Vita
1971 - Born in Herne
2002-2004 - Advanced Studies in Fine Arts, Hochschule für bildende Künste,at the invitation of Prof. Franz Erhard Walther
2002 - Diploma in Fine Arts, Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg
1997-2002 - Fine Arts, Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, Prof. Bernhard Johannes Blume
1994-1997 - Visual Communications Studies, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Prof. Floris Neusüss
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 - Gallery Feldbuschwiesner, Berlin, Germany
2012 - Museo Nacional de San Carlos, Mexico City, Mexico
2011 - Extradosis, Kunsthalle zu Kiel
2011 - Kunstpreis Finkenwerder, Kunsthaus Hamburg
2011 - Sammel Sammel Kohleeimer Helmersatz, Kunstverein Augsburg
2011 - ERNIE & SE KING, Griffelkunst Hamburg, 5. Triennale der Photographie
2010 - Studiomove, Kolbe Museum , Berlin
2010 - Milkymaid im Upperfloor , Artfinder Gallery, Hamburg
2010 - Gallery Elisa Plateau, Brüssel, Belgium
2009 - Studioblüten, Kunstagenten Gallery, Berlin
2008 - Entree, Nicolas Krupp Gallery, Basel
2008 - GEM Museum voor Actuelle Kunst, The Hague
2007 - Palais d’Edelwall, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin
2007 - Tisch zi bäng, Gallery Kunstagenten, Berlin
2007 - Casa Rotti, Gallery Artfinder, Hamburg
2007 - Gut Ding will es so, Autostadt Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
2006 - Alles hat kein Ende, Gallery Kunstagenten, Berlin
2006 - Salon, Gallery White Trash Contemporary, Hamburg
2005 - True Romans, Gallery Artfinder, Hamburg
2003 - Zwischenstand, Künstlerhaus Frise, Hamburg
2003 - Suchen sammeln anwenden, Gallery KX, Hamburg
2003 - Volle Ladung / Halbe Halde, Gallery Acht P, Bonn
2003 - Aussenlager, Gallery Trottoir, Hamburg
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 - "Factory Direct", The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA
2012 - "Alice in the Wonderland of Art", Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2012 - "To Begin Is To Be Half Done", Busanstation, Busan, Southkorea
2012 - "Facade", Middelburg, Netherland
2012 - "CONVOY BERLIN", Biksady Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2012 - "Common Ground", Gloria Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2012 - "Ironic", Städtische Galerie Bietigheim Bissingen, Germany
2012 - "Alice im Wunderland", Fotomuseum Helsinki at the Museum of Modern Art in Cadiz, Spain
2012 - "Wild - Animals in Contemporary Photography", Old Omaha Association / The Moving Gallery, Omaha, USA
2012 - "(dis)Placements", Hamburg Art Week, Germany
2012 - "Stillstehende Sachen", from the collection SøR Rusche, Museum Abtei Liesborn, Germany
2011 - "SCHNITTE IM RAUM.Skulpturale Collagen", Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
2011 - "Alice im Wunderland", Fotomuseum Helsinki at the Cultural centre Locomo, Turku, Finnland
2011 - "Ironic", Kunstpalais Erlangen, Deutschland
2011 - "Out of Mind", Museum Wlokiennictwa, Lodz, Polen
2011 - "Shadows of the Bright", Berlin Art Project/Showroom, Berlin
2011 - "Jahresgaben 2011", Kunsthalle zu Kiel
2011 - "Glückliche Krieger", Artfinder Gallery, Hamburg
2011 - "Redefine Readymade", Kunstverein Schwerin
2011 - "Veldener Kunstpreis", Kunstverein Leimen
2011 - "The ear of Giacometti", Gallery Levy, Hamburg, Germany
2011 - ".tmp", Phonix -BB , Berlin
2010 - "Changing times - New worlds", Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands
2010 - "Das Fundament in der Kunst", Hans Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck
2010 - "Remote Viewing: New Video Art from Europe, the Best of Loop", Museum of Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
2010 - "Remote Viewing: New Video Art from Europe, the Best of Loop", Pazific Design Center, Los Angeles
2010 - "Remote Viewing: New Video Art from Europe, the Best of Loop", Museum of Arts Stockholm
2010 - "walking the borderline" Skulpturenausstellung vom Kunstverein Erfurt in der Peterskirche Erfurt
2010 - "Opening", Gallery Elisa Plateau, Brüssel, Belgium
2010 - "Cover Up", ModernTape, Berlin
2010 - Art Biesenthal, Berlin, Germany
2010 - "Jumble" , Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2010 - "Calling Beauty", Columbia University, Ohio,USA
2010 - "Out of Control", 7th Int. Biennial of Photography and visual Arts in Liege, Grand-Curtius-Museum, Belgium
2010 - "Collection Presentation", Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands
2010 - "Karaoke " Plattform 2010, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Schweiz
2010 - "Stars and Models", International Fotofestival Knokke, Belgium
2010 - "40 Years levy", Gallery Levy, Hamburg, Germany
2010 - “Lost in Summer", Gallery White Trash, Hamburg
2010 - "International encounter of contemporary art", Santa Lucia, Venezuela
2010 - "Das Fundament in der Kunst", Gustav Marcks Museum Bremen
2010 - "Index", Nomination for the Index Artprice, Kunsthaus Hamburg
2009 - Dresscode, ICP New York, International Video and Fototrienale in NYC, USA
2009 - On Portrait 01, Gallery Kunstagenten Berlin
2009 - Stillife, Gemeentemuseum The Hague, Netherlands
2009 - Das Fundament in der Kunst, Städtische Museen Heilbronn
2009 - National Museum Sana´a, Sana´a, Jemen
2009 - Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2009 - Art Biesenthal, Berlin, Germany
2009 - Twinism, AD & D Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2009 - XXth Century, Gemeentemuseum The Hague, Netherlands
2009 - Spotlight , Museum of Modern Art Mönchsberg, Austria
2009 - Acquired & Admired: Collectables 3 - Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague
2008 - System Mensch, Museum of Modern Art Salzburg, Austria
2008 - We call it Hamburg, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2008 - Seven, Gallery Elisa Plateau, Brüssel, Belgium
2008 - People, Spirits & Ghosts: Portraits, Gallery Nouvelle Image, Den Haag, Netherlands
2008 - Who are you ?, Gallery Adler, New York, USA
2008 - Ding Nova, Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, Belgium
2007 - DLD Collection, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands
2007 - Förderpreis Bildende Kunst der Schering Stiftung, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
2007 - Hamburg Stipendiaten, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany
2007 - Schöne Grüße aus Hohenlockstedt, Kunsthaus Hohenlockstedt, Germany
2007 - The Last Blue Sky, Gallery Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin; Ireland
2006 - Figure it out, Gallery Artfinder, Hamburg, Germany
2006 - Spatial Shift, Museum for Urban Sculpture, St. Petersburg , Russia
2006 - Stile der Stadt, Hamburg, Germany
2005 - PILOT:2, London, Great Britain
2004 - Index 04, Kunsthaus Hamburg
2004 - Haustür, Zimmer, Fernseher, Abstellkammer, Gallery 88, Hamburg
2004 - Am Schlagbaum, Zoll/Douane l, Hamburg
2004 - Spielfeld, Feld für Kunst, Hamburg
2004 - Vamos a la Playa, Temporary art space, ZeitBewegungen, Hamburg
2003 - Mai und Materie, Gallery Taubenstraße, Hamburg
2003 - 4. OG, Alsterhaus Hamburg
2002 - “…und er sah das es gut war,” St. Katharinenkirche, Hamburg
2002 - Villa Romana , Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen
2002 - Zwischen Schwindel um Raum, Kampnagel KX, Hamburg
2000 - Problem Malerei, Kunstverein Gütersloh
COLLECTIONS
Collection Falkenberg, Germany
Collection Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
Collection Rusche, Germany
Collection Michael Hoppen, London
Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Münster, Germany
Mont Blanc Collection, Germany
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands
Collection of Pieter and Marieke Sanders, Aerdenhout
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Collection Roosen-Trinks, Germany
Collection Caron, France
AWARDS / GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS
2012 - Artistresidents, Andy Warhol Museum, Pitsburgh, USA
2012 - Lecture at the Academie of Fine Arts Hamburg, Hamburg
2011 - Kunstpreis Finkenwerder
2010 - Lecture at the Muthesius Academie of Fine Arts, Kiel
2010 - Nomination Index Kunstpreis Hamburg
2009 - Artistresidents, German House Sanaa & Aden, Goethe-Institut in Jeminy
2009 - Lecture at the Academie of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Finland
2007 - Nomination, Shering-Kunstpreis
2006 - Fellowship, City of Hamburg
2005 - Project grant for PILOT:2, London, Department of Culture Germany
2001 - 2nd Prize, Kunst am Bau Ausschreibung LVA, Hamburg
2000 - Project fellowship, Friends of the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg