1989-1996
Graduated from the University of Fine Arts (UdK) Berlin, Germany under Prof. Dieter Appelt, Prof. Christiane Möbus - Tutor, Diploma with the title "Master-class Student of the UdK". Continuing education at the UdK Berlin, main focus of studies: "Art and therapy", diploma in 2000

2002
Tutoring course at the UdK Berlin, Prof. Christiane Möbus

Teaching

2009-2011
visiting professor hochschule für bildende künste dresden, domain ceramic, Dresden Germany

teaching assignment for fine arts at University Potsdam, Germany

2006
worked as consultent for lecturer and jouth further education at the academy palace Rotenfels, Baden-Württemberg

2003-2009
Lecturer at the Fine Arts Department, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany

2003
Lecturer at the Fine Arts Department, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany

2006
worked as consultent for lecturer and jouth further education at the academy palace Rotenfels, Baden-Württemberg

Scholarships / Awards / Purchase

2008
Work grant at Künstlerhaus Lukas, aided by the province Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

2007
Work grant at Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral, Artists in Residence, Rhineland-Palatine

2004
Purchase by the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe - Baden State Museum Karlsruhe, Germany
Sammlung Cura, Collection Cura

2003
Purchase by the Rhineland-Palatine State Ministry of Science, Further Education, Research and Culture, Germany
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, work grant, Rhineland-Palatine,Germany

2002
Barkenhof-Scholarship, Künstlerhäuser Worpswede - Studios and houses for artists in Worpswede, Germany
Usher Gallery, Lincoln, UK, work grant, Rhineland-Palatine, Germany

2001
Funding for the exhibition "She Devil", in Tokyo by the ifa, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen - Institute of Foreign Relations, Stuttgart, Germany
Purchase by Marlborough Fine Arts, N.Y., USA

2000
Sponsorship for the exhibition "Mukojima net." in Tokyo, by the ifa, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.v. - Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart, Germany

1999
Sammlung Christian Ryssel - Collection Christian Ryssel

1998
Work grant Künstlerhaus Hooksiel - Studios and houses for artists in Hooksiel
Gustav Weidanz Preis - Gustav Weidanz Award for sculpture, Moritzburg Halle / Saale, Germany
Purchase by the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe - Baden State Museum Karlsruhe, Germany

1996
Georg Meistermann Scholarship, Cusanuswerk - Cusanus Foundation, Bonn, Germany

1994
Work grant at the Waschhaus, Potsdam, Germany

1993
Scholar of the Cusanusstifftung - Cusanus Foundation, Bonn, Germany
Scholar of the Erasmus-Programme at the Royal College of Art, London, UK
Sponsorship by the "Frauenförderung - Sponsorship for women" of the University of Fine Arts (UdK), Berlin, Germany

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