CV
*1979, Berlin
Solo exhibitions
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, screenings and collaborations (selection)
2017 Fully Booked, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai
2017 Hours and Hours of Inactivity, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
2015 Welcome to the Jungle, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2015 ®©#001: Konkrete Utopien, Altes Postfuhramt West, Berlin
2015 Cinema Akil: Outbox Short Film Festival, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai
2014 High Today What´s Tomorrow?, CIAT, Berlin
2013 Berlin Art Prize 2013, Aqua Carré Berlin, Berlin
2011 The Bidoun Library, Serpentine Gallery, London
2011 Discursive Arrangements or, Stubbornly Persistent Illusions., Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, NYC
2011 Anfang gut. Alles gut., Basso, Berlin and Kunsthaus Bregenz
2010 basso TopHane, DEPO, Istanbul
2009 Neues Museum, Basso, Berlin
2009 Le Eck Lypsehöhle, Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum, Berlin
2009 Politics of Ecstasy, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
2008 Phoenix vs. Babel, Foundation d`Enterprise Ricard, Paris
2008 Out Riding Feet, HarrisLieberman Gallery, New York
2007 Berlin Noir, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York
2006 The New Baroque, Nice&Fit Gallery, Berlin
2006 Lichtomis Dritter Standberg, after the butcher, Berlin
Publications, artist spreads, reviews (selection)
2016 PALMS, artist calalogue, Textem Verlag, Hamburg
2014 Frieze d/e #17: Open Archives, Berlin
2013 Texte zur Kunst #91: Globalismus/Globalism, Berlin
2013 Berlin Art Prize 2013, exhibition catalogue, Berlin
2012 TÄT, exhibition catalogue, Berlin
2011 SPEX #331: Hallo Jenseits, Berlin
2011 ANGST #2: Movement, New York
2010 Volume #4: Architecture of Peace, 2010, Amsterdam
2010 2A Magazine #13: Museum in the Middle East, Dubai
2010 Ins Blickfeld gerückt, artist publication project, Berlin
2008-11 basso magazine #3, 5, 6, 7, 8, Berlin
Lecture presentations
2016 PALMS, art and science festival Berlin-Babylon-Bagdad, Kino Babylon, Berlin
2015 Dubayyland Pavilion, Altes Postfuhramt West, Berlin
2014 Global Village – World Class City, with Dr. Christiane Brosius, Heidelberger Kunstverein
2013 DUBAILAND, Gulf Research Meeting, Cambridge
2012 Expedition, Kunstraum Michael Barthel, Leipzig
2011 The Distance Narrows, Serpentine Gallery, London
2011 Expedition, artnewscafé, Plovdiv / Bulgaria
2011 The Distance Narrows, March Meeting, Sharjah
2010 An Expedition to Assyria, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin
2010 Dubai, Basso, Berlin and TÄT, Berlin
2009 City of Commerce, College of Architecture, Art & Design, American University Sharjah
Grants and prizes
2016 Cultural Affairs Department of the Berlin Senate: Work grant
2015 Cultural Affairs Department of the Berlin Senate: Catalogue funding
2013 Berlin Art Prize 2013
2013 Cultural Affairs Department of the Berlin Senate: Cultural exchange grant GLOBAL, Dubai
2012 Goethe Institute Gulf Region: Visiting artist, UAE
2011 Hans und Charlotte Krull-Stiftung
2010 Roberto Cimetta Travel Fund, Istanbul
2009 NaFöG
2007 DAAD, Los Angeles
Education
2001-07 University of the Arts Berlin
2004 Cooper Union, New York