Biography

1978

Born in Gießen

Lives and works in Berlin

Education

2008-2012
Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Frankfurt a.M.
Meisterschülerin with Judith Hopf, graduated in 2012

2000-2003
Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach

Solo Exhibitions

2025
“Cold Hope”, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
“Doom”, Park Avenue Armory, New York

2024
“Wish You Were Gay”, Kunsthaus Bregenz

2023
“EMO”, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles
“CIRCA Fundraiser for Humanitarian Aid”, CIRCA - London’s Piccadilly Lights

2022
“YOUTH”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
“AVATAR II”, Sprüth Magers, London
“AVATAR”, Galerie Buchholz, New York

2021
“Natures Mortes”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
x-room, SMK, Copenhagen
“Sex”, Castello di Rivoli, Turin

2019
“Imagine”, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
“Sex”, Art Institute of Chicago
“Sex”, The Tanks, Tate London

2017
German Pavilion, 57th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice

2016
“Angst II”, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
“Angst”, Kunsthalle Basel
“Overture”, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne

2015
“Deal”, MoMA PS1, New York

2014
“Rage III & Sotsb, Foster-Variation”, Carré d’Art Jean Bousquet - Musée d’art Contemporain,
Nîmes
“Rage”, Galerie Deborah Schamoni, Munich

2013
“Parade”, Portikus, Frankfurt a.M.
“Sotsb njjy”, New Jerseyy, Basel

Group Exhibitions

2025
“Carnival”, Jeffrey Deitch, New York
“Zeichnung, Malerei, Skulptur, Fotografie, Film, Video, Sound - Sammlung Ringier 1995-
2025″, Langen Foundation, Neuss
“Songs before Sunrise”, Sprüth Magers, London
“Apocalypse - Hier et demain”, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
“Postcards from the Future”, PoMo Trondheim
“The Guiding Thread”, Susanne Tarasiève, Paris
“Corps et Âmes”, Bourse de Commerce / Pinault Collection, Paris

2024
“The Don Quixote Sculpture Hall”, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
“Access Kafka”, Jüdisches Museum, Berlin
“Heritage Days”, Pinault Collection, Paris
“The Here and Now. Performance Unfolded”, Santa Maria Della Scala, Siena
“Post Human”, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles
Ennova Art Biennale 2024, Ennova Art Museum, Hebei
“The Aesthetic(s) of Encounter(s)”, 60th October Salon, Belgrade
“Deep Distance Tender Touch”, Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim
“Le Monde Comme Il Va”, Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection, Paris
“Composition for the Left Hand. With Works from the Kagge Collection”, Kode Art Museum,
Bergen
Drawing Biennal 2024, Drawing Room, London

2023
“Sensing Painting. Opere dalla Collezione d’arte della Fondazione CRC”, Castello di Rivoli
“Very Friendly”; House, Berlin
“Channeling”, MMK - Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
“Nova Express: Avvento dei desideri e dei diritti”, Ciaccia Levi, Milan
“Critical Melancholia”, organized with Juliane Rebentisch, Galerie Buchholz, New York 
“Der König ist tot, lang lebe die Königin”, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden Baden
“On the Value of Time: New Presentation of the Collection of Contemporary Art”, Museum
Ludwig, Cologne
“Apma, Chapter Four”, Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul
“Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation & Collection: Recent Acquisitions and Eternal Loves - Part 1”,
Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation, Monaco
“To See a World in a Grain of Sand”, Hessische Kulturstiftung, Kunstverein zu Assenheim

2022
“Broken Music Vol. 2 - 70 Jahre Schallplatten und Soundarbeiten von Künstler*innen,
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
“Boros Collection #4”, Boros Collection, Berlin
“Breathing Water, Drinking Air”, Philara - Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst, Düsseldorf
“Sweet Lust”, White Cube, Paris
“Ortswechsel”, Museum Giersch, Frankfurt am Main
“STILL ALIVE”, Aichi Triennale
“World out of Joint”, Kunst Museum Winterthur
“Out of Space: DUSSELDORF VARIATION”, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
“Identität nicht nachgewiesen”, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn

2021
“Inaspettatamente”, Cloud Seven, Brussels
“London Zeitgeist”, CIRCA, London, Seoul, Tokyo
“A Fire in my Belly”, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin
“Illiberal Arts”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

2020
“Collection”, MMK - Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
“Magical Soup. Medienkunst aus der Sammlung der Nationalgalerie, der Friedrich Christian
Flick Collection und Leihgaben”, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
“MY C ART OGRAPHY - The Erling Kagge Collection”, Fundación Banco Santander, Santander
Art Gallery, Madrid
“Studio Berlin”, Berghain, Berlin
“The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

2019
“Age of You”, MOCA, Toronto
“Il est une fois dans l’ouest”, FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux
“Museum”, MMK - Museum für moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
“The Violence of Gender”, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
“You. Works from the Lafayette Anticipations Collection”, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris

2018
“Deutschland ist keine Insel”, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
“Optik Schröder II”, mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
“Sammlung Zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Ankäufe 2012 bis
2016″, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn

2017
“Eliza Douglas Anne Imhof”, Galerie Buchholz, New York
“New Acquisitions - Hildebrand Collection”, G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig
“Pro(s)thesis & Posthuman Complicities”, xhibit / Kupferstichkabinett der Akademie der
bildenden Künste Wien
“Still Human”, Rubell Museum, Miami

2016
“Curators’ Series #9. Ways of Living”, The David Roberts Art Foundation, London
“Ein Schelm, wer Böses dabei denkt”, Künstlerhaus Bremen
“High Anxiety: New Acquisitions”, Rubell Museum, Miami
“Paris. 18E Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard”, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris
“Skins”, Ellis King, Dublin
“The Grand Balcony”, La Biennale de Montréal
“Ways of Living”, David Roberts Art Foundation, London

2015
“Angelic Sisters”, 186f Kepler / Chiesa di San Paolo Converso, Milan
“Do Disturb”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
“Le Nouveau Festival”, Centre Pompidou, Paris
“New Frankfurt Internationals: Solid Signs”, Frankfurter Kunstverein / Nassauischer
Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
“Our Lacustrine Cities”, Chapter NY, New York City
Preis der Nationalgalerie 2015, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin

2014
“A House of Passive Noise”, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim
“Boom She Boom - Werke aus der Sammlung”, MMK - Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
am Main
“Die Marmory Show”, Galerie Deborah Schamoni, Munich
LISTE Performance Project, Basel
“Pleasure Principles”, Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris
“The Mechanical Garden”, CGP London - Dilstone Grove, London
“Trust”, Fluxia Gallery, Milan

2013
“Coded Conduct”, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London
“Freak Out”, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York City
“Gemini”, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich
“Herbstsalon”, Galerie Deborah Schamoni, Munich
“Mike - Unruhe im Stall”, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden

2012
“Zauderberg - Graduation show Städelschule”, MMK - Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
am Main

Awards

2017
Golden Lion for Best National Participation, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice
Absolut Art Award

2015
Fondazione Ettore Fico Prize, Turin
Preis der Nationalgalerie, Berlin

2014
MoMA PS1 Annual Exhibition Fund, New York

2012
Graduation Prize - Absolventenpreis des Städelschule Portikus e.V., Frankfurt am Main

2012
ZAC - Zonta Art Contemporary, Award of ZONTA Club Frankfurt II Rhein-Main, Frankfurt am
Main

Residencies / Fellowships

2015
Artist-in-Residence, Visiting Professor in Performance Art, Akademie der Bildenden Künste,
Munich
Artist-in-Residence, Villa Aurora, Goethe Institute, Los Angeles

2013
Studio Grant, Hessische Kulturstiftung, Paris