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 stipendien

2009 Muzychi Expanded History Projekt by Alevtina Kakhidze, Private Residency Program, Ukraine, (Video)
2006 with Veronike Hinsberg, third place for proposal "Ziemniak/Potato", 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. Studienwerkes Villigst