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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