ARTIST STATEMENT
“In meiner Arbeit suche ich Dinge, die ich kenne und lieb gewonnen habe. Dunkle und helle Höhlen in denen grünes Wasser sich Räume baut. Lichtnetze und Gestrüppe aus Sonne und Blüten, Nebel und Rinde. Formen entstehen als Erinnerung an sie selbst. Kräfte in denen auch ich stecke. Farben sind Licht, welches Informationen trägt und daher Beziehungen zeigt, von denen auch ich betroffen bin.”
2025
“I paint because I miss wilderness.
I miss the chaoticly dying and living species so packed in one dense room, that they have to interfere, to interrupt, to kill and to help and to give themself up for even existing at all.
I find this as soon as I go down the street. But only in shades.
There are no more potent wildernesses where I used to live.
Maybe on a small scale, like 20 feet square meters. But this is too small for the human body.
It is too small for me to feel existentially that I could go extinct in this right very moment.
I want to feel this.
I feel it sometimes with loves. People loved by me so intensely that I can in fact feel the interference of life and death. And we in it out of control.
What is to do with the longing when there are no humans by whom I am touched?
No possibility to come close enough - not even close to close enough - to be in wilderness together?
I cry often. My body clenches right behind my spine it seems. From behind my shoulder blades to the tailbone. And then the hurt is paving its way. By use of this densening. And I would say the pain comes out of my open mouth.
Without sound. Mostly without.
But it gives me something that mingles with the air around my crying body, contexts. They are clearer, relationality is more obvious, then prior to this relieving death experience.
And I love when I paint then and see these contexts appear.
I feel that sometimes my wilderness is half frozen to perishing. But not yet. It is uneasy to bear these paintings. They are not my satisfaction.
But as evil as in the zones of middle west Germany there are parts on the paper where hope is suddenly present and a very ancient remembrance of how I can feel beautiful again because dying is like waiting at the tram. I want to be swallowed from wilderness and painting is my coping mechanism. One of them.”
2021
VITA *1995
2024-2025 Freelance Artist, Kulturpädagogische Modelle des Jungen Landestheater Bayern e.V. , Töging am Inn
2023-2024 Training course Horticulture Teacher for Children, Alanushochschule für Kunst und Gesellschaft, Mannheim
2016-2023 Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts, Alanushochschule für Kunst und Gesellschaft, Alfter
2015-2016 Biosciences, University Heidelberg
2014-2015 Internship, Kulturpädagogische Modelle des Jungen Landestheater Bayerns e.V., Töging am Inn
2014 Abitur, Freie Waldorfschule Kaltenkirchen
EXHIBITIONS/RESIDENCIES/SCHOLARSHIPS
Dauerausstellung mit wechselnden Exponaten, Junges Landestheater Bayern, Töging am Inn, 2024-2025
„Eichenzeit“ Masterabschlussausstellung, Johannishof Alfter, Juni 2023
„The other“ Gruppenausstellung Künstlerforum Bonn, April 2023
Aufgehts-Stipendium für „Steinsymposium Tangen“, Mai-Juni 2022
“der himmel ist offen gerade“ Bachelorabschlussausstellung, Kronenstraße 16, Alfter, Juni 2020
„No fiction“ Gruppenausstellung Künstlerforum Bonn, März 2019
Deutschlandstipendium „Bildhauerei“, 2019
Studio view on the project site of Junges Landestheater Bayern in Töging am Inn, 2025