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