Alexander Johannes Heil

Alexander Johannes Heil is an artist, architect and researcher exploring how space is experienced, through installations, spatial interventions, sound, images and text. Under the term Substanzraum he treats the material reality of the environment as a system in constant transformation, and asks what happens when one listens without seeking to control it.

He took a B.Sc. in Architecture at the Technical University of Berlin in 2017, with a final project on Metaphysics of Architecture, then an M.Mus. in ArtScience at the Royal Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 2020, graduating with Substanzraum – A New Approach to Global Space. Residencies include De Fabriek Eindhoven, Design Week Eindhoven and Fieldexplorer Berlin; he co-curates the Sensory Threshold LAB and curated Home Gallery in The Hague from 2022 to 2024.