The work The Quiet of Dissolution deals with the ambivalence in the understanding and perception of nature in the concentrated form of the natural catastrophe, based on the equating of culture with order and nature with chaos. Despite the more complex definitions of transitions between culture and nature, based on the intensifying human influences on nature and the anthropogenic causes of natural catastrophes, there is a large fascination for that, which appears threatening and outside of our control. An irrational romantic perception of nature takes place; that of a raging, avenging being that strikes back, as an opponent, who needs to be restrained. Once the immediate danger has passed it is followed by a comparably irrational repression, an almost complete ignorance of the presence of nature and possible risks. The goal is to return everything to the way it had been before, as if nothing ever happened and will never happen again, because science, technology and society will not allow it. This ambivalence can be found in the images, iconographic depictions of natural disasters, frozen images of the unforeseen, sudden and overwhelming; large sized photographs of models that pretend authenticity and question it through the control and order of the chaos in the image. Mystification is reconstructed and broken down.
lebt und arbeitet in New York
1968 geboren in Siegen
1987/88 Reisen in Costa Rica und Guatemala
1990/91 Assistenz für Fotografen in Toronto, Kanada
1991 Beginn des Studiums Visuelle Kommunikation,
Foto-Design an der Fachhochschule Dortmund
1992/93 Aufenthalt in Honduras, Salvador und Nicaragua
Seminar, Parson School of Design, New York
1995/96 Fotografiestudium an der School of Visual Arts, New York
1997 Diplom Visuelle Kommunikation, Foto-Filmdesign an der FH Dortmund
Aufenthalt in Australien
1998/99 Reisen in Europa und den USA
Umzug nach New York
2000 Galerie Bill Maynes, New York
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, Holland
2001 "You are here", Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt
Galerie Ulrich Fiedler, Cologne
"La Filature", Mülhausen
Palais für Aktuelle Kunst, Glückstadt
Goethe-Institut, Paris
"You are here", Galerie Windows, Brüssel
Ausstellungsbeteiligungen
1993 "Leipzig trifft Dortmund", Galerie der Neuen Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst,
Berlin (Katalog)
1995 Stadtmuseum Waldbröl
1996 Museum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund
1997 Galerie Energy, Dortmund
1998 Kunstmuseum Hamburg
European Photography Contest, Vevey, Schweiz
Kodak Nachwuchsförderung, Köln (Katalog)
FOCUS 98, Zeche Eins, Essen
1999 Landesmedienzentrum, Hamburg
"La Filature", Mülhausen, Frankreich
2000 Landesmuseum Oldenburg
DG Bank Stipendiaten Ausstellung
Stipendien / Preise
1995 Fulbright Stipendium
1996 "FOCUS 96" Preis (Katalog)
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Stipendium
1997 Rheinhard Wolf Auszeichnung (Katalog)
Kodak Nachwuchsförderpreis (Katalog)
1998 Otto Steinert Preis, lobende Erwähnung
"Images 98", Grand Prix de la Ville de Vevey, Schweiz (Katalog)
1999 DG-Bank Kunst Stipendium (Katalog)
Paul Quinones: FLASH ART, November 2000
Frederique Chapuis: TELERAMA
Christine Meffert: FAZ, Ausgabe Berlin Juli 2000
Christina Wendenburg: Berliner Morgenpost, Juli 2000
Michael Nungesser: TAZ, Juli 2000
Florian Malzacher: Frankfurter Rundschau, März 2001
Kunstforum, August 2001
Ingeborg Winsowski: Spiegel ‚Kulturspiegel', September 2001
