born 1972 in Soest, Germany
lives and works in Hamburg, Germany

awards//Grants

2023
Fellowship Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) Potsdam, Germany
Working Grant NEUSTART KULTURplus, Stiftung Kunstfonds

2022
Artist-in-Science, Kultur einer Digitalstadt Darmstadt
in collaboration with European Space Agency (ESA), Germany
Working Grant NEUSTART KULTUR, Stiftung Kunstfonds

2021
Working Grant “Neustart Kultur,” Stiftung Kulturwerk/VG Bild-Kunst
Residency Grant “Kunstwerkstatt Turmstraße”, Monheim am Rhein, Germany *

2020
Project Funding Kunststiftung NRW *

2019
Project Grant / KunstKommunikation, DA Kloster Gravenhorst, Germany *
Project Funding Regionale Kulturpolitik Münsterland (RKP) *
Project Funding Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL) Kulturabteilung *

2018
Residency Grant “Artist in Wittenberger Weg”, Düsseldorf, Germany *

2016
Artist in Residence/Work Grant Glasslåven, Norway *
Residency #1 ARTECITYA//Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, Greece *

2015
ars loci 2015 Art Award//Neuhoff-Fricke Foundation for the Promotion of Arts and Science
Artist in Residence, Ricklundgården Saxnäs, Sweden*

2013
Research Grant, Danish Arts Council
Artist in Residence, platform Vaasa, Finland *
Artist in Residence, RONDO-Atelierstipendium Styria, Graz, Austria

2011
Artist in Residence, Bergmangårdarna på Fårö, Sweden
DIVA - Danish International Visiting Artists Exchange Programme, Danish Arts Council, Denmark

2010
Artist in Residence, kunstGarten Graz, Austria
Travel Grant Kulturbehörde Hamburg, Germany

2004
Project Grant Goethe Institut La Paz, Bolivia* Project Funding

Solo Exhibitions

2024
Normalitätssimulation, Galerie Holthoff, Hamburg, Germany
PRESERVED // Der Garten der Synagoge, Kulturraum der Synagoge Lippstadt, Germany *

2023
INSTANT PARADISE, Stadtgalerie-Villa Dessauer Bamberg, Germany

2022
What happens in space stays in space?, Atelier Kultur einer Digitalstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

2021
Dead species walking, Atelierhaus im Anscharpark, Kiel, Germany
Können Sie nicht mal was Schönes machen?, Galerie Holthoff, Hamburg, Germany
Klimarondell, Städtische Galerie im Park Viersen, Germany
PRESERVED // Schwemmland / Monheim am Rhein, Kunstwerkstatt Monheim a. R., Germany

2020
[INSTANT] LANDSCAPE, Städtische Galerie Eichenmüllerhaus Lemgo, Germany
Eurythenes Plasticus, Schloss vor Husum, Germany
PRESERVED // Altland - Neuland [Gemüseschießen], Schloss Senden (Westf.) * PLASTISPHERE/Church, Lutherkirche Osnabrück, Germany

2018
LOOPS, Alte Steingiesserei Plochingen, Germany
coffee to go, Goethe-Institut Paris, France
SOLASTALGIA, Syker Vorwerk, Syke, Germany
KiddyRideFun, Galerie Holthoff-Mokross Hamburg, Germany
Plastic Fallout, Bernheimer Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

2017
Hidden by the surface, Villa de Bank, Enschede, Netherlands
PRESERVED//Survival Gardening, Kloster Bentlage, Rheine, Germany *

2016
PLASTISPHERE, Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, Greece *

2014
spring cleaning II/Fårö Sweden/PERSONA On-Screen GROUND, Nicosia, Cyprus
Plastisphäre, Kunstraum 2025, Hamburg, Germany

2013
plastisphere, PAiN - Performance Art i Norr, Lapland Sweden
FLOWERSHOOTING II/CITY-Graz, Austrian Sculpture Park, Graz, Austria
Larmes de sirène, SchauRaum Harburg, Germany

2012
FLOWERSHOOTING, Galerie Dynamo Expo, Enschede, Netherlands
FLOWERSHOOTING//overhanging fruit, GrensWerte, Dutch - German borderland
Instant Pets, Galerie des Westens/gadewe Bremen, Germany
solstice fern, PAiN - Performance Art i Norr, Lapland, Sweden

2011
spring cleaning, Bergmangårdarna på Fårö, Sweden

2010
survival gardening, XBunker Sonderborg, Denmark
Anthropocene, Joachim Rong Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2007
the age of plastic, GalerieXprssns, Hamburg, Germany

2003
Der Mensch im Raum, Burg Horn, Germany

Group Exhibitions

2024
Echos der Zukunft, Biosphäre Potsdam, curated by Tuçe Erel, Germany

2023
Caspar David Friedrich. Kunst für eine neue Zeit, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
Lianzhou Foto Festival, China
BLITZblank. vom Putzen - innen, aussen und überall, Frauenmuseum Hittisau, Austria
Examples to follow! explorations in aesthetics and sustainability, Uferhallen Berlin, Germany
Brennstoff, Städtische Galerie Viersen, Germany
EAT. ART. CONNECTIONS, Wasserschloss Reelkirchen, Germany *
ANGST - Krisenindikator oder Überlebenstrieb, Künstlerverein Walkmühle Wiesbaden, Germany
Das Ende der Malerei - Karl Hagemeister und die Malerei heute, Bröhan-Museum Berlin,
Germany
KUNST:STOFF, Museum Zinkhütter Hof, Germany
Fernweh - Reisen in der Kunst, Klingspor Museum Offenbach am Main, Germany

2022
Clear River, Calm Sea 河清海晏, curated by Bettina Freimann, St. Katharinen Hamburg, Germany
teamwork, Schloss Agathenburg, Germany *
In der Mitte des Wetters, Wetterwerkstatt Offenbach am Main, Germany
Hidden Landscapes. Landschaften des Anthropozän, DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst,
Germany

2021
Examples to follow! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability,
Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
Wi(e)der das Böse, Bomann-Museum Celle, Germany
New adventures in vexillology #7, Kunstverein Amrum, Germany
gegenGewalt? Markuskirche Hannover, Germany
Ich hasse die Natur!, Schiller-Museum Weimar, Germany
Gewaltig! Nordsee, Nordfrieslandmuseum. Nissenhaus, Husum, Germany

2020
spring cleaning, Stadtbesetzung Detmold, Germany
GIRL GANG_FOR FUTURE, GadeWe Bremen, Germany *
ZERO WASTE, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany
Gravenhorster Gärten, DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst *, Germany

2019
Maskottchentreffen, Salon Erika, Winterthur, Switzerland *
RESET* Landpartie/mixed arts, Münsterland *, Germany
Examples to follow! Touring Exhibition on aesthetics and sustainability, Erfurt/Germany
Science Fiction Festival, Ahlen, Germany *
DEEP SEA, Ystads konstmuseum, Sweden
SAISONALE, DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, Germany *
PRESERVED//Grünkohl, DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst & selected locations in Westphalia *

2018
DEEP SEA, Städtische Galerie Bremen, Germany
DREHMOMENT - Das Produktionskunst-Festival, KulturRegion Stuttgart, Germany
Ansbach Contemporary, Ansbach, Germany
Wonderland I, Bernheimer Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Examples to follow! Touring Exhibition on aesthetics and sustainability, Bonn, Germany

2017
ACTOPOLIS TOURING EXHIBITION, Old Slaughterhouse Thessaloniki, Greece *
Material Boys & Girls, Bernheimer Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Gross Stadt Dschungel, Bunkerhill Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
Millerntor Gallery #7, Hamburg, Germany
Mixed Realities, Bernheimer Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
EAF - Enter Art Foundation, Berlin, Germany

2016
When did we stop playing? Anna Laudel Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
Plastic - Material without Memory, Künstlerhaus FRISE Hamburg, Germany
Y - WHY ? Bernheimer Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Plastic Obsession, UBA/Umweltbundesamt Dessau, Germany
Plastic Fantastic ? Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii

2015
Paper Works #003, Galerie Holthoff-Mokross, Hamburg, Germany
Perform now! Performance Festival Winterthur, Switzerland
Award Exhibition ars loci 2015//Zeitgeist, Rathaus Nienburg/Weser, Germany
DIALOG/Triennial of Photography/Hamburg, Das kleine Schwarze, Hamburg, Germany
Kunstlandschaft5, Kulturdenkmal Mestlin, Germany
ARTweek Aabenraa 2015, Denmark

2014
PPP* - Festival *Past Present Perform Westphalia, Germany
MUTTERBODEN//MODER JORD, Intervention German-Danish borderland
GrensWerteWeltAusstellung, Kloster Bentlage, Rheine, Germany

2013
greenart II, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, Germany
the end of the world-or why the world won´t end? Performance Festival, platform Vaasa, Finland* 
FULL OF LIFE, Das kleine Schwarze, Hamburg, Germany
Massnahmen zur Rettung der Welt Teil II, rotor - Center for Contemporary Art, Graz, Austria

2012
Up the trees, Kunstmuseet Brundlund Slot, Aabenraa, Denmark
ARTweek EXTRA! 2012, Aabenraa, Denmark
flotsam & jetsam, TACTIC Gallery Cork, Ireland

2011
dual nature, ARTweek Exhibition Space, Aabenraa, Denmark*
overhanging fruit, Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Germany

2010
urban wild, kunstGarten Graz, Austria
autotroph, Loki Schmidt Haus Hamburg, Germany
Teile des Ganzen, Kunsthaus Nürnberg, Germany

2009
Hector Award Exhibition Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany, participating at Vitales Archiv
Long Night of Art, Schwäbisch Hall/Goethe Institut Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
Reconstructed Zone, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany, participating at Vitales Archiv
Nature-Man, Harz National Park, St. Andreasberg, Germany
Banegaarden Kunst og Kultur, Aabenraa, Denmark*
ARTweek Aabenraa, Denmark*
Paradise - a forbidden garden? kunst in kontakt Hannover/Gartenregion Hannover, Germany
Germany in a box, Der Werkhof Kiel, Germany
ArtSpring Bremen09, Germany, participating at Vitales Archiv
Waldland, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung MV, Rostock, Germany

2008
Urban Jealousy /1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Iran
Utopia of Space, National Museum of Fine Arts, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic

2007
TILL forever!, Bomann Museum/Museum of Art Celle, Germany
poliflur 01/01, Berlin, Germany
Paulas Kinder, Büro für Kunst, Bremen, Germany*
Galerie im Park, Bremen, Germany

2005
FELDER, Goethe Institut Schwäbisch Hall, Germany*
ELBart 2005, Hamburg, Germany

2004
Biennial of Contemporary Art Cochabamba/Bolivia, Bolivia*