Wilhelm Heiliger was born in 1944 in Ljutomer.
He studied philosophy, slavic languages and graphics in Graz, Austria and in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 1973 he moved to Washington D.C. and later to California.
There he worked as a writer and researcher at Stanford University. Heiliger published various books, among others: Soviet and chinese personalities, Washington D.C., 1980; Bibliography of soviet social sciences, N.Y., 1978. In 1974 Heiliger took up photography: art photography, abstract photography, concrete photography, architectural photography and digital photography.
Solo exhibitions:
1983 Galerie 666, Paris;
FIAC, Paris;
Rencontre international de la fotografie, Arles;
1984 Museum ludwig, Köln;
Kunstverein Ingolstadt;
1985 Internationale Fotoszene, Köln;
1986 America - Haus, Berlin;
1987 Hasselblad Galerie, Göteborg;
1988 Casteel hoensbroek, Holland;
Jayne baum gallery, New York together with David Hockney, a.o., (large size photographs;
1989 Museum of Modern Art, San José, California;
1990 Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, (catalogue);
Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, (catalogue);
Fotokina, Köln, (lightboxes);
1991 Wilhelm Hack - Museum, Ludwigshafen, (catalogue, concrete photo - sculpture - installations);
1992 Stichting Veranneman, Brüssel (together with Anthony Caro large size images, painted photography photo - sculpture - installation);
Die weiße Galerie, Köln, (photography);
1994 Galerie Fabien Fryns, Marbella, Spain;
1995 Goethe institut, Peking, (photography, painted photography, drawings, catalogue); 1996 Marriot hotel, San Francisco;
1997 Max Müller - Bhavan, New Delhi, (photography);
Goethe institut, Lufthansa, Beijing, (wall - sculptures, catalogue);
1998 Hacienda valle de bravo, Mexico;
1999 Freddie Fong Contemporary Art, San Francisco, (photography);
2000 Galerie Ucher, Köln, (concrete wall - sculptures);
Internationale fotoszene, Köln;
Galerie 40, Wiesbaden;
2001 Kunstverein Kunst und Justiz, Essen, (concrete photography, wall - sculptures);
Kunstmuseum, Murska Sobota, Slovenia, (concrete photography, catalogue);
Arteba Galerie, Zürich, (concrete photography);
2004 Museum Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, (photography, catalogue);
Schloss Borbeck, Essen, (photography);
2005 Irmert-Theissen, Essen, (concrete works with plexi on canvas, catalogue);
2007 Truman-Haus, Potsdam-Berlin, (photography);
2008 Bremer Galerie, Berlin, (photography and works with plexi)
ACH-Daimler Galery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, (photography);
2009 Galerija Fotografija Gallery and Kresija Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, (concrete art, photography and paintings);
Collections:
Commerzbank; Zeiss; Museum für konkrete kunst Ingolstadt; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Museum Ludwig, Köln; Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen ; Musée Nicephoré Niepce, Ville de Chalon-sur-Saône ; Fondation nationale de la photografie, Paris; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City; Ricardo Legorreta Architects, Mexico City; Gutierrez Cortina Architects, Mexico City; Ramos Cadenas Collection, Mexico City; Lufthansa Airlines ; Shering Mexicana Collection; Sammlung dr. Erich Kremer, Aachen ; Hasselblad Corporation Collection, Sweden ; Collection of Chase Manhattan Bank, New York ; Bank of America, San Francisco ; Merril Lynch, San Francisco; Dean Witter, New York; Tandem Corporation, San José, California ; Equitable life insurance company, u.s. gwathmey, Siegel and ass. architects, New York City ; Sammlung Gruber, Köln ; Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, Bonn Berlin ; Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas; Fidelity investments, Boston; Apple Computers, Sunnyvale, California; Pacific bank, California; Pacific telesis Corporation, California; Dupond corporation, California; Ask computers, mountain view, california; edition braus, Heidelberg; kreditanstalt für wiederaufbau, frankfurt; lakeside, mexico city; münchener rückversicherung; gerling konzern; volksbank speyer; Sammlung Götze, Mülheim a. d. Ruhr ; Anwaltskanzlei Eßer, Aachen ; Bundeskanzleramt, Wien ; dipl.architekt Vallaster, zürich ; dipl. architekt Carosio, Zürich; Credit Suisse , partner of Credit Suisse (Germany) Aktiengesellschaft; Ministry of culture, Slovenia,
