Artist Statement
In my work I deal with transitory moments, which reflect the passing of time. I try to find metaphorical images for the fragility of life. An example for this is memory, since it exists in a place between experience and oblivion. I see people’s memory as a subjective and fragile construction of reality. My artistic means are video installation, photography and installation. In my photographs I often try to capture states that are soon going to be lost, like for example in the series: martha. For this work I took pictures in the house of my 96 years old neighbour, who was an important person for me in my childhood. Right after she had to move into a nursing home, just before her apartment was cleared out of its contents, I preserved details of her life in a series of intimate pictures.
Video as a moving, per definition fugitive medium gives me the possibility to keep and reload extracts of time. Most of my videos are designed as loops, showing a recurrent situation, making the viewer loose his feeling of linear time. To create this timeless space of time, it is important that the point where the loop ends and starts again, cannot be seen. I often choose a beautiful nature scenery that might be well-known to the viewer in order to create an atmosphere of recognition and safety. However the disconcerting element is also part of my works, in a form of a metal pole in the video beauty’s ending or as a line cutting the sky repeatedly in the video continuous line. The feeling that everything we know as reality might change completely in every unforeseeable moment is a personal experience as well as a perception that might also define the era we live in. I want to give this feeling an analogy with my video work.
Education
2015
Diploma of Fine Arts. Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Germany. Specialization in the Media art field. Space and Installation class. Professor Joachim Blank
2008
State exam as art-master. Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. Professor Susanne Windelen. Professor Micha Ullman, Professor Mariella Mosler
1998-2001
Trainee position in the departement of painting restoration at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and at the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Grants
2018 scholarship holder of Kulturstiftung Thüringen
Selected exhibitions
Solo Exhibitons
2019
fragments of reality, Galerie Waidspeicher, Erfurt (catalogue)
2017
remembering brühl 2007/2017, video facade projection at Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig (MdbK)
Tapetenwechsel, Erfurt
2016
between, Long Night of museums Erfurt, Wächterhaus 2
2015
resisting the temptation of feeling secure, diploma at the gallery of Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
Exhibiton Participations
2019
Kunst gegen Rechts (Artists against nazionalist movements) curated by Hammerschmidt und Gladigau Erfurt in the temporary WERKRAUM, Vilniuspassage Erfurt
Passionen, Positions to Bach, Kunsthalle Arnstadt (brochure)
2018
artthuer 2018
nachmorgen, Stipendiatenausstellung der Kulturstiftung des Freistaats Thüringen, Thüringer Aufbaubank (brochure)
2017
where you begin and where I end, glogauAir Berlin (mit Zaida Guerrero Casado und Regina Magdalena Sebald, brochure)
2014
YEA Regard sur la Grande Guerre, Espace Le Carré, Lille
YEA IIIII, Kunsthaus Erfurt
2013
Long Night of Museums Erfurt, Wächterhaus 2
2012
copy & re:peat, BKS Garage Kopenhagen (catalogue)
2011
ZONE ENTROPIE Was von der Welt bleibt / Ce qui reste du monde, Universal Cube in der Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig und Villa du Parc, Centre d’art contemporain, Annemasse
2009
Volume IV, things we do, Universal Cube in der Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig
Ostrale 09, Dresden
2008
Damenexamen, Academy of Fine Arts Stu8gart Stu8gart
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