CV

CV

Currently I’m a doctoral student at Bauhaus-University Weimar. My research is focused on collaboration in socially engaged art including means of digital exchange. 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.

Garage, Community Exhibition Project
International Embassy, Trans-Disciplinary Citizen Dialogue
Alles Muss Raus, Public Art Series
Wunschkonzert – Experimental Space Design
Café Beirut, Contemporary art from the Middle East
  • 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

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.

Garage, Community Exhibition Project
International Embassy, Trans-Disciplinary Citizen Dialogue
Alles Muss Raus, Public Art Series
Wunschkonzert – Experimental Space Design
Café Beirut, Contemporary art from the Middle East
  • 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