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Markus Heinsdorff, born in 1954 in Steinkirchen, Germany, grew up in Irschenhausen, south to Munich, Germany. After training and working as a gold smith, wood and stone sculptor he studied abstract sculpture at Prof. Jacobsen at the Akademie der bildenden Künste München from 1976 to 1981.

His focus is on sustainable design, space and nature. In various works in India, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, Taiwan, Ecuador, Brazil, USA, South Africa and numerous European countries he realized various projects, installations and exhibitions - also in relation to the UNESCO Aschberg program, the Goethe-Institut and the Federal Foreign Office. In most countries he develops on-site projects involving local conditions and materials. This also applies for the various pavilion constructions that were realized as art buildings and mobile spaces for the presentation of Germany in China (2007-2010) and India (2012-2013) and successively toured through five megacities in each country. In this framework he created the German-Chinese house at the EXPO Shanghai 2010, a 300 sqm, two-storey building made of bamboo. His EXPO house and the 16 further pavilion buildings are one of the few modern and self-supporting constructions in the world made of the nature material bamboo. Bamboo natural cane and laminates are therefore combined. New joining techniques and construction methods were especially developed for these projects. The works were done with support of the structural planners and engineers of Schlaich Bergermann und Partner, Stuttgart, Rein Ingenieure, Stuttgart und Varicon, Würzburg, W. Schachl, Munich and the universities TU München,TU Darmstadt and Tongji, Shanghai. In 2011 Markus Heinsdorff published the book „Design with Nature – Die Bambusbauten“.

In continuation of the realized mobile spaces and pavilions new creative and technical ideas for low-cost buildings emerged. Heinsdorff therefore does several workshops, lectures and exhibitions on this topic. By the end of 2013 the art and architecture buildings are presented at the exhibition „Low Cost Houses and Pavilions” at the Haus der Architektur of the Bayerische Architektenkammer Munich, Germany.

Besides the material bamboo his work is dedicated to the element water. Since 1990, a variety of installations and objects with or about this essence of life were created. From 2008 on the art and science cooperation wasser-werke was established together with the Hydromechanics Laboratory of the Technische Universität München. Several exhibits were developed. In various exhibitions and installations were exhibited around the globe, i.e. the object “Rotor (also nominated for the Siemens empowering people. Award) at MARTa Herford (on the occasion of the Recycling-Designpreis), „about water“ in Sao Paulo with portraits of favela residents, “air rings in water” in Rio de Janeiro on the occasion of the Rio+20 sustainability conference of the United Nations, on the topic of monsoon in Bangalore and in Bali/Ubud as well as a sound installation with water drops at the Max-Planck-Haus for the long night of the museums.

• EXPO 2010 Shanghai - German-Chinese House
  EXPO 2010 Shanghai - German-Chinese House
• Germany and India - Urban Mela
  Germany and India - Urban Mela
• Mobile Space - Urban Mela
  Mobile Space - Urban Mela
• 
  Mobile Space - Urban Mela
• German-Chinese Esplanade
  German-Chinese Esplanade
• wasser-werke - Rotor
  wasser-werke - Rotor
• wasser-werke - Es könnte stuermisch werden
  wasser-werke - Es könnte stuermisch werden
• Wassermusik
  Wassermusik
• Ardeo
  Ardeo

• 2012-2013: Germany and India – Urban Mela, 16 pavilions (mobile space), presentation of Germany in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Pune, India
• 2010: EXPO Shanghai, German-Chinese House, Shanghai, China
• 2007-2009: German-Chinese Esplanade, Wuhan, Shenyang, Chongquing, Guangzhou, Nanjing, China
• 2009-2013: wasser-werke, Bangalore, India, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil, TU München, Kallmann Museum, Ismaning, Germany
• 2009: Academy in the Amazonian Rainforest, Yuwientsa, Sharamentsa, Ecuador, project presentation at Forum Hilton, Munich, Germany
• 2008: Living Dome, The Landfoundation, Chiang Mai, Thailand
• 2005-2007: experience bamboo, Bandung, Hanoi, Vietnam, Jakarta and Java/Indonesien, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand, Munich, Germany
• 2003: Damoto, LVA Augsburg, Germany
• 2002: Skyplace, Ubud, Bali/Indonesia
• 2002: Ardeo, city center Erding, Germany
• 2001: Flügel, city center Wiesloch, Germany

• 2009-2012: School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
• 2008-2010: Faculty for Architecture, University Chongqing, China
• 2007-2010: Faculty for Architecture, Southeast University Nanjing, China

• Markus Heinsdorff: Design with Nature - Die Bambusbauten/The Bamboo Architecture, Hirmer Verlag München 2010, ISBN 3-7774-2791-8
• Windows: Marco Polo's Dream, Markus Heinsdorff, Martin Rosenthal, Agnes Kohlmeyer, Elmar Zorn, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 1998, ISBN 3-89322-427-0
• Tenso, Markus Heinsdorff, Peter Anselm Riedl, 1996
• Praxisinstallationen, Markus Heinsdorff, Udo Kittelmann, Parat Verlags GmbH München 1996
• stones & voices, Markus Heinsdorff, Martin Rosenthal, Stefan Iglhaut, Gabriele Kübler, Noemi Smolik, Hatje Cantz Verlag München 1995
• Der Garten von Las-Fosses, Markus Heinsdorff, Gottfried Knapp, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 1995, ISBN 3-89322-811-X
• Isarinstallation, Markus Heinsdorff, Gottfried Knapp, Objektiv Verlag München 1990

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• Artist's website
• Interview with Markus Heinsdorff – A conversation with the Installation Artist