CV

2003 Diploma

2002 Master student of Thomas Ruff

2000 Studies in the class of Thomas Ruff

1995 Studies in the class of Bernd Becher

1966 Born in Duesseldorf

Soloshow

2024 „Himmel und Höhle“, Schierke Seinecke, Frankfurt, Germany

2023 „Conversion“, Kunst & Denker Contemporary, Duesseldorf, Germany

2023 „Umwandlung“, Schierke Seinecke, Frankfurt, Germany

2022 “Der Innere Raum”, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany

2022 “Werkschau”, Museum Ratingen, Germany

2021 "Disappear", Kunst & Denker Contemporary, Duesseldorf, Germany

2019 "Gefährliche Schönheit", Kunst & Denker Contemporary, Duesseldorf, Germany

2018 "Deconstruction", Kunst & Denker Contemporary, Duesseldorf, Germany

2017 "Gravity", TZR Gallery Kai Brückner, Duesseldorf, Germany

2016 "Dekonstruktion", Deutsches Haus New York, NYC, USA

2016 "Ralf Brueck" NRW Forum, Duesseldorf, Germany

2012 "Distortion three", so what gallery, Duesseldorf, Germany

2011 "Distortion two", Kunstverein Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany

2011 "Distortion", Gallery Muelhaupt, Cologne, Germany

2009 „Ich liebe Amerika und Amerika liebt mich", Gallery Muelhaupt, Cologne, Germany

2009 "betonbar", Mannheim, Germany

2009 "pain is weakness leaving the body", the bakery, Munich, Germany

2009 "w", Gallery aplanat, Hamburg, Germany

2009 "the good times are killing me", Gallery Pitrowski, Berlin, Germany

2008 "que onda guero", galerie januar ev., Bochum, Germany

2006 "...im Ernst", Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Germany

2006 "diaschau", theminibar, Duesseldorf, Germany

2006 "Finnland 2", tr1, Tampere, Finland

2006 "Finnland 1" Goethe Institut Helsinki, Finland

2005 "Ralf Brueck" NVV scholarship end-exhibition, Moenchengladbach, Germany

2000 "Ralf Brueck" Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany

Groupshow

2023 Expect the unexpected, Darktaxa Project (collaborative work), Museum Bonn, Germany

2022 “Deutscher Kaviar” (“German Caviar”), Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany

2022 “darktaxa-project: The Düsseldorf Constellation,” Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany

2021 Future Conditionell, GESTE Paris, Paris, France

2020 Subjekt und Objekt, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany

2019 "Lianzhou Foto Festival / Lianzhou Museum of Photography", Guangzhou, China

2019 “Down by the Lake“, 14 years of Tampere-Düsseldorf artist-in-residence-programme, Tampere, Finland

2018 "Color Format Landscape", Felix Ringel Gallery, Duesseldorf, Germany

2017 "Unlichte Wirklichkeiten", Princehouse Gallery, Mannheim, Germany

2016 "The typological view, Exhibition for Hilla Becher" Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany

2014 "Blog Re-Blog", Austin Center for Photography, Austin, USA

2013 "Blog Re-Blog", Signal Gallery, New York, USA

2013 "Kunstmeile Wangen", Wangen, Germany

2012 "Rethinking Reality", Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany

2012 „PopUp“, sowhatgallery, Duesseldorf, Germany

2012 "Connected – Verbunden", Villa1912, Kröpelin, Germany

2010 "2010 / 2010" Organhaus Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China

2010 "Vier Wasserturmstipendiaten", Sparkasse Moenchengladbach, Moenchengladbach, Germany

2009 "SISU", Atelier am Eck, Duesseldorf, Germany

2009 "3x3", Zentrifuge, Nuremberg, Germany

2008 "Die Angst reist immer mit", Neues Problem, Berlin

2007 "Die Tuer fuer eine andere Zukunft aufmachen", Neues Problem, Berlin

2007 "room X room", James Harris Gallery, Seattle, USA 2006 "Maerkisches Stipendium

2007", City Gallery Iserlohn, Germany 2006 Gallery Felix Ringel, Duesseldorf, Germany

2005 "Trendwaende", city artspace gallery Duesseldorf, Germany

2005 Voies Off Festival, Arles, France

2005 "Via Senese", 37 Villa Romana prizeshipholder, Fuhrwerkswaage, Cologne, Germany

2004 "Prizeshipholder of the Villa-Romana Grant", Florence, Italy

2004 "c/ontraste", Altes Museum, Moenchengladbach, Germany

2003 "Concerning mg", Altes Museum, Moenchengladbach, Germany

2003 "Prizeshipholder of the Villa-Romana Grant",Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany

2002 "....from the Ruff class" Galerie Haus Schneider, Karlsruhe, Germany

2001 "54. Bergische Kunstaustellung", Museum Baden, Solingen, Germany

2000 "53. Bergische Kunstaustellung", Museum Baden, Solingen, Germany

1998 "Sonderschau SK-Kultur", Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany

1997 "Tongues of Fire", Art Academies Duesseldorf, Gent und Arnheim, Dusseldorf, Germany

1996 "12 cm", Art Academy Duesseldorf, Germany

Prizes and Awards

2010 Organhaus Art Space Residency together with Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China

2010 Tapiola Studio Foundation residency, Espoo, Finland

2010 Thyll-Duerr-Foundation residency, Elba, Italy

2009 Transfer Project, Kulturbuero NRW, Germany

2008 StiftungKunstfonds e.v. Bonn, Germany

2005 Artist residency program Tampere, Finland

2004 Villa Romana grant, Florence, Italy

2003 NVV studio grant, Moenchengladbach, Germany

2002 Lovells art promotion prize, Germany

2001 Leo Breuer-Foerderpreis, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Germany