born in Duisburg, Germany

lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Education

2000-2004 Universität der Künste, Berlin
2011-2012 Rijksakademie, Amsterdam

Exhibitions

2023
Bucharest: 10 Years, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest, Romania

2022
Interiors, Wannsee Contemporary Gallery, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Gathering, Solid Art Gallery, Taiwan (SOLO)
Us, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (SOLO)
Pferdemädchen, A Little Girl’s Horse Craze (A. Freud), Zwinger Galerie, Berlin, Germany
The Murmuring of the collection – Drawing and Print, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany

2021
Soft People (Erotic), Galerie Gerhard Hofland, Amsterdam, Netherlands (SOLO)
WIE ES EUCH GEFALLT UND WAS WIR SIND., Knust Kunz Gallery Editions, München, Germany

2020
Gathering, Bark Gallery, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival: Plugged In, online exhibition, Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
Quixotic, Ramp Gallery, London, UK
əráivəl, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Goyang, Croatia
Like a Luminous Animal, curated by Pei-Hsuan Wang and Fei Wu, Solid Art, Taipei
Cover of the Cover, Bark Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Hallucinogenic, curated by Koen Delaere, Gerhard Hofland Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Zonder Commentaar, curated by Margreet Bouman, De Vishal, Haarlem, Netherlands
Desire Nights, Screening, curated by Vaari Claffey, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Da für Dich, Zentrale, Berlin, Germany
Hollywood Babylon, presented by Jeffrey Deitch, Nicodim, and Autre Magazine, Former Spago Restaurant, Los Angeles, USA

2019
With Lovers, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (SOLO)
Certain Place, Studio Continuo, Amsterdam, Netherlands (SOLO)
Skin Stealers, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Our Lady of the Flowers, Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest, Hungary

2018
Open Studios – Dialogue and Exchange, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea
The Adderall and the Ecstasy, Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest, Hungary
Formal Encounters, Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest, Hungary

2017
Basic Communities/Soft People, CCA Derry~Londonderry, Northern Ireland (SOLO)
Soft People, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Hannover, Germany (SOLO)
Homeward Bound, curated by Ben Lee Ritchie Handler, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Auf der Schwelle, studio Daniel Lergon and Bar Babette, Berlin, Germany
202 Deamons, studio Ayumi Rahn, Berlin, Germany

2016
Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, curated by Matt Packer, Treignac Project, Treignac, France
Festiv Town, organized by Dan Walwin, Roundabout Mauritskade and Linnaeusstraat, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2015
Pause, Kazachenko’s Apartment, Oslo, Norway (SOLO)
Gatherings, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest, Romania (SOLO)
Intercourse, Mattkissing Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Urgent Care of Identity, curated by Louis Hothothot, A-Lab, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2013
Basic Communities, Thomaskerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands (SOLO)
A petite fair, Jeanine Hofland galery/Boetzelaer|Nispen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Rites de Passage, curated by Julia Geerlings, Thomaskerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Artificial Amsterdam, De Appel arts centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Galery Mieke van Schaijk, with Gino Saccone and Tilman Meyer-Faje, ’S-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

2012
Love, Apice for Artists, Amsterdam, Netherlands (SOLO)
Rijksakademie Open 2012, Rijksakademie Amsterdam, Netherlands
Koninklijke Prijs voor vrije Schilderkunst, Koninklijk Paleis, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2011
Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Editionen, Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin, Germany
Rijksakademie Open 2011, Rijksakademie Amsterdam, Netherlands

2010
Musik/Bad Liebenwerda, Bilder/Philipp Kremer, TÄT, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Tape Modern No. 18, Tape Berlin, Germany
Peng!, Transponder, Leipzig, Germany
Grand Slam, Büro Adalbert, Berlin, Germany

2009
Idyllismus, Tanzschule, München, Germany

2008
B-Seite, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin, Germany
Infernoesque Parapluie, with Nicolai Kraus, Infernoesque, Berlin, Germany

Grants, Residencies and Fellowships

2018 Asia Culture Center Residency, Gwangju, South Korea
2014 Mondriaan Fund – “bewezen talent”
2013 Royal Dutch Painting Award – Koninklijke Prijs voor vrije Schilderkunst
2013 Amsterdams Fonds voor de kunst – development budget