Vita

1983           born in Freiberg/Sachsen
2003-2006  Studies Communikation Design Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design Kiel
2006-2012  Studies in Photography, Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) Leipzig
              with Prof. Tina Bara and Prof. Dr. Dieter Daniels
2012-2014  Postgraduate „Meisterschüler“ in Media Art / Intermedia with Prof. Alba D‘Urbano, HGB Leipzig
since 2013  Lectureship, Institute for Theory, HGB Leipzig
2013-2014  Staff member, Videostudio, University of Music and Theatre Leipzig
2013-2015  Staff member, Evening Academy, HGB Leipzig
2014           Concept and organization of the symposium “Wir sind das Volk” on occasion of the
              “Leipzig Festival of Lights: 25 Years of the Peaceful Revolution”
2016           Guest curator at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts Taichung (Taiwan)
2017           Guest curator at the Kunsthalle Exnergasse Vienna (Austria)

Grants / Awards

2023        Working Grant NEUSTARTplus, Stiftung Kunstfonds
2023        Project Grant by the Cultural Foundation of Saxony
2022        Grant Simul+Mitmachfonds
2022        Working Grant NEUSTART-KULTUR, Stiftung Kunstfonds
2021        Travel Grant Kairo, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
2021        Working Grant NEUSTART-Kultur, VG Bild-Kunst
2021        Project Grant NEUSTART-Kultur, BBK Bundesverband e.V.
2021        Project Grant Cultural Fundation of Thuringia
2020        Artist in Residence, Begehungen Chemnitz
2020        »Denkzeit« Scholarship, Cultural Foundation of Saxony
2020        Working Grant by the Cultural Foundation of Thuringia
2019        Artist in Residence Linz (Austria)
2019        Working Grant by the Cultural Foundation of Saxony
2018        Artist in Residence, Passage, Bergerac (France)
2017        Project Grant by the Förderverein zum Aufbau einer Juliane Noack Künstlerförderung e.V.
2016        Project Grant by the Cultural Foundation of Saxony
2016        Travel Grant by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
2016        Research Grant by the Goethe Institut Taipei
2015        Artist in Residence, WERK Birmingham
2015        Project Grant for the publication "Situation Room" by the Cultural Foundation of Saxony
2012        Competition Public Art [10].Lindenau (2nd Price)
2011        Project Grant by the Cultural Foundation of Saxony
2011        Project Grant by the Karin Abt-Straubinger-Stiftung
2009        Artist in Residence at “Hidden Places” Görlitz/Zgorzelec
2008        DAAD Scholarship “Hiwar Fanny” for Lebanon

Collections

Staatliche Kunstammlung Dresden
Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig
Grassimuseum Leipzig
Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig
Private collections