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CURRICULUM VITAE
1974 born in Heidelberg, lives in Karlsruhe and Berlin
EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT
1994 – 1999
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar/German Degree in Fine Arts
1997
guest semester at Karlsruhe Art Academy
2000
guest student, MFA, School of the Art Institute, Chicago
Oct 2001 – Dec 2004
Co-ordinator of the MFA program "Public Art and New
Artistic
Strategies" at Bauhaus-University Weimar
2008
grant of the Art Foundation of the Federal State of
Baden-Württemberg
SELECTED
EXHIBITIONS
2008
UND #3, Von_Kraft, Karlsruhe
2007
“K
& K Center for Art and Fashion”,
Weimar
“Hotel
van de Velde”,
Villa Dürckheim, Weimar
2006 “the
floating series edition”,
Schalter, Berlin
“Art
as Loot, Loot as Art?”,
Holzdorf Manor
2005 “Transmission”,
New Museum Weimar
2004 “Berliner
Kunstsalon”,
Berlin
“Environmental
Excursions”,
Subspace, Berlin
“I’m
trying to tell you I love you”,
Keim & Crime, Weimar/
Projektraum Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin/
ThreeWalls,
Chicago (catalogue)
2003 “Walking
on art”,
Kunstverein Ludwigsburg.
“Once
upon a time…”,
Love Series, Beate-Uhse-Laden, Weimar
“Pavillon
der Freiheit”,
Keim & Crime, Weimar
“Transit”,
Gallery of Zokei University of Art and Design, Nagoya,
Japan (catalogue)
2002 “Wo
die Kunst zu Hause ist”
(Where art is at home), exhibition project, Berlin
(catalogue)
“Kunststoff”,
State of Thuringia Art Exhibition, Erfurt (catalogue)
Flotsam & Jetsam”,
ACC Gallery, Weimar/Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
2001 “Flotsam
& Jetsam”,
documenta-Halle, Kassel (catalogue)
2000 “Weimar
in Eruzione – La terra trema, die Erde
bebt”,
Kunstkabinett Weimar
and University Gallery of BUW, Weimar
“Andata
e Ritorno”,
Casa Pompeiana, Naples, Italy (catalogue)
“Auf
Montage”,
Galerie 21:25, Olso, Norway (catalogue)
1999 “Schöne
Aussichten”,
neu deli, Weimar (catalogue)
1998 “body
in the box”,
media lab Gallery EIGEN+ART, Leipzig
Media Symposium of the state of Thuringia, Weimar
(catalogue)
CURATORIAL
PROJEKTS
Since
Dez 2005
“the
floating series”,
exhibitions, readings and concerts, together with Jesse
Seldess
2006 “Art
as Loot, Loot as Art?”,
exhibition and symposium, Holzdorf Manor
2005 “Transmission”,
New Museum Weimar (colaborated in the exhibition
organistation and catalogue editing)
2004 “The
Unmastered Past in Contemporary Art”,
Symposium of the MFA program “Public
Art and New Artistic Strategies" at Bauhaus-University
Weimar (collaborated in planning and organizing the event)
2003
Organisation of three exhibitions for the celebration of
the 10 year anniversary of the department of art and design
at Bauhaus-University: “A-Z
StadtAktion”,
“Once
upon a time”,
“Mastermind”
2003
- 2004
Co-founded and coordinated the temporary exhibition space
Keim & Crime, Weimar
exhibitions: “Lucifer
Yellow”
(Hannes Niepold: CoIntel and Stazoskopische Felder),
"Pavillon der Freiheit”,
"I’m trying to tell you I love you”,
"Port und mein Liebstes”
2002
“Art
after 9/11”,
Symposium of the MFA program „Public Art and New
Artistic Strategies“ at Bauhaus-University Weimar
(collaborated in the organisation)
1999 “neu
deli”,
exhibition project, seven exhibitions and many events,
Weimar
(concept and organization)
// ARTIST STATEMENT
My work centers on the
phenomena of everyday life. Often a reenactment of the
real, it deals with the representation of the so-called
normal, primarily in the form of detailed models of rooms,
larger installations, and video work.
My models and installations explore the public and private
environments within which human lives unfold. The models,
miniature reproductions of spaces, emphazise the impact
architecture and furnishing have on human behavior and
orientation. The larger installations try to represent
aspects of everyday life without striving to reproduce
reality.
My videos consist of realistic stagings of seemingly banal
situations. Most of the scenes explore patterns of
conversation: symmetrical and divergent reactions. I am
also interested in the impact of pride, disappointment,
shame, embarrassement, and the social factors that possibly
provoke these feelings: conventions, prefabricated
opinions, and expectations.
On and off, I have also made figurative miniatures of
myself and of friends. Molded from resin and painted in
detail, they serve as real-life action figurines and embody
my concern for the personal as both emblematic and unique.
Since art school, living and working in a community and
facilitating exchange and collaboration have been very
important to me. I have curated and organizied various
temporary exhibition spaces and projects, most recently the
floating series, curated in cooperation with the poet Jesse
Seldess, which encourages contact between artists from
different disciplines by combing exhibitions with readings
and concerts. The series also publishes an edition of
artist-designed poetry broadsides as well as prints,
photographs, and other multiples. //
