CV
*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
2007
DAAD: Project grant, Los Angeles
International artist residencies
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
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, 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
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
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