About

Artist’s Statement

Spaces are living entities. They have histories and stories (Ge-schichten). Space is my primary resource for my sculptural installations. I interpret its materiality, its history, and its absences, from which my material explorations emerge. What I use, how I shape, what I work with: space is the foundation. Whilst most works are created as site-specific pieces, they can generate new tensions in various spaces.

My installations are adaptive and modular. They highlight the apparent contradiction between exchangeability and originality: just as a floor covering is mass-produced yet must be adapted to each individual space, the modules become specific objects through their particular context.
I am interested in what spaces assert and how this assertion is constructed. In doing so, I employ architectural, domestic and industrial aesthetics and negotiate an ambivalence between value and materiality. Sometimes I use found materials and deconstruct them. At other times, however, I also translate materials into the language of the existing space. In both cases, I respond to what is already there. What appears to have a function no longer serves one in the finished work.

Spaces are never neutral and refuse to remain blank. Through their spatial presence and large scale, the works invite physical engagement and suggest that spaces speak – and are heard, read and reinterpreted by those who move within them.

Caught between playfulness and menace, between architectural intervention and fragile materiality, my works are simultaneously precise spatial analyses and ephemeral interventions.

*1997 in Leipzig. Lives and works in Dresden.

Solo Shows / Interventions

2025
“Prestige IV”, intervention at Hotel Gut Haferkorn (DE)

“Valencia [Marmorbad]”, intervention at Marmorbad (Orangerieschloss), Hessen Kassel Heritage, Museen – Schlösser – Parks (DE)

2022
“Prestige”, Matjö Raum für Kunst, Kulturwerk des BBK Köln e.V., Cologne (DE)

2021
“Prestige”, Stellwerk Kassel (DE)


Group Shows (selected)

2026
“AUFTAKELN, abtakeln” Galerie Drei, Dresdner Sezession e.V., Dresden

„Neupräsentation der Modernen und Zeitgenössischen Kunst“, Museum Wiesbaden, curated by Dr. Jörg Daur, currently

2025
“Departures”, Galerie Gewandhausstraße, HfBK Dresden, curated by Sim Chi Yin

“Stipendium 4.0”, Museum Wiesbaden (DE), curated by Valerie Ucke and Dr. Jörg Daur (c)

2024
“Die Pflanze durch den Asphalt – EXAMEN 24”, documenta Halle Kassel (DE), curated by Philipp Lange (c)

“Jour Fixe Klasse Slotawa”, Tor 40, Güterbahnhof Bremen

2023
“Too Many Dinner Parties”, Edel Extra Nürnberg (DE)

“INSEL”, Wirkbau Chemnitz (DE), Zentrale für Kunst e.V.

“Too Many Dinner Parties”, Pop Up Galerie AVU, Prague (CZ)

“KOKON”, UG Halle 14, Spinnerei Leipzig, Zentrale für Kunst e.V.

2022
Gabriel Loci, Prague (CZ), NUR.Prague 

“Art Prague” Fair, Prague (CZ)

“Lumbung Lounge” at Stellwerk Kassel (DE), curated by Guerilla Architects and Along the Lines


2021 
Galeriefest Kassel (DE)

2020
Galeria Kollektiva, Kassel (DE)

Public Collection

2025
“Display” is represented in the collection of Museum Wiesbaden, hessisches Landesmuseum für Kunst & Natur

Stipends

2026
Saxon State Graduate Stipend for Meisterschüler (Sächsisches Landesgraduiertenstipendium für Meisterschüler*innen) (DE)
nominated National Prize for Art Students (Bundesperis für Kunststudierende) (DE)

2025
nominated Vordemberge-Gildewart-Stipend

2023 
ERASMUS Stipend, Angewandte Wien (AT)

2021 – 2022 
ERASMUS Stipend, AVU Prague (CZ)

Education

2025
Dresden University of Fine Arts (Hochschule für bildende Künste Dresden) DE, Meisterschüler Programm, Prof. Monika Brandmeier 

2023
die Angewandte, Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien, Vienna (AT)
Site-Specific Art Department, Head: Paul Petritsch

2021 – 2022
AVU, Akademie výtvarných umění v Praze, Prague (CZ)
Studio Intermedia I, Milena Dopitová

2017 – 2025
Kunsthochschule Kassel (DE)
Studio Slotawa, Sculpture/Space
Visual Communications

Panel

Panel Discussion “In the Spirit of the New European Bauhaus: Spaces of Creativity—New Worlds of Research at the Projekthaus Zukunft” European New Bauhaus Festival, Center for Building Culture Saxony (Zentrum für Baukultur Sachsen), Dresden

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Index photo: documenta Halle Kassel, Dec 2024; photo: Klara Schnieber

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