Astrid Heibach
Astrid Heibach (*1949 in Düsseldorf / Germany, lives in Cologne) has worked with
photography, Super-8 film, and video since the early 1970s. In her practice, she
defamiliarizes the myth of the American dream through irony, combining performance
and video to critically deconstruct stereotypes and clichés. Her narrative works are
characterized by a socio-critical examination of the medium of video itself. Together
with Gabor Bódy, Veruschka Bódy, and Gusztáv Hámos, Astrid Heibach co-founded
the first international video magazine Infermental (1982–1991) in Berlin.