| 1959 |  |
born in Amsterdam / Netherlands Fine Art Studies / academy of Fine Arts Düsseldorf |
| 2000 / 01 | |
guest lecturer Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden |
| 2001 / 02 | |
guest lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Branch of Architecture / temporary buildings |
| 2001 – 05 | |
guest Alanus Academy of Fine Arts, Bonn |
| since 2013 | |
founding dean St. Moritz Art Academy, Switzerland |
awards, residencies and scholarships
| 2014 | |
First and second prize for two sculptures in public space, Bad Wildungen, Germany |
| 2006 | |
First price and realisation award, In Context 3, Road Commission, Dublin |
| 2004 | |
Project promotion, Sächsische Kulturstiftung, Dresden, Germany |
| 1999 | |
projectstudio of the `Leidse School Foundation´, Leiden, the Netherlands |
| 1992 | |
Ernst-Barlach-Award of the Ernst-Barlach-Society, Hamburg |
| 1991 | |
Golden Record, cover design „Kreuzzug ins Glück“, Die Toten Hosen, German Federal association of Phonographic economy |
| 1991 | |
artist in residence, foundation `kunst & komplex´, Rotterdam |
selected exhibitions * one-person-show, c catalogue
| 2016 | |
Zeeaanzicht, het Polderhuis, Westkapelle / Nl Parallel lives, Art garden Vanha Kilkkilä, Juva, Finland |
| 2015 | |
Ortung IX, shortlist for Art Prize City of Schwabach, Germany The Selfie Show, Museum of New Art, Detroit Passport, Studio Wäkewä, Mikkeli, Finland A Call for Drawings, Basis voor actuele Kunst, Utrecht collecting #1, Kunstverein Paderborn, Germany |
| 2014 | |
USB Shuffle Show, Institut für alles Mögliche, Berlin The Legibility of the World, St. Kilian, shortlist Kulturpreis der Korbacher Hanse, Korbach |
| 2013 | |
Salon Vernon, Galerie Vernon, Prague, CZ twelve = six x two, Projektroom / Galerie Stilper, Frankfurt European Horizons, Rihisaari, Provincial Museum of Savonlinna, Finland On the Rainbow, Tina B. Contemporary Art Festival, Kutná Hora, CZ Portas abertas, Fondacion Eugénio de Almeida, Evora, Portugalt USB Shuffle Show, Institut für alles Mögliche, Berlin Skultur II, Littmann Kulturprojekte, Schützenmattpark, Basel (K) Von Anfang an, Museum Arolsen Castle, Bad Arolsen Summit Club, Projektraum / Galerie Stilper, Frankfurt European Horizons, Kultuurikeskus Poleeni, Finland |
| 2012 | |
Diaries of Court Ladies from old Japan, Projektroom / Galerie Petra Stilper, Frankfurt / M. * December Store II, Jan Dhaese Gallery, Gent Short stories # 3, Museum Korbach* Mindsets of Melancholie, Hangar 21 & Kunsthalle Paderborn, Detmold European Horizons, Tina B. Contemporary Art Festival, and Vernon Gallery, Prague, CZ Kiosk, Projektroom / Galerie Petra Stilper, Frankfurt / M. |
| 2011 | |
An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, USA Light!, Museum of Glass Art, Ravenstein, NL Light!, Rolduc Abbey, Kerkrade, NL To the Unknown Broker / Gobelin # 10, spacio borgogno & Museo Pecci Milano, Milano, Italy Do it yourself, Fundacion Canal de Isabel II, Madrid Wechselausstellung I, Projektroom / Galerie Stilper, Frankfurt Sättigung, Kunstverein Paderborn * (c) |
| 2010 | |
A Gift to Sol LeWitt, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, USA Poverty, shortlist Friedenspreis St. Leopold, Galerie Sala Terrana, Stift Klosterneuburg, Wien Intimacy! Bathing in Art, Ahlen Museum of Art, Ahlen, Germany (c) Gobelin # 9, Historisches Rathaus Dringenberg* |
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Intimacy! Bathing in Art, Ahlen Museum of Art (c) Gobelin # 9, Historisches Rathaus Dringenberg * |
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| 2009 | |
above the settee II / Troner artlounge, Düsseldorf aquamediale, Lübben / Spreewald, (c) Ortung VI, Art Award of the city of Schwabach, exihibition of the shortlisted nominées |
| 2008 | |
Satellite, lightinstallation in public space, Dublin Folding Screens, Galerie am Hirschengraben, Zurich The Ship of Fools, Landesgartenschau, Schleswig Brot und Briefe, graphic works from two decades, Parish Hall, Paderborn * Alight, artists from the incontext 3 programme, South Dublin Art Center, Dublin |
| 2007 | |
Microspektive (a brief history of time), Galerie am Hirschengraben, Zürich * Proposals for new build embassies, Warsaw /Mexico City, Foreign Office, Berlin To the unknown broker, Bundesverband Deutscher Banken, Berlin Galerie Ueker & Ueker, Basel To the unknown broker, Artforum, Art fair Berlin , temporary installation |
| 2006 | |
Kontinental Shift, Museum Arolsen, Bad Arolsen * (c) Redemption Song, Galerie Ueker & Ueker, Basel * Short Stories, German-American cultural circle, Belville/ St. Louis , USA |
| 2005 | |
Arte Fiera, Galleria Borgogno / Arti a Milano, Milano four rivers, landscape project, Center for active Art, Kassel Entr´acte # 2, Casa Giuseppe Gallizio, Alba Galerie Ueker & Ueker, Basel |
| 2004 | |
Gobelin # 5, Galleria Borgogno / Arti a Milano, Milano * Window perforated room, Neuer Sächsischer Kunstverein, Dresden * The way-home project, Galerie Zink + Gegner, München / Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne (c) |
| 2003 | |
Entering the late work, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Köln * Geist ist geil, ACC-Galerie, Weimar Discovering possibilities, Institut francais & Wandelhalle e.V./ Forum für Kunst, Cologne the Babylonian Library, permanent installation 03, former minster deanery, Paderborn Interspace: Greenpiece # 1, die Wandelhalle e.V./ Forum für Kunst, Cologne * |
| 2002 | |
Retrozession, Installation at the Embassy of the fed. Rep. Of Germany, the Hague / the Netherlands * Three Years, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne Arsenal, die Wandelhalle e.V./ Forum für Kunst, Cologne (c) Entr´acte, Palazzo Albiroli, Bologna / Italy |
| 2001 | |
glam slam, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne * Frontside, Littmann Kulturprojekte & Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel / Switzerland, (c) Gobelin # 4, Chamber of Commerce and Industry Cologne / plan 2001, Forum for contemporary architecture, Cologne Redemption Song; cultural capital of Europe Rotterdam 01, Rotterdam * Full metal blanket, talk-lounge, (temporal ceiling painting / installatio), Artforum, Berlin * XXL, Galeria Borgogno, Milano / Italy |
| 2000 | |
Fin de siécle/ New Age, projectstudio Foundation `Leidse School´, Leiden / the Netherlands * Drawings, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne Each it´s own soccer, kunsthal, Rotterdam Against the stroke, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (c) |
| 1999 | |
Andrea Leenarts Gallery, Cologne * Shelter Drawings, argument showroom, Tilburg / the Netherlands* Denkpause, die Wandelhalle e.V./ Forum für Kunst, Cologne |
| 1998 | |
Passages, Andrea Leenarts Gallery, Cologne Project Booth, Art Basel, Littmann Kulturprojekte, Basel / Switzerland Artists projects, Littmann Kulturprojekte, Basel / Switzerland Short Stories, Andrea Leenarts Gallery, Cologne Morphing Systems, Klinik, Zürich / Switzerland (c) |
| 1997 | |
Start I/97, Littmann Kulturprojekte, Basel / Switzerland Touching Distance, Kunstverein Langenberg / Germany, (c) Foil, Deutzer Brücke, die Wandelhalle e.V./ Forum für Kunst, Cologne (c) |
| 1996 | |
With droog design from Holland, Andrea Leenarts Gallery, Cologne Fin de siécle/ New Age: 1632 -1965, 1726, Galerie Pfefferle, Munich * Where the Streets have no Name, International Community Center, Kyoto, Japan * (c) Where the Streets have no Name, Oxy Gallery, Osaka, Japan * |
| 1995 | |
Connex, die Wandelhalle e.V./ Forum für Kunst, Cologne * Art & Violence / 50th. Anniv. End of Ww II, Muncipal Gallery of Kiew , Ukrainia Galerie Christine & Izy Brachot, Brussels Fin de siécle/ New Age, Galerie le monde de l’art, Paris * |
| 1994 | |
Les Choix de Bruxelles, Espace Jaquemotte / Galerie Christine & Izy Brachot, Brussels Tensions, Galerie Christine & Izy Brachot, Brussels |
| 1993 | |
Drugs / Soccer on Display, Stadtraum Remise, Vienna / Austria Electronic Café Greco, Casino Container, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, (c) The Martyr Yantras, Galerie Littmann, Basel Switzerland* Los Desastres de la Guerra, Goethe-Institut Rotterdam * On paper, Galerie Littmann, Basel / Switzerland |
| 1992 | |
The Rembrandt-Lounge, Galerie Littmann, Basel / Switzerland * Shadowed by Rembrandt, Ernst-Barlach-Museum, Hamburg * Los Desastres de la Guerra, pazti-bott austellungen, Cologne *, (c) Los Desastres de la Guerra, Galeria Helena Ramos, Barcelona * |