1967           Born in Munich (D)

1986-98      Attended the Academy of Visual Arts in Munich (D)

1988-89      Ten-month architecture internship in Paris (F)

1992           Diploma (graduate engineer) in interior design

1997-98      Nine-month research sojourn in Pretoria (RSA)

1998           Diploma in the discipline of sculpture as Master student of Prof. James Reineking

since 2008  Member of the Connecting Principle Research Forum, School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University (UK)

since 2009  Lecturer at the Leopold Franzens University, Innsbruck (A)

Awards and Grants

2009       Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani, Grant of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media

2009       Heitland Foundation, Project Grant

2007       Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa), Project Grant

2006       Landesbank für Aufbaufinanzierung, Project Grant

2005       Kunstfonds, Work Grant

1999       Konrad-Adenauer Foundation (Else-Heiliger-Fonds), Work Grant

1998       Debutanten, Grant of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts

1998       City of Munich, Project Grant for Visual Arts

1997       German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Project Grant

1996       Erwin und Gisela von Steiner Foundation, Project Grant

 

Residencies

2009       RBS-Malihom Program, Wawasan University, Penang, Malaysia

2009       Goethe Institut (Lost Generation Space), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2009       German Study Centre, Venice, Italy