Heike Schuppelius studied architecture and set design in Berlin and London. Fellowships and accolades have often taken her abroad, including trips to Marseilles, New York, Cairo and Rome. Her latest installations and set designs were presented at the Athens Festival, Warsaw Autumn, Zeche Zollverein in Essen, Ruhrtriennale and the natural history museum in Berlin, among others. From 2012-13 Schuppelius was an ›artist-in-residence‹ at the Berliner Festspiele. Since 2012 she's taught as a professor at the HfG Karlsruhe, Athens School of Fine Arts and currently at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach.