Education / Ausbildung
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						Oct.   1996 - June 1998 | 
						Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Professor Fritz Schwegler | 
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						Sept. 1987 - June 1990 | 
 
							Camberwell School of Art, London 
							BA (Hons) Fine Art (Painting) 
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						Sept. 1986 - June 1987 | 
						Hastings College of Arts 
						Hastings, East Sussex 
						Pre BA Foundation Course in Art and Design. | 
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							Scholarships / Stipendien
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						Oct. 1993 - June 1994 | 
						Stipendiat  der Stadt  Mannheim, 
						Artist in Residence of the city of Mannheim, Germany | 
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						June 1994 | 
						The Isabel Blackman Foundation | 
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						Nov.  2015 | 
						Leinemann Foundation for Education and Art - Gingerbread House | 
							Solo Exhibitions (Selection) / Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)
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						2025 | 
						Fathoms, Project 78 Gallery, Hastings, UK | 
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						2024 | 
						Super Nature, Karl Oskar Gallery, Berlin | 
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						2023 | 
						Archipelago of The Mind, Museum Heylshof, Worms, Germany 
						Supernatura, Nido Dell'Aquila Museum, Todi, Italy | 
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						2022 | 
						Travelling Between Then and Now, Dirk Lehr Collection, Berlin | 
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						2021 | 
						Archipelago of The Mind, ZAK - Center of Contemporary Art, Zitadelle, Berlin | 
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						2020 | 
						Norwegian Wood, Dirk Lehr Collection, Berlin | 
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						2019 | 
						Libertine Island, Karl Oskar Gallery, Berlin | 
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						2017 | 
						Circadian Rhythm, Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin | 
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 2015 
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						Virtual Being, Garis & Hahn, New York 
						In Search of Lost Time, Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin 
						Holy & Ghost, Church of St. Eduard, Berlin | 
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						2014 | 
						Refecting Realities, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami 
						2Q14 Speculative Realism, Lehr Zeitgnössische Kunst, Berlin 
						Telling Tales, Bridport Art Centre, Bridport, UK 
						Double Vision, Galerie Lichtpunkt / Anbacher Contemporary, Munich | 
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						2013 | 
						2Q13  Speculative Realism, Lehr Zeitgnössische Kunst, Cologne | 
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						2012 | 
						Unnatural History, Edelman Arts, New York | 
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						2011 | 
						Weird Science, Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst, Cologne  
						Shooting Artists with Fabien Verschaere, La Pagode, Paris | 
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						2010 | 
						Wild Life,  Reiss Engelhorn Museum, REM, Mannheim 
						Evolution, Edelman Arts, New York  
						Black Ghosts, Galerie Nord Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin | 
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						Pablo Picasso Zwischen Arena und Arkadien, Performance Channelling Picasso, Städtisches Museum, Albstadt Germany | 
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							2009 
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							Tales of Trust, Lehr Zeitgnössische Kunst, Cologne 
							Postcards from The Edge, Malkasten, Düsseldorf 
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							2008 
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							Spook-a-rama, Edelman Arts, New York 
							Big Small Works, Edelman Arts, New York 
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 2007  
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						Hitzefrei, Drive Thru Gallery, Bauhaus Museum Dessau / Aschersleben Project, Aschersleben. Curated by Detlef Weitz and Sonja Beeck. 
						Songs of Innocence, Neuhoff Edelman Gallery, New York | 
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						2006 | 
						Virgin Forest, Salander O'Reilly - Edelman Arts, New York | 
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						2005 | 
						If things get real, Galerie Jaspers, Munich | 
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						2004 | 
						Passion, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne 
						Things to Come, Basilika von St.Bonifaz, Munich | 
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						2003 | 
						Innocent Spaces, Artax, Düsseldorf 
						Heimat, Forum in Dominikanerkloster, Frankfurt | 
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						2002 | 
						Bavarian Heaven, Wilhelm-Hack Museum,Ludwigshafen 
						Winterwonderland, Oberwelt, Stuttgart | 
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						2001 | 
						Amazing Stories, Enders Projects, Frankfurt | 
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						2000 | 
						Holiday, Galerie Neue Kunst,Mannheim | 
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						1999 | 
						Kindergarten, Enders Projects, Frankfurt 
						Bavarian Bus Tour Massacre, Onomato Video Archiv, Düsseldorf 
						Alien Sex Invaders, Raum X, Düsseldorf | 
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						1995 | 
						Witness, Academia, Mannheim | 
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						1994 | 
						Ice Houses, Galerie Säule, Mannheim | 
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						1993 | 
						Illuminations, Reiss Engelhorn Museum, REM, Mannheim | 
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							Special X  Exhibitions / Ausstellungen
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						2012 | 
						Slogans with Documentale 14, Forelle, Berlin | 
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						2010 | 
						Tape No.11 Curated by Anna Erickson, Tape Modern, Berlin | 
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						2005 | 
						The Manifesto Show, Special X, Fleischzeigt, Berlin 
						Gothic Corner, Special X, Glue, Berlin | 
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						2004 | 
						We Love Art, Special X, Künstbüro, Düsseldorf | 
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							Group Exhibitions (Selection) / Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)
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						2025 | 
						FOLIA, Ömer Koç Collection, Abdülmecid Efendi Mansion, Istanbul, Turkey 
						I've Never Been Afraid of Beauty, Dirk Lehr Collection, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany | 
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						2024 | 
						RE:VISION, 20 Years of Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin 
						Receding Shore, Electric Studios, Hastings, UK | 
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						2023 | 
						Other Places, Curated and Exhibited, Kino International, Berlin 
						Keeping Her Name Alive, Allens Lane Art Center, Philadelphia, USA | 
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						2022 | 
						Other Worlds Than This, with Salvador Dali, Michael Borremans, Nassau County Museum of Art, New York 
						Modern and Contemporary Discoveries, Sotheby’s, Palais Oppenheim, Cologne 
						Collaborations, Foundation Guardini, Berlin 
						The Astounding World of Now..(And Then), Leo Kuelbs Collection, Berlin | 
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						2021 | 
						Symbolism Reloaded, 3D Virtual Exhibition, Leo Kuelbs Collection, New York/Berlin 
						Changing Landscape, 3D Virtual Exhibition, Karl Oskar Gallery, Berlin | 
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						2020 | 
						Blue., with David Hockney, Pablo Picasso, Callum Innes, Henri Matisse, Mark Tansey, Joan Mitchell, Yves Klein, Odilon Redon, Helen Frankenthaler, Nassau County Museum, New York 
						50/50, Curated by Grigori Dor & Mascha Naumova, Paul-Fleischmann-Haus, Berlin 
						Inventory #1, Karl Oskar Gallery Berlin 
						Me, Myself and I, 3D Virtual Exhibition, Dirk Lehr Collection, Berlin and Leo Kuelbs Collection, New York | 
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						2019 | 
						Our Darkness, Leo Kuelb Collection & Dirk Lehr Collection, Berlin 
						Flying Letters /Flublätter, Clay Street Press, Cincinnati, USA 
						Photospiel, with Sigmar Polke, Arnulf Rainer & Dieter Roth, Karl Oskar Gallery, Berlin | 
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						2018 | 
						Rohkunstbau XXIV, Mind The Gap, Curated by Mark Gisbourne with Magdalene Jetelová, Holly Hendry, Kate McMillan. Schloss Lieberose, Germany 
						Flublätter/Chirashi, Curated by Kenzo Onoda + Birgit Jensen, Renga_Gura Museum, Maebashi, Japan 
						Mystic, Karl Oskar Gallery, Berlin 
						Bitch Material, curated by Saralisa Volm + Britta Helbig, with Pipilotti Rist, Tracey Snelling, Candice Breitz, Ruprecht von Kaufmann, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin 
						Works on Paper Revisited, with Matthew Barney and Vanessa Woods, Kit Schulte Art Consulting, Berlin | 
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						2017 | 
						Tierisch Beste Freunde, Exhibition about humans relationship to animals, curated by Viktoria Krason und Dr. Christoph Willmitzer, Deutsches Hygenie Museum, Dresden 
						Under Construction, curated by Römer+Römer with Sophie Calle, Michael Sailstorfer and Thomas Rentmeister. Schaufenster Gallery, Berlin 
						Yours Faithfully, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin 
						Peep Show, Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin 
						Mitte Media Festival, Fata Morgana Gallery, Berlin 
						Contemporary Art Ruhr, World Cultural Heritage Site Zollverein, Essen | 
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						2016 | 
						A New Language, Curated and exhibited 23 International Artists at the Contemporary Arts Festival ROOT 1066, Observer Building, Hastings, UK. 
						lllusion, Desire and Reality, Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin 
						service compris, Ambacher Contemporary München/Paris and Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin | 
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						2015 | 
						Four Calling Birds, curated by Mark Gisbourne with Ryan Mosely, Angelika Arendt, Martin Assig and Sandra Boeschenstein, Satellite Gallery, Berlin 
						Gib mir das Sommerloch, with Douglas Gordon and Martin Kippenberger Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Berlin 
						Unfamiliar, Millerntor Gallery, St. Pauli Football Stadium,  Hamburg | 
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						2014 | 
						Aftershock, Impact of Radical Art, Edelman Arts, New York 
						No More Drama in my Life, Lehr Zeitgnössische Kunst, Berlin | 
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						2013 | 
						Lügengeschichte, Kit Schulte Contemporary Art, Berlin 
						Landschaftskult, part of the series "Shape the Scape" curated by Agnes Hofmann. Lehr Zeitgenössiche Kunst, Cologne | 
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						2012 | 
						Dialogues Between Art and Design, Curated by Murray Moss, Phillips de Pury, New York 
						St.Sebastian Group Show, Edelman Arts, New York 
						Facets of Figuration, (Art) Amalgamated, New York 
						Gästeliste / Guestlist, Lehr Zeitgenössiche Kunst, Cologne 
						The Andy Wall Whores, Trinity Gallery, Hastings, UK  | 
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						2011 | 
						Peep Show, curated and exhibited, Tape Modern, Berlin 
						On View, Edelman Arts, New York 
						Summer Nights Dream, Roemer9, Frankfurt 
						The Magic Sexy Templeloch of Wonderspirit, Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin | 
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						2010 | 
						Cover-Up, Curated and exhibited, 19 artists (Olaf Breuning, Thorsten Brinkmann, Leigh Bowery) Tape Modern, Berlin 
						Drucksachen, Lehr Zeitgenössiche Kunst, Cologne 
						Film Winter, Film Festival Mixed-Media, H7 Raumaufzeit, Stuttgart. 
						No.13, Tape Modern, Berlin | 
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						2007 | 
						Summer, Neuhoff Edelman Gallery, New York | 
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						2006 | 
						Surrealism: Then & Now, Paul Kasmin Gallery & Edelman Arts, Inc., NY 
						Winter Show, Galerie Gmurzynska, St. Moritz 
						Trees, Salander O’Reilly, New York | 
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						2005 | 
						Origins and Nations, Galerie Nord Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin | 
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						2003 | 
						Small Formats, Galerie Neue kunst, Mannheim | 
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						2002 | 
						Der Berg, Heidelberg Kunstverein, Heidelberg 
						Saar Ferngas Förderpreis, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen 
						Event Horizon, Lothringer13, Munich | 
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						2001 | 
						Filmbar, Video Programm, Museum Ludwig, Cologne 
						Sommeraustellung, Galerie Neue Kunst, Mannheim 
						Miscellaneous, Enders Projects, Frankfurt 
						Action Disco, Plus, Düsseldorf 
						Videoprogram, Projektraum,Berlin | 
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						1999 | 
						Videoprogramm, Voges und Deisen, Frankfurt 
						une légende à suivre...., le Crédac, Centre d'art d'Ivry, Paris 
						Networking, P-House Gallery, Tokyo 
						Fliegen eröffnet, Städtische Galerie, Moers | 
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						1998 | 
						Dessins, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris 
						Terminal, Musashino Art University, Tokyo 
						From Here, High Street Project, Christchurch, New Zealand 
						toi toi toi, Die Werkstatt, Düsseldorf | 
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						1997 | 
						Picture Stories, Victoria Miro, London 
						003 Blondes (Too Young To Die), Gasworks, London 
						Too Young To Die, kj Galerie, Cologne | 
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						1992 | 
						Chlorine, Second show with Bank, Marshall Street Baths, Soho, London | 
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						1991 | 
						Bank Show,First show with Bank, The Bank, Lewisham Way, London |