Drawing representation

Design theory

Artistic design

Artistic conception (Master's specialisation)

Function:

Cultural Representative of Reutlingen University

Scholarship counselling Faculty of Textiles & Design

Chairman of the Design Examination Board

Member of the 'Design and Media Production' working group of the Baden-Württemberg Rectors' Conference

Studied Visual Communication at the University of Applied Science in Dortmund from 1980-85.

As an artist and university professor, Henning Eichinger has worked for many years with themes which cross over the borders between art and science or art and technology. He investigates the intuative and emotional components of scientific and technological developments.

Since 1997 he has been professor for drawing and painting at Reutlingen University in the studies of Textile- and Fashion Design and for Fine Art Conception in the Master Program Design at Reutlingen University. In his artwork and with his students at the university he works on artistic responses to important developments within society.

Member of the research group Contemporary Art and Social Transformation (CAST) at RMIT University Melbourne.

Member of the board of Kunstverein Reutlingen

Member of the board  and vice chairman of Heinrich-Hartmann Foundation Reutlingen

Lecturer Friedrich-Ebert Foundation, Bonn

 

Prizes, Grants and Stipends

2014
iAIR Residency RMIT University Melbourne Australia

2013
Lecture Prize of the Federal State of Baden-Wuerttemberg

Lecture Prize Reutlingen University

iAIR Residency RMIT University Melbourne Australia

2012
iAIR Residency RMIT University Melbourne Australia

2007
Southern Cross University Artists` Book Award, NSW, Australia

2005
International Visiting Artist, Megalo Printshop and Australian National University in Canberra, Australia

1999
1st Prize in the art competition  "Hello my Heart", Wilhelm-Fabry-Museum Hilden

1996
Residency at Klasen Foundation in Västervik, Sweden

1990
Grant of the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

1986
3. Prize: The Artists View on New Technologies, Dortmuner Kunstverein

1982
Scholarship of the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation

Solo and group exhibitions in Germany and abroad. His artworks are represented in national and international collections.