BIO
I am a visual artist from and living in Germany. My art incorporates themes of identity, place, memory and dislocation, where my rural and international background can be a point of departure. I use varied artistic expressions that include photography, video and sound.
My focus is on fine art photography, on still lives and images of our world in the form of still lives. I portray the strange moments of daily life. I am interested in all phenomena of light and how light transforms the seemingly obvious into a new reality – thus creating the magic of the image. I have been a traveller. I explore the world, people and cultures. I focus currently on the microcosm of daily life – made visible and connected to inner places, emotions or memories.
Since 2001, I work on photography, after studies at renowned international universities in Germany, UK and Canada (MPhil). I attended master courses with ICP, Magnum and other schools. Teachers include Josef Schulz, Sonja Braas and Oded Wagenstein. With Jean-Christian Bourcat, Jane Evelyn Atwood and Nicolas Havette I completed an Oeildeep Masterclass in Paris. I joined the summer academy in Salzburg with Eli Cortinas in 2020 and gained a 2021 residency with the New York School of Visual Arts. I am a member of the German female artist association Gedok, of WorkShowGrow in UK, IP3 Group and Teleportal Gallery in US.
I exhibit internationally, at festivals, galleries, art fairs and (German) art associations. I contributed to and won prizes in international art and photography competitions. become 3. Prize winner of the Alzey-Worms Art prize in 2016, bronze winner at Px3 (2015), finalist eg. at Premio Arte Laguna (2015), Premio Celeste (2015), Premio Lynx, The Julia Cameron Gala Award (2020), The Swiss Photo Club Awards (2019), the ARTIG Art prize Kempten (2016) and the South West German Art Prize (2018).
Artist Books
False Moons, 2019
Moon Lite, 2024, icon Verlag, Munich, Germany
Beyond the Wild, to come soon
Residencies
School of Visual arts, New York, USA 2021
Despatch Residency, New Forest, WorkShowgrow, UK 2021
Awards
2024 | Initial selection Athens Photo festival, Athens, Greece for “Beyond the Wild”
2023 | Nominated for Star Award by curator Moritz Neumüller for “Beyond the Wild”
2022 | Der Greif Guestroom, Living Spaces, July 2022, photo “Building a wood house”
2022 | Initial selection „Urban Photo Book Award“ for book „Beyond the Wild“, Trieste, Italy
2022 | TOP 20% Belfast Photo Festival Book Award for book „Beyond the Wild“
2020 | Hon. Mention, 15th Julia Cameron Gala Award, Spain
2020 | Book “False Moons” is finalist at 9e rendez-vous image photo festival, Strasbourg, France
2019 | Top 50, Swiss Photo Club Awards, Galery Humanit’Art, Genf, Switzerland
2018 | Südwestdeutscher Kunstpreis, Savings Bank Esslingen-Nürtingen, Germany
2017 | Sala degli Archi – Fortezza Nueva, Livorno, Italy (Finalist Premio Lynx)
2016 | Gallery Lokarjeva, Ajdovscina, Slovenia (Finalist Premio Lynx)
2016 | Galerie im Burggrafiat, Alzey Worms (3. Preis), Germany
2016 | Finalist Premio Lynx, Lux Gallery, Trieste, Italy (Associazione Sestante)
2016 | Julia Cameron Gala Award at European Month of Photography, Palazzo Italia, Berlin, Germany
2016 | Galerie / Art Prize „Artig“ Finalist, Art Association Kempten, Germany
2015 | Premio Celeste, ex-Bazzi, Milano, Italy
2015 | Premio Arte Laguna, Venice, Italy
Book Awards
2024 | Fanzineist Vienna book and zine fair (“Beyond the Wild” and “Moon Lite” books, “Muse” and “Scorchzine”)
2022 | Book „Elements“ by UnitedPhotoPress
2020 | Street photography book from dotart “Chromantic”, Italy
2020 | Book “30 Years of UnitedPhotoPress Creative Artists”
2019 | July edition, Average Art Magazine, UK
2019 | July edition, Spotlight magazine, France
2019 | F-stop online magazine, edition June 2019, USA
2019 | Book “Short Street Stories”, dotart 2019, Italy
2018 | Loosenart Book “Smoke city”, Italy
2016 | Book European Month of Photography, Kehrer Verlag
2015 | Book Arsenale, Venedig, Italy (Premio Arte Laguna)
Exhibitions
Group exhibitions (excerpt):
2024 | “I also fight windmills, Curiously Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK
2024 | “Yellow” at Glasgow Gallery of Photography, UK
2024 | “Mythology” at loosenart, Rome, Italy
2024 | (R)Evolution at Markgräfler Museum, Müllheim, Germany
2024 | “I also fight with windmills”, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
2024 | “Blink 2.0”, Chicago, USA
2024 | Format photo festival: “Future Now”, LCB Depot, Leicester, UK
2024 | „Reconnected“, Galerie Ingo Seufert, Munich, Germany
2024 | “Kunstauktion” and exhibition at Schopf 2 art space, Freiburg, Germany
2017 to 2024 | Casa da Cultura, Setubal, Portugal
2017 to 2024 | Electricity Museum, Funchal, Madeira Islands, Portugal
2023 | “Sloom” Ausstellung der SVA Alumni, Studio Ninedee Galerie, New York, USA
2023 | “Munich calling” Ausstellung der Teleportal Collective, Donner wie Blitz Gallery, Germany
2023 | Buchpräsentation “Beyond the Wild”, Galerie f3 Berlin, Germany
2023 | Art weeks for Climate and Environment, Gedok, Karlsruhe, Germany
2023 | “Play” Group Show WSG, County Courts, Kennington, London, UK
2023 | “Blink”, Grand State Exhibition, West Grand Av, Chicago, USA
2023 | “Yonder Crush”, Satchel Projects, Chelsea, New York, USA
2022 | „Movement“, Teleportal exhibits at Real Tinsel Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, USA
2022 | Der Greif Guestroom, curated by Sarah Johanna Theurer, Haus der Kunst, München
2022 | “Richtung”, Projekt33, Karlsruhe, Germany
2022 | “Black Forest Image”, Art Association Haslach, Germany
2022 | „Despatch“, New Forest Heritage Center, Lyndhurst, UK
2022 | “Ephemeral Existence”, Teleportal Gallery goes Satchel Projects, Chelsea, New York, USA
2021 | Debut, Gedok Freiburg, Germany
2021 | Art Association Bayreuth, 71. Kunstausstellung, Germany
2021 | Art Association Rosenheim, Kunst Aktuell 2021, Germany
2021 | Art Association Wasserburg, Große Kunstausstellung, Germany
2021 | SVA residency PDF Exhibition at “Tiger strikes asteroid” galleries, USA,
2020 | EMOP Berlin, Photo derive and Fotomarathon online exhibitions, Germany
2020 | PhotoMünchen online fair
2020 | “Chromantic” by dotart / Trieste photo festival, Trieste, Italy
2020 | “Canvas22”, Offenburg, Germany
2020 | Galleria Millepiani, Loosenart, Rome, Italy
2020 | Biennale Blau, Blaues Haus, Diessen, Germany
2020 | Hon. Mention, 15th Julia Cameron Gala Award, Spain
2020 | Grosse Kunstausstellung, AK 68 Art Association, Wasserburg, Germany
2020 | Foley Gallery, Print Swap New York, USA
2020 | Affordable Art Fair, Milano, Italy with Galleria Unique Contemporary
2020 | 9th rendez-vous images photo festival, finalist Prix du livre, Strasbourg, France
2019 | Top 50, Swiss Photo Club Awards, Galery Humanit’Art, Genf, Schweiz
2016, 2019 |”Objects of desire”, domagkateliers, Munich, Germany
2019 | Cultural Center “El refugio”, Guadalajara, Mexico
2019 | „Interiors" at PEP; Berlin
2019 | project3drei, Karlsruhe, Germany
2019 | Open Courtyard at Rencontres d#Arles Summer School, France
2018 | Group show at Photo Gallery Litvai, Landshut, Germany
2019 | “Perceptions” / Month of Photography, Galleria Millepiani, Rome, Italy
2019 | Ingo Seufert Gallery, Munich, Germany
2018 | Reclaim Photofestival, Black Country Living Museum, UK
2018 | Kreissparkasse Esslingen-Nürtingen, Germany 2018 | Yearly show at Photo Gallery Litvai, Landshut a.L., Germany 2018 | Creative Artists Retrospective, Setubal, Portugal 2018 | Barcelona Foto Biennale, Spain 2018 | 49Degrees, Portfolio Show, Members of Kunstverein Karlsruhe, Germany 2018 | Yearly Exhibition, Art Association ak68, Wasserburg, Germany 2018 | Kunstverein Rosenheim, yearly exhibition, Municipal Gallery, Germany 2018 | London Photo Show, London, Uk 2018 | Reclaim Photofestival, Black Country Living Museum, UK 2018 | Galerie Oberes Schlößchen, Kunstverein Bobingen, Germany 2018 | Bergennale, Kunstverein Berg, Marstall, Berg, Germany 2018 | Casa da Cultura, Setubal, Portugal |
2017 | Domagk ateliers "Objects of desire", Munich, Germany
2017 | Art Association Rosenheim, Germany
2017 | Freiraum Gallery, Munich, Germany
2017 | Reclaim Photo Festival, digital display at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
2017 | Art Fair Malaga, Spain
2017 | Civic Center of Camera de Lobos, Madeira Islands, Portugal
2017 | Sala degli Archi – Fortezza Nueva, Livorno, Italy (Finalist Premio Lynx)
2017 | Electricity Museum, Funchal, Madeira Islands, Portugal
2017 | Casa da Cultura, Setubal, Portugal
2017 | Farben der Stadt – Municipal Library, Munich, Germany
2016 | Gallery Lokarjeva, Ajdovscina, Slovenia (Finalist Premio Lynx)
2016 | Galerie im Burggrafiat, Alzey Worms (3. Price), Germany
2013 to 2016 | Company exhibition, Allianz SE, Munich, Germany
2016 | Art Innsbruck with Galleria Unique, Austria
2016 | Kuala Lumpur Fotofestival, Malaysia
2016 | Finalist Premio Lynx, Lux Gallery, Trieste, Italy (Associazione Sestante)
2016 | European Month of Photography, Palazzo Italia, Berlin, Germany
2016 | Art Associations Germany: Bayreuth, Wasserburg/AK 68, Gauting, Gedok Berlin/Kunstpoststelle, Ottobrunn, Bad Wörishofen
2016 | Artists DNA, Tina Goncalvez Art Gallery, Lagos, Portugal
2016 | 6x6x2016 at Rochester Contemporary Art Center, USA
2016 | Art center Quiddestraße, Munich, Germany
2016 | Granada International Art Fair, Granada, Spain
2016 | Art Association Mittleres Kinzigtal, Museum Haslach, Germany
2016 | Galerie / Art Prize „Artig“, AA Kempten, Finalist
2016 | Galleria Wikiarte, Bologna, Italien
2016 | #memory archive, Photobook Melbourne, Australia
2015 | Project space “Weltraum”, Munich, yearly show
2015 | Premio Celeste, ex-Bazzi, Milano, Italy
2015 | Art Associations in Germany: Aichach, Ottobrunn, Karlsruhe, Bad Wörishofen, Bayreuth, Erding
2015 | Incubarte Festival, Valencia, Spain
2015 | Taylor Wessing lawyers, Munich
2015 | Premio Arte Laguna, Venice, Italy
2015 | Municipal Gallery, Castle Hemsbach, Germany
2014 | Art fair Frauenmuseum , Bonn, Germany
2014 | Art fair Ingolstadt, Germany
2014 | Allianz Aussendienst Akademie, Cologne, Germany
Solo exhibitions (excerpt):
2012 to 2024 | Open ateliers within Kultüren Neuhausen, Munich, Germany
2023 | Domagktage, München: joint solo with Gerlinde Miesenböck
2023 | Offene Ateliers Offenburg, Germany
2021 | Kunsttreff Moosach, München
2018 | "Into the Blue", Solo show at Photo Gallery Litvai, Landshut, Germany
2017 | Municipal Library Munich, Germany
2016 | HdbL Gallery, Herrsching, Germany
2013 | Wilde & Partner, PR-agency, Munich, Germany
2012 | vhs Munich, Germany
2012 | Gallery „Im Bürgerhaus“, Ingolstadt, Germany
2012 | Municipal Library Maxvorstadt and Moosach, Munich, Germany