Biography

1951 born in in Hornberg, Schwarzwald/Germany
Lives and works in Dusseldorf, Germany

Education
  • 2016 Guest Professor (Performance), Kunstakademie Münster, Germany
  • 2011-12 Deputy Professor of painting, Kunstakademie, Münster, Germany
  • 2012 Guest Professor at Chendgdu Academy of Fine Arts, VR China
  • 2007 – 2011 Guest lecturer at Kunstakademie, Orientation Area, Münster, Germany
  • 1978 – 1993 Doctor of child and adolescent psychiatry at University Hospital, Essen, Germany
  • 1981 – 1988 Master student of Professor Heerich, Düsseldorf Art Academy, Düsseldorf, Germany
Selected Grants & Awards
  • 2015 Kunststiftung NRW for Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2009 Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany
  • 2005 – 2006 Artist in Residence, Degussa, Shanghai, China
  • 2004 Bremerhaven Scholarship, Germany
  • 1995 Cité des Arts, Paris
Curatorial Work
  • 2011 Manage the Workshop, Light and Art, Kunstakademie Hue und Saigon , Goethe-Institute, Saigon, Vietnam
  • 1984-98 Established and ran interdisciplinary art Project UnArt, an open studio for child psychiatric patients and artists, in co-operation with the University Hospital Essen, the University of Dusseldorf and Dusseldorf Art Academy