Micha Ullman (born Tel Aviv, 1939) is an Israeli sculptor and art professor, best known for his subterranean and memorial works. The son of German Jews who emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1933, he trained at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and, in 1965, at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London, where he learned etching.
During the 1970s and 1980s he combined teaching with making art in Israel and Germany. He taught at Bezalel, the University of Haifa and the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, where he was professor of sculpture from 1991 to 2005. His work returns again and again to place, home, absence and emptiness.
His best-known work is The Empty Library (1995) on Bebelplatz in Berlin, where the Nazi book burnings began in 1933. A window in the square reveals empty, illuminated bookshelves, and a bronze plaque quotes Heinrich Heine. Other notable pieces include Hochwasser, near the Werra River, and a 1997 synagogue memorial for the former Lindenstraße synagogue, made with Zvi Hecker and Eyal Weizmann.
His legacy lies in sculpture that engages historical memory and urban space. He received the Israel Prize for sculpture in 2009.