Heide Hinrichs (1976) is a German artist currently living in Brussels. She studied at the Kunsthochschule in Kassel, the Academy of Fine Art in Dresden and was a participant of the HISK in Antwerp. She has lived in Seattle for four years, realizing the 2010 solo show Borrowed Tails at the Seattle Art Museum. In 2008 she participated in the Manifesta 7 in Rovereto, Italy. Following her solo exhibition Echoes at the Heidelberger Kunstverein in 2012, she was awarded the Villa Romana Fellowship for 2013. In 2014, she was a fellow at the MMCA Seoul International Residency Program, where she continued work on her long-term project Silent Sisters/Stille Schwestern, a translation in text and art works in conversation with Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's book, DICTEE. She has participated in the Kathmandu Triennial in 2017 and she currently teaches at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, conducting there the research project second shelf. Her works are in the collection of the Seattle Art Museum, the ifa, Stuttgart, SMAK, Ghent, Berkeley Art Museum and in private collections in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and the US.