Education
University of Arts Berlin
1994 Diploma (Master of Fine Arts)
1995 Nomination as Meisterschüler
1996-2002
Goethe-Institutes in Africa and México: conducting Art-Workshops in different african countries (Nigeria, Cameroon, Ethiopia) in cooperation with the Goethe-Institutes Lagos, Yaoundé, Addis Abeba and Ahmadu Bello University Zaria/Nigeria, Addis Abeba University.
At Goethe Institute Guadalajara/México: Roundtable discussion at Museo Regional: Consensus and dissensus in modern art
since 1997
Sen. Lecturer for Aesthetic and Intercultural Communication
at Neiße-University Zittau/Görlitz
Artist statement
My works are an exploration with the atmospheric of a welcoming or disinviting mood of a landscape, an everyday thing or an everyday situation. It is the search for an artistic “translation” of the correspondence, that we create with a landscape or an object.
Landscapes, objects and everyday situations are not only an interplay of different elements. They give rise to atmospheres. Auratic moments that strike us as human beings and in which we like to dwell. Therefore, it is exciting not only to talk about landscapes and things, but also to correspond with them by approaching and engaging with their atmospheric language.
This correspondence conveys a slowness that makes us pay attention and gives us open experiences - and sometimes gives us access to undefined forms without previous semantics. Perhaps in landscapes and objects, the zoomed-in angle often reveals areas that no longer remind us of a conventional understanding of landscape or object. A welcome and an invitation to feel atmospheric in a new way. Therefore, in my works combine the realistic with the fictional, the narrative with the poetic, so that an open-ended experience is always present.
Moments, landscapes and objects put us in a mood, just as we put landscape and objects "in certain moods" when we change, combine or arrange them. For example, a person's mental vulnerability is lowered or is lowered when he takes a walk through a relatively undesigned landscape (cf. Martin Seel).
If three different objects, which have nothing to do with each other in terms of content, are lined up next to each other, a creative situation arises which can lead us to completely new ideas and thoughts. Both examples are possibly a poetic event that positively stimulates the human senses.
My work focuses on visual "conversations" with a place, an inner or outer landscape or objects. It is an attempt to make tangible an elementary awareness of the power of the atmospheric - at least as an idea or an approximation. With the aim that we have a self-determining influence on perceiving and taking seriously the landscape and the everyday object as an everyday "interlocutor" and as a primordial poetic phenomenon.
Solo and Trio Exhibitions
2019 Galerie Villa Blunk, Wriezen. „Leises Land“. (www.villa-blunk.de)
2017 Galerie im Spektrum Haus Frankfurt/Oder. „Himmel, Erde, Wasser“. (3 artists)
2017 Goethe-Institut Hamburg. „Hügel & Ast“. Landschaften Afrikas.
2015 Landgericht Görlitz, Außenkammer Bautzen. „Erinnerungen an Afrika“
2013 Galerie Listros. “The Berlin Papers”. (www.listros.de) (3 artists)
2012 Kunststiftung Valdonica Vineyard Residence, Sassofortino (Toscana)
2011 Land- und Amtsgericht Görlitz. Projekt „Kunst und Justiz“
2009 Historisches Rathaus der Stadt Pfungstadt
2009 Aqua Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico
2005 GALANT - Galerie und Antiquitäten, Berlin
2004 Aqua Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico
2002 Aqua Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico
2001 Akademie für Kultur und Bildung, Berlin
2001 Galerie Doualart, Prinzessin Marylin Douala Bell, Douala, Kamerun
2001 Goethe-Institut Yaoundé, Kamerun
1997 Galerie Forum Seestraße, Berlin
1995 Galerie Kunstkabinett Vilsen/Bremen
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Kunst bleibt. 10 Jahre Xtro Atelier, Galerie Schöne Weide, Berlin
2019 Transformart - Kunstfestival am Spreeknie, Berlin
2018 Galerie Villa Blunk, Wriezen/Brandenburg; „Petersburger Hängung“
2018 Transformart - Kunstfestival am Spreeknie, Berlin
2017 Transformart - Kunstfestival am Spreeknie, Berlin
2016 Kunstfestival am Spreeknie, Berlin
2015 Kunstfestival am Spreeknie, Berlin
2009 Artemis Galerie Görlitz. „MachtLos!“ -Ausstellung im Rahmen des bundesweiten Filmfestival “ueber Macht”
2008 Aqua Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexiko
2008 LISTROS e. V. Galerie, Berlin
2008 „Afrikanische Leben”. Afrika-Tage in Rendsburg-Zentrum für Energie und Technik
2007 Aqua Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexiko
2007 Konstförening Munkfors, Värmland, Schweden
2006 Aqua Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexiko
2005 Ouansa - LISTROS e. V. Projekt; Berlin. „Arbeitende Jugend in Äthiopien”
2004 Galerie Eva Poll, Berlin
2004 Buchmesse Leipzig, LISTROS e. V. A Dream in a Box
2001 Addis Ababa University-Fine Art School /Äthiopien
1999 Goethe-Institut Lagos/Nigeria, Victoria Island, “Aesthetics of reduced forms”
1997 Hommage à Hermann Hesse, Kunst und Eigensinn, BBK Augsburg
1997 Goethe-Institut Lagos/Nigeria, Victoria Island
1996 Galerie HO, Berlin; Kulturamt Hellersdorf
1996 Hommage à Thomas Mann, Kunst und Bürgertum, BBK Augsburg
1995 Galerie Kryptische Konzepte, Berlin, „Wortfallen”