Artist Statement
I make small, colourful and surrealistic images and soft sculptures. These pieces reflect the patriarchal view of women and other animals as objects, while considering their subsequent treatment, and the relationship that exists between the two. My work addresses the inconsistencies in their existence and makes viewers aware of the injustices, constraints, and exploitations that happen to living beings because of their gender or species. My artistic research is based on feminist perspectives, which have traditionally been dismissed and disregarded.
The images and objects are parallel expressions for me, but they inspire each other. Figurative elements that emerge in my multi-layered and multi-perspective drawings and paintings are developed further into sculptures, which in turn inspire my two-dimensional work and lead to derivatives or descendants. I stitch and sew the sculptures from used fabric and other materials that I have at hand, or that come into my possession accidentally. The process, materials, techniques, and sizes reflect upon feminine traditions and roles that have often been disregarded as craft in the art world. These pieces reveal and protest the instrumentalization of female bodies in a patriarchal society and the dilemmas of female life. The figures have their own narrative, which I explore and visualize in photographs and gives a voice to the unheard.
The devaluation of women and animals often shows itself through bodily restrictions and infringements, as well as spatial containment within the home or farm. My works similarly reflect restrictive spatial aspects. They are ambiguous and can unfold different shapes and meanings depending on their or the viewer’s position.
Artist CV
Selected exhibitions
2025 Gallery at The Tabernacle, London, grp/international
2024 Memory, Chaos and other Realms, Contemporary Art Academy, London, grp/international
2024 Crawley Contemporary Summer Exhibition, grp/international
2022 I swear I saw this, UCA, grp/international
2022 wånder wide web, OCA Europe, grp/international
2021 Contamination/Curation, grp/international, collaborative project (Stuff that spins out of now)
2021 School of No Consequences. Exercises for a New Life, Museum for Art & Design, Hamburg
2014 Seminar for Waldorf Pedagogy, Hamburg, grp
2011 Old Horticultural Office, Jenisch-Park (Bargheer-Museum), Hamburg, grp
2008 Die Bürger der Großen Bergstraße (The Citizens of the Great Mountain Road), Gallery Kunst|Nah, Hamburg, grp
2006 – 2014 Studio Exhibitions at Artist‘s Collective Goldbachstraße, Hamburg, solo/grp
Publications/Featured work/Talks
2024 Edge Zine, Issue 13: Home
2022 I swear I saw this, Exhibition Catalogue, University for the Creative Arts/OCA MA Fine Arts Final Show
2022 Wander Wide Web, Exhibition Catalogue (Cushion (Hug me), 2021/22; Leg, 2021)
2022 UCA/OCA Europe Regional Group, Talk on current practice and projects
2022 UCA/OCA Europe Regional Group Newsletter Summer/22
2021 We are OCA (University for the Creative Arts), Stuff that spins out of now
2021 UCA/OCA Europe Regional Group Newsletter 1/21
2020 Edge Zine, Issue no. 9 Inside
2019 Edge Zine, Issue no. 7 Water
2015 We are OCA (University for the Creative Arts), Featured work Dead Chickens, 2014
Awards/Residencies/Symposiums
2021-2022 One-year online residency scholarship, OCASA, University for the Creative Arts
2015 Publication Grant Arts and Humanities, Stury Foundation, Munich
2008 Symposium ‚View and Concept', Warburg House, Hamburg
2004 Symposium Phenomenological Studies, Meran Academy for German-Italian Studies, Merano/Italy
Intercultural Artistic Symposium & Exhibition Jakubowo (PL), German-Polish Culture Circle, Kiel-Jakubowo e.V.
Education
2022 MA Fine Arts (with distinction), University for the Creative Arts, Farnham et al. (UK)
2019 Cert HE Fine Arts, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham et al. (UK)
2014 PGLic Art, Seminar for Waldorf Pedagogy, Hamburg/Kassel (DE)
2011 PhD Art Theory/Philosophy, University of Hamburg (DE)
2002 MA Art History/Philosophy, University of Hamburg (DE)
Further education
2024 - 2025 PG Courses, Contemporary Art Academy, London
2023 - (ongoing) Professional Mentoring Programm 'The Art Ladder', ParkerHarris, London
Certificates from Otis College of Art & Design, Newcastle University, Pennsylvania State University
Diplom/MBA Cooperative State University, Mannheim (DE)
Work
Art mediator, university lecturer, writer