1963 born in Witten, Germany
EDUCATION
1991
MFA Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (‘Meisterschüler’)
1989 – 1992
Postgraduate studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Düsseldorf, Germany with Professor Fritz Schwegler
1988
BFA, Kassel University, Germany
1986 – 1988
Fine Arts studies at the Gerrit-Rietveld-Academy Amsterdam, Netherlands
1983 – 1986
Fine Arts studies at the Kassel University and the Academy of Fine Arts Berlin, Germany
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1994 – Present
Lecturer/adjunct, Academy of Fine Arts, Düsseldorf, Germany
1991 – 1998
Freelancer at the Collection of Modern Art of Northrhine-Westphalia (Kunstsammlung NRW), department for education and communication, Düsseldorf, Germany
LECTURES / VISITING ARTIST AND PROFESSOR / WORKSHOPS
2003
Faculty of Visual Arts, University Salvador di Bahia (Artes Visuais/EBA/UFBA), Brazil; Instituto do Artes do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil; Rhode Island School of Art and Design, Providence, USA; Kunstskolen I Rogaland, Stavanger, Norway
2002
Rhode Island School of Art and Design, Providence, USA 2001 Academy of fine Arts, Prague and Symposia ‘Excavating the Future’, Goethe Institut, Prague, Czech Republic
1998
Royal College of Fine Arts, Oslo, Norway
1996
Academy of Fine Art, Trondheim, Norway
1995
Academy of Fine Art, Trondheim, Norway
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2003
Fellowship from the Kunststiftung Northrhine-Westphalia for Artist-in-Residency in Rio di Janeiro, Brazil in 2004; Fellowship from the cultural ministry of the state of Northrhine-Westphalia for a project at the Aldrich Museum, USA
2002
Vordemberge award (for visual arts) of the City of Cologne, Germany; Artist-in-Residence, Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2001
Artist-in-Residence, Art Omi, Ghent, NY, USA; Artist-in-Residence, Bemis Foundation, Omaha, NE, USA (Award from the John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund, Cambridge, MA); ‘WorldViews’ LMCC/World Trade Center, New York City (was planned from on November 2001)
2000
Artist-in-Residence, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas (Fellowship from the cultural ministry of Northrhine-Westphalia)
1997
Fine art prize of the westphalian industry, Germany 1992 Fellowship from Pépinières européennes, Paris for a five month residency in Bratislava, Slovakian Republic
1990
DAAD fellowship for Italy
