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*1979, Berlin
Education
2001-07 Study of Fine Art, University of the Arts Berli
2004 Study of Fine Art, Cooper Union, New York City
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: Multi-sector funding for festivals and series
2019 Berlin Senate Department for Culture: Research grant
2016 Berlin Senate Department for Culture: Work grant
2015 Berlin Senate Department for Culture: 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
Artist residencies and travel grants
2025 Gate27: Artist residency, Istanbul (upcoming)
2025 Culture Moves Europe: Mobility grant for Sicily
2024 Berlin Senate Department for Culture: 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 DEPO, Istanbul: Cultural exchange program, artist residency, 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 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
2025 Caves and Rocks of Sicily, Die Möglichkeit einer Insel, Berlin (upcoming)
2025 Caves and Rocks of Sicily, L’Ascensore, Palermo, Sicily (upcoming)
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 (with Orakel), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2019 Sam L. Lung, Belo Campo, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 Pepper House Residency Exhibition, Kochi Biennale Foundation, Kochi, India
2018 Would Have Been, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
2018 Hello World: Unfinished Glossary, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
2018 Short Notice #1, espace d’art contemporain 14°N 61°W, Martinique
2017 Hours and Hours of Inactivity, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
2015 Welcome to the Jungle, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2015 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 (with The Distance Narrows), Serpentine Gallery, London
Discursive Arrangements or, Stubbornly Persistent Illusions., Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York City
2011 Anfang gut. Alles gut. (with Orakel), Basso, Berlin and Kunsthaus Bregenz
2010 basso TopHane, DEPO, Istanbul
2009 Neues Museum, Basso, Berlin
2009 Le Eck Lypsehöhle (with Orakel), Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum, Berlin
2008 Phoenix vs. Babel, Foundation d`Enterprise Ricard, Paris
2008 Out Riding Feet, HarrisLieberman Gallery, New York City
2007 Berlin Noir, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York City
2006 The New Baroque, Nice and Fit Gallery, Berlin
2006 Trojanische Standortomi (with Orakel), after the butcher, Berlin
Artistic director
2021 The Sky was the Limit – Art and Astronomy at the Archenhold Observatory, video series in collaboration with the Stiftung Planetarium Berlin
Lecture presentations (selection)
2024 Caves and Rocks of Sicily, Werktalk, Berlin
2019 Dubai Gold and Diamonds, Very, Berlin
2018 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
2011 Expedition, artnewscafé, Plovdiv, Bulgari
2011 The Distance Narrows, March Meeting, Sharjah, UAE
2010 An Expedition to Assyria, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin
2010 Dubai, Basso, Berlin and TÄT, Berlin
2009 City of Commerce, American University Sharjah, UAE
Video screenings
2022 18th Contemporary Art Day, Garage Arts Platform, Enna, Sicily
2015 Space Under Construction, Cinema Akil, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, VAE
Print
2023 Dubai Gold and Diamonds – Tracing Dubai´s Influence on the South Indian State of Kerala, in: 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 International City, artist spread, in: Texte zur Kunst #91: Globalismus/Globalism, Berlin
2013 Berlin Art Prize 2013, exhibition catalogue, Berlin
2010 The Distance Narrows, artist spread, in: Volume #4: Architecture of Peace, 2010, Amsterdam
2010 Expedition, artist spread, in 2A Magazine #13: Museum in the Middle East, Dubai Ins Blickfeld gerückt, artist publication project, Berlin
2008-11 Image contributions for basso magazine #3, 5, 6, 7, 8, Berlin
Stage design
2009 Politics of Ecstasy, dance festival, stage design for Jeremy Wade and Meg Stuart, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin