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Yvonne Buchheim is an interdisciplinary artist who often uses drawing, photography and writing in her animated stop-motion films. Her practice explores personal life experiences of loss, identity, and belonging as these intimate themes aim to connect with wider social concerns.

Yvonne Buchheim was born in Weimar in 1972, spent twenty years living abroad and returned to Germany in 2019. An integral part of her practice is art education, she taught in universities and independent projects in different cultures and contexts. She held a permanent position as Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England for ten years before moving to Cairo in 2012. With a keen interest in radical pedagogy, she led the arts and culture programme at the Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences and co-curated Spring Sessions, an education-based art residency in Amman, Jordan.

Yvonne Buchheim’s artworks have been presented in numerous solo and group shows in North America, the Middle East and Europe. She won the Arts Council of Wales Stiwdio Safle Book Award for her long-term Song Archive Project.
​A comprehensive installation of KOPFÜBERLEBEN (Life Turned Upside Down) was shown in a solo exhibition at the ACC Galerie Weimar, Germany in 2021. An art book with the same title was published in 2023 by Kerber Verlag with the support of VG Bild-Kunst, Kulturstiftung des Freistaats Thüringen, CAPE Stiftung and ACC Galerie Weimar.