(artist statement)
"In my artistic practice I am interested in urban spaces and how they are altered by human presence. I investigate how vandalism is being treated in specific areas, how and where traces are left and how they are being removed.
The public space is being changed visually through superficial damages that mostly occur unwillingly. With this is mind I analyse not only the various actors of the urban space like constructions sites and vandalism but also industrial sites in Luxembourg that changed the cultural landscape and identity of the Greater Region.
By using found objects that are directly extracted from the urban space I develop bodies of works that oscillate between sculpture, painting, environment, archive and installation. In this process I am guided by the painterly eye for composition and color, as well as the haptic qualities of the materials I find. This symbiosis creates fragmented assemblages and combinations that function as painterly interventions and contemporary witnesses of an abstract urban space."
(exhibitions)
* with publication / catalog
solo shows
2024 _ "Get Out", Duo show with Ugo Schiavi, Kulturfabrik, Esch-Sur-Alzette, LU
2024 _ “Tracing / a recollection“, CAPE, Ettelbrück, LU *
2024 _ “Metzeschmelz: revisited“, Baustelle Schaustelle, Essen, DE
2024 _ “walls/origins/replacements”, Centre d’art Dominique Lang, Dudelange, LU
2023 _ “walls/origins/replacements“, Cité des Arts Paris, Studio 1410, Paris, FR
2023 _ “revisited”, Kunsthochschule Mainz, DE
2023 _ “the trufanow residency: A recollection”, Kunsthochschule Mainz & HGB Leipzig Außenstelle Trufanowstraße, DE *
2021 _ “chantier abstrait/to be continued”, CAW Walferdange, LU *
2021 _ “attracted by abstractions/fin des travaux le ...”, POKY - institute of contemporary art, Mainz, DE
2021 _ “red can, black bull”, Kunsthochschule Mainz, DE
2021 _ “a red can wants to die (remix)”, Duo show with Helena Walter, Apotheke2, Mainz, DE
2020 _ “chantier abstrait/what if”, Kunsthochschule Mainz, DE
2018 _ “A Deeper Understanding”, Galerie Schlassgoart, Esch-Sur-Alzette, LU
group shows (selected)
2024 _ "un été coloré", Reuter Bausch Art Gallery, Luxembourg City, LU
2024 _ "Plooschterprojet", Galerie Schlassgoart, Esch-sur-Alzette, LU *
2024 _ "THIRTIES: colour codes", Kunsthalle Trier, DE
2024 _ “Grober Unfug“, Haus der Statistik, Berlin, DE
2024 _ “KEEP RUNNING_Experimente V.I”, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst Roland Phleps, Freiburg, DE
2024 _ “notes from underground”, Kupferbergterrassen, Mainz, DE *
2024 _ “FOREVER AFTER”, Reuter Bausch Art Gallery, Luxembourg City, LU
2023 _ “Bienvenue à la Villa! (2)”, Villa Vauban, Luxembourg City, LU *
2023 _ “Luxembourg Artweek“ with Reuter Bausch Art Gallery, Luxembourg City, LU
2023 _ “Letzebuerg an Europa/Land_Stad_Leit“, BIL, Luxembourg City, LU *
2023 _ "Experimente V_Spuren", Galerie van der Koelen, Mainz, DE *
2023 _ “un été en papier”, Reuter Bausch Art Gallery, Luxembourg City, LU
2023 _ “Passe-Partout”, LIAR NYC, New York, USA
2023 _ "PCAP on tour" Semperdepot, Vienna, AUT
2023 _ "solstice room/fragments", HGB Leipzig, DE
2022 _ "DIAMANT3", Diamant, Offenbach, DE
2022 _ “Salon du CAL”, Luxembourg City, LU (K)
2022 _ “Festival der jungen Talente”, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, DE
2022 _ “Progress”, TUFA, Trier, DE
2022 _ “the grass is always greener”, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2022 _ "the third act”, Reuter Bausch Art Gallery, Luxembourg City, LU
2021 _ “the lost banquet of Alice B. Toklas”, wirwir, Berlin, DE
2021 _ "Part1", Reuter Bausch Art Gallery, Luxembourg City, LU
2021 _ "Robert Schuman Kunstpreis", Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken + Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Saarbrücken, DE *
2021 _ "Schleuse", Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim, DE
2021 _ "BRAVENEWWORLDORDER" / Triennale Jeune Création, Casino - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg City, LU *
2021 _ "YLA" - Valerius Art Gallery, Luxembourg City, LU *
2020 _ "Batiment 4", Esch-Sur-Alzette, LU *
2020 _ "Salon du CAL", Luxembourg City, LU *
2020 _ "Salon du CAL", Luxembourg City, LU *
2017 _ “INTRO_peinture”, Galerie beim Engel, Luxembourg City, LU
2017 _ "Uecht", Esch-Sur-Alzette, LU
2016 _ "Salon du CAL", Luxembourg City, LU *
2015 _ Biennale d’art contemporain Strassen, LU
2015 _ “BlauBlauBlau”, TUFA, Trier, DE
(residencies)
11.2024-12.2024 _ research & creation residency, "Gare de Matapédia", Matapédia, Quebec, CAN
09.2024-11.2024 _ research & creation residency, “Fonderie Darling”, Montréal, Quebec, CAN
07.2024 _ research & creation residency, "Squatfabrik", Kulturfabrik Esch-sur-Alzette, LU
09.2023-11.2023 _ research & creation residency, "Cité internationale des Arts", Paris, FR
(other publications)
2023 - „CONTACT ZONES IN CONTEMPORARY ART. PRACTICES, CONNECTIVITY, AGENCIES”, Faculty of Fine Arts Barcelona, Kunsthochschule Mainz, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2023, S.100-105
2021 - “KUNST. ANTHROPOZÄN. NEW MATERIALISM. STUDIOPRAXIS. 16 ESSAYS VON STUDIERENDEN”, E-Book, Prof. Irene Schütze, Kunsthochschule Mainz, 2022, S.130-143
(curatorial projects)
2024 _ “FOREVER AFTER”, group show at Reuter Bausch Art Gallery, Luxembourg City, LU
2023 _ “Carreau!”, group show at Studio 1410, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR
(awards & distinctions)
2023 _ Prix Grand-Duc Adolphe, awarded by Salon du CAL & La Cour Grand-Ducale du Luxembourg
2015 _ Prix d’encouragement, 8e Biennale d’art contemporain Strassen, LU
2024 _ Research and Creation Residency “Fonderie Darling” Montréal, CAN, granted by KulturLX
2023 _ Research and Creation Residency “Cité internationale des arts“, Paris, FR, granted by KulturLX
2024 _ Nominated for the "Edward Steichen Award" by Charles Rouleau (Casino Display) & Anastasia Chaguidouline (Cercle Cité) & Charlotte Masse (Konschthal Esch)
2022 _ Nominated for the “Edward Steichen Award” by Sarah Schwender (CNA)
2021 _ Nominated for the “Robert Schuman Kunstpreis” by Julie Reuter
2024 _ Collection of the city of Dudelange, LU
2023 _ Collection “Musée Nationale d’Histoire et d’Art Luxembourg”
2023, 2024 _ Collection Bibliothèque Nationale du Luxembourg
2020, 2024 _ Collection “Les Musées de la Ville de Luxembourg”
2018 _ Collection of the city of Esch-Sur-Alzette, LU
2017, 2023 _ Collection of the “Ministère de la Culture Luxembourg”
(education)
2023 Diplom Freie Kunst, Kunsthochschule Mainz
2022-2023 Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
-Malerei Klasse Anne Speier & Franziska Reinbothe
2018-2023 Kunsthochschule Mainz
-Expanded Painting Class, Shannon Bool
-Basisklasse, Thomas Schmidt & Heike Aumüller
2014-2015 Bauhaus Universität Weimar
-Malerei Klasse, Sven Kroner