Heidi Vogels (1978, NL) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Amsterdam, where she studied Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Her practice unfolds through long-term research into the garden as a layered and heterotopic space – a place that connects nature and culture, the domestic and the public and the tangible and the imagined. Through this lens she charts narratives that lie beyond immediate perception, tracing the complex stories embedded within an urban environment in collaboration with local residents. The outcomes of which take the form of film, and extend to installations and participatory programs that activate and share these findings. As co-initiator of Bureau Postjesweg– art space in Amsterdam nieuw-West, she developed Garden Collectives, a program engaging communities with garden spaces, and she served as art program director for documentary art festival Cracking the Frame Presents. Vogels’ work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Le18 in Marrakech (MA), Jut Art Museum in Taipei (TW), TENT in Rotterdam (NL), and Do-a-Front in Yamaguchi (JP). Across her projects, she continues to explore the interwoven fabric of urban space, culture, and the garden as a place that is simultaneously physical, social, and virtual.
