Liz Bachhuber is a sculptor, installation artist, and Professor of Fine Art (Frei Kunst) at the Bauhaus University-Weimar. Her research interests and artistic practice focuses on the environment with a particular emphasis on the found object in art and the global implications of unbridled consumerism and the resulting garbage. In the tradition of the Bauhaus University, she has a long history of working in the intersection of art and science and initiating collaborations with engineers, scientists, and waste disposal experts.
Since 1980, she has shown site-specific public work and exhibited in museums, galleries, and alternative spaces in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Born in Milwaukee and educated at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Liz Bachhuber lives and works in Weimar and Berlin. (Source: Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters)