Biography
1966 Born in Kellinghusen / Northern Germany
2000 Beginning of photographic work as an autodidact
2005-2007 OSTKREUZSCHULE – School for Photography in Berlin; class of Prof. Ute Mahler; Diploma work einer
2008-2010 Represented by Galerie Michael Degenhartt, Berlin
Grants, Awards
2017 nominated for Brandenburgischer Kunstpreis 2017, Brandenburg
2017 Finalist, FC BARCELONA Photo Award, Barcelona
2017 nominated for Hellerau Portrait Award 2017, Dresden
2016 2nd Prize: John-Heartfield-Collage-Competition, Berlin
2016 Grant for fine arts – Ministry of economics, science and culture Brandenburg
2015 nominated for jury prize Foto-Reflexionen 05, Rendsburg
2011 Grant for fine arts – Ministry of economics, science and culture Brandenburg
2010 Nominated for GRAND PRIX at Fotofestiwal Lodz
2009 First Prize – Competition A creative look at Berlin after the wall
2007 Art Award for Photography – Lotto GmbH Land Brandenburg
2006 Grant for photography – Kunstamt Schöneberg, Berlin
Collections
Kommunale Galerie Berlin
Books
two mothers, Peperoni Books, 2017
private rooms, Peperoni Books, 2015
one circle, Peperoni Books, 2013 (2nd edition: 2015)
Die Liebe im Auge // Love in the Eye, self-published, 2013
Mutter ist aus Pommerland // Mother is from Pomerania, self-published, 2012
Mein Weg // My Way, self-published, 2012
Some Flat Frogs, self-published, 2012
Bogota Hotel Ro. 441, self-published, 2012
drei // three, Peperoni Books, 2011
zwei // two, Peperoni Books, 2011
einer // one, Peperoni Books, 2010
Bibliography (selected)
Surveillance Index Edition One, Edited by Mark Ghuneim, New York, 2016
Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood – Edited by Susan Bright, ART/BOOKS London, 2013
Mark / Schnitte, stipendiary catalogue, Museum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, 2011
BERLIN, Blicke, Berlin Story Verlag Berlin, 2011
All my lovin´, Festival-Catalogue Fotofestiwal Lodz / Poland, 2010
Closer, Festival-Catalogue Fotofestival F-Stop Leipzig, 2008
Exhibitons (selected)
2017 Close to me, In/Out Transylvania Photo Festival,Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2017 one circle – episode I-VI, Westwerk Hamburg, Germany (single exhibition)
2017 Labsal und Bürde, AFF-Galerie, Berlin
2017 Brandenburgischer Kunstpreis, Schloss Neuhardenberg, Germany
2017 Hellerau Portrait Award, Dresden, Germany
2015 Re: Follow-ed (after Hokusai), Cabinet du livre d´artiste, Rennes, France
2014 Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood, Belfast Exposed 2014 Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood, Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) Chicago, curated by Susan Bright
2013 Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood, The Photographers’ Gallery London, curated by Susan Bright
2012 INTIM, Galerie FB2 der FH Dortmund, curated by Prof. Cindy Gates
2011 Wahlverwandtschaft, stipendary-exhibition of MWFK, Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, Germany
2011 persönlich, Galerie Brotfabrik, Berlin (single exhibition)
Festivals
2014 Fotofestival Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Germany, with
I can never get that photo back. It´s out there forever …
2010 Fotofestival F-Stop Leipzig, Germany, with private rooms
2010 Fotofestiwal Lodz, Poland, with einer
2008 Fotofestival F-Stop Leipzig, Germany with einer
2008 Fotofestival Arles, France – Selection „Voies Off“ with einer
2007 Fotofestival Photo 07 Kaunas, with group-project Across the river
2007 Fotofestival Arles, France – Selection „Voies Off“ with Across the river