Marianne EigenheerMarianne Eigenheer (1945-2018, Swiss) was a renowned artist
and active academic whose work has been exhibited across Europe, Australia and the United States. As a child, Marianne's parents had
aspirations for her to become a pianist, although se wanted to become a
composer. Instead, she began drawing and painting after finishing school and
went to art college in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Marianne's work was featured in Achille Bonito Oliva and
Harald Szeemann's seminal Venice Biennale exhibition Aperto '80 in 1980, as
well as in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany - Bonner Kunstverein,
Volker Diehl, Galerie Volker Diehl, Zeppelinmuseum and Ludwig Forum fur
Internationale Kunst; in the US - Holly Solomon Gallery and the Swiss Institute
in New York; and at the Manege Central Exhibition Hall in St Petersberg,
Russia, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) in Australia, and the
Meguro Museum of Art in Tokyo, Japan. Her work has also been exhibited in
Switzerland - at sic! Raum für Kunst in Lucerne, von Bartha in Basel, and at
the Kunstmuseum Basel in 2018.

During her academic career, Marianne was Professor and
Director of the Institute for Curatorship and Education at Edinburgh College of
Art, where she was granted an honorary professorship in 2009, having worked
previously at several universities and art colleges, including the University
of Art and Design, Offenbach, and the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart.

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