1970 born in Gehrden
1992 certified stonemason, Hannover
1994 - 2000 studies at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee
1998 - 1999 studies abroad in Philadelphia, MfA-Program Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, USA
with Prof. Joel Fisher and Prof. Jody Pinto
2000 Diploma, mentor Yana Milev
2001 Meisterschülerin Prof. Inge Mahn

1986 - 1993 assistant of Hartmut Stielow, Makoto Fujiwara u.a.
2001 assistant of Yana Milev

2002 - 2005 visiting professor, coordinator of Interdisciplinary Study Program of KHB-Weißensee

Awards and Stipends

2011 awardee of the program "George Sand - Frédéric Chopin", Stiftung Genshagen
2011 second prize, art-competition, Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders Building (German Bundestag, Berlin)
2009 Muzychi Expanded History Projekt by Alevtina Kakhidze, Private Residency Program, Ukraine, (Video)
2006 with Veronike Hinsberg, third prize, competition German Embassy, Warsaw
2005 Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, project- and travel stipend (Lithuania)
2003 project stipend, Berlin Senate, Berlin
2002/2003 DAAD travel-stipend to Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
2002 nomination VID-Award, festival for video art, Bern, CH
2002 guest studio Werkraum Warteck, Basel, Switzerland
2001 - 2002 IPA year stipend of Berlin
2000 award Mart-Stam Gesellschaft, Berlin
1999 Vermont Studio Center, Artists-in-Residence-Program, Johnson, VT, USA
1995 - 2001 stipend of ev. Studienwerk Villigst


Private Collection

Collection of Pétur Arason and Ragna Róbertsdóttir