1969 | born in Saarbrücken, Germany | ||
1989−1996 | Studies of Mathematics and Physics at the Universities of Saarbrücken and Cologne | ||
1995−2022 | Member of Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physical Society) | ||
1996 | Master of Science, Thesis in Theoretical High Energy Physics | ||
1996−1997 | Scientific Assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute for Colloid and Surface Research, Berlin | ||
1998−1999 | Scientific Assistant at the Department of Physics, University of Essen | ||
1999−2000 | Guest Student at Kunstakademie (Academy of Fine Art) Düsseldorf | ||
2000−2001 | Studies in Multi Media Design at ca.medien.colleg, Essen; certificate with distinction | ||
2002−2014 | Member of Berufsverband Bildender Künstler (BBK − Federal Association of Artists) | ||
2003−2018 | Member of Künstlerhaus Dortmund, member of the board 2007−2012 co-curating of exhibition and artist-in-residence programs |
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2010−2022 | Member of Westdeutscher Künstlerbund Member of the board 2014−2016 |
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since 2013 | Member of Deutscher Künstlerbund (German Artists' Association) IGBK delegate since 2016 |
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since 2017 | Member of the Canadian Artists Representation CARFAC | ||
2018−2024 | Interdisciplinary PhD studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland, CA with the project "AMBIVALAND" |
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since 2021 | Member of Eastern Edge artist-run centre, St, John's NL, CA |
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since 2022 | Member of Saarländisches Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken, Germany Member of the board since 2023 |
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05/2024 | PhD at Memorial University of Newfoundland, CA | ||
11/2024 | Adjunct professor, Dept. of Gender Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland, CA | ||
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Grants | Awards |
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2021 | NEUSTART KULTUR grant, Stiftung Kulturwerk, Berlin, DE | ||||
2019 | Graduate Fellowship, Memorial University of Newfoundland, CA | ||||
2018 | A.G. Hatcher Memorial Scholarship, Memorial University of Newfoundland, CA | ||||
2017 | Project Grant for Four Good Eyes, Canadian Geological Foundation, CA | ||||
2015 | Sponsorship Award for The Vinland Phenomenon, Foundation for Canadian Studies, Trier, DE | ||||
AiR Bergen, Residency Grant, Kulturhuset USF, Bergen, NO | |||||
2014 | Saari Residence Stipend, Kone Foundation Helsinki, Hietamäki, FI | ||||
2013 | Residency Grant and Work Stipend, RONDO studio program of the federal state of Styria, Graz, AT | ||||
2012 | AiR Bergen, Residency Grant, Kulturhuset USF, Bergen, NO | ||||
Project Stipend by the Norwegian-German Willy-Brandt-Foundation, NO/DE | |||||
Residency Grant, Cill Rialaig Project, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry, IR | |||||
Residency Grant, Tilting Recreation & Cultural Society, Fogo Island, Newfoundland, CA | |||||
ISER Research Grant, Faculty of Arts, Memorial University of Newfoundland, CA | |||||
2011 | Residency Grant and Project Stipend, Terra Nova National Park, Newfoundland, CA by The Rooms Art Gallery, St. John's in cooperation with Parks Canada, CA | ||||
2010 | Residency Grant and Work Stipend, Centre DAIMON, Gatineau/Ottawa, CA | ||||
Travel Grant by the Goethe-Institut Montreal, CA | |||||
2009 | Residency Grant, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, AT | ||||
Work Stipend and Travel Grant, EU Project Urban Interventions, AT/DE | |||||
magmart Video Festival Award for marées_chalet_07_23, Naples, IT | |||||
2008 | Residency Grant, Centre Est-Nord-Est, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec, CA | ||||
Artist Residency, Contemporary Arts and Spirits (CAS), Osaka, JP | |||||
Travel Grant by the German Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa) and the Japan Foundation, DE/JP | |||||
2007 | Residency Grant, Pouch Cove Foundation, Pouch Cove, Newfoundland, CA | ||||
2006 | Artist Residency, Foundation B.a.d, Rotterdam, NL | ||||
1999-2001 | Studio Grant by the City of Oberhausen, DE | ||||
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Exhibitions | Festivals [selected]
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2024 | LOOT BAG, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John's NL, CA (G) | ||
Small Works, James Baird Gallery, Pouch Cove NL, CA (G) | |||
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2023 | JAMBOREE, Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Saarbrücken, DE (G/C) | ||
GO:40, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, DE (G) | |||
Newfound Videos, presentation, Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Saarbrücken, DE | |||
BOIL-UP, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John's NL, CA (G) | |||
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2022 | New erfunden Land, Kunstraum SG1, Duisburg, DE (S) | ||
Rethinking Nature, Masc Foundation, Vienna, AT (G) | |||
POTLUCK, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John's NL, CA (G) | |||
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2021 | Vagabundierende Lichter / Vagrant Lights, projections in urban space, Dortmund, DE | ||
Unscripted Twillingate, Digital Arts Festival, Twillingate NL, CA | |||
MUSAO, Museum Astray Ottakring, Vienna, AT (G) | |||
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2020 | Newfoundland Through A Window, Arts and Culture Centre Corner Brook NL, CA (G) | ||
CB Nuit, multidisciplinary arts festival, Corner Brook NL, CA | |||
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2019 | Flüchtige Entwürfe, Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin, DE (G) | ||
10+10=20, Ausstellungshalle am Hawerkamp, Münster DE (G) | |||
Bewegte Bilder, KT Zentrum für Kreativität und Therapie, Dortmund, DE (S) | |||
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2018 | auswärts, Kloster Bentlage, Rheine, DE (G) | ||
ohne Kohle, Zeche Schlägel & Eisen, Herten, DE (G/C) | |||
Raised Beaches and Dropped Stones, book launch, Geology Centre, Fogo Island, CA | |||
LISALUNA Shortfilm Shortfestival, Duisburg, DE | |||
Filmmusikfest, Cologne, DE | |||
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2017 | Auf Achse, Salzamt, Linz, AT (G) | ||
BABE, Bristol Artists Book Event, with the Voyage Collective, Bristol, UK | |||
CODEX 2017, 6th Biennial Int. Book Art Fair, with the Voyage Collective, Richmond, US | |||
What Now What: Change the Climate, charity event, Industry City Distillery, New York, US | |||
Heimat?, Project Space of Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin, DE (G) | |||
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2016 | The Vinland Phenomenon, Kunstverein Norden, DE (S) | ||
Toronto Art Book Fair, with the Voyage Collective, Toronto, CA | |||
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2015 | Nature happens., German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven, DE (S) | ||
ECHOES, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, DE (G) | |||
London Art Book Fair, with the Voyage Collective, London, UK | |||
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2014 | Dortmunder Export, Kunstverein Haus 8, Kiel, DE (G) | ||
Cinema B-Open, public screening, Bergen, NO | |||
Vestischer Künstlerbund Award 2014, Kutscherhaus, Recklinghausen, DE (G/C) | |||
1900s: 100 video artists to tell a century, screening, Jia Pingwa Museum of Art, Xi'an, CHN | |||
turn the page Book Art Fair, with the Voyage Collective, Norwich, UK | |||
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2013 | 1900s: 100 video artists to tell a century, selected screenings:
Nuovo Cinema Aquila, Rome, IT; video festival Now&After, MMOMA, RUS; Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, US |
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BO-WKB 2013, Westdeutscher Künstlerbund, Kunstmuseum Bochum, DE (G/C) | |||
face to face, video installation, Kulturpfadfest, Burgplatz, Essen, DE | |||
jellyfire:rotunde, video installation, Rotunde, Bochum, DE (S) | |||
41 Meter Fluchtweg, Schaumbad, Graz, AT (G) | |||
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2012 | p.log, presentation series at various locations in Bergen, NO | ||
Gerhard was here, 34. Duisburger Akzente, Mercator Quartier, Duisburg, DE (G) | |||
Geballte Streuung, Quartier am Hafen, Cologne, DE(G) | |||
in Residence, Laboratorium at Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund, DE (G/C) | |||
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2011 | sublim, sound performance and video projection, with Anja Lautermann, Malkasten, Düsseldorf, DE | ||
ich sehe 2, with Elisabeth Höller, Atelierhaus für Kunst/Medien/Kommunikation, Essen, DE | |||
terra nova, screening, Visitor Center, Terra Nova National Park, Newfoundland, CA | |||
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2010 | irritiert, Künstlerzeche Unser Fritz, Herne, DE (S) | ||
last (but not final!) stop DAIMON, Centre DAIMON, Gatineau/Ottawa, CA (S) | |||
estuaire central, presentation, articule, Montreal, CA | |||
magmart video festival, Naples, IT | |||
Landpartie, Westdeutscher Künstlerbund, Museum Ahlen, DE (G/C) | |||
transient_storm, video installation, Kulturpfad festival, Essen, DE | |||
Urban Interventions, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, DE (G) | |||
Video - I see, with Elisabeth Höller, Kunstverein Duisburg, DE (S) | |||
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2009 | estuaire central, presentation, Pecha Kucha Night, Dortmund, DE | ||
magmart video festival, Naples, IT | |||
space shuttle 2.0, Medienwerkstatt Wien, Vienna, AT (G/C) | |||
Translocation, with Daniel Simpkins and Penny Whitehead, Salzamt, Linz, AT | |||
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2008 | 21. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, DE (C) | ||
jellyfire - an audiovisual installation, Kuenstlerhaushalt, Oberhausen, DE (S) | |||
Aufkreuzen in Telgte, Museum Telgte, DE (G) | |||
Kulturpfad festival, Old-Catholic Peace Church, Essen, DE | |||
Inzicht/Aperçu/Einblick, Galerie La Vitrine, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli QC, CA (G) | |||
J-POP/G-POP, CASO, Osaka, JP (G/C) | |||
Artsite, Seian University, Kyoto, JP | |||
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2007 | geodesic, Presentation at the Goethe-Institute Montreal, CA | ||
ice'n'skies, Gallery James Baird, St. John's NL, CA (S) | |||
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2006 | earthskyearth- an audiovisual installation, Künstlerzeche Unser Fritz 2/3, Herne, DE (S/C) | ||
Landscapes, De Toren van Babel, Utrecht, NL (G) | |||
Light & Sound, SKOP, Frankfurt/Main, DE | |||
forum.06, Kokerei Zollverein, Essen (G) | |||
Open Atelier Route Charlois, Foundation B.a.d, Rotterdam, NL | |||
Tesla-Project, Belgrade, SRB (G/C) | |||
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2005 | earthsky - skyearth, De Cacaofabriek, Helmond, NL (S) | ||
earthskyearth, Galerie Torhaus Rombergpark, Dortmund, DE (S) | |||
the other sight - artists and physics, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, DE (concept and organisation/C) | |||
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2004 | is it coming or going?, Forum Kunst & Architektur, Essen, DE (S) | ||
Alles im Lot(h), Zeche Lothringen, Bochum, DE (G/C) | |||
earthsky, Laboratorium, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, DE (S) | |||
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2003 | Kunsthalle m3, Atelierhaus Mengerzeile, Berlin, DE (G) | ||
Die Wirklichkeit ist anders., with Johannes Nawrath, GEA-AG, Bochum, DE (E) | |||
50 JA, Museum fuer Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund, DE (G/C) | |||
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2002 | forumtriebig, Mülheimer Medien Meile, Mülheim/Ruhr, DE (G) | ||
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2001 | kanalebendig, Kanale 2001, Rhine-Herne-Canal, Oberhausen, DE (G) | ||
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2000 | Museum 3000, Galerie im Blauen Laden, Oberhausen, DE (S) | ||
Rundgang 2000, open studios, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, DE | |||
eingebeetet, Besondere Orte, Oberhausen, DE (G) | |||
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1999 | Walzenlager, Zentrum Altenberg, Oberhausen, DE (S) | ||
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Conferences | Symposia | Workshops
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2024 | Unsettling Colonial Legacies in Newfoundland and Labrador, Memorial University, St. John's NL, CA | ||
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2023 | Aesthetics of Contamination conference, presenter, Memorial University, St. John's NL, CA | ||
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2021 | onAIRISM: Challenges and Transitions of Artist Residencies, project team member, IGBK, Berlin, DE | ||
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2019 | Regarding Uncertainty conference, presenter, Concordia University, Montreal, CA | ||
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2015 | 36th Annual Conference, Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries (GKS), presenter, Hotel Badersee, Grainau, DE | ||
2014 | Home Is Where..., presenter, KunstVereineRuhr in coop. with Trans Artists and Urbane Künste Ruhr, Henrichenburg, DE | ||
2013 | 47.04980° N | 15.43636° E, Models of artist-run studio and exhibition spaces in Europe, presenter, Schaumbad, Graz, AT | ||
2011 | Artists in Transit, workshop coordinator, symposium und workshop by IGBK in collaboration with Trans Artists, Kunsthochschule Weißensee, ifa and IAA Europe, Berlin, DE | ||
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2010 | ISEA Ruhr 2010, International Symposium on Electronic Art, Dortmund, DE | ||
Artist-in-Residence Meeting Ruhr 2010, Kunsthaus Essen, Künstlerhaus Dortmund und Trans Artists, Essen and Dortmund, DE | |||
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2009 | Mobility in the Visual Arts Sector in Europe, Experts' Meeting, IGBK, Linz, AT | ||
Einstein & Picasso, British Council Germany, DASA, Dortmund, DE | |||
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2007 | Satellite Voyeurism, Symposium, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Phoenixhalle, Dortmund, DE | ||
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2005 | this sight - physicists and art, organizer, lecture series, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, DE | ||
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1998 | Applications of Field Theory to Statistical Physics: Soft Condensed Matter, Non-Equilibrium and Boundary Critical Phenomena, Bonn, DE | ||
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1997 | Fundamental Problems in Statistical Mechanics, Int. Summer School, Odenthal-Altenberg, DE | ||
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1995 | Recent Developments in Statistical Mechanics and Field Theory, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, IT | ||
String Theory, Gauge Theory and Quantum Gravity, International Spring School, ICTP, Trieste, IT |