About

CURRICULUM VITAE

I am a German philosopher and artist based in Rotterdam. My career path is driven by my academic curiosity, yet it is consistently mediated by my interest in aesthetics. My degrees in social pedagogy (2003), in fine arts (2013), and finally my doctorate in philosophy (2023), have enriched my understanding of aesthetics from various disciplines. After completing my art studies, I became an associate member at the Cluster of Excellence, Image Knowledge Gestaltung (Humboldt University Berlin) in the project Form, Code, Milieu (2014-2018). The cluster also funded my first publication, a co-edited anthology on the problem of the body in Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault (2017). Throughout this time, I have carried out my artistic practice and taught Image Theory at ArtEZ University of the Arts (2016-2020), where I also supervised the bachelor's theses. In 2017, I was accepted as doctoral candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig under Prof. Dr. Marc Rölli (Philosophy), with Prof. Dr. Claudia Blümle (History and Theory of Form, Humboldt University Berlin) as my second supervisor. Defending my dissertation and publishing a book six months later was a real milestone. Since 2024 I am affiliated with the Erasmus School of Philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam as a visiting fellow.

PHILOSOPHY | RESEARCH

My research comprises philosophy of nature, philosophy of technology, continental philosophy and aesthetics, thereby focusing on concepts such as expression, form, milieu, and body. A recurring idea is that of form-taking as expressive event inherent in nature. In 2023, I published a monograph on technology as a problem of expression. There I trace a conceptual line from philosophy of nature (Schelling) to a philosophy of technology (Simondon). The book not only conveys the Franco-German discourse but presents an ecological way of thinking the technologization of our environment. I have established a theoretical foundation by linking the problem of technology back to aesthetics and philosophy of nature. At this stage in my career, I aim to synthesise the knowledge I have acquired in recent years and bring together my reflections on art, technology and philosophy.

PUBLICATIONS

TALKS

  • 2025 'Deleuze and Maldiney, A Phenomenology of Becoming' at University Wuppertal
  • 2025 'The Political in Idealism' at ESPhil Rotterdam
  • 2024 'Tilling the Ground: On the Creation of AI-Generated Images.' at Institut for Cultural Analysis unit Visual Culture University Klagenfurt
  • 2024 'Schelling's Autopoiesis and the Problem of Freedom' at ESPhil Rotterdam.
  • 2023 ‘Technology Expression Individuation’ at Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Berlin.
  • 2019 ‘Digital Technology: The new Link between Production and Practice’ at Gropius Bauhaus Dessau-Rosslau.
  • 2018 ‘Das Gesicht ist Politik. Zur Sehmaschine im Digitalen Milieu’ at Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt.
  • 2017 ‘Amplified Bodies and Digital Aesthetic’ at Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris.
  • 2015 ‘Medical Science, Medical Practice, Medical Aesthetic’ 8th international Deleuze Studies Conference, Stockholm.
  • 2015 ‘Digitale Tarnung: Das Potential einer optischen Dimension’ Techne Poiesis Aesthesis, Technik und Techniken in Kunst und ästhetischer Praxis, Hamburg.
  • 2014 ‘Augmented Reality: An Optical Dimension, A Membrane’ at Clinical and Critical Cartographies, TU Delft.
  • 2014 ‘The Digital Milieus and Their Material Entanglement’ at Philosophy After Nature, University Utrecht.
  • 2014 ‘White Wall and Black Hole: Micro-politics of the Undetectable Face’ What Images Do, Copenhagen.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • 2023 Doctoral Degree Philosophical Aesthetics Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
  • 2017-2023 Doctoral Candidate Philosophical Aesthetic Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Supervisor Prof. Dr. Marc Rölli (Philosophy)
  • 2021 Advanced Architectural Theory Research Seminar TU Delft, Ass. Prof. Dr. Andrej Radman (Architecture Theory)
  • 2017 Advanced Architectural Theory Research Seminar TU Delft, Ass. Prof. Dr. Andrej Radman (Architecture Theory)
  • 2014-2017 Doctoral Candidate Philosophical Aesthetic University of Fine Arts Münster, Supervisor Prof. Dr. Claudia Blümle (Aesthetics)
  • 2013 Dipl. Fine Art (Meisterschülerabschluss) Academy of Fine Arts Münster
  • 2007 Post Graduate Seminar Art Theory Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam
  • 2006 BA Fine Art AKI ArtEZ Academy for Art and Design Enschede
  • 2003 Dipl. Social Pedagogy University of Applied Sciences Münster, Supervisor Prof. Dr. Bernhard Brugger (Psychology)

ART WORKS

My patchwork quilts, soft objects, costumes, performances and videos refer to the canon of female artists. The materials I use, such as PVC (from inflatable sex dolls), discarded encyclopaedias, wax or latex, are inherently meaningful. My objects have a rhythmic structure, are roughly assembled and visualise the struggle with the material. This is where the originality of my works lies, in my personal style. I strive for an aesthetic quality that conveys vulnerability and discomfort. My biography is marked by traumatic moments of loss and grief, and this pain is implicitly present in my work in various ways. The language of pain is usually a language of lamentation and mourning, but it can also be the language of carefully considered gestures as artistic mannerism.

EXHIBITIONS (selection)

My videos and other artworks have been shown throughout Europe and I have been Artist in Residence at the ISCP, New York, and the (Robert Wilson) Watermill Centre, Watermill Southampton NY. My work has been shown in group exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art in Vilniu, MACRO Rome and Torch Gallery Amsterdam. In 2019 I had a solo exhibition at GALLERY Joey Ramone in Rotterdam, and n 2023 my video  Stick was shown at the Bienalsur Biennial in Buenos Aires.

  • 2025 Resonaces De Doelen Kunstambassade Exhibition
  • 2024 De Doelen Kunstamabassade Exhibition
  • 2023 She Devil Biennale Bienalsur Museo de Artes Visuales de Caseros, Buenos Aires/Argentinia
  • 2019 Patch Dynamics solo show at gallery JOEY RAMONE Rotterdam (solo)
  • 2014 All attitudes, all the shapeliness, all the belongings at RAM foundation Rotterdam/NL
  • 2013 Girls rule the world at Torch gallery Amsterdam/NL
  • 2012 International Contemporary Art Festival RE-culture 1 Patras/GR
  • 2011 She Devil video group show MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome/IT
  • 2011 Skin-deep at Galerie IRIS CORNELIS, Rotterdam/NL (solo)
  • 2006 The Seamstress at Het Torentje, Almelo/NL (solo)
  • 2007 Positioning System at MAMA Showroom for Media and Moving Art Rotterdam/NL
  • 2005 Kunst in unserer Region at Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst/DE