*1982 Lives and works in Cologne, Germany
EDUCATION
2005 - 2011
Studied Fine Arts, University of Art, Braunschweig, Germany
AWARDS/GRANTS/RESIDENCIES
2017
Artists in Residence, Fogo Island Arts,
Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada
2016
ARS VIVA 2017 Prize of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft in the BDI e.V.
(Association of Arts and Culture of the German Economy at the Federation of German Industries),
Berlin, Germany
Scholarship from the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Hallbach Foundation for Contemporary German Photography,
Essen, Germany
2015
Art Prize 'junger westen', Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany
Studio Grant, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
2014
Artists in Residence Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch, Donaueschingen, Germany
2012
North Rhine-Westphalia Prize for Art 2012 for young artists
Fellowship of Stiftung Kunstfonds
2011
Working Grant, Kunststiftung NRW, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selected)
2018
Solo presentation, Galerie Max Mayer at Daikanyama photo fair, Tokyo, Japan
Abstract Camouflage, Beat Raeber Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
2017
Voluntarismus vorbedachter Unbedachtbarkeit, Galerie Max Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany
2016
Frieze Focus Solo presentation, Galerie Max Mayer at Frieze London, UK
2014
Ricochet #8 – Jan Paul Evers, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
2013
Das Pragmatische Diptychon, Galerie Max Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Momentum ignition, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen, Germany
2011
Was das Schwarz dem Weißen zeigt, Galerie Max Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany
2008
O.T., Mayerei, Karlsruhe, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selected)
2019
Show 6, Kunsthaus Kollitsch, Klagenfurt, Austria
RealitätsCheck, Kunstraum Potsdam c/o Waschhaus, Potsdam, Germany
Welcome to Recklinghausen. Purchases, donations, loans from recent years, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany
Zero point of orientation. Photography as localization in the room, Art Foyer DZ Bank, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
2018
25 YEARS! SHARED HISTORIES, SHARED STORIES, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Deciphering numbers in art, Art Foyer DZ Bank (Art Collection), Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Black & White. From Dürer to Eliasson, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany
'Germany is not an Island' Contemporary Art Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany Acquisitions 2012 – 2016,
Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
2017
ARS VIVA Prize 2017, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Show 3, Kunsthaus Kollitsch, Klagenfurt, Austria
2016
ARS VIVA Prize 2017, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany
WITH DIFFERENT EYES - THE PORTRAIT IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
Das autonome Bild – Fünf Konzepte aktueller Fotografie, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany
WITH DIFFERENT EYES - THE PORTRAIT IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
2015
Werke auf Papier: Fotografie, Grafik, Zeichnung, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany
Quattro Stagioni, Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch, Donaueschingen, Germany
Show 2, Kunsthaus Kollitsch, Klagenfurt, Austria
RAY 2015, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
LE SOUFFLEUR – Schürmann trifft Ludwig, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany
2014
Happier than the Morning Sun, Sies + Höke, Dusseldorf, Germany
SIE UND IHRE AUSSTELLUNGEN, Kunst aus Nordrhein-Westfalen,
Ehemalige Reichsabtei Aachen-Kornelimünster, Aachen, Germany
2013
North Rhine-Westphalia Prize for Visual Art 2012, Art from North Rhine-Westphalia,
Ehemalige Reichsabtei Aachen-Kornelimünster, Aachen, Germany
20 Jahre Klasse Eißfeldt: Heute kein Plenum, 267 Quartiere für zeitgenössische Kunst und Fotografie,
Braunschweig, Germany
ein drittel weiß, KIT – Kunst im Tunnel, Dusseldorf, Germany
2012
Made in Germany zwei, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Carl Strüwe im Kontext zeitgenössischer Fotografie, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany
State of the art photography, NRW-Forum, Dusseldorf, Germany
2011
The sound of downloading makes me want to upload, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Gute Aussichten 2010/11. Young German Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
2009
Ein loses Kontingent von Welt, Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig, Germany
Der Schnitt durch die Oberfläche legt neue Oberflächen frei, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Stand und Gestaltung, Kunstverein St. Pauli, Hamburg, Germany
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Contemporary Art Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin, Germany
DZ Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Fürstenberg Contemporary, Donaueschingen, Germany
Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany
Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany
Kunsthaus Kollitsch, Klagenfurt, Austria
Collection Philara, Dusseldorf, Germany
Collection Schürmann, Berlin, Germany