Heike Munder is an independent curator and writer. She studied Cultural Studies at the Leuphana University in Lüneburg.
She is currently working as honorary director for the Simose Art Museum in Otake, Hiroshima and on a retrospective of Maria Pininska Béres with Jaroslaw Suchan for Kunstmuseum Luzern (2026) and WOW Museum Rome (2026). She was director of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst from 2001 to 2023. She co-founded the Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e.V., which she co-directed from 1995 to 2001. She has curated many exhibitions, including retrospectives, major commissions, and thematic shows, to name a few: Korakrit Arunanondchai (2022), Stephen Willats (2019), Teresa Burga (2018), Jimmie Durham (2017), Resistance Performed – Aesthetic Strategies under Repressive Regimes in Latin America (2015), Dorothy Iannone (2014), Geoffrey Farmer (2013), Ragnar Kjartansson (2012), Tatiana Trouvé (2009), Marc Camille Chaimowicz (2006), Yoko Ono (2005), Heidi Bucher (2004), Art & Language (2003), Cathy Wilkes (2002).