Heike Buelau grew up in Bremen, Germany where she was trained as a classical singer from an early age. After starting her career in Europe, she moved to New York City in the mid 90’s, hoping to expand her professional ambitions beyond the fairly restrictive confines of classical music. However, while performing Opera, she found herself more and more frequently drawn to photography, as a welcome outlet for her vision.

Today, she lives and works in NYC, where her artistic interests lie predominantly in the endless opportunities available within the most ordinary subject matter, deconstructed, created afresh, transformed at every moment by the simple magic of light. Using the camera as a ‘paintbrush’, she endlessly pursues the possibility of creating new realities.

Her response to a visually over-saturated world that leaves little room for individual imagination is the minimalist approach to her subject matter, and the driving force in her work is a profound belief in the transformative power of abstraction and its potential to liberate the mind.

Taking her own approach to minimalist abstraction further, Buelau is currently working on her first audio-visual piece, exploring the correlation of empty space versus silence on an ever deeper level, for the viewer to experience his /her very own emotional realities. A video of the work will be featured in the November issue of pop dam magazine, Milan Italy.

Heike Buelau has recently been shown at the Milan Foto Festival and at Vision Quest Genova alongside Araki, Galliani, Warhol, Beuys, Mapplethorpe and others.

She will be featured on New York's Folioleaf in late September.