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* 1971, Germany
2022 diploma (Bachelor), Academy of Fine Arts Munich
I trained as a photographer because I always basically was interested in making images. But in contrary to the routine of working in series, I began to manipulate my images with Photoshop and made them painterly single works with a narrative pointe. Later I felt the need to expand my work into 3d and did objects and mixed media stuff, too.
During my academic studies I finally turned back to my roots and focussed on doing figurative painting on paper and canvas. Working with different material helps me to stay grounded, in touch with my skills and aware of my true motivations. By now, recently, I love to expand my work into large formats consisting of several parts, which push the spacial limits of my studio and cannot be viewed in complete dimension during the process of creation.
My paintings are charged with symbolics, narrative layers and stylistic crossovers like inbetween Surrealism and Symbolism for example. They address the viewer in a direct way but somehow keep a secret at the same time.
I make use of a lot of different input to build my palette of images. It's an adventure where I can meet with hidden aspects of myself and ideas originating from the outside world. I can experience the work's progress as a kind of growing personal awareness.
My work is about dephts, fears, gaps and difficulties - existential matters of fact which are often hard to face but provoke an inner development. I would say that there is no true movement or true life without considering its whole dimension.
I prefer a playful and varied approach to doing art. I don't like to repeat a certain technique, concept or subject. It's just about choosing them properly for every new project and staying curious and open to the process - the needs and dynamics of the work itself.
exhibitions
2022 SPATIAL DIALOGUE, Techne Sphere Halle 9, Leipzig
2021 FIRST KISS, Concepting 33, Munich
2021 FRAGEN AN DIE ECHOKAMMER, 100 Jahre Frauen an der AdBK
München, Akademie Galerie, Munich
2020 supermercarto, Dia Galerie, Munich
2019 UNFOLD, Café Clara, Munich (solo)
2017 ARBITRIUM, Fusion Art Gallery, Turin
2017 GOODBYE HORSES, Pilotenkueche, Spinnerei Leipzig
2016 WILD HORSES, Galerie Bipolar, Leipzig
2015 PYGMALEON_ONE, A.P.R. Galerie, Munich
2015 22. AICHACHER KUNSTPREIS, Aichach
2015 IM INNEREN DER STADT, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst,
Bremen
2015 WHAT MISSES NAMES, Munikat projekte, Munich
2013 SIMPLE TRUTH, Rathausgalerie I Kunsthalle, Munich
2013 ACSA Show, Autocenter art space, Berlin
2012 presentation of catalogue KRAFT, LANG, HAST & ALTMANN, Nusser &
Baumgart Contemporary, Munich
2012 WELCOME TO MY WORLD, Galerie für Widerstreit, Munich (solo)
2011 KRAFT, LANG, HAST & ALTMANN (with Andréas Lang, Martin Hast &
Yehuda Altmann) curated by Nico Anklam, Galerie der Künstler (BBK),
Munich
2011 TAKE A LOOK AT YOURSELF, Galerie sono, Munich (solo)
2010 CRASH, rstr#, Munich (solo)
2007 POESIE DES FUNKTIONALEN, 3rd International Marianne-Brandt
Competition, Sächsisches Industriemuseum, Chemnitz
2006 SELBSTSICHT - DER SCHRITT INS BILD, Darmstädter Tage der
Fotografie, Museum Künstlerkolonie, Darmstadt
awards
2007 recognition award of the 3rd International Marianne-Brandt
Competition, category photography
collections
private collections
2015 Center of Studies for Art Publications, Weserburg Museum für moderne
Kunst, Bremen
stipends
2020 atelier stipend, city of Munich
2020 Erwin und Gisela von Steiner Stiftung, Munich
2021 "Junge Kunst und neue Wege" work stipend, Bavarian State Ministry of
Science and the Arts