Curriculum Vitae
1976 born in Sigmaringen, Germany, lives and works in Berlin
2001 - 2008 Studies of Fine Arts at the Braunschweig University of Art under professors
Friedemann von Stockhausen, Johannes Brus, Dörte Eissfeldt, Birgit Hein and Michael Brynntrup
2007 Diploma with distinction, 2008 Meisterschüler Degree (postgraduate study program)
2004 additionally a visiting student in the class of Prof. Katharina Sieverding, Berlin University of the Arts
2005/06 Exchange year at the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, School of Film & Video, MFA program

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2011
Noir, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, US
In Broad Day, Talents 25, C/O Berlin (cat.) (VIEW)
Out of a clear blue sky, House of the Art Foundation of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart (VIEW)
2010
NEXT/1 – Discussing Photography (in the context of RUHR.2010), Kunsthaus Essen (VIEW)
L.A. Crash, Photoforum PasquArt, Biel/Bienne, CH (VIEW)
2009
Boyz n the Hood, with Martin Brand, Gallery Olaf Stüber, Berlin (VIEW)
Marginal Stories, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Remise (cat.) (VIEW)
2008
Tales from the West Side, Museum Goch (cat.) (VIEW) (POSTER)
The Award Winners of Nordwestkunst 2007, with Michael Schmeichel, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven (cat.) (VIEW)
scenic, Municipal Gallery Eichenmüllerhaus Lemgo (cat.) (VIEW)

Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2011
Talent 2011, Foam Amsterdam, NL (VIEW)
Angry – Young and Radical, Fotomuseum Rotterdam, NL (VIEW)
2010
The city of Biel proudly presents: 2 | 007 – 010, Centre PasquArt, Biel/Bienne, CH
Highlights of the KunstFilmBiennale Cologne 2009, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Futurspectives, International Photo Festival FotoGrafia, MACRO Rome, IT (cat.) (VIEW)
Enovos Young Art Award, Wilhelm Hack Museum Ludwigshafen (cat.)
Expanded Media - Media in Space, Film winter Stuttgart, h7 raumaufzeit, Stuttgart
2009
Images Recalled, 3rd Photo Festival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg (cat.) (VIEW)
Festival Voies Off Arles, FR
2008
Northern Lights, 84th Fall Exhibition, Kunstverein Hanover (cat.) (VIEW)
Aenne Biermann Prize, Museum for Applied Arts Gera (cat.) (VIEW)
2007
Nordwestkunst 2007 - The Nominees, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
Expanded Media - Media in Space, Film winter Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (VIEW)
Scholarship Young Art - Competition show, Gallery Eichenmüllerhaus Lemgo
2006
Highlights of the KunstFilmBiennale Cologne 2005, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Emprise Art Award, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf
2005
CalArts Projection Lab, Schindler House Los Angeles, US
Platform #2, Kunstverein Hanover
2004
Monitoring, Kulturbahnhof Kassel
2003
Fremde.Orte. Class of Prof. Eissfeldt, Museum of Photography Braunschweig

Video Screenings (Selection)
2011
Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film and Video Festival, MY; Brick + Mortar International Video Art Festival, Greenfield, US; Simultan Festival for Electronic Arts and Music, Timisoara, RO; Blind Spot Skopje, Cultural Center creACTive, Skopje, MK
2010
Freisichtkino, House of the Art Foundation of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, DE; Kasbah Museum, Tangier, MA; Museum Folkwang, Essen, DE; Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg, DE; Kill Your Timid Notion Video Festival, Dundee, UK
2009
Media Art Festival, Friesland, NL; KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne, DE; Dumbo_video, Brooklyn, US; European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, DE
2007
International Kansk Video Festival, Kansk, RU; The Territory, PBS (TV-Channel), Texas, US; Platforma Video, Athens, GR; Art Museum of Zapopan, Guadalajara, MX; Centro Multimedia, San Luis Potosi, MX; Ursula Blickle Videolounge, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT
2006
Goethe Institute, Kyoto, JP; Kommunales Kino, Freiburg, DE; SISKEL Film Center, Chicago, US; Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, US; Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, US; European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, DE; Media Art Festival, Friesland, NL; Havenfilmfestival, Antwerp, BE; Screen Door Festival, Austin, Texas, US; Images Festival, Toronto, CA; Traverse Vidéo, Toulouse, FR; Incisions, 30 years of film class Braunschweig, Lower Saxony Representation, Berlin, DE
2005
Ongoing-Festival, Stuttgart, DE; 2nd International Video Reporting Award, Weimar, DE; KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne, DE; Film Festival Braunschweig, DE; Cinematexas, Austin, Texas, US; Courtisane Festival for Short Film, Video & New Media, Ghent, BE; Nepdoc, Documentary Film Festival Reutlingen, DE
2004
Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, DE

Grants and Awards
2011
Artist in Residence, Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
2010
Scholarship of the Art Foundation of Baden-Württemberg
DAAD Grant (4 months), Los Angeles
2009
Third Prize, Bild-Kunst Award for Experimental Film, KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne
Prix Voies Off des Rencontres d’Arles
2008
First Prize, Meisterschüler Scholarship of the Braunschweig Cultural Heritage Foundation
First Prize, Aenne Biermann Prize for Contemporary German Photography
2007
Nordwestkunst, Prize of the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
DAAD Grant (5 months), Los Angeles
Scholarship Young Art of the Old Hanseatic City of Lemgo
2005-06
Fulbright Scholarship, California Institute of the Arts (yearlong fellowship)
2004-08
Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation