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*1979, Berlin
Education
2001-07 Study of Fine Art, University of the Arts Berlin
2004 Study of Fine Art, Cooper Union, New York
Grants, funding and prizes
2023 Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn: NEUSTARTplus grant
2022 Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn: NEUSTART grant
2021 Cultural Affairs Department of the Berlin Senate: Research grant
2020 Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe: Multi-sector funding for festivals and series
2019 Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe: Research grant
2016 Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe: Work grant
2015 Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe: Catalogue funding
2013 Berlin Art Prize 2013
2011 Hans und Charlotte Krull-Stiftung: Work grant
2010 Roberto Cimetta Travel Fund: Istanbul
2009 NaFöG: Work grant
2007 DAAD: Project grant, Los Angeles
International artist residencies and travel grants
2025 Culture Moves Europe: Mobility grant for Sicily
2024 Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe: Cultural exchange program GLOBAL, Sicily
2023 Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa): Artists´Contacts program for Istanbul
2022 Garage Arts Platform: Artist Residency, Enna, Sicily
2020/21 Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and DEPO, Istanbul: Cultural exchange program, artist residenca Istanbul
2017 Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore and Kochi Biennale Foundation: bangaloREsidency at Pepper House Residency, Kochi, India
2013 Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and Goethe Institute Gulf Region: Cultural exchange program GLOBAL, artist residency Dubai
2012 Goethe Institute Gulf Region: Visiting artist, Dubai
2010 Roberto Cimetta Fund: Travel grant for Istanbul
Solo exhibitions
2021 Sonnenphysikalisches Kabinett (Solar Physics Cabinett), as part of The Sky was the Limit – Art and Astronomy at the Archenhold Observatory, Berlin
2020 Dubai Gold, Coir Kerala, after the butcher, Berlin
2019 Dubai Ports World, Nackt Kantine at Stadtbad Neukölln, Berlin
2014 Dubayyland, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg
2012 Coronation, Kunstraum Michael Barthel, Leipzig
2010 The Distance Narrows (with Hannes Schmidt), Basso, Berlin
2009 North Palace, Room 10a, TÄT, Berlin
2008 City of Commerce, Nice&Fit Gallery, Berlin
2007 The Dreamer Whose Dreams Came True, Institut im Glaspavillon der Volksbühne, Berlin
2006 Nineveh and Its Remains, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Group exhibitions, collaborations (selection)
2021 lliberal Arts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2019 Sam L. Lung, Belo Campo, Lisbon, Portugal
2018
Pepper House Residency Exhibition, Kochi Biennale Foundation, Kochi, India
Would Have Been, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
Hello World, Unfinished Glossary, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Admit One, Potsdamer Strasse 103, Berlin
Short Notice #1, espace d’art contemporain 14°N 61°W, Martinique
2017
Fully Booked, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai
Hours and Hours of Inactivity, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
2015
Welcome to the Jungle, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
®©#001: Konkrete Utopien, Altes Postfuhramt West, Berlin
2014 High Today What´s Tomorrow?, CIAT, Berlin
2013 Berlin Art Prize 2013, Aqua Carré Berlin, Berlin
2011
The Bidoun Library, Serpentine Gallery, London
Discursive Arrangements or, Stubbornly Persistent Illusions., Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York
Anfang gut. Alles gut., Basso, Berlin and Kunsthaus Bregenz
2010 basso TopHane, DEPO, Istanbul
2009
Neues Museum, Basso, Berlin
Le Eck Lypsehöhle, Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum, Berlin
Politics of Ecstasy, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
2008
Phoenix vs. Babel, Foundation d`Enterprise Ricard, Paris
Out Riding Feet, HarrisLieberman Gallery, New York
2007 Berlin Noir, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York
2006
The New Baroque, Nice&Fit Gallery, Berlin
Lichtomis Dritter Standberg, after the butcher, Berlin
Video screenings
2022 18th Contemporary Art Day, Garage Arts Platform, Enna, Sicily
2015 Space Under Construction, Cinema Akil, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, VAE
Lecture presentations
2024 Caves and Rocks of Sicily, Werktalk, Berlin
2019 Dubai Gold and Diamonds, Very, Berlin
2018
Gulfi, KIN*K #4 at BLO-Ateliers, Berlin
PALMS, University of the Arts Berlin
2017 Gulfi, 1Shanthi Road, Bangalore, India
2016 PALMS, art and science festival Berlin-Babylon-Bagdad, Kino Babylon, Berlin
2014 Global Village – World Class City, with Dr. Christiane Brosius, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg
2013 DUBAILAND, Gulf Research Meeting, Cambridge, UK
2012 Expedition, Kunstraum Michael Barthel, Leipzig, Germany
2011
The Distance Narrows, Serpentine Gallery, London
Expedition, artnewscafé, Plovdiv, Bulgari
The Distance Narrows, March Meeting, Sharjah, UAE
2010
An Expedition to Assyria, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin
Dubai, Basso, Berlin and TÄT, Berlin
2009 City of Commerce, College of Architecture, Art & Design, American University Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
Print
2023 S. Wippel (Ed.), Branding the Middle East: Communication Strategies and Image Building from Qom to Casablanca, De Gruyter
2017 Hours and Hours of Inactivity, exhibition catalog, Walter König Köln
2016 PALMS, artist catalog, Textem Verlag, Hamburg
2013 Texte zur Kunst #91: Globalismus/Globalism, Berlin
2013 Berlin Art Prize 2013, exhibition catalogue, Berlin
2010 Volume #4: Architecture of Peace, 2010, Amsterdam 2A Magazine #13: Museum in the Middle East, Dubai Ins Blickfeld gerückt, artist publication project, Berlin
2008-11 basso magazine #3, 5, 6, 7, 8, Berlin