Degree of Fine Arts, diploma with distinction in the field of photography/media,
Master student with Christiane Hantzsch, Berlin/ Prof. Stephan Schneider, Fadbk now HBKEssen.
All photographic and video projects are based on a clear humanistic approach. Socio-political works are dedicated to topics such as science / space, ecology / climate change, politics / society and perspectives of perception / constructed realities.
Installations/ Exhibitions
2022
Sounds of the Vacuum, Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society in Bremen
Voices of Earth, Alt St. Maternus, Köln
2021
Space Poetry im Heine Haus with Birgit Kreipe (LYRICIAN), Düsseldorf
and Joanna Vortmann © Sounds of the Vacuum - video-sound-installation
For some time, Alt St. Maternus, Cologne
2020
Globale - Festival for Cross-border Literature, Bremen
Video Installation "WE WANT THE TRUTH - THE WHOLE TRUTH"
Space Poetry in the Heine House with Durs Grünbein, Düsseldorf
and Joanna Vortmann © Sounds of the Vacuum - sound-installation
We will all be changed
The coronarchiv is a joint project of the universities of Hamburg, Bochum and Gießen
PORTRAITS – Hellerau Photography Award
Nomination SATELLITEN-AUSSTELLUNG, Dresden
IDENTITÄT - HEIMAT (Photographs)
remember, Alt St. Maternus, Cologne
Open studios with Hussam Al-Basam, Cologne.
2019
WE WANT THE TRUTH. THE WHOLE TRUTH, 2 channel Video-Sound-Installation, Frankfurt a.M.
WAHRHEITSKÄMPFER
Portraits of murdered and persecuted journalists
Space poetry with Durs Grünbein, Stefan Linke and
Joanna Vortmann © „Sounds of the Vacuum“ © Joanna Vortmann, Braunschweig
more information: www.kultur-raumfahrt.de, Dr. Marie-Luise Heuser
Space poetry with poets Ulrich Beck, Yevgeniy Breyger, Paul Henri Campbell, Lydia Daher and Joanna Vortmann © Sounds of the Vacuum 6 channel sound-installation 2019
Inspiration from outer space, Heine-Haus Düsseldorf
Open studios Guest with Hussam Al-Basam, Cologne
Utopia - The Not Place, nomination Wiesbaden Photo Days 2019,
WE WANT THE TRUTH. THE WHOLE TRUTH, 2 channel Video-Sound-Installation,
Colliery Ewald "Extraschicht", Herten with
Portraits of murdered and persecuted journalists
Without title probably lost, 3 channel video-sound-installation,
Sounds of the Vacuum, 6 channel sound-installation, "Technical problems",
deep space ocean, Old St. Maternus, Cologne
2018
WE WANT THE TRUTH. THE WHOLE TRUTH, 2 channel video sound installation,
Parliamentary breakfast in Berlin
WE WANT THE TRUTH. THE WHOLE TRUTH, 2 channel video sound installation,
No Picture of God, St. Mary's Cathedral, Velbert-Negives
Bardo and Below the Heavens, Collier Ewald, "Extraschicht" Herten,
WE WANT THE TRUTH. THE WHOLE TRUTH, 2 channel video sound installation,
remember, Dreikönigskirche, Dresden
2017
interspaces, gallery of Kulturwerk, Aachen
Essential Malta, Collier Ewald, "Extraschicht", Herten
Unfurl, Verzasca Foto Festival Awards - Nera di Verzasca Contest
2016
Photographs - The Traces of People, gallery of Kulturwerk, Aachen
Homage to the forest, Castle Drachenburg Art Gallery, Königswinter
Deep Photo World, Gallery Art Cafe, Cologne
WOMEN'S VIEW OF NATURE, Wallstyle.com Gallery, Düsseldorf
Utopia, Museum at the Ostwall, Dortmund
FOREST PIECES, mayor's house, Essen-Werden
Self-perception, Creative lodging Scheidt'sche Hallen art space, Essen
Wormhole, forecourt pitvar, raptured; Workgroup Utopia, Essen
deprive, video sound installation, Moltkerei workshop, Cologne
2015
Identity, nomination Wiesbaden Fototage and exhibition, Wiesbaden
2014
Homage, Identity, KARO, Essen
Utopia, nomination for sponsorship Freie Kunst (FVK) and exhibition, Essen
Traces, Art House, Freiburg im Breisgau
2013
Identity – Home, FKT, Bochum
Self-perception, nomination for Essener Förderpreis (sponsorship) (VzKW) and exhibition, Essen
Alev, Homage, Essen
2012
The Radiant Legacy, (repro.), Civic Center, Cologne,
Jury Member
2015
Essener Award (sponsorship committee)
Awards / Grants
2014
1st prize winner Essener Award, FVK, Essen
2018
Grants holder, Onomato Artist association and cultural office Dusseldorf
2020/21
The work "Die Verwandlung" was sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Science NRW