Dr. Martin Heller

As a lawyer, Martin Heller has represented world-famous artists since the 1990s in setting up their studios and with commissioned work worldwide, and is now pursuing this activity as a consultant for artists as well as selected galleries and institutions. He also acts as mediator in the conception and negotiation of collaborations and commissioned work worldwide.

He has been a member of the board of the Kunst-Werke Berlin since the 1990s, where he supervised its structural development – an institution to which he remains committed on various levels. The Berlin Gallery Weekend was founded in his office, and he has been advising its evolution ever since. He has led workshops for artists in Masterclasses at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam; the ZHdK in Zurich; the Kunsthochschule Weissensee; and the Sakakini Cultural Center in Ramallah under the topic "Professional Instructions – How to be an artist or run an institution (practical, legal and strategic aspects)” and has had a teaching post in the field of culture management at the Freie Universität of Berlin since 2021.

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