Bio

*06/08/1978 Rostock, Germany | born

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

8 May – 12 May 2019 Out of breath’, Sculpture Garden of William Benington Gallery, Fulmer, UK

19 Nov – 25 Nov 2018 Breathing with clay’, 20SQUARE7 Gallery Space, Berlin, Germany 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019, 04/07/19 – 08/07/19 Brockley Open Studios, London UK

2019, 04/07/19 – 07/07/19 Free Range Exhibition ‘Art Week’ with Made in Arts London at Truman Brewery, London UK

2019 Affordable Art Fair London, MiAL, London UK

2019 Invitation for Material Earth, Performance “Noting Absence III”,  Messums Wiltshire, Wiltshire UK (festival was cancelled)

2018 London Design Festival 2018, Lethaby Gallery, London UK

2018 Pangolin Gallery, London UK – Window Group Show 

2018 Lethaby Gallery, Makers – Performance, London UK

2018 New Designers, Week 1 –  CERAMICS & GLASS, London UK

2018 CSM Degree Show 2: Design, London, UK

2018 XHIBIT 2018 – championing future creatives, Art Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK

2018 Ceramic Art London 2018 – Future Experts, London, UK

2018 The Hub, Wellcome Collection with StudioSenses & CreatedOutOfMind, London, UK

2018 Tranoi 2018 with Riachi Studios, Louvre, Paris, France

2018 Ambiente 2018 with Nachtmann, Frankfurt, Germany

2017 Standing Blocks, Performance Group Exhibition with Lincoln Projects, London, UK

2017 Clay Meditations, Performance & Participation, Central Saint Martins, London, UK

2017 British Ceramic Biennial 2017, Wedgwood Museum, Stoke on Trent, UK

2017 Creative Union, London Design Festival, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK

2017 Ol-Factory, Lead Artists: Studio Glithero, Domaine de Boisbuchet, France

2017 XHIBIT 2017 – 20 years of championing future creatives, Art Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK

2017 Ceramic Art London 2017, Central Saint Martins, London, UK

2017 Craftsmanship alone is not enough, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK

2017 Ambiente 2017 with Nachtmann, Frankfurt, Germany

2016 Material Matters Past and Present, Pangolin Gallery, London, UK

2016 Lost and Found, Ceramic Art London 2016, London, UK

2016 Transcription, Ceramic Art London 2016, London, UK

2016 Sculptures for the outside, Pangolin Gallery, London, UK

2016 Part of Us, Central Saint Martins, London, UK

2015 It takes more than one, Lead Artists: Mixer’ Traxler, Domaine de Boisbuchet, France

2011 Open Design City, DMY Designfestival, coop. with Le Van Bo, Beta House Berlin, Germany

AWARDS, PRIZES & SCHOLARSHIPS

2019 Cockpit Arts – Clear Insurance Award |Shortlisted

2018  UAL Mentor: Steph Buttle| Selected

2018  MiAL & Metro Imaging Mentor|Shortlisted

2018  XHIBIT selection | Conversation with Tate Modern Director, Frances Morris

2018  XHIBIT – best emerging creatives from University of Arts London | Nominated

2017 Good Design Awards 2017 for ‘Punk’ in collaboration with Nachtmann | Winner

2017  MEAD scholarships| Shortlisted

2017  XHIBIT – best emerging creatives from University of Arts London | Nominated

2016 NextGen Design Competition, presented by Nachtmann & CSM, solo work | 1st Price

2015, ongoing Domain de Boisbuchet, Design & Architecture Workshops, France | Fellow

2009 New York Festival, Volkswagen Future Site, project with argonauten G2 | Silver World Medal

2009 iF gold award, Volkswagen Future Site, project with argonauten G2 | Mobility of the future

RESIDENCIES

09/2018 Collective Matter, London UK

TALKS & WORKSHOPS

03/2019: Talk “Pricing & Selling your art work”, Xhibit professional development day organised by SU of University of the Arts, London

01/2019: Tactile Clay Meditation at the House of Togetherness

12/2018 Clay Meditation with architecture studio Tophat at their studio

11/2018 Clay Meditation with architecture studio Assemble at Sugarhouse studios

09/2018 2 Clay Meditation workshops during London Design Festival at Sugarhouse studios

06/2017 Talk at Wellcome Collection, The HUB, London – The making of ‘A ceramic diary’

06/2017 Workshop at Skip Garden London – ‘Senses: Touch’

06/2017 Workshop at Central Saint Martins, London – Ignition ‘Produce’, Meet & Make

06/2016 Investigation into possibilities of experience design in ceramics, ArtsLav, London, 2016

05/2016 Insights into Lost and Found, Ceramic Art London 2016

PUBLICATIONS 

11/2018 1340 Art Magazine 2018//Q4, p.33 – This moment will never come back – Performance

07/2016 What can we learn from Ariane Prin’s Rust Collection?, Curating the Contemporary (CtC), Whitechapel Gallery and London Metropolitan University | Research Paper

03/2011 Hochwertig. Design made in Germany. DMIG Nr. 6, designmadeingermany.de magazin/6/ | Interview   

07/2012 Build more, buy less! Konstruieren statt konsumieren. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2012, Community Chapter | Recognition

10/2005 Interactive Storytelling in Experience Design, Page Magazin, Young Talents | Recognition 

IN COLLECTIONS

Frances Morris, Director for Tate Modern

MiAL, UAL Collection, madeinartslondon.com

The Hub, Wellcome Collection, London

Domain de Boisbuchet, Lessac

Lethaby Gallery, London

Private Collections, London, Berlin, Rostock

ENGAGEMENTS & WORK EXPERIENCE

11/2020 – now HANDFUL, http://www.handfulceramics.com | Founder & Tutor

09/2020 – now Volkshochschule Reinickendorf, Berlin | Tutor & Workshop Facilitator

10/2017 Assisting Clare Twomey at Tate Exchange, London for ‘Factory: The seen and unseen’

2015 – now Claystudies: Ceramic Art, Design & Craftsmanship, claystudies.com | Editor in Chief

2015 – now Domain de Boisbuchet, Design & Architecture Workshops, France | Fellow Berlin & London

2015-2016 Made in Arts London, UK | Creative Ambassador

12/2015 Craft Council, Hey Clay! – BBC Arts’ get creative, UK | Assistant of artist Duncan Hooson

12/2015 Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, Memory Makers, UK | Assistant of artist Clare Twomey

2012 Miami Ad School, Berlin, Germany | Lecturer

2005 – 2014 Anke Buchmann User Experience Design, Germany & Sweden | Freelance & Full-time

EDUCATION

2015 – 2018 Central Saint Martins, London | BA (Hons) Ceramic Design

2001 – 2005 University of the Arts, Berlin | MA Digital Communication

2003 – 2004 University of Applied Arts, Vienna | Erasmus Graphics & Advertisement

1998 – 2001 Berufsakademie, Berlin | Degree Business Administration