Born in 1966, Hanover, Germany, Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

EDUCATIONS

1983 - 1989 Studies and Diploma at Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany with Harry Kramer.

2020

• Do’s And Don’ts And Want’s And Won’ts, CHOI&LAGER Gallery, Cologne
• Berliner Luft, DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin (cat.)
• Image Ballet, Haus Am Waldsee, Berlin (cat.)

2019

• Disconnected Truth, DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin (cat.)

2017

• Total Liquidation Impact, Barbara Seiler Gallery, Zürich

2016 

• Love and Money?, ToGu Architecture, Marseille

2015 

• Fred Thieler Preis 2015 Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (cat.)

2013 

• The Nothing is our story Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

2012

• Bell Cazzo, Vita Figa Part 2, Union Gallery, London
• Diktatur der Hormone, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin

2011

• Eissalon Bernhard Martin, Kunstraum Deutsche Bank, Salzburg

2009

• Dogma freier Raum, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
• Thema verfehlt, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen (cat.)

2008 

• Thema verfehlt, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (cat.)
• Arriba, abajo, a la derecha y a la izquierda, Joan Prats Gallery, Barcelona
• Corner Space with Jonathan Lasker, Thomas Schulte Galerie, Berlin
• Gott und ich wir wissen’s schon, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
• Prognosefehler, Team Gallery, New York

2006

• Verpasste Gelegenheiten, Arario Museum, Seoul (cat.)
• Brennholz+Ravioli, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad

2005

• Villa Arson with Larry Pittman, Nice (cat.)
• Ichlinge+Dulinge, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

2004

• Bahnhofsviertel, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg

2003

• Gartencenter, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York

2002

• Ich zeige Ihnen gerne meinen Nassbereich“ with Peter Saul and Martin Kippenberger, MAMCO Genève, Geneva

2001

• Softcore, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim (cat.)
• MoMA PS1 with Atelier Van Lieshout, New York

2022

• FLOWER, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul
• Bergen Assembly, organized by Saadane Afif and curated by and Yasmine d’O, Bergen

2021

• Compressed Time, FS. Art, Berlin

2020 

• The Year of the Rat, DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin
• In aller Munde, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
• From Dusk till Form, curated by Bernhard Martin, featuring Imre Bak, Jonathan Lasker, Bernhard Martin, Frank Nietsche, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Andreas Schulze, and Rose Whylie, ACB, Budapest
• Le Cabaret du Néant (Cabaret of Nothingness), frac île‑de‑france, le château, Paris

2018

• Boy meets Girl, curated by Rose Wylie, Choi&Lager, Cologne
• Entfesselte Natur, curated by M. Bertsch, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
• Chambre d´Amour, Int. Biennale d´Art Contemporain, curated by Richard Leydier, Anglet/Biarritz, Côte Basque (cat.)
• Heimvorteil, German artists of the Schauffler collection, Schaulager Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen
• Rendezvous with an Impulse, curated by Christoph Tannert, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (cat.)

2016

• Gestatten Kästner, Riesa Efau Motorenhalle, Dresden (cat.)

2015

• Un Mural des Tableaux, FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris
• Malerei, böse, Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg
• Berlin Artist Statements, curated by Christoph Tannert, BWA, Katowice (cat.)

2013 

• Signs of the Times, curated by Richard Leydier, Carré Sainte-Anne, Montpellier (cat.)

2012

• Ausstellung zur Auction 3000 Auktion for the Operndorf of Christoph Schlingensief Burkina Faso, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
• Painting Forever, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (cat.)

2010 

• Let´s Dance, MAC/ VAL Musée d´art contemporain du Val-de Marne, Vitry-sur Seine (cat.)
• The end of the world as we know it.., curated by Bettina Steinbrügge, Kunsthalle de Mulhouse, Mulhouse (cat.)

2007

• Hamsterwheel, curated by Franz West, Le Printemps de Septembre à Toulouse, Toulouse
• Hamsterwheel, curated by Franz West, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona
• Foodscape, Solares Foundation, Parma

2006 

• Full House, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
• partenaire/particulier, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris

2004 

• The future has a silver lining, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich

2003

• How high can you fly, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland Lichtkunst, ZKM, Karlsruhe (cat.)
• deutschemalereizweitausenddrei, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt a. M.

2002

• Né un 3 septembre, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon

2001 

• Neue Welt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt a.M. (cat.)
• Tirana Biennale I, Tirana (cat.)
• I love Dijon, Le Consortium (département Nouvelles Scènes), Dijon

2000

• ein|räumen, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg (cat.)
• Voilà - le monde dans la tete, Musée d’Art Moderne de la de Ville de Paris, Paris

RESIDENCIES, AWARDS & GRANTS

2015 Fred-Thieler-Award for painting, Berlin, Germany

2009-2013 Residence in London, UK

2008 Artist Award of the City of Wolfsburg, Germany

2003 Grant of Villa Arson, Nice, France

1998 Grant of Hessische Kulturstiftung, Wiesbaden, Germany

1996 Grant of Stiftung Leube, Salzburg, Austria

1992 Grant of Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

1990 – 1991 Awardee of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Program) in Barcelona, Spain

1984 – 1987 Residence in Barcelona, Spain

Selected Public Collections

• Arario Museum, Seoul, South Korea
• Deutsche Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
• FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
• FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris, France
• JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, New York, USA
• MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
• Migros Museum für Gegenwart, Zürich, Switzerland
• Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
• Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA
• Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
• The Sander Collection, Berlin, Germany
• The Schauffler Foundation Schauwerk, Sindelfingen, Germany
• Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary - TBA21, Vienna, Austria