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I work as curator, researcher and designer with focus on context related, socially engaged and participatory art. Currently, I conduct my dissertation project at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Based on a case study of the European traveling biennial Manifesta, I explore ways of collaboration and embedding artistic projects in concrete social and political contexts. In 2010, I received the Master of Fine Arts degree in the program Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Since then, I am keen to explore different possibillities of practice at the boundaries of curation, mediation, design and qualitative research.
- Education
since 2019: Doctoral thesis, Being present without being there – Collaboration in socially engaged and public art, Bauhaus-University Weimar
2020: Studies, Qualitative Methods, University of Montana, Department of Social Sciences, Missoula MT, USA
2010: Degree, Master of Fine Art – Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
2009 / 2010: Exchange studies, Oxford Brookes University, Contemporary Art and Music
2009: Exchange project, School of the Art Institute Chicago, Bauhaus Labs
2007: Degree, Bachelor of Arts, Cultural Design, FH für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Hall - Grants / Awards
2023 – 2025: Thüringer Graduiertenförderung, Scholarship for doctoral projects by Bauhaus Research School and the federal state of Thuringia.
2023: Funding Bauhaus Research School, for conferences abroad
2021 / 22: DAAD “International Virtual Academic Collaboration (IVAC)” grant, together with Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alexandra Toland (principal researcher) and the department of Art and Research at Bauhaus University-Weimar. Title: Public Arts Garage – Transnational Tinkering in Transdisciplinary, Participatory and Public Art.
2021: Grants / funding for the „Garage“ Community Exhibition Project by the German Consulate General San Francisco, Montana Arts Council (funded by the State of Montana and the National Endowment for the Arts) and others.
2020: Grant, DAAD Kurzstipendien für Doktoranden (short-term scholarship for doctoral candidates)
2011 – 2018: Grants / funding for several projects in the field of art and culture, for example by the federal State of Baden-Württemberg and the City of Ulm
2012: Short-term residence, Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
2009 – 2010: Scholarship, Förderverein der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar - Design / Cultural Concepts
2017 – 2019: Hahn15, co-founding of an agency for cultural concepts and spatial design. Development and realization of several projects, for example International Embassy 2018, urban intervention and interdisciplinary civic dialogue at the boundaries of social research, participatory art, design and digital exchange, commissioned by the city of Ulm, Germany (concept, design, coordination and realization) - Curatorial Work
2024: Home Repair, series, participatory projects and artistic research responding to multiple crises, Hannover
2022: Virtual Tinkering, poster exhibition at the conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Belfast, UK
2021: Garage, community exhibition project in digital exchange between international artists and local communities in Missoula, MT, USA
2013 – 2019: Griesbadgalerie Ulm, project space for context related and
interdisciplinary art (director, principal curator)
2018: Sister’s Summer, Exhibition series featuring women at the boundaries of art and urban environment, Ulm
2018: International Embassy, Citizen dialogue about participation of international citizens in the urban community
2017: Alles muss raus, Exhibition series with artistic interventions in public space, Ulm
2017: Disorder(s) in Beirut, Exhibition of an interdisciplinary art project as part of 35. congress of children and youth psychiatry by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie (DGKJP) in Ulm
2016: Café Beirut, Exhibition project and social exchange through contemporary art from the Middle East, Ulm
2014: Stiege Ulm, project for reappropriation of urban wasteland, art space in a previously closed public staircase built into the historical city wall in Ulm (Initiation and artistic concept)
2013: Kunst für Alle! Exhibition series participatory art / intervention in public space, Ulm
2012: Kultur Fahrschule, temporary use of a former industrial site as cultural space (co-founding and artistic concept), Ulm - Urban Intervention
2008 – 2016: Artistic interventions in public space, development and realization of artistic projects, independent and in the frame of exhibitions for example for KloHäuschen Biennial, Munic, Künstlerdorf Shöppingen or Bauhaus Labs, Chicago. - Publications
2023: Facilitating international transdisciplinary collaboration in a virtual academic exchange project. Published in the proceedings of the conference Higher Education Advances (HEAd’ 23) in Valencia - Talks / conferences
2024: The important presence of an absent artist: Letting go as a practice in socially engaged art, talk (20 min) at the Summer School of the international Graduate School Creative Approaches to Public Space (GS-CAPS) in Poznan.
2023: Public Arts Garage, Workshop at the Summer School of the international Graduate School Creative Approaches to Public Space (GS-CAPS) in Rennes
2023: Facilitating international transdisciplinary collaboration in a virtual academic exchange project, talk at the conference Higher Education Advances (HEAd’ 23) in Valencia
2023: Talk on the exhibition “Garagenland” with Jens Casper, Martin Maleschka, Martin Leibinger, Natalija Yefimkina, Architektur Galerie, Berlin
2022: What’s Your Game, co-development and realization of an expermental lab on playful exploration of public space at the conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) in Belfast
2014: Wir sind die Stadt!, Talk, effects of a curatorial project in public space, Artist Residence Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn NL
2014: Guest Critic in the program Designers in Residence by Bauhaus Dessau Foundation - Teaching
2024: Public Arts Garage, international collaborative seminar, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Rennes2 University
2023: Public Arts Garage, international collaborative seminar, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, University of Barcelona
2022: Public Arts Garage, establishing, coordinating and co-teaching an international virtual seminar, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar partnering with Concordia University Montréal, Rennes2 University, University of Barcelona, University College Cork, Queen’s University Belfast
2013 – 2018: Aicher-Scholl-Kolleg former HFG Ulm, several talks and courses on the topic of artistic interventions in public space - Qualitative Research
2021: University of Montana, University self-study about Native American students in a predominantly white institution of higher education (with focus on STEM)
2021: University of Montana, university self-study on potential and challenges of an international alumni network - Employment, private economy
2011 – 2014: Südwest Presse, Ulm, Layouter and editorial graphic designer
2014 – 2018: VIDU, Ulm, Graphic designer, advertising agency
- Voluntary Commitment
2014 – 2019: Förderverein für junge Künstler e.V. (association for the support of young artist), chairman
2013 – 2016: Voluntary work in the cultural field, Initiation and organizing of neighbourhood culture events, for example 2013-2016 the anual Series Kreuzgänge for the quarter Auf dem Kreuz, Ulm
Currently I’m a doctoral student at Bauhaus-University Weimar. My research is focused on exhibition making as co-production across different social worlds and the reception of artistic projects that intervene in real life settings. In 2010, I received the Master of Fine Arts degree in the program Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at Bauhaus-University Weimar. Since then, I worked across diverse fields as artist, designer, curator and consultant.
- Education
since 2019: Doctoral thesis, Being present without being there – Virtual collaboration in socially engaged and public art, Bauhaus-University Weimar
2020: Studies, Qualitative Methods, University of Montana, Department of Social Sciences, Missoula MT, USA
2010: Degree, Master of Fine Art – Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
2009 / 2010: Exchange studies, Oxford Brookes University, Contemporary Art and Music
2009: Exchange project, School of the Art Institute Chicago, Bauhaus Labs
2007: Degree, Bachelor of Arts, Cultural Design, FH für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Hall - Grants / Awards
2023: Funding Bauhaus Research School, for conferences abroad
2023: Thüringer Graduiertenförderung, Scholarship for doctoral projects by Bauhaus Research School and the federal state of Thuringia.
2021 / 22: DAAD “International Virtual Academic Collaboration (IVAC)” grant, together with Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alexandra Toland (principal researcher) and the department of Art and Research at Bauhaus University-Weimar. Title: Public Arts Garage – Transnational Tinkering in Transdisciplinary, Participatory and Public Art.
2021: Grants / funding for the „Garage“ Community Exhibition Project by the German Consulate General San Francisco, Montana Arts Council (funded by the State of Montana and the National Endowment for the Arts) and others.
2020: Grant, DAAD Kurzstipendien für Doktoranden (short term scholarship for doctoral candidates)
2011 – 2018: Grants / funding for several projects in the field of art and culture, for example by the federal State of Baden-Württemberg and the City of Ulm
2012: Grant, Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
2009 – 2010: Grant, Förderverein der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar - Design / Cultural Concepts
2017 – 2019: Hahn15, co-founding of an agency for cultural concepts and spatial design. Development and realization of several projects, for example International Embassy 2018, urban intervention and interdisciplinary civic dialogue at the boundaries of social research, participatory art, design and digital exchange, commissioned by the city of Ulm, Germany (concept, design, coordination and realization) - Curatorial Work
2022: Virtual Tinkering, poster exhibition at the conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Belfast, UK
2021: Garage, community exhibition project in digital exchange between international artists and local communities in Missoula, MT, USA
2013 – 2019: Griesbadgalerie Ulm, project space for context related and
interdisciplinary art (director, principal curator)
2018: Sister’s Summer, Exhibition series featuring women at the boundaries of art and urban environment, Ulm
2018: International Embassy, Citizen dialogue about participation of international citizens in the urban community
2017: Alles muss raus, Exhibition series with artistic interventions in public space, Ulm
2017: Disorder(s) in Beirut, Exhibition of an interdisciplinary art project as part of 35. congress of children and youth psychiatry by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie (DGKJP) in Ulm
2016: Café Beirut, Exhibition project and social exchange through contemporary art from the Middle East, Ulm
2014: Stiege Ulm, project for reappropriation of urban wasteland, art space in a previously closed public staircase built into the historical city wall in Ulm (Initiation and artistic concept)
2013: Kunst für Alle! Exhibition series participatory art / intervention in public space, Ulm
2012: Kultur Fahrschule, temporary use of a former industrial site as cultural space (co-founding and artistic concept), Ulm - Urban Intervention
2008 – 2016: Artistic interventions in public space, development and realization of artistic projects, independent and in the frame of exhibitions for example for KloHäuschen Biennial, Munic, Künstlerdorf Shöppingen or Bauhaus Labs, Chicago. - Publications
2023: Facilitating international transdisciplinary collaboration in a virtual academic exchange project. Published in the proceedings of the conference Higher Education Advances (HEAd’ 23) in Valencia - Talks / conferences
2023: Public Arts Garage, Workshop at the Summer School of the international Graduate School Creative Approaches to Public Space (GS-CAPS) in Rennes
2023: Facilitating international transdisciplinary collaboration in a virtual academic exchange project, talk at the conference Higher Education Advances (HEAd’ 23) in Valencia
2023: Talk on the exhibition “Garagenland” with Jens Casper, Martin Maleschka, Martin Leibinger, Natalija Yefimkina, Architektur Galerie, Berlin
2022: What’s Your Game, co-development and realization of an expermental lab on playful exploration of public space at the conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) in Belfast
2014: Wir sind die Stadt!, Talk, effects of a curatorial project in public space, Artist Residence Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn NL
2014: Guest Critic in the program Designers in Residence by Bauhaus Dessau Foundation - Teaching
2023: Public Arts Garage, international virtual seminar, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
2022: Public Arts Garage, establishing, coordinating and co-teaching an international virtual seminar, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar partnering with Concordia University Montréal, Rennes2 University, University of Barcelona, University College Cork, Queen’s University Belfast
2013 – 2018: Aicher-Scholl-Kolleg former HFG Ulm, several talks and courses on the topic of artistic interventions in public space - Qualitative Research
2021: University of Montana: University self-study about Native American students in a predominantly white institution of higher education (with focus on STEM)
2021: University of Montana: University self-study on potential and challenges of an international alumni network - Voluntary Commitment
2014 – 2019: Förderverein für junge Künstler e.V. (association for the support of young artist), chairman
2013 – 2016: Voluntary work in the cultural field, Initiation and organizing of neighbourhood culture events, for example 2013-2016 the anual Series Kreuzgänge for the quarter Auf dem Kreuz, Ulm