	Klaus Honnef and Renate Heyne (Katalogbuch) (eds.), exhib.-cat. »Floris Neusüss. Nachtstücke: Fotogramme 1957–1997«, Rheinischen Landesmuseum Bonn; Museum der Stadt Arolsen und Museumsverein, Ausstellungen im Schloß; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 1997.
•	Renate Heyne (ed.), »Kunst und Fotografie: Floris Neusüss und die Kasseler Schule für Experimentelle Fotografie 1972–2002«, Jonas Verlag, Marburg, 2003.
•	Renate Heyne and Floris M. Neusüss, with Hattula Moholy-Nagy (eds.), »Moholy-Nagy. The Photograms: Catalogue Raisonné«, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2009.