Looking to the world behind the world
Collecting impressions and atmospheres
Dealing with
Reality and invisible moments
Tensions between polarities
Power and inability
Individual and official behaviours
Analysing, working with symbols
Consolidating the material
to multilayered constellations
Photography
Video
Performance
Installation
Object
performance 1 ca. 20min
A person was chosen
Flowers delivered
Following the womans'
intimate actions
performance 2 ca. 15 min
Pralines are served by a waiter
To the woman on the table
Sucking them they turn into marbels
performance 3 ca. 30 min
A woman is having the nail of her forefinger
lengthened and painted by a nail designer
Not far from her a person is lying on an orange sheep-skin
The woman is beginning to scratch with the nail on a sensible part of the persons body
Until the skin becomes white, red, and starts to bleed
anyhow, as usual,
I could do it any time
performance ca. 3min
The ballet dancer
and ballet mistress (51 years old)
In front of the new poster
performance 12min
location: production room/
corridor of a company
5 women
1 professional window-cleaner
a stressful atmosphere forces them to run
performance ca. 16min
a young pianist
-performing Debussy since I know her
a mature headmistress of a bank,
owning king-poodles
a woman in a black dress, exposed
these real personalities,
following their daily activities,
are related among each other
in that moment
displacement and exchange of the active and the reacting part occur
Intensive piano play
Poodles fed with a fork
Focusing you
Come to me
A secret
colour-photography
60 x 80 cm
caramel, metal - single caramel object ca. 6 x 10 cm
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colour-photography
33 x 43 cm
silk, metal, acrylic, glass
ca. 190 x 200 cm
Loosed image
Slings for the whole body
hanging down from the ceiling
A way to bring a person into
a free levitating state
Lucid marbles spread out
from the region of the heart
in a baroque-floral pattern
performance ca. 25min
2 persons, mimosa oil, audience
Loosing moment
Selected
After taking off the layers
- the cold floor
Hands touching the heart, the body
The smell of the mimosa is transmitting
its effect to the audience
Like in the loosed image
Nachtschatten
textile, metal
each flower ca. 150 x 120 cm
Carriers of Information
latex, glass
19 cm each
Nursedogs
latex, metal, leather, colour
ca. 160 x 120 cm (on the wall) / variable
mask ca. 25 x 15 cm
RE:SORT
video, 7min
The interplay of real and unreal can
lead to the most different areas, to
physical or mental places.
Consciously they are not perceptible
at the beginning.
They can be located at the transition
of presence and absence, like during
sleep and doze or under meditative states.
There plastic memory and visions are
possible to happen.
They can consist of several layers
of reality, can be the transition
between life and death, or can turn
out as a psychopathological state.
This unassigned places, free of logic,
are under impact of other powers.
The possibility of active control
is practically not existing.
You are outside the square.
This can lead to ambivalent sensations,
confrontation with fear, solitude,
security, indifference, emptiness,
infinity, bareness, aggression, euphoria
Generally you get to this places alone.
"Nurse"-drink was served at the exhibition
latex, metal, leather, colour
ca. 350 x 160 cm (on the wall) / variable
mask ca. 25 x 15 cm
colour-photography
21 x 30 cm each
installation
plastic, leather, metal
ca. 150 x 150 cm (on the wall) / variable
Fearing to move into the uncertainty
- especially if you are out of control
of the situation.
Horses,
usually led and driven,
have taken the control.
Instinctively they are focusing
a certain target.
Limits are insignificant,
dimensions are questionable.
A vehicle for being carried away.
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colour-photography
60 x 80 cm
video 4min21sec 2001/2002
digitalprint 2003
video still, aludibond 100 x 100cm
Two individuals in an absurd relation.
A plush rabbit in a battery-powered racing car with a programmed
driving mechanism
A dominatrix,
that controls and supervises
A marked square on the ground
Stereotyped movements,
monotonous sound
Are there mutual conditions
and existential dependences?
Who is the victim of whom?
Is the dominatrix subject
to her own rules?
wood, foamed material, velvet, lacquer
350 x 126 x 86 cm
A bed for exchanges in another perspective.
Sharing the same pillow
allows a gentle
and intensive approach.
colour-photography on backlight film, steel, plexiglass
160 x 50 x 20 cm
One bed on the first floor of the great grandaunts uninhabited house
has almost never been used
- except on special occasions.
The size of this work corresponds
exactly to the size of that bed.
The woman under the original white cover
appears like a fictive figure.
More information can be found at: www.skulpturenradweg.de
1974 born in Waidhofen/Thaya, Austria
1980-1997 trainings in music, dance and theater
1993 graduation diploma
1996 diploma in Physiotherapy, Austria
1998-1999 Private Art School, Stuttgart
1999-2006 State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart, sculpture / performance / new media class
(Prof. J. Jonas, G. Winter, Prof. C. Newman, Prof. U. Koch, Prof. C. Jankowski)
2002-2003 residence in Paris, guest student at the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
2005 winner of the sculptural contest “Kunst in der Landschaft“
2006 grant from Baden-Württemberg for Japan
Exhibitions (selected)
2005 Skulptur zur Beseitigung des Professors, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
2005 Nachtschicht, Long Museums' Night, Dinkelacker-Brauerei Stuttgart
2005 Klischee, State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart
2004 Guten Tak, Möbeloase, Stuttgart
2004 Täglich frisch, Oberwelt e.V., Stuttgart
2004 The House Guest, Lassie, Vienna
2004 Kunst ist im Verein am schönsten, KV Gästezimmer e.V., Stuttgart
2004 Unavoidable journeys / Outside the square, Schapp, Stuttgart - single exhibition
2003 Stuttgart Souvenir, Schapp-Der Effektenraum, Stuttgart
2003 4-5 Frauen, Atelier Unsichtbar, Stuttgart
2003 Stuttgart-Weinsberg, Klinikum am Weissenhof, Weinsberg
2002 Interview Rooms, State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart
2002 Zeit/Räume, Kunsttriennale Oberschwaben, Biberach
2001 bis dato unbekannt, Städtische Galerie Villingen-Schwenningen
2001 Moving pictures, 5. Internationale Phototriennale, Villa Merkel Esslingen
2001 Tage im Gefängnis, ehemalige Vollzugsanstalt Baden-Baden
2001 Exponate 2001, Karlskaserne Ludwigsburg
2000 Lectures, State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart
Publications/Catalogs
2005 Guten Tak,
Staatl. Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart
2004 Täglich frisch,
Staatl. Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart und die Beteiligten
2003 Stuttgart-Weinsberg,
Staatl. Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart
2002 Interview Rooms,
Salon Verlag
2002 2. Triennale zeitgenössischer Kunst Oberschwaben ZEIT/RÄUME,
Braith-Mali-Museum Biberach
2002 Tage im Gefängnis,
Staatl. Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart
2001 bis dato unbekannt,
Städtische Galerie Villingen-Schwenningen,
Verlag Stadt Villingen-Schwenningen
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