Curriculum Vitae


BIOGRAPHY 
2011 The last year of childhood (Artists' book),
publisher: POWERSHOVEL.BOOKS, Tokio/NewYork
2009 The door behind the wall | project with handicapped and not handicapped inhabitants
of the Dr. Dormagen-Guffanti foundation, Cologne; Germany
2008 - 2009
Teaching assignment, college of higher education Bielefeld; Germany
2008 Zimmerpflanzen (Artists' book), publisher: Snoeck Verlag, Cologne; Germany
2007 Teaching assignment for Visual Communications,
Merz Akademie, Design Academy Stuttgart; Germany
2006 Mermaids, Videos
  Galerie 11, in the Gruner + Jahr publishing house, Hamburg; Germany
2005
Teaching assigment, college of higher education Voralberg; Austria 
  Märchen,Fairy Tales (Artists' book),
publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Cologne; Germany
2004 Observer and Indoor Plants (Booklet)
latent, aristotelean mimesis within the thriller genre  
publishing label: www.bold-dvd.de
2002 Art goes School | state chancellery, Saarland; Germany
2001 kunstKöln special edition
1996 Girls, Some Boys and Other Cookies (Artists' book)
publisher: Scalo Verlag, Zürich; Switzerland
1993 Diploma
1987 - 1993 Academic studies: Photo - Design
University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Dortmund; Germany
1985 - 1987 Academic studies: Communikation Design
University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden; Germany
1979 - 1982 Apprenticeship as a carpenter

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection) 
2009 The room behind the wall | Dr. Dormagen Guffanti foundation, Cologne; Germany
2008 Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Cologne; Germany
2007 Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Cologne; Germany
2005 Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Germany

Gallery 11, in the Gruner + Jahr publishing house, Hamburg; Germany
2004 Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Cologne; Germany

Gallery Goethe-Institut Sofia, Bulgaria
2000 Gallery Bodo Niemann, Berlin; Germany
1999 Sabine Schmidt gallery, Cologne; Germany
1996 Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Cologne, Cologne; Germany

Leckri Fotografie Group, Gent, Belgium
1995
Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Cologne; Germany

PRIZES | AWARDS 
2011 Residence scholarship, Künstlerhaus Lukas (Artists’ House Luke), Ahrenshoop
2009 Dr. Dormagen - Guffanti Foundation Award
  Welde Art Award (selected photographers)
2007 Foundation Kunstfonds sponsorship | book project "Zimmerpflanzen"
2004 Toyota Photo Art Prize
2002 Commendation european award for women photographers, Florence, Italy
2001 Scholarship of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia without change of residence
2000 Commendation, DGPH Otto Steinert Award
1997 Promotional Booth/Förderkoje, Art Cologne
1990
DAAD - scholarship

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2010 Shifting Realities... Photography and it's Realities | HALLE ZEHN / Cap Cologne e.V., Cologne
2009 Welde Art Award | Savings Bank Schwetzingen
  Revision | Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Cologne
2008 Mistigris- Contemporary German Photography | Gallery Lichtblick, Cologne
2007 Art Cologne
  University of Texas, Dallas

Small Silent City | Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Cologne

Quiet Afternoon | Gallery Claudia Delank, Cologne (with Anna Vogel)
2006 Der Palast der Drachenkönigin | Gallery Claudia Delank, Cologne

Galerie Burg, LE-Musberg

Märchen / Fairy Tales, exibition, DFA in Leinfelden
2004 Hotel Eden, Ludwigturm, Duisburg

44 in 10, Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Cologne

KunstKöln, special show
2003 kunstKöln

Museumsmühle Küppersbusch, Duisburg

Art Cologne

Paris Photo
2002 european award for women photographers, Florence, Italy

Heimat/Homeland | Kunsthaus Dresden

Municipal museum Saarbrücken

kunstKöln

Reykjavik Museum of Photography

Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden
2001 kunstKöln

Art Cologne
2000 ARCO Madrid

Art Cologne
1998 ARCO Madrid

Kunsthalle Koblenz

Kunsthalle Hamburg

sunnyside | Gallery Crista Burger, Munich

Art Cologne, Promotional Booth/Förderkoje
1997 Kunsthalle Nürnberg

Museum for Applied Art, Gera

Some Kind of Heaven | South London Gallery, London

Someone Else with My Fingerprints | David Zwirner Gallery, New York

John Hansard Gallery, Southampten

The Garden of Eden | Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen

Respekt, Glossy Munich
1996 Fotogalerie Kulturamt Friedrichshain, Berlin

LEKRI (Galerijgroep Fotografie), Gent

Gallery Christa Schübbe, Düsseldorf

The Social View : Der soziale Blick | Art Frankfurt

Artforum Berlin

Stadt-an-Sichten | Otto-Nagel-Gallery, Berlin
1995 Museum for Applied Art, Gera

Days of Photography Herten

Art Multiple, Düsseldorf
1994 City & Region Trustee Savings Bank  Pforzheim, Pforzheim

Gallery Acud, Berlin

Stadtkunst, Köln
1993
Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finnland
1992
Museum of Art and Cultural History, Dortmund
1991 Torhaus Rombergpark, Dortmund

Kunsthaus Essen
1990 Fotoforum Schwarzbunt, Bielefeld
1988 The other side of photography | Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam