*1992 in Nuremberg

Education

2024 – Fine Arts, Object Sculpture with Professor Manfred Pernice at the University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin

2023 Fine Arts, specialisation in ceramics with Prof. Kyoshi Yunohara in the Arita Space Program at the Faculty of Art and Regional Design, Saga University, Arita (Japan)

2021 Study abroad at Institute HyperWerk, University of Applied Sciences and Arts FHNW, Basel (CH)

2018 – 2024 Fine Arts, Sculpture with Prof. Karsten Födinger, Prof. Stella Geppert and Prof. Dr. Stephan Gregory at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle (Saale)

Exhibitions

2025 Room to Expand, Group Show at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin

2024 Strahlengänge, Solo exhibition with large-scale installations exploring light and reflection as elements of sculpture at the Francke Foundations, Halle (Saale)

(Dis)ordering Things, Group Show exploring artists’ systems of ordering and their dissolution at Galerie OQBO, Berlin

2023 en O, Duo Show exploring the intersection of organic materials and ceramic objects at Galerie Telescope, Kyoto (Japan),

Space Arita , Solo Exhibition combining Japanese porcelain techniques with contemporary sculptural practice at Saga University, Arita (Japan)

2022 Zeremonie der Wesen - Group performance, Project management, concept development and direction of a three-day interactive ritual at Stadtmuseum, Halle (Saale)

I was / But I am – Group performance by Vittorio Santoro, a site-specific, process-based work engaging with themes of identity at Kunstmuseum Basel (CH)

Grants

2023 DAAD Fellowship for Arita Space Program at Saga University, Arita (Japan)

2021 Fellowship abroad Swiss European Mobility Program (CH)

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