lives and works in Berlin

1964 Born in Munich, Germany

Education

1993-94 Goldsmith's College London (MA Fine Arts)

1990-92 Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Professor Fritz Schwegler)

1987-90 Akademie der Bildenden Künste München

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2010-2011 Scholarship Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

2003 Rencontres d’Arles Award

1998 DG-Bank Award for artistic Photography

1997–98 Schmidt-Rottluff Laureate for Fine Arts

1997 Villa Massimo, Rom (beginning of the scholarship 2003)

1997 Award of the Regional Capital of Munich for Photography

1996 Culture Laureate of the Association of German Industry

1996 Krupp von Bohlen Halbach Award for contemporary Photography

1995 Kunstfonds, Bonn

1995 Scholarship of the Bavarian State for New York

1994 DAAD Foreign Exchange Scholarship, London

1993 Cité des Arts, Paris

Permanent Installations

2015 Processo Grottesco, Fondazione Prada, Milan

2013 ELLA Café & Restaurant, Lenbachhaus, Munich

2011 Metzler-Saal, Städel Museum, Frankfurt