Heike Munder is currently Director of the F+F School of Art and Design in Zurich and Honorary Director of the Simose Art Museum, Otake, Hiroshima.

She studied Cultural Studies at Leuphana University Lüneburg.

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 numerous exhibitions, including retrospectives, major commissions, and thematic shows, among them: Maria Pinińska-Bereś, travelling retrospective, co-curated with Jarosław Suchan (2024–26), 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), and Cathy Wilkes (2002).