About me
Fantasies
Or the creation
my collages
"We do not see things as they are; we see them as we are"
Anaïs Nin
In my work I deal with perception and the construct of reality that our mind creates.
The reality we perceive is not a direct reflection of the objective outside world.
Where in our memory are seen objects, impressions and memories located?
How can inner thoughts and associations take on spatial structure?
Mental maps are a basic principle of human thinking. Our brain organizes what we see and experience in this way and stores these events on a mental map. Objects of similar nature are placed in proximity to one another.
The body’s own navigation system consists of place cells, grids and raster cells that sort the stored positions in the brain in neuronal circuits and
Connections create spatial imagination. The activity of grid cells and place cells create mental maps of concepts.
Through my exploration of visual memory in the age of uncontrollable digital mass image production, the question arises as to where images are stored in my memory and how they are reconstructed.
According to which criteria are remembered and located positions linked?
Vita
Born in New York
Education
1982 - 87 Braunschweig University of Art
Braunschweig University of Art
with Hermann Albert, Peter Voigt
1987 Master student HfBK Braunschweig/MFA HfBK Braunschweig
Scholarship/Fellowships/Grants
Working scholarship Hessian Cultural Foundation
Bridging Scholarship Hessian Cultural Foundation
Scholarship Kunstfonds Foundation
Studio Scholarship for Fine Arts 2020/2023 of the
City of Frankfurt am Main
Has been working as a freelance artist in Frankfurt am Main since 1993
Works and lives in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Exhibitions ( Auswahl/Selected )
2024
OCHO 2 Cluster, Contemporary Art Hall of the Museum of Nerja, Spain
2023
Hirngespinste, Gallery Ruprecht Contemporary, Wiesbaden
Handon/Weingärtner, Exhibition Hall Schulstrasse 1A, Frankfurt
2022
OCHO1 fragile, Galerie im Unteren Hardthof, Giessen
Round Trip Time, Gallery Textor74, Frankfurt
2021
Scout, Galleri Heike Arndt DK, Kettinge, Denmark
2020
Exit, Qipo, Mexico City
ErleuchtTurm, Luminale Frankfurt
Fresh Legs, Galleri Heike Arndt DK, Berlin
Verflechtungen, Bronx Art Space, New York
2019
Familiar with the fear, Atelierhaus Darmstadt
Schichtwechsel, Kunstverein Walpodenakademie Mainz 2018 Hidden
Structures, Gallus Theater Gallery, Frankfurt
2016
Courage, Kunstverein Offenbach
2015
Social Expression, CWG Gallery/K4Frankfurt
2014
Ruins of the Present, Steinbrener/Dempf and Huber, Vienna
Kunstraum Dreieich 2013 Gallery oqbo, Berlin
Ephemeris, BronxArtSpace, New York
Dreieich Art Space
2012
Reload, Academy for Interdisciplinary Processes, Offenbach
2011
Dok25a, Dusseldorf
Detached from all things, Kunstverein Bellevue Saal, Wiesbaden
Open Doors, Frankfurt
Come home, Cologne, Lauvsnes, Norway
2010
Riverside, Künstlerforum, Bonn
Passage, Scharpenberg Gallery, Chicago 2009 Open Doors, Frankfurt
2008
Come home, Cologne, Berlin, Calcutta
Pool 31, Frankfurt
2005
Bad Homburg Art Association
2004
Hessian State Chancellery, Wiesbaden
2003
Test run Interart, Frankfurt
2002
Art Association Artlantis, Bad Homburg
Kunsthalle Villa Kobe, Halle
2001
Collection D-Logisitcs, Hofheim, Wallau
Das Schaufenster, Bad Homburg
Art Association Artlantis, Bad Homburg
Kunst Grenzenlos, Teloy-Muhle art association, Meerbusch
Cultural Forum, Oberursel
Represented in private and public collections, e.g. Deutsche Bank Collection, Hubner Collection, State of Hessen Part of public and private collections such as Deutsche Bank, Hübner Collection, State of Hessen Holdings.