For more than two decades, I have been working with the archive of the past and the possibility to create new combinations in the present.
By repainting the objective witnesses of what has been - in order to bring them in line with the reality of my evolving memory - I try to form associations between things that appear to be unconnected...
Photographs from my own family album, or those which could have fitted in my biography, are the source of my inquiry. This raises questions about the real content of memories in general and of photographs in particular.
In the attempt to understand the documents of the past I create “afterimages” by transferring them onto a wax-saturated canvas or paper. Using Hot Wax as a medium creates a parchment-like transparency in which injuries and vulnerability become visible. This use of encaustic allows me to overwrite, or to conserve the essence like perfumers, even to dissolve the template up to its ground form. Oil on wax grounded canvases ensures the essential translucency of different layers interfering to each other.

“As it is, when it was”, the title of one of my exhibitions, sums up, in the briefest possible way, the questions that preoccupied me and shaped my work for many years. What is the relationship between the present and autobiographical memory? To what extent are we able to detach our self-perception and our view of the world from the input of the past? And is this even pivotal to identity and self-presence, or is it rather the case that history and the present are woven together into a fabric that can be constantly augmented with new patterns- until it is handed out down to the next generation, who in turn will complete it? My paintings are the testimony of different generations and a very personal impetus morphs into a universal appeal. The familiar moves beyond the ethnic and political, becoming a historical whole - a historical body. The focus now is not only on what has been but on what lies ahead. To the world we know, I try to add a new or other world, one whose reality eludes photographic documentation. Now, old myths appear next to metaphors for abstract scientific concepts, mysterious forces and the euphoric belief in progress of a technologized civilization.

These apparitions are not set on stage in or defined by linear time but rather by their simultaneity, which resurfaces in each individual, i.e. collective consciousness, sediments of experience, transplanted experiences, projections, scars and ornamentation.

Exhibitions (selection)

2022 “Crack up,” TSA Los Angeles (G)

„:innen malen„, KVFM, Frankfurt am Main (G)

“Als wären es meiner drei“, KunstLanding,

Aschaffenburg (G)

2021 „Nomad“ Torrance Art Museum Torrance, California (G)

„Ruw“, Galerie Schmalfuss, Berlin (G)

„Of Human Bondage“, Hilbertraum, berlin (G)

„behind the scenes of hidden tracks”, Schaufenster,

Berlin (G)

2020 Séance fiction, KVFM.,Frankfurt am Main (G)

Homesick, Zwitschermaschine, Berlin (G)

Junge Unrast, Hilbertraum Berlin (S)

2019 „Voix“, Museum der bildende Künste, Leipzig (G)

„Fisimatent“, Galerie Perpetuel, Frankfurt (S)

“About Eve“, Being 3 Gallery, Beijing (S)

„Paradeiser“, Galerie Strzelski, Stuttgart (S)

2018 „Painting XXL, Ausstellungshalle 1 A, Frankfurt (G)

„Moonshiner“, Kunstverein Familie Montez,

Frankfurt (E)

“Caput“, Hilbertraum, Berlin (G)

„One Step beyond“, Polarraum, Hamburg (S)

2017 „Entfesselt!“ Malerinnen der Gegenwart,

Schloss Achberg (G)

Farbauftrag, Studiogalerie im Haus am Lützowplatz,

Berlin

2016 „rien ne va plus“ Kunsthalle Lüneburg (G)

2015 „Schwab-Projekt“, Schwab-Versand, Hanau (S)

2014 „painting was a lady“ wonderloch kellerland N.Y. (G)

„Hippokamp“, Ausstellungshalle der OFD,

Frankfurt/Main (S)

2013 „reciprocal fabrication“, Jinan. Shandong, China (G)

“Rockhounds “, Weissfrauenkirche, Frankfurt/Main (S)

2012 „You are what you is“, Atelierfrankfurt,

Frankfurt /Main (S)

2011 „O Superman “-Römer 9, Frankfurt/Main (S)

„Begegnungen “ Museum Kronberger Malerkolonie (G)

2010 „Kernschatten “, Kunstverein Münsterland, Coesfeld (S)

2009 „Hautjob“, Galerie Kolb, Karlsruhe (S)

2008 „go for it!“, Museum Neue Weserburg, Bremen (G)

„Frauenbilder “, Kunsthalle Lingen (G)

2007 „Wie es ist, wenn es war“,

Ausstellungshalle Schulstrasse 1a, Frankfurt/Main (S)

„rockers island “, olbricht collection,

Museum Folkwang, Essen (G)

„baby body “, Kunsthalle Darmstadt (G)

2006 „zurück zur Figur “, Kunsthalle der Hypokulturstiftung,

München (G)

„amor vincit omnia“ Saarländische Galerie, Berlin (G)

2005 CBK – Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Alphen, NL (S)

2004 „Nachbilder“ Galerie Van der Mieden, Antwerpen (S)

„Selbst“ im weitesten Sinne, Marburger Kunstverein (G)

2003 Deutschemalereizweitausenddrei,

Frankfurter Kunstverein (G