1964             born in Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

1980-1983   Apprenticeship as a display designer in Reutlingen

1993-1999   Studied painting and sculpture with Professor Leiko Ikemura, University of the Arts, Berlin

1999            Graduate master class student at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin

2000            Artist in Residence: Atelier RACE, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

since 2006   lives and works in Berlin and Hanover

                    Grants

1996            Erasmus scholarship, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris

2000            Scholarship holder of the Karl Hofer Society, Berlin

2002            DAAD scholarship Montréal, Québec, Canada

                    Solo exhibitions

1995            Gallery Parkhaus, Kulturamt Treptow von Berlin

1997            Hofkunst Gallery, Berlin-Mitte

                    West-Ost-Atelier Tübingen, West-Ost-Gesellschaft Baden-Württemberg

1998            Gallery in the Atelierhof, Bremen

2000            Artist in Residence, Atelier du RACE, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

2001            Ars Nova Gallery, Berlin

2002            Meinhold Gallery, Berlin

                    Goethe-Institut Inter-Nationes, Montréal, Québec, Canada

2004            Meinhold & Reucker Gallery, Berlin

2007            Art Association Tiergarten / Gallery Nord, Berlin (with Gabi Künne and Christian Wolter)

2009            Torhaus Gallery Wellingsbüttel, Hamburg

2012            Municipal Gallery Lehrte, Lower Saxony

2018            Gallery Knoth & Kruger, Berlin

                    Udo Würtenberger Gallery, Berlin

2019            Municipal Gallery 149, Bremerhaven

2021            close up, 52 weeks - 52 artworks, Studio Hauff 22, Hanover

                    Group exhibitions

1993-94       Reutlingen Town Hall (Municipal Art Museum)

1995            Berlin festival gallery, Berlin

1997            New Gallery, University of Arts, Berlin

1998            Haus am Lützowplatz, Art-Center, Berlin

                    3. Festival of Experimental Art, Postfuhramt, Berlin

1999            Hotel Künstlerheim Luise, Berlin

                    Art Association-North, Bremen - Vegesack

2000            Ars Nova Gallery, Magdeburg

2001            Karl Hofer Society, Artist in Residence, Atelier Westend Station, Berlin

2002            MDR National Broadcasting House, Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt

2005            Meinhold & Reucker Gallery, Berlin

2006            Art Association Starkow, Symposion, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

2013            Schwartzsche Villa, Cultural Office Steglitz, Berlin

2016            Konnector, Forum for Art, Hanover 2016 Konnector, Forum for Art, Hanover

2019            Galerie Udo Würtenberger, Berlin           

2021            10 years Konnector, Forum for Art, Hanover

                    New Art, Karl Hofer Society, at University of Arts, Berlin