Birgit Huttemann-Holz

Birgit’s energetic works show a lush world, where nature is in constant celebration. Her lyrical abstractions reflect an intense relationship with the surrounding landscape, an intimate experience of wilderness which mirrors alluring and alarming oneself.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally. Birgit won multiple awards nationwide. Her work was selected for The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY 2017-19 and The Other Art Fair Chicago, IL, 2018/19/23/24. In 2025, she was selected for a 2 woman show in the Orangerie, Munich, Germany. She exhibited at the Atlanta Art Fair 2024, Palm Beach Show 2025, Art On Paper Fair New York 2025, and Palm Beach Show 2026, Hampton’s Fine Art Fair 2026 with Steidel Contemporary. She will also be presenting for the first time her work on paper at the Paper Position 2026, Berlin with Gallery UNO.
She was awarded a month-long residency at The Studios of Key West, 2017 and the Female Lifetime Achievement Award, Art Comes Alive, ADC Fine Art Gallery, Cincinnati, 2022. She was selected for the NG Art Creative Residency in Provence, France, 2023 and for Future of Art Global Masterpiece Award, Contemporary Art Curator, 2024.
Huttemann- Holz lives and works in Detroit, USA.

2004-2026 Continued Education in Fine Art:
2026 Bronze Casting, Center for Creative Studies CCS, Detroit
2024 Brave Space, workshop Paula Roland
2023 Create Anyway, workshop online 3 months
2021 Zen, Big Brush, Expressive Mark Making, Paula Roland, online, 1 month
2020 Art to Life, workshop online, 3months
2017 one-month artist residency, The Studios of Key West, Key West, FL
2015-2023 student in ceramics at Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
2014 8th International Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, MA
2011/2013 Advanced Monotype, Paula Roland, Santa Fe
2010 Summer Academy for the Arts, Marburg Germany, Prof Andras Ernszt, Hungary
2009 IEA Retreat, panelist Tony Scherman
2004-2007 Continued Education, CCS College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
1991-94 Studies in German Literature, Media Science, Philosophy at University of Karlsruhe and Philipps University Marburg, Germany
1989 B.A. Physical Therapy, Ludwigshafen/ Schoemberg, Germany

Solo (Including 2 Person Show):
2026 Silence is Golden, Paper Positions with Gallery UNO Projektraum Berlin, Tempelhof Berlin
2025 Jenseits der Landschaft, Birgit Huttemann-Holz& Silke Holweg, Orangerie, Munich, Germany
2024 Hold onto your Memories, Birgit Huttemann-Holz, April, Posterity Gallery, Grosse Pointe Park, MI


2022 On Beauty and Being, Birgit Huttemann-Holz, January 10- April 30, Healthspan Michigan, Grosse Pointe, MI
2018 “Metaphor of Flora”, Birgit Huttemann-Holz, September 21-Oct 30, River’s Edge Gallery, Wyandotte, MI
2017 The Weight of the Orchids, Studios of Key West- Ashe Campus, Key West, FL
2015 Birgit Huttemann-Holz, Ward Gallery, Petoskey, MI
2013 Between Heaven and Earth, River’s Edge Gallery, Wyandotte, MI
2011/2012 Affairs with Serpents and Heroines, River’s Edge Gallery, Wyandotte, MI
2009 Wherever you are, Gallery at the Unitarian Church Birmingham –Bloomfield, MI
2007 Come away with me, Doan Residence, Grosse Pointe, MI