I am a German painter and live and work in London.

  I started my artistic career in the early 1980s in Hanover. 
  From 1978 - 1982 I worked as an assistant and practitioner 
  at the studio of the German artist Leiv Warren Donnan's. 
  After completing an MA in Philosophy and German Literature 
  at the Freie Universität Berlin in 1988, I decided to focus on my art. 

  I am an abstract painter in the broadest sense. I usually work in 
  series that pursue a specific topic. 
  In the painting process, I often use surrealist or automatic 
  techniques such as frottage, collage, decalcomania, grattage or 
  stamping techniques. Popular materials are varnish, ashes, sand, 
  fabric, pigment, pastel, Chinese ink, emulsion, and acrylic on a 
  wide variety of bases such as wood, felt, roof slate, rice paper 
  or conventional canvases. 
  The pictures are sometimes ‘semiabstract’, i.e. they have an organic, 
  dystopian or planetary ductus (figurative reference).


  Solo Exhibitions (selection)

  2017   'Pictures from Alleland', Stone Space Gallery, London 
  2014   'Paintables', Stone Space Gallery, London
  2013   'Unblind Ambitions', Curated by Tara Aghdashloo, The Invisible Line (TIL) Gallery, London
  2005-10  Bishopsgate Institute, London: 
            Series 'Moons of Saturn' at the Great Hall  
  2003   Rivington Gallery, London
            Meinhold and Reucker Gallery, Berlin
  2002   Ars Nova Gallery, Berlin
  2000   Rivington Gallery, London
  1999   Hanging Space Gallery, London
  1997   Pfefferberg Gallery, Berlin
  1995   Aufzeit Gallery, Berlin
            Pommersfelde Gallery, Berlin
  1994   Expo 88 Gallery, Moscow
  1991   LightBand Gallery, Berlin
  1990   Das Dasein an sich Gallery, Dortmund
            Das Dasein an sich Gallery, Berlin
  1988   Das Dasein an sich Gallery, Berlin


  Group Exhibitions (selection) 

  2014   GRÜN…GRÜN…GRÜN, Friendly Society Gallery, Berlin
  2006   Künstler der Galerie, Friendly Society Gallery, Berlin
  2005   'Horizonte', Friendly Society Gallery, Berlin
            Group Show, Rivington Gallery, London
  2004   'Kunst im Quadrat', Friendly Society Gallery, Berlin
  2003   Group Show, Rivington Gallery, London
  2002   Artists' Books, Saltburn Art Gallery, Saltburn
            Funkhaus MDR, Magdeburg (Ars Nova Gallery, Berlin)
  2001   Frankfurter Bookfair for Art Books, Frankfurt (represented by Eagle Gallery, London)
  2000   'Zwischenstation', City Carré, Magdeburg
  1999   Grand Machè, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (Ars Nova Gallery, Berlin)
  1997   The Blue Gallery, London
            Pommersfelde Gallery, Berlin
            AUFZEIT Gallery, Berlin
            Kunstmarkt Dresden (Pommersfelde Gallery, Berlin)
  1996   Kunst statt Werbung, Underground Gallery, U2 Alexanderplatz, Berlin
            Accrochage, Artforum Gallery, Hanover
            'Painting, Collages, Found Objects', Gleditsch 45 Gallery, Berlin
            Schmolling Gallery, Wedemark
  1995   Accrochage, Artforum Gallery, Hanover
  1994   Dom Twortschestwa, (Russian Artist's Group), Tschiljuskinskaja, Russia
  1994   Hohmann Gallery, Walsrode
            Broschwitz Gallery, Berlin
  1993   ACUD Gallery, Berlin
  1993   Kulturraum Rathaus, Rathaus Schöneberg, Berlin
  1990   'Der Riss', Kunstverein Lichtenberg, Berlin
            Nikita Ogurcov & Boris Born, "Das Dasein an sich" Gallery, Berlin
            'Auswahl', LightBand Gallery, Berlin
  1981   Ballhof Gallery, Hanover
  1980   Ballhof Gallery, Hanover