Jan-Jun, 2026: Research Fellowship AUFTAKT, Kunststiftung NRW
My practice operates through spatially expansive situations in which social trends, body images, and personal preferences appear as scenographic constructions. I examine cultural patterns of behavior at the point where individual projection and social norm become indistinguishable.
Textiles, clothing, props, and everyday artifacts form the material basis of my exhibitions. In combination with precise lighting, scenographic situations emerge that structure perception, orientation, and presence in space.
Lifestyle is not addressed as a subject, but employed as an aesthetic and social material.
Identity, rituals, and non-institutional forms of religion structure the works. Smoothed surfaces and reduced textures condense these motifs and shift them into a slightly absurd, controlled direction.
Exhibitions appear clear, calm, and occasionally cool. They operate through an ambivalence of accessibility and distance—comparable to a bar or a DIY kit—in order to translate familiar forms of appeal into situations of irritation.
They function as models in which social interaction, consumption, and proximity become legible as culturally coded practices.
My intention is to bring people into contact with what they would otherwise bracket out, and to produce a form of proximity that provokes curiosity while simultaneously reflecting one’s own position in space.