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* 1971 in Stuttgart, Germany

 

2022  diploma (Bachelor), Academy of Fine Arts Munich

 

 

 I was trained as a photographer and after deciding to do art worked on series  with an interest in still life, street photography and self portraits. A few years later instead, I mainly used photography as "raw material" to create "paintings" with Photoshop. Objects and other mixed media works soon completed this main body. I wanted each piece to express an inventive originality and a self-explaining pointe similar to some Surrealist positions, but being my own work, not a copy of them. 

 In recent times I restarted doing figurative painting on paper and canvas. I love working with material. The process of materialization helps me to orientate and become aware of my true motivations. It keeps me grounded and in touch with my skills

 My work provides many possibilities of interpretation and layers of formal presence. It's charged with symbolics and cites. Even if they might address the viewer sometimes in a direct way, they always keep an enigmatic and undefined aspect at the same time. 

 I prefer a playful, surprising and varied approach to doing art, not to be fixed to a certain media, concept or subject. My practise is an adventure where I can meet with hidden aspects of myself and strange ideas coming from the outside world or elsewhere.

  I believe that art reveals itself through welcoming the unknown and being present in the moment. By moving forward towards an open destination,  I serve a fugitive source of inspiration, an inner wisdom that can unfold within images offered to the mind.


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


              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