»Behind its optimised façade, late-modern man hides an increasing bewilderment in the face of radical expansions of human scope for action, in which the transformation of "natural" processes as well as the human genome are considered legitimate design tasks. Given, evidenced reality is no longer recognised as a community-building experience. It is at the discretion of each individual what is to be accepted as reality. However, the dissolution of self-reference and world-reference that goes along with this cannot be stopped by constructed imaginings. My works are excavations behind the façades. They attempt to bring the chimeras of transformed corporeality into the visible.« AK
Curriculum Vitae
Studied Fine Arts / Sculpture at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf; 1994 Promotion Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for Young Artists and Promotion Prize for Fine Arts of the Federal Minister of Education and Science; 1996 Scholarship abroad of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia; 1997 Working scholarship Kunstfonds e.V. Bonn; 2000 Artist in Residence Forum Stadtpark Graz (A); 2002 Project Grant Kunststiftung NRW; 2009-2011 Development and realisation of Akademie einer anderen Stadt, art platform of the International Building Exhibition IBA Hamburg with Ute Vorkoeper; 2011 Artist in Residence at the Goethe Institute Dar es Salaam (Tanzania); 2013 International Artist Workshop Approach to Realities, Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing, China; 2017-2022 Collaboration with Ute Vorkoeper under the label "missing icons" in the field of art in architecture and public sphere, 2023 Neustart-Stipendium Kunstfonds e. V. Bonn
Main fields of work: Drawing, sculpture, art and architecture / in public sphere
»Behind its optimised façade, late-modern man hides an increasing bewilderment in the face of radical expansions of human scope for action, in which the transformation of "natural" processes as well as the human genome are considered legitimate design tasks. Given, evidenced reality is no longer recognised as a community-building experience. It is at the discretion of each individual what is to be accepted as reality. However, the dissolution of self-reference and world-reference that goes along with this cannot be stopped by constructed imaginings. My works are excavations behind the façades. They attempt to bring the chimeras of transformed corporeality into the visible.« AK
Curriculum Vitae
Studied Fine Arts / Sculpture at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf; 1994 Promotion Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for Young Artists and Promotion Prize for Fine Arts of the Federal Minister of Education and Science; 1996 Scholarship abroad of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia; 1997 Working scholarship Kunstfonds e.V. Bonn; 2000 Artist in Residence Forum Stadtpark Graz (A); 2002 Project Grant Kunststiftung NRW; 2009-2011 Development and realisation of Akademie einer anderen Stadt, art platform of the International Building Exhibition IBA Hamburg with Ute Vorkoeper; 2011 Artist in Residence at the Goethe Institute Dar es Salaam (Tanzania); 2013 International Artist Workshop Approach to Realities, Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing, China; 2017-2022 Collaboration with Ute Vorkoeper under the label "missing icons" in the field of art in architecture and public sphere, 2023 Neustart-Stipendium Kunstfonds e. V. Bonn
Main fields of work: Drawing, sculpture, art and architecture / in public sphere