Heiner Blum (born in 1959 in Stuttgart) lives and works in Offenbach/Main. From 1977 until 1983 he studied Visual Communication at Kassel University under Gunter Rambow, Floris M. Neusüss, Klaus Honnef, Wolfgang Kemp and Peter Weibel. In 1981 he was awarded the Otto Steinert Prize by the German Photography Society (DGPh). 1988 residence at Villa Massimo in Rome with a scholarship from the German Academy; 1991 Cité Internationale des Arts scholarship, Paris. 1991 until 1992 teaching assignments at Trier University of Applied Sciences. 1992 Siemens project scholarship from the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe. In 1993 he received the Karl Ströher Prize from the Museum of Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt/Main, and in 1995 the Prize of the State of Baden Württemberg. In 1996 he was visiting professor at the University of the Arts in Bremen. In 2009 he was awarded the Reinhold Kurth Prize by the 1822 Foundation and was visiting professor and artist in residence at the Cultural Foundations of Social Integration Center of Excellence at the University of Konstanz. Since 2012 he has been Associate Director and Collaborating Artist of the Institute of Social Choreography, Frankfurt/Main. In 2013 he founded the Institute of Sound Research in cooperation with the Städel Academy in Frankfurt and the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen.

Since 1997 he has been Professor of Experimental Spatial Concepts at HfG Offenbach.