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*1971 Stuttgart, Germany / lives in Munich, Germany
2017-22 study at Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, classes Prof. Dieter Rehm (photography) & Prof. Schirin Kretschmann (painting), diploma
2005 Int. Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst, Salzburg
2013 ACSA (Autocenter art space) Summer Academy, Berlin
2016/17 artist in residence at Pilotenkueche, Leipzig
2017 artist in residence at Fusion Art Gallery, Turin
Working for several years mainly in photography, I developed my practise towards using different media with a focus on figurative painting on paper and canvas.
In my art I basically deal with personal and common crisis, vulnerabilities and fears and ways to face them. I believe that an artist should act as a messenger, not mainly talking about her opinions but providing the public with sources of inspiration and unconventional views. Therefore I search for "speaking" images which remain basically enigmatic and leave a space for individual interpretations. The pictorial "vocabulary" I develope functions as keys to layers of aspects of understanding and symbolic meaning. Each work remains an experiment with an own independent "voice", product of a process of clarification.
other education
1993/94 photography apprenticeship
1996 archivar apprenticeship (image seller)
1997-99 study of art sciences, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich
other workshops
2000-03 "Projekt Fotografie", adult evening classes, Munich
2002 workshop with Sibylle Bergemann, Fotografie am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin
other practise
2003-08 gallerist, co-curator and gallery co-founder, Munich
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)
201 1 KRAFT, LANG, HAST & ALTMANN (with Andréas Lang, Martin Hast & Yehuda Altmann) curated by Nico Anklam, Galerie der Künstler (BBK), Munich
201 1 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
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