I was born in East Germany in 1985 and developed an early interest in evolving natural and cultural landscapes. My artistic research aims to investigate what connects us to space and how we constantly create our environment as a mental realm, where encounters are possible, without imposing a static state.
My works operate within a fine arts tradition that conceptually employs scientific methods and visual phenomena. The works are often transitory and emphasise the experience of transformed material, allowing an investigation into the unstable foundations on which we build our understanding of our place in the world.
My background in geosciences and professional experience in the aerospace sector have clearly influenced my understanding of our planet and its digital representations. Through the viewer’s interaction with their environment using sensory technologies, I invite my audience to think differently about the movements and changes we witness in our surroundings.
In my sculptural works, I arrange everyday materials in phenomenological configurations. The dynamic dialogue between the three-dimensionality of objects and the space surrounding them is established through an intuitive repositioning of the objects. This brings complex systems together in a moment of existence, of tangible presence.
I seek situations and places where human interaction with the environment is embodied in a poetic gesture. As part of the process, I use drawing and photography techniques to describe and recompose everyday structures across different temporal and spatial scales.
My series of performances is the result of further research into time and sculpture. They are dedicated to memory as embodied knowledge and are based on my interest in social constructionism – the development of understandings of the world constructed together.
While my artistic practice acknowledges the perceptual correspondence with the world, which underlines the impossibility of original meaning and the need to constantly create meaning through individual (visual) experience.
Most of my works allow us to reposition ourselves in relation to the sober quality of (natural) materials. Beyond this, I investigate the differences between non-humanistic perfectionism, which argues that the natural world is precious and would have value even if no human beings existed, and perfectionist beliefs that great achievements in art and science have value beyond any effect they have on human lives.
As part of my artistic practice, I pursue a critical examination of contemporary issues, from climate policy to digitalisation. Although my work is never strictly political, it always plays with conventions and challenges established systems.
