My work often begins with attentive observation of my surroundings. I’m drawn to what already exists: the streets I walk, the rooms in which I spend time, the objects and materials that accumulate over time. These elements are in constant flux, shaped by use, weather, and shifting contexts. I see value in attending to these quiet transformations, rather than adding to the noise of production. I’m not interested in creating or commissioning new material. Instead, I focus on what is at hand - on what the world already offers.
I isolate specific aspects from this environment and look for ways to reframe or recontextualize them. For example, when I collect stones from a gravel path near my home and reconstruct their exact arrangement in a gallery, the familiar becomes unfamiliar. The simple act of relocating and slightly reducing the material creates a new experience - one that might suggest a lunar surface, a large-scale still life, or a meditative terrain.
In both my installations and paintings, I work through small gestures—acts of relocation, repetition, or shifting context. I’m interested in what it means to engage with what is already there—to recognize it not as static background, but as material, as memory, and as potential.
1967 geb. in Stuttgart, aufgewachsen in Biberach/Riss, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin
1988-91 Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig
1991-92 Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
1992-95 Akademie der Bildenden Künste München
2023 Gastprofessur an der Beaux-Arts de Paris
seit 2010 Professur für Bildhauerei weissensee kunsthochschule berlin
2008 Gastdozent Freie Kunstakademie Mannheim
2007 Visiting artist Newcastle University, England
2006 Lehrauftrag California Institute of Arts, Los Angeles
2004/05 Lehrauftrag an der weissensee kunsthochschule berlin
My work often begins with attentive observation of my surroundings. I’m drawn to what already exists: the streets I walk, the rooms in which I spend time, the objects and materials that accumulate over time. These elements are in constant flux, shaped by use, weather, and shifting contexts. I see value in attending to these quiet transformations, rather than adding to the noise of production. I’m not interested in creating or commissioning new material. Instead, I focus on what is at hand - on what the world already offers.
I isolate specific aspects from this environment and look for ways to reframe or recontextualize them. For example, when I collect stones from a gravel path near my home and reconstruct their exact arrangement in a gallery, the familiar becomes unfamiliar. The simple act of relocating and slightly reducing the material creates a new experience - one that might suggest a lunar surface, a large-scale still life, or a meditative terrain.
In both my installations and paintings, I work through small gestures—acts of relocation, repetition, or shifting context. I’m interested in what it means to engage with what is already there—to recognize it not as static background, but as material, as memory, and as potential.
1967 geb. in Stuttgart, aufgewachsen in Biberach/Riss, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin
1988-91 Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig
1991-92 Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
1992-95 Akademie der Bildenden Künste München
2023 Gastprofessur an der Beaux-Arts de Paris
seit 2010 Professur für Bildhauerei weissensee kunsthochschule berlin
2008 Gastdozent Freie Kunstakademie Mannheim
2007 Visiting artist Newcastle University, England
2006 Lehrauftrag California Institute of Arts, Los Angeles
2004/05 Lehrauftrag an der weissensee kunsthochschule berlin