In my artistic work, I explore the human influence on the ocean and our emotions associated with it. In
collaboration 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.
Working with experimental, analog and digital photography, often camerafree, I 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 distant, 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 their own right for a shared photographic drawing.
The paper is the stage, the script is written by the landscape, the sun exposes.
Vita
2019 – 2024
artistic research and collaboration with scientists on ocean plastic and algae
2020 – 2025
artistic director of art lab Funkenflug/AJB
(professional rehabilitation project for mentally unstable artists)
2011 – 2025
2024
Artist residency at the AWI’s guest research institute,Helgoland
2023
Artist residency on the polar expedition ship Cape Race (circumnavigation of Spitsbergen)
2009
Work stay in Pondicherry, India, commisioned project for Pondicherry Pavilion, Expo Shanghai
2006 – 2008
Book project with journalist T. Wenzel (Deutschlandradio Kultur)
2006 – 2011
Freelance artistic work in collectives and collaborations
2003 – 2006
Photography Studies, Lette Verein, Berlin
1995 – 2000
Diploma University of Applied Sciences for Social Work,
Focus on Photography/ Media Education
1994
Highschool diploma, Burg-Gymnasium Bad Bentheim
1975
born in Nordhorn,/Grafschaft Bentheim. Lives with her family in Berlin
Exhibitions and Grants (Selection)
2026
Untitled (Possibilities of Printmaking), groupshow, Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin
2025
2024
coweaving installation in the exhibition Lise Gujer-
Eine neue Art zu malen (with traces), Brückemuseum Berlin
Everything is fine, groupshow, Galerie Georg Nothelfer
Deep Shore, groupshow, Haunt, Berlin
2023
Salty Embrace – groupshow, Salon75, Copenhagen
Slippery Slope – art intervention with K. Köster and D. Kupferberg,
groupshow watermarks, Ingrid Bischoff Stiftung, Prierow
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 (with traces)
WANDER, groupshow , Oberammergau
Weaving Waves- collective weaving, intervention with traces, Havmollen/Ebeltoft, Denmark
NeustartKultur Stipendium
JubileeX, Gruppenausstellung, frontviews, Berlin
Encounters in landscape, groupshow, Spoiler Zone
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
Traces, groupshow and workshops, SchauFenster, Berlin
2019
Blister, with Lee Stevens, Berlin Weekly
2017
Howl of the Coconut, groupshow and workshops, BSMNT/Spinnerei, Leipzig
2015
Soulcamp, Soloshow, Heit Berlin