Education
Technical University Berlin, Berlin (BA in Philosophy)
Royal Academy Schools, London (Post-Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts)
Weißensee School of Art, Berlin (Diploma in Painting)
Academy of Fine Art, Stuttgart
Awards, Grants & Residencies
2023 Artist in residence at ACRE Studios Berlin
2019 Artist in residence at TekTrope Istanbul
2014 Goldrausch Kuenstlerinnenprojekt art IT Berlin
2013 Deutsche Bank Award in Fine Art (1st prize)
2013 Jerwood Drawing Prize (2nd prize)
2013 Artist in residence at Glenfiddich Distillery, Dufftown, Scotland
2012 RA Japan scholarship, two month study visit to Tokyo ´
2010 Montjoie scholarship Monschau
2008 Nafoeg scholarship of Berlin
2008 Young Art Award Zurich
2007 Artist in residence at Cranach Foundation Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Teaching
2025 visiting tutor, HMU Potsdam
2016 - 2023 lecturer in Fine Art at TU Dortmund
2017 visiting tutor, F&F Schule for Art & Design Zurich
2014 visiting tutor at University of Art, Plymouth
Exhibitions
In den past 15 years various international solo-, duo- und group exhibitions, amongst others at: Peles Space Berlin (DE), Diettrich und Schlechtriem Berlin (DE), Horse & Pony Berlin (DE), Frontviews Berlin (DE), Kunstverein Pforzheim (DE), LageEgal Berlin (DE), The Exeter Phoenix (UK), Museum Monschau (DE), Galerie Bartha & Senarclens Genf (CH), Villa Bergele Ida-Oberstein (DE), Essex Flowers New York (US), Viborg Kunsthal (DNK), Goethe Institut Lille (F), AUB Gallery Bournemouth (UK); REITER Galerie Leipzig (DE), Galerie Sperling München (DE), Neuer Kunstverein Wuppertal (DE), New Release Gallery New York (US), Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin (DE), Index Art Centre Newark (US), Traverse Vidéo Festival Toulouse (F), Tiger Strikes Astroid New York (US), Fahrenheit Los Angeles (US), University of Cambridge (UK), Art Plural Galerie Singapur (SGP), Charlie Smith Gallery London (UK), Kunsthalle Münster (DE), Jerwood Gallery London (UK), Blacklit Gallery Nottingham (UK), Royal Academy of Arts (UK), Old Museum of Mankind London (UK), Nancy Margolis Gallery New York (US), Cranach-Höfe Wittenberg (DE), Berliner Kunstsalon (DE).
Performances and peformative conversations
2023 Creation aka Too Much Information — a libidinal address (in theory)
. Lecture Performance at ACRE Studios Berlin.
2022 Sometimes The Only No I Have Is To Reverse Things (says Eileen). Uninterrupted 7 hour-long conversation with Fette Sans about Paranoia at Collection Born Munich.
2021 I Have Eaten So Many Diamonds They Are Now Poking Through My Skin (says Anne). Uninterrupted 7 hour-long conversation with Fette Sans about the porosity of language and bodies. Part of the exhibition PORÖS at Lobe Block Berlin.
2020 A Hole is Being Gnawed in My Vitals (says Sappho). Uninterrupted 7 hour-long conversation with Fette Sans about exhaustion as an epistemic experience. Part of the exhibition Love Letters: Stories of Distant Proximities at Horse & Pony Berlin.
2020 Precarious Gossips: From My Bed to Yours. Performative Zoom-conversation about politics and aesthetics of the home with Fette Sans, Philipp Wüschner and Katharina Ludwig as part of Stay LIVE at Home, Perform Istanbul.
2019 Captcha! Machines Learn Agency Fron Humans Who Don't Understand What They Know. Black Market for Useful Knowledege and Non-Knowlsedge No.22 about Artificial Intelligence at Deutsche Hygiene Museum Dresden.
2019 Precarious Gossips: Sex&Comedy. Performative conversation with Fette Sans & Kasia Fudakowski about states of epistemic relaxation in a suite at Hotel Zoo Berlin
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2019 Wednesday Society. The Couch of Meret O – performative conversation with artist Shulamit Bruckstein about the psychoanalytic setting in her exhibition of the same name. In collaboration with Goethe Institute Tarabya as part of the Istanbul Biennal.
2019 Precarious Gossips: The Leaking Woman. Performative conversation with Fette Sans about the gendered connotations and metaphors of fluids in a suite at Marmara Pera Hotel Istanbul.
2019
Precarious Gossips: The Muse. Performative conversation with Fette Sans about the problematic position of the muse in a suite at Hotel Elephant Weimar. In collaboration with Bauhaus University Weimar.
Lectures
2025 Horror Vacui / Horror Abundantiae. A philosophical approach to the creative crisis. Conference Schwund - Absenz -Entzug, University Bonn.
2024 Trees, I can't hear you no longer! A philosophical approach to the creative crisis. 24th Conference of the German Association of Aesthetics, Fribourg (CH).
2023 Eupalinos or The Lost Object. Workshop Zufall & Einfall. Catholic University Linz.
2023 Panel Discussion: Podcasting as a Medium of Theory, Theory Symposium, Humboldt University Berlin.
2023 Lecturer and Chair of the Panel Uferzonen at the 14th annual conference of the German Society for Modern and Comparative Literature.
2022 The Artist's Desire. A lecture on the creative process as a libidinal practice at the conference Figuren des Mangels at HBK Essen.
2022 The Infinite Conversation. A lecture on the creative process as a libidinal practice. Art Academy Karlsruhe.
2021 The Other Side of You. A lecture about self-images in digital spaces. Part of the panel Jenseitsverlust und Ichgewinnung with Marthe Krüger and Rolf Nemitz chaired by Dieter Mersch at the annual conference of the German Society for Asthetics.
2021 This is it! This is not it! A lecture on the artist's desire in the work of Jacques Lacan and Roland Barthes. Institute for Philosophy, Psychoanalysis und Cultural Studies Berlin.
2021 Frustration & Production. Panel with Pablo Abend, Kathrin Busch and Judith Glaser at the Magic Circle Symposium, Art School Berlin-Weißensee in cooperation with the Exzellenz-Cluster Matters of Activity.
2020 AI Cargo Cult. In cooperation with Anne Ploin, Critical Perspectives on AI Conference 2020, Edinburgh (UK).
2019 The Myth of The Automated Artist. In cooperation with Anne Ploin and part of the seminar What Machines Can’t Learn chaired by Dr. Florian Kräutli (Max- Planck Institut for History of Science Berlin).
2019 Do Electric Monks Believe in L’Art Pour L’Art? A critical perspective on recent attempts to automate creative processes with machine learing. RAIL Conference Oxford in cooperation with the Oxford Research Centre In The Humanities, Oxford (UK)
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2017 Uncanny Objects. A lecture about object-realtions in digital spaces at Tschk! Talks Berlin.
2015 Collectors/Caretakers/Hoarders. Syson Gallery Nottingham (UK).
... and many artist talks, for example at Goethe Institute Istanbul, TekTrope Artist Residency Istanbul, Galerie REITER Leipzig, Institute for Art & Material Culture at TU Dortmund, Plymouth Arts Centre (UK), The Exeter Phoenix (UK).