About

Artemis Herber

Herber is an award-winning artist in both mediums of sculpture and painting. Being of Greek heritage, she developed concepts on how humans live in shared spheres towards current conditions on Earth and ‘Gaia Rise’ in the context of polit-myth.

As curator for Transatlantic Cultural Projects, she engaged in International Cultural Relations and exhibitions. As former president of the Washington Sculptors Group, she created concepts for ‘Art in Nature and land-use projects. Her research into how humans have affected the Earth’s environment, geology, and its climate, has been deepened through her residencies at the Rensing Center (SC), theCoLAB (London), Skopelos Foundation, and The Delphic Preview, Greece.

Her work has been featured in various publications such as LandEscape Now!, Studio Visit Magazine, Mapping Meaning Journal, and many more. Artemis has also accomplished public art projects in Baltimore and Washington DC. 

As Transatlantic Cultural Projects curator, Herber created Micro-Monuments at the Salzlandmuseum, Germany, and Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University, Washington DC, and Micro-Monuments II – Underground, International Arts&Artists at Hillyer, Washington DC.

Highlights

Artemis Herber shows where we currently stand as humans have made the world fragile and cataclysmic events appear around each corner. The German-Greek artist shows how deep time is transformed into fleeting moments caused by human activities. 

For this she primarily uses matter from geological time or materials that come out of the mining and extortion process of natural resources. Herber explores how myths are revealed in the new human made top stratum through metabolic regimes and their tectonic intervention, exploitation, and the use of land.

Enriched with incorporated geological materials, ancient myths are fused as hybrid paintings and sculptures in thematic spaces. As a time-spanning narrative in the face of man-made “Erdauflösung“ (Earth disappearance).

Herber has exhibited in the US, Germany, UK, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Greece. Highlights include the Albright-Knox Gallery Art Museum, American University Museum of the Katzen Art Center, San Jose Museum of Art, Goethe-Institut Washington DC, National Trust’s Newark Park UK, Cheltenham Museum UK, Kunstverein Paderborn Germany, Spartanburg Art Museum, McLean Projects for the Arts, and Munich International Airport.

Her research into how humans have affected the Earth’s environment, geology, and its climate, has been deepened through her residencies at the Rensing Center (SC), theCoLAB (London), Skopelos Foundation, and the Lakkos Residency (Greece).

Her work has been featured in various publications such as LandEscape Now!, Studio Visit Magazine, Mapping Meaning Journal, and many more. Artemis has also accomplished public art projects in Baltimore and Washington DC.

Curatorial projects

Artemis Herber engaged in international cultural relations and exhibitions.

She created Micro-Monuments at the Salzlandmuseum, Germany, and Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University, Washington DC, and Micro-Monuments II – Underground, International Arts&Artists at Hillyer, Washington DC.

As former president of the Washington Sculptors Group, she created concepts for ‘Art in Nature and land-use projects. As Transatlantic Cultural Projects curator Herber created Micro-Monuments at the Salzlandmuseum, Germany, and Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University, Washington DC, and Micro-Monuments II – Underground, International Arts&Artists at Hillyer, Washington DC. 

In 2021 she founded the Mnemosyne-Intitative. The Mnemosyne-Initiative is a transdisciplinary research based international artist group that has been established during the first lockdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023 the Mnemosyne-Initiative has been invited by Julio Fine Art Gallery of Loyola University to present their first exhibition of Mapping Mnemosyne. The internationally growing artist collective continues with in depth investigations through research and artistic explorations in the fourth year of its collaborative work across cultures and nations.

2017
– ARTINA 2017 – Art in Nature, in collaboration with the Washington Sculptors Group and the Sandy Spring Museum, juror Ursula Achternkamp, Germany, within the international network of KULTURsekretariat, Germany
 

2016
– Art in Nature – ARTINA 2016 – Art in Nature, in collaboration with the Washington Sculptors Group and the Sandy Spring Museum, juror Martine van Kampen NL, within the international network of KULTURsekretariat, Germany 

 
2015
– MICRO-MONUMENTS, Salzland Museum SA, Germany
– MICRO-MONUMENTS, Travel Exhibition, Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard’s University, Washington DC

Studio visit

Mono-Pol-Lithic
Upcoming Series

2020

Gaia Raise
American University Museum of the Katzen Art Center, Washington DC

2020

Erratic Landscapes
McLean Projects for the Arts VA

2018

Shifting Identities/Humanity and Nature
Montgomery College MD

2017

Mantles
Navy Pier Waterfront, Washington DC

2019

Stems
Patterson Park, Baltimore ND

2015

Coats, This End up: The Art Of Cardboard
San Jose Museum of Art CA

2008

Walls of Love
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY

2007

Curiculum

2020
– Landscape in an Eroded Field, Carol Basha, Heather Clark, Artemis Herber, American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center
curated by Laura Roulet, Washington DC
– EARTH, ZEST Hall hosted by Round Lemon, London UK
– Festival of the Muses, Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University, Online presentation with Bill Adair, Iris Brosch, Anna Gillespie, Artemis Herber, Judith Pratt, Marc Robarge

2019
– BODY and PLACE, Architecture Residency, Walmer Yard W11(Peter Salter), organized by theCoLAB, London, UK                                 
– The Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, artist in residence, Skopelos, Greece
– BODY and PLACE Historic Residency, organized by theCoLAB, British Museum, Royal Collection Trust at Windsor Castle, Courtauld Institute of Art, London UK
– 4th Global Print & 10th International Printmaking of Douro, group show, Portugal

2018
– Paderborn Graphic Symposium, group show, City of Paderborn / Cultural Office, Kunstverein Paderborn e.V. / Art Society Paderborn Gallery@19, Germany
– Authochthon, solo exhibition, Fall Solos 2018, Arlington Arts Center 
– Erratic Landscapes, solo exhibition, McLean Projects for the Arts 
– Spheres, solo exhibition, NOVA-Loudoun Waddell Gallery, Sterling 

2017
– Shifting Identities/Humanity in Nature, Artemis Herber and Michelle Dickson, King Street Gallery, Montgomery College MD
– Liminal States, solo exhibition, The Delaplaine Visual Arts Education
– The National Weather Biennale, Best in Show, Norman OK
– Residency at The Rensing Center, research about Art in Nature, Pickens SC

2016
– (Un)Common Space(s), Spartanburg Art Museum SC
– Carte Blanche, Delaplaine Visual Art Center, juried by John Shipman (DCCA), Frederick MD
– The Boston Biennal 4, presented by The Biennal Project, First Place Winner, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston MA

2015
– Surviving the Storm: Hurricane Katrina 10 Years Later, Montgomery College’s
– Cultural Arts Gallery MD
– Brick Layers, Artemis Herber, Eunsook Lee, Installation, Workouse Art Center, Lorton VA

2014
– Memorial, Public Library, Paderborn, Germany
– No Man’s Land, solo exhibition, WIP Gallery Artisphere, Arlington VA
– MD Art @College Park, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland MD,
– First Prize Award, juried by Ann Shafer
– Biennale Project, Marfa TX, Winner of Sculpture
– Louloudi, juried by Renee Stoutfor WSG, The Athenaeum VA
– Past-Present-Future, Linus Galleries, Long Beach & Pasadena CA

2013
– Discarded, Ojai Arts Festival, Ohai CA
– Cardboard City, Artemis Herber, Valery Koshlyakov, Steve Keene, Goethe-Institut, Washington DC
– The Open West 2013, National Trust’s Newark Park and Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Gloucestershire UK

2012
– Color, juried by NYC Museum curator Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Brooklyn Waterfront
– Artist Coalition, Brooklyn NY
– Sondheim Semifinalist Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD
– Construct, Sondheim Semi-Finalist Group Exhibition,” Metro Gallery MD
– Sculpture Now 2012, juried by Sarah Newman curator of Contemporary Art for WSG, Pepco Edison Place Gallery, Washington DC
– International Painting NYC,Jeffrey Leder Gallery, New York City NY

2011
– Options 2011, Biennial presented by Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC
– End of an Empire, juried by Richard Rand, Davis Art Services, Grass Gallery, N. Adams MA
– Found/Seen/Made, Stevenson University Art Gallery, Stevenson MD
– Coming Home/Lighting Out, juried by Dr. Jack Rasmussen, CHAL, Washington DC
– Duets, The Delaware Contemporary Art Museum, Wilmington DE

2010
– Porous Borders, The Historical Society of Washington DC
– Paderborner Kunstpreis, awardee, solo exhibition, Sparkasse Paderborn, Germany
– Gaps, juried by Dr. Vesela Sretenovic, Greater Reston Arts Center VA
– Images 2010, juried by Dan Mills, Robeson Gallery, Pennsylvania State University PA
– Americas 2010 Paperworks, juried by Heidi A. Goldberg, Northwest Art Center, Minot State University, Minot ND

2009
– Sky’s The Limit, juried by Janet Echelman, CAW, New Haven CT
– Threshold: Paintings of Artemis Herber, Gallery 211, Baltimore MD
– Sketch It Out, APW Gallery, New York City NY

2008
– This End Up: The Art of Cardboard, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose CA
– No Copper: Artists Address the Foreclosure Crisis, Cleveland Public Art, Cleveland OH

2007
– Beyond/ In Western New York 2007, Biennale, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY
– Expanses, solo exhibition, Gallery 137, Springfield MA
– Fences, installation, Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland OH
– On a Pedestal and Off the Wall, Sculpture Center, Cleveland OH

2006
– Thresholds, solo exhibition, e.gordon Gallery, Cleveland OH
– Lost Spaces, Malerei-Objekte-Installation,” solo exhibit, Kunstverein Paderborn NRW, Germany

2002
– Female Artist Archive NRW, Germany

1995
– Associazone Culturale Piazza San Placido, Catania, Italy

1993
– Sociedad Hispano-Alemana del Norte Espana, Pamplona, Spain
– Zwischenzeit, public art project, Historic Train Station Paderborn NRW, Germany

1991
– Public art installation, Munich Airport, Munich Bavaria, Germany

2019
– Public Art Installation, Navy Pier Waterfront, Washington DC
– Inside Gaia, collaboration with Iris Brosch, photo and video performance, Venice Biennale, Italy, Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard’s University, Washington DC

2014-2017
– President Washington Sculptors Group

2017
– Best in Show, The National Weather Biennale, Norman OK http://www.ou.edu/content/nwcbiennale.html

2015
– Stems, Public Art: Baltimore Sculpture Project, Patterson Park, Baltimore MD
– International Visitors Program Research Trip: Dialogue between Art and Nature –
– Methods and Strategies of Curating Art in Public Space, invited by International Cultural Relations of NRW KULTURsekretariat, Germany
– Best in Show, “Biennale Project”, Venice Italy

Since 2014
– Member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors, London UK

2014
– First Prize Award by Maryland Federation of Art at MD Art@College Park MD
– Scottsdale Public Art 2015, pre-qualified artist for SPA’s Temporary Projects: http://www.scottsdalepublicart.org/temporary-art/
– Winner of Sculpture Prize at “Biennale Project”, Marfa TX

2012
– Sondheim Semifinalist, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD
– Paderborner Kunstpreis, Artist Award 2012, Paderborn, Germany

2010
Paderborner Kunstpreis, awardee, solo exhibition, Sparkasse Paderborn, Germany

1990
– Woldemar Winkler Award of Eminent and Outstanding Performance at the University of Paderborn, Scholarship for Spain
– Dr. Sander-Wietfeld Promotion Award, Kunstverein Paderborn NRW, Germany

2020
– Festival of the Muses, presented by Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies, contemporary visual artists (William Adair, Iris Brosch, Anna Gillespie, Artemis Herber, Judith Pratt, and Marc Robarge) whose work explores the creative powers of the Muses as well as the Apollonian spirit of nature, an initiative to re-instatement of the Delphic Games, Greece.

2018
– 1st Paderborn Graphic Symposium, City of Paderborn / Cultural Office, Kunstverein Paderborn e.V. / Art Society Paderborn Gallery@19, Germany
– Curator of MICRO-MONUMENTS II: UNDERGROUND, presented by IA&A at Hillyer, a transatlantic project in cooperation with the State of Saxony-Anhalt
– ART FOR FOOD in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, Washington D.C. and CAUSE, College for Agriculture Urban Sustainability and Environment of UDC (University District of Columbia) within the framework of an international cultural program for social change

2017
– Art in Nature – ARTINA 2017, curator in collaboration with WSG and the Sandy Spring Museum, juror Ursula Achternkamp, Germany, within the international network of KULTURsekretariat, Germany
– Research Project “Mapping ancient places in the field of the Anthropocene” at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC

2016
– Creator of Art in Nature – ARTINA 2016, in collaboration with WSG and the Sandy Spring Museum, juror Martine van Kampen NL, within the international network of KULTURsekretariat, Germany

2015
– Curator for Transatlantic Cultural Projects, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
– MICRO-MONUMENTS, Salzland Museum SA, Germany
– Curator for MICRO-MONUMENTS, Travel Exhibition, Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard’s University, Washington DC

Since 2014
– Creator of Land&Art@MARC: A Four Season Project between the Maryland Agricultural
– Resource Council and the Washington Sculptors Group, a diverse and multilayered program through out the year with focus on nature, environment and agriculture, Baltimore MD

Publications

2020
– Mapping Meaning Issue #4 – Life After the Anthropocene: Envisioning the Futures of the World, http://www.mappingmeaning.org/the-journal-issues
– In the Galleries: Washington Post: In the galleries: A pictorial stew examines the seamy side along the corridors of power

2019
– IRK Magazine, Inside Gaia, https://www.irkmagazine.com/post/inside-gaia-by-iris-brosch
– Inside Gaia, https://it-magazine.ch/it-62, p 114, 2019

2018
– In the Galleries: Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/in-the-galleries-renee-stouts-fiery-visions-draw-inspiration-from-jimi-hendrix/2018/12/07/535d8ec2-f6b8-11e8-8642-c9718a256cbd_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.db5cc1867e1b
– In the Galleries: Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/in-the-galleries-renee-stouts-fiery-visions-draw-inspiration-from-jimi-hendrix/2018/12/07/535d8ec2-f6b8-11e8-8642-c9718a256cbd_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.db5cc1867e1b
– In Paradisum, IRK Magazine, 81 ff.
– Metamorphoses de L’amour, Iris Brosch, Performance Venice Biennale 2017 – Viva Arte Viva, Ovid’s 2000th Anniversary http://www.irisbrosch-art.com/amour/
– In the Galleries: The eternal cycle of decay and rebirth Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/in-the-galleries-the-eternal-cycles-of-decay-and-rebirth/2017/11/16/ef292fc4-c995-11e7-b0cf-7689a9f2d84e_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a20a56b1ed15

2017
– The National Weather Biennale, Norman OK
– International Visitors Program, NRW KULTURsekretariat
– http://nrw-kultur.de/newsletter/NRWKI/2017_10/nrwki_nl_2017_10.html

2015
– Land Escape Art Review, 6th edition of LandEscape Now!  International Call for Artists – 6th Edition 2014
– https://issuu.com/landescapeartpress/docs/landescape_art_review_-_january_201

2014
– Artist Interview Series – Artemis Herber – Linus Galleries, Painting Galleries LA CA
– http://linusgallery.com/blog/2014/05/artist-interview-series-painting-gallery-la/

2013
– Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 18
– Art Ascent Art & Literature Journal, ArtAscent
– https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/dc-area-gallery-shows-cardboard-city-knowing-the-youth-are-getting-restless/2013/09/12/24b4e042-1983-11e3-80ac-96205cacb45a_story.html?utm_term=.8d09acf1a317
– STRUCTURE, catalog and online exhibition, Arc Studios & Gallery THE OPEN WEST, UK 2013 (catalog)

2012
– ONE HUNDRED DAYS Catalog produced by Contaminate NYC Studio Visit Magazine
– Spring 2012 edition, Volume 18 Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy professional journal

Experiences & Education

2021
– Guest Curator,The Delphic Preview, Delphi, Greece

2020
– Guest Curator, Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University, Washington DC: Festival of the Muses, Preview of the Delphic Games, 2020

2018
– “Large-Scale Format,” painting workshop at Kunstfabrik Hannover with Tania Strickrodt, Hanover, Germany

2016
– Workshop “Pillars. Columns, Cornerstones,” Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University, Washington, DC along with “Micro-Monuments” exhibition

2014
– Workshop “Extending the Concept of Art,” provided through the Washington Sculptors Group at the American University, Washington DC

2013
– Workshop “Improvisations with Corrugated Cardboard,” Washington Sculptors Group with
– Washington Project for the Arts and Goethe-Institut, Goethe-Institut, Washington DC

2012
– International Teacher, Summer Academy Paderborn, “Landscape as a Metaphor,” Paderborn NRW, Germany

2011
– Workshop “Cartography of Myself,” Baltimore MD

1998–2002
– Studienrätin and State Supervisor for Art, BW, Germany
– Commission Member for Final Examinations, State of BW, Germany Multiplicator for Art and advanced education
– Received several awards for projects in art and education

1997
– Adjunct Professor, University of Paderborn, NRW, Germany

1997
– Second Board Examination, Esslingen, BW, Germany

1993
– First Board Examination, University of Paderborn, NRW, Germany

1983-1993
– Master of Fine Arts and Art Education (installation and painting) University of Paderborn, NRW, Germany