About
WORK
GRAPHIC | INSTALLATION | MULTIMEDIA
At the beginning of the conceptual artistic work, thematic photographs are processed on the computer. These come from released archives or are digitally or analogue produced by me. Print templates are created from the digital graphics, which are transferred to the carrier with the help of a manual printing process. The imprint of the graphic appears more painterly than the template, which is reinforced by the transparency of the glass. A wide variety of types of glass and materials are used as carriers. Old window panes, found glass, window panes, mosaic stones, silk, tissue paper, tracing paper, etc .. The transparency of the material is important in order to guarantee that it shows through. The image acquires a deliberate blurring and depth.
By superimposing several layers of glass, a three-dimensionality is created, such as is used in a pop-up book, for example. The overlapping of times and historical events, the undeniable connections of the past, present and future are closely related to the content of the choice of material. With the help of the new media, the shadows that emerge as symbols for the past becoming alive can open up a wide variety of aspects and art forms. The glass print images are often reminiscent of old photo plates, which were used in the early days of film art. From the glass prints and their cast shadows or photographs, in turn, video sequences are created. This closes the bond between the generations.
It is important to me to mix materials and techniques, to experiment, to research and to create new media and forms of expression, to deepen and continue my way of working. To put these in the historical and social context. To investigate uncomfortable questions with the help of artistic means and to present them to the real or virtual public for discourse. Art as a means of integration, demonstration, sympathy, reflection, as a bearer of hope and as an aid to
non-verbal communication and understanding, but also as a danger of image manipulation. The context decides on expression and interpretation. Music, sound recordings, photographs, film sequences, performance and shadow photographs become media installations.
Artistic companions who accompany social and political events.
CULTURAL EDUCATION
Arts education is an interaction in the discovery of one's own abilities with the direct one
cultural environment and its exchange in a global context. To explore new things at all levels of the artistic and creative fields of activity serves to strengthen personality development in order to reduce prejudices and fears for a social and open society. Movement plays an important role in artistic creative processes. The interaction between body, mind and feeling enables your own creative expression. In artistic creation, a direct experience of these processes is made possible and space is given to our urge to move.
BIO
born in Bielefeld
1988 apprenticeship as chemical-technical assistant, focus on environmental technology
1989 move to the border region of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands
Since 1996 exhibitions and projects at home and abroad
1999 Diploma in Fine Arts and Design at the Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht, NL
2000 working stay in Spain and Portugal
2001 First second home in Wilsen near Stäbelow, MV
2001 - 2009 commuter between Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Belgium
2006 founding member of the Kunstverein Grebbin eV, MV
Co-founder of the producer gallery "Article 5" in Aachen, Germany
2009 European teaching qualification for Art & Design at the Autonomous University of Eupen, Belgium
2009 move to Augzin, MV
2009 - 2018 member and studio at Rothener Hof eV, MV
2009 - 2013 high school teacher at the ecolea | International School Schwerin, Warnemünde, MV
2010 - 20211 mobile phone film competition for students at the Schwerin Film Festival
2010 1st and 2011 1st & 2nd prize with the 8th class of the ecolea Schwerin
Since 2013
freelancer at the State Museum Schwerin, museum education & art education
Member of the Künstlerbund Mecklenburg und Vorpommern e. V. in the BBK
Travel grant Künstlerhaus Schloss Plüschow for fine arts, France
2014 - 2016
project management PR artist for students of the artist association MV eV in the BBK | Nov 13 - Jan 16
Closing event Kunsthalle Rostock & Pommersche Landesmuseum Greifswald
Since 2014 member of the “New Members” admission committee in the Künstlerbund MV eV in the BBK
2015–2016 board member of BDK eV, state association MV for art education
Since 2015
project management talent camp, young talent early promotion of the state of MV
sponsored by the Künstlerhaus Schloss Plüschow
Member of the district culture council of the Ludwigslust-Parchim district
2015 advancement award Marktplatz Kultur und Schule MV, Kulturstiftung der Länder
2016 - 2019
2nd chairwoman of the federal executive board BDK eV Association for Art Education
Since 2016 art pedagogue at the upper level of grades 11 and 12, Niels-Steensen-Schule Schwerin
Initiator & founding KUNSTRADIUS 40km with the kick-off project Art Tour
2017 PAG - A GLOBALIZED ART PROJECT FOR SCHOOL CLASSES with
Académie Reims & Ministère de L´éducation national & Région Académique Grand Est, France
Fine arts travel grant, camac - Center d'Art, Marnay-sur-Seine, France
The KUNSTRADIUS 40 km project was sponsored by the German District Association
submitted for the BKM Prize for Cultural Education 2018
2018
Art Route Aachen - “P.art of it” in the Scupturenhügel Lancé, D-NL-B
Curation ART is TODAY & WHAT is TOMORROW? Kulturhaus Mestlin, D
as part of the KUNSTRADIUS 40km
Proposed for the Ludwig Reinhard Culture Prize 2018 Art and Culture Prize of the
Ludwiglust-Parchim district
2019
residency grant from Schloss Bröllin eV with the artist group
CDK - the three monkeys, D-USA-MX
Dance - video installation - literature
Working grant as part of the cultural funding of the state of MV
2020 START 3-year further training in interdisciplinary dance education / dance pedagogy