Artist Statement
Vita
Exhibitions

In my artistic work, I explore the human influence on the ocean and our emotions associated with it. In colaboration with scientists, writers, and the sea as an active actor, I explore questions of new possible forms of human and non-human coexistence, of touch and cross-species learning. I work with experimental, analog and digital photography, often camerafree, and invite my environment to a collaborative expression.
I am interested in learning how to approach a landscape photographically without limiting it with the camera, without capturing or taming it. Often conventional landscape photography seems invasive, heroic or dstant, so I have chosen to leave out the camera and invite the non-human world – the earth, the water, the algae, the plastic, the wind – to become actors in theit own right for a shared photographic drawing. The paper is the stage, the script is written by the landscape, the sun exposes.

Vita

* 1975

lives in Berlin

2019 – 2024

artistic research and collaboration with scientists on ocean plastic and algae

2020 – 2024

artistic direction of the literature and painting workshop Funkenflub/ AJB

            2023

Artist residency, polar expedition ship Cape Race (Spitsbergen)

            2020

Founding of artist group Traces

2011 – 2024

Co-direction and co-curation of Heit, Berlin (producer gallery)

2006 – 2011

Freelance artistic work in collectives and collaborations

2006 – 2011

Working residency in Pondacherry, India, project for Pondacherry Pavillion, Expo Shanghai

2006 – 2008

Book project with journalist T. Wenzel (Deutschlandradio Kultur)

2003 – 2006

Fotodesign studies, State-certified photo designer, Lette Verein, Berlin

1995 – 2000

social work studies (Diploma), FH Cologne, focus on photography/ media pedagogy

Exhibitions and Grants (Selection)

2024

Deep Shore – Gruppenausstellung, Haunt, Berlin

2024

Everything is fine – groupshow, Galerie Georg Nothelfer

2023

Salty Embrace – groupshow, Salon75, Copenhagen

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Slippery Slope – art intervention with K. Köster and D. Kupferberg, groupshow watermarks, Ingrid Bischoff Stiftung, Prierow

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shortlisted for EMB (European Marine Board) (with Kathrin Köster, Daniel Kupferberg and marine scientist Soli Levi)

2022

unravel, groupshow enter:nature at Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin

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WANDER, groupshow , Oberammergau

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Weaving Waves- collective weaving, intervention with traces, Havmollen/Ebeltoft, Denmark

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NeustartKultur Stipendium

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NeustartKultur Stipendium

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JubileeX, Gruppenausstellung, frontviews, Berlin

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Encounters in landscape, groupshow, Spoiler Zone

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Ocean Future Ambassador Award 2. Platz, with K. Köster, D. Kupferberg

2021

bbk Berlin – studio grant

2020

The Artist as Curators Art vol. X, groupshow, SchauFenster, Berlin

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Traces, groupshow and workshops, SchauFenster, Berlin

2019

Blister, with Lee Stevens, Berlin Weekly

2017

Howl of the Coconut, groupshow and workshops, BSMNT/Spinnerei, Leipzig

2016

Reinhard, Fram 7, Berlin

2015

Soulcamp, soloshow, Heit Berlin

2013

The Libidinal Net in Contemporary Photography, class Josephine Pride, groupshow, Heit Berlin