artist statement
artist statement
My work explores concepts of reality, perception, and consciousness. I investigate the disparity between actual and virtual spheres, their entanglement, and how they are embedded in and emerge from digital technologies. Working in a variety of media such as Artificial Intelligence, VR/AR, multimedia installation, video, painting, sound, and theory allows me to develop a more precise understanding of our surroundings, ourselves, and how perceptions differ. I explore the interdependence between technology, body, and mind, and the various utopian/dystopian narratives provoked by this relationship. The immersive spaces I build combine the virtual and actual to create a hyperreality that allows the viewer to experience how individuals, culture, and existing sociopolitical power structures are both fragmented and homogenized by digitality. By using my own practice of digital communication, my voice, and my body, my work represents a reclamation of female sexuality in the digital age.
My practice creates a tension between overly intimate narratives and the exploration of systematic schisms in the 21. centuries. This juxtaposition is not only inherent in the concepts of my work but also in my use of material and in the process itself. I combine materials with a fluid, painterly quality, such as fabric, plastic, and drawings with digital gadgets like cell phones and smart mirrors. To create my digital work I use a combination of complex software (gaming engines, 3D modeling software, AI applications) and user-friendly, low-tech applications like AR filters and story features of social media platforms (Snapchat, TikTok, and Instagram). Subverting the notion of sentimentality of personal storytelling, this tension suggests the collapse of subject-object, spacetime, and actual and virtual.
My practice not only aesthetically depicts the permeability of virtual and actual realities but also the complexity of relationships and social networks, and allows the viewer to experience it. I conjure a space in which technology is not separate from but a part of us, allowing a critical and generative perspective that unfolds new possibilities and means of perception.
CV
EDUCATION
2020 MFA Akademiebrief, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
2018 Student of Honor (Meisterschülerin) of Professor Stefan Kürten, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
2014 - 19 Class of Professor Stefan Kürten
2013 Class of Professor Rita McBride
EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
(S) SOLO, (G) GROUP
2022
Waking Up In A World, Artemis Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal (g) (upcoming/Aug ‘22)
Unlimited Creations, Artemis Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal (g) (upcoming/ July ‘22)
NADA Curated: Reset (curated by María Elena Ortiz), URL at New Art Dealers Alliance (g)
Life’s a Glitch and Then You Die, Office Space Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah (g)
2021
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf @ McKinsey & Company #8, Sky Office, Düsseldorf (g)
Science-Ex - timeless travels, Künstlerhaus Dortmund (g)
Coming to Voice, K21 Museum for Contemporary Art, Düsseldorf, Germany (g)
for refusal, TRANSMEDIALE 2021, Berlin, Germany (g)
2020
Feelings! Feelings! Feelings!, synthesis gallery, Berlin, Germany (g)
digital secrets, Weltkunstzimmer in cooperation with Die Digitale Festival, Düsseldorf, Germany (g)
ARS ELECTRONICA 2020, Linz, Austria (g)
places_Virtual Reality Fesitval, Gelsenkirchen, Germany (g)
Summer Edition, Von Fraunberg Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany (g)
digital (c)ode, state_of gallery, Milan, Italy (g)
2019
prinzessinplastik is now live, Reinraum e.V. in coop. with Die Digitale, Düsseldorf, Germany (s)
return void, The Wrong Biennale, online and offline exhibition, i. a. at ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany (g)
2018
dus, FM Anker, New York, USA (g)
Friedrich Schulz, Manko, Düsseldorf, Germany (g)
Lift Me Alone, Glashaus Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany (g)
DUS PMO, Haus der Kunst, Palermo, Italy (g)
Die Grosse Kunstausstellung, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany (g)
2017
Akademie Arbeitstitel, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany (g)
drawing the curtain, Fort Mason, San Francisco, USA (g)
From Zuhause, 551 Pop Up Gallery, San Francisco, USA (g)
AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS
2022
Tropical Lab Residency, LASALLE, Singapore
2021
NEUSTART KULTUR Scholarship, Modul A, BBK Bundesverband, Berlin
Auf geht´s! Stipendium (artist scholarship of Ministry for Culture and North Rhine-Westphalia)
2020
Projectfunding Bezirksregierung Düsseldorf, Germany (District Government) for La Wayaka
Current AiR, Chile
MKW Auf geht´s! Stipendium (artist scholarship of Ministry for Culture and North Rhine-Westphalia)
short list : VR KUNSTPREIS (VR Art Prize), Deutschen Kreditbank in cooperation with Contemporary Arts Alliance
Ars Electronica and Zero1 Foundation (U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational
and Cultural Affairs) : American Arts Incubator: “The Future Of Inclusion”, Linz, Austria
Ars Festival and ZERO1: American Arts Incubator Sustainability Award: $1,000
Creative_Places Residency at Places_Festival, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
2019
DAAD, Promos Travel Grant, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft NRW (Ministry for Culture and Science NRW)
Residency at Montepulciano College for Music and Art, Italy
TEACHING EXPERIENCE / WORKSHOPS
06/2022 Workshop: „Love in the Metaverse”, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany
05/2022 Workshop: „Decentraland”, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany
05/2022 Artist Talk: „Creativity and AI” Munich Center for Digital Sciences and AI: Munich University
of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany
08/2021 Panelist: „Relax and become useless”, Learning AI, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf
07/2021 Workshop: „Can AI make art?”, Learning AI, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf
06/2021 Talk and panelist: „Creative AI”, Learning AI NRW Forum, Düsseldorf
2019 - 2020 Curation: artspace SITTart, Düsseldorf
2019 - 2021 Artist studio assistence: Studio Peter Zimmermann, Köln
2018 - 2019 Volkshochschule (Community College) Düsseldorf, Germany: lecturer for painting and art history
2018 - 2020 Winsor and Newton, NRW, Germany: workshop for painting materials and supplies
Mar. 2018 Accademia di belle arti , Palermo, Italy: workshop for organization of exhibitions
Feb 2019 Panelist at “From self-exploitation to poverty in old age”, City Museum Düsseldorf, Germany
Dec 2018 Panelist at “Positions Palermo”, City Museum Düsseldorf, Germany
Oct. 2017 San Francisco Art Institute, USA: organized student exchange, workshop for
organization of exhibitions