Andreas Greiner (born 1979 in Aachen) studied medicine, with the focus on anatomy, and fine art, specialising in sculpture. In his works, he uses a wide range of media. They thematise the relationship between humans and their animate and inanimate environment, their influence on the development and form of nature, biological and natural growth processes and the dichotomy between nature and culture.

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For the work ‘Heinrich’, the artist bought a hybrid chicken in autumn 2015 that was born in a chicken fattening farm northeast of Berlin and gave it to a children’s farm, where it spent the rest of its life as a ‘living work of art - feathered sculpture’. A portrait photo of the animal and the contract that Andreas Greiner concluded with the children’s farm regarding the whereabouts of the chicken are exhibited in the Stadtgalerie Kiel. The chicken died in January 2016, after which Greiner conducted research with scientists, including X-rays and autopsies, to discover the cause of the chicken’s death. In the same year, he created the sculpture ‘Monument for the 308’ for the exhibition ‘Agency of the Exponent’ at the Berlinische Galerie, which is shown at the Zoological Museum Kiel. Starting point is the high-resolution CT scan of a fattened chicken found dead (with the technical designation type ROSS 308), which was enlarged twenty times and transferred to a 3D print. The result is a monumental sculpture that reaches the dimensions of a dinosaur skeleton.