Thursday, January 9, 6:30 - 8:30 PM

EFA Studios
323 West 39th St, 3rd Floor Conference Room
New York, NY 10018
Free Admission

Villa Albertine and The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts are pleased to invite you to an evening with multimedia artist Paul Heintz, currently in residence at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. The presentation will be followed by a conversation between the artist and EFA Executive Director George Scheer. Light refreshments will be served.

Due to limited space, RSVP is encouraged.

Paul Heintz develops his work in a mode somewhere between documentary and fiction, where realism is often challenged by the characters and actors themselves. Without imposing interpretation, he weaves stories into a very open narrative around societal issues. The relationship with authority and submission to power are often recurrent themes in his exploration, conducted with a certain detachment and poetic manner.

Paul’s work in book, sound, film and installation has been presented at contemporary art events and film festivals including FID Marseille, IFFR Rotterdam, Visions du Réel, Paris Nuit Blanche and in art centers and museums such as the Centre Pompidou, FRAC Lorraine, FRAC Grand Large and Les Rotondes. He is the winner of the Emerige Revelation 2019, Revelation Livre d'Artiste 2021 and 1% Marché de l'Art 2023 awards. His film Nafura is selected for the César Awards 2025.

Born in Saint-Avold in 1989, Paul Heintz is a graduate of Beaux-Arts de Nancy, Arts Décoratifs de Paris and Le Fresnoy Studio National des arts Contemporains (France). He lives and works between Paris and the Lorraine region.

About his new work in progress

Paul Heintz's new work, American Dream, explores the digital capitalization of the most intimate and unguarded moments of our lives, our sleep. For the past few years, Paul has been connecting and exchanging views with American internet users who record and broadcast themselves sleeping live on social video networks.

The practice flourished during the Covid19 crisis and has now gone viral and become monetizable. If sleep and watching sleepers is a new business, what do these networked workers dream of?

From these exchanges and this collection of long-dreams, the artist will propose a film and a mixed media live installation, as well as a book.

The day after this event, on December 10, 2025 at 7:30 p.m., UnionDocs in Brooklyn is offering a focus screening on the work of Paul Heintz, with the presentation of two of his films: Character (39min, 2021) and Nafura (27min, 2023). The screening will be followed by a discussion with the artist.

Paul Heintz Residency Profile