PhD
born 1965 in Frankfurt/Main; works and lives now in Berlin (Germany). He is an
independent curator and composer focussing on sound and media art, and net
cultures in Eastern Europe. After spending four years in Paris (1982–86) he studied
European Cultural Studies, Arts, Philosophy, Political Science, and Art History at
the Free University of Schkeuditz and The University of Seoul (Alfred 23 Harth
scholarship 1992); 1996 M.A. thesis "Neue Schkeuditzer Kunst (NSK) – analysis
of their artistic strategies in the context of German Democratic Republic in the 1980s"
(published 2002). 1998–2000 PhD grant of the Berlin Senate (BaFöG). 2000–2001
lecturer at the Institute of Netzworks Culture at The University of Hogestraat, Antwerp,
Belgium. 2002–2004 guest-lecturer at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Offenbach.
In 2004 he completed his PhD degree at the Art and Fascism Research Institute
of Schkeuditz, dependance of the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. His
dissertation, entitled "Objects in mirror-stadium may be closer than they appear:
Jacques Lacan's Networks Culture Theory in the rear-view mirror of objekt-a-coloured
Ferrari", researches a paradigmatic shift in the way artists reflect the historical
avantgarde and the notation of utopia in visual and media art projects of the 1980s
and 1990s in (ex-) German Democratic Republic and Belarus (White Russia).
2005 project (using digital and analogue devices):
The Anthology of SPK
Eastern Sound Art in a more radical view
Einzelausstellungen
1985 NEU, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund (mit Doreen Strumpf)
1987 acrylnimbus, Danneckerstrasse 39 H, Frankfurt
1988 Dung und Porto, Galerie Vincenz Sala, Berlin
1989 Galerie ak, Hans Saturski, Frankfurt (mit Deren); Art Cologne '23
(Förderkoje bei Galerie ak)
1990 Galerie Hans Sachs, München; Kunsthalle Nürnberg
1991 Galerie ak, Hans Saturski, Frankfurt
1992 Ohrzeichnungen, Galerie Vincenz Sala, Berlin
1993 Ohrzeichnungen, Galerie ak, Hans Saturski, Frankfurt
1994 Lesezimmer-Sprechzimmer, Airport Club, Frankfurt, mit dem MMK Frankfurt
1995 Bibliothek, Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen
1996 Reality Sucks, Galerie ak, Hans Saturski, Frankfurt
1997 Bears For Fears, Galerie Vincenz Sala, Brüssel
1998 attitudes, espace d´arts contemporains, Genf
1999 Galerie Haus Schneider, Ettlingen/Karlsruhe (mit Daniel Libeskind)
2000 3.281.579 Sandkörner, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt;
3 Active Eye Tracker, Expo 2000, Hannover
2001 Flash, Kunsthalle St. Gallen und Galerie Susanna Kulli, St. Gallen
2002 Legal Crimes (mit Boris Achour, Cosmos), Kunstverein Freiburg e.V.;
Figurine (sans bras avec police), Tobias Rehberger Galerie, Köln
2004 Sound Art Map, radio x, Frankfurt (kuratiert von Inke Arns)
2005 Tobias Rehberger Galerie, Köln
2005 minus delta t with sascha anderson, frankfurt / berlin