Education

MFA State University of New York, USA

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Art Academy Dusseldorf), Germany

Scholarships and awards (selection)

2025 Audience Award 79. International Bergische Art Exhibition, Art Museum Solingen, Germany

2022 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, USA

2017 Award from eKir for the show “reFORMation-transFORMation” at Johanneskirche, Dusseldorf

2015 Artist residency at ISDAT Toulouse, France, sponsored by Kulturamt Dusseldorf

2014 Water tower, two years residency at the Water tower, Monchengladbach, Germany

2013 Travel Grant for USA, Ministry of Culture and Sport, NRW, Germany

2013 Project Grant from Kunststiftung NRW, Germany

2013 Artist grant, Artist in Residency at Vermont Studio Center, USA

2012 Step Up 2012 Real Art Ways (consolation prize)

2010 Simons Center Award

2009 – 2012 Fulbright Scholarship

2008 Studio Residency, Lepsien Art Foundation, Dusseldorf, Germany 

Exhibitions and screenings (selection)

2026 

Tag der Druckkunst, Malkasten Düsseldorf, Germany

ArtArtist 2026, group show parallel to Art Dusseldorf, Germany

Das Kleine Format, Annual exhibition, Malkasten, Dusseldorf, Germany

2025 

LOST, Exhibition for the Prize of the Vestische Künstlerbund, Recklinghausen, Germany

Parked Sculptures, public sculpture project and exhibition Neuwied, Germany

Bergischer Kunstpreis Ausstellung, Kunstmuseum Solingen, Germany

Die Grosse, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany

Edge Detection, Odyssey Project, Thisthat Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany

ES365, Art Artist, Dusseldorf

2024 

Niederlassung 365, group show, Showroom Erkratherstr 365, Dusseldorf, Germany

2023 

Girl Talk, video screening, Hentrichhaus, Malkasten Dusseldorf, Germany

Die Grosse, Kunstpalast Dusseldorf, Germany

2021 

Die Grosse, Kunstpalast Dusseldorf, Germany

2020 

TR.CKST.R, Lose Leute, NKR (Neuer Kunstraum) Dusseldorf,Germany

2019 

Ludi Publici, Die Wohnung, Chapter 6, a project curated by Roy Mordechay and Nir Altman (two person show with Catalin Pislaru)

2017 

reFORmation-transFORMation, Johanneskirche, Dusseldorf, Germany

Sun salutation for beginners (solo), NEW Mönchengladbach, Germany

parc/ours, Water tower, Mönchengladbach, Germany

AAAAAAA, Filmwerkstatt Dusseldorf, Germany

2015 

A dragon is not a slave, ISDAT Toulouse, Frankreich

Object Manipulating Econimy, Fröhls, Mönchengladbach

2014

The City – A Screen, group show in different cities in Bulgaria, among other Sofia, Plovdiv, Stara Zagora, Russe

Factum- video art, video screening, Povdiv, Bulgaria

2012

Unspecific Shapes, (solo) Library Gallery, Stony Brook, NY

Bound, Staller Center Gallery, Stony Brook, NY

2011 

Videoholica Varna, video festival Varna, Bulgaria

Photography, The Green Point Gallery, Green Point, NY

Emerging, Gallery North, Setauket, NY

Does Not Compute, (solo) Lawerence Alloway Gallery, Stony Brook, NY

2010

Art Student Exhibition, ISE Cultural Foundation, NYC

Brood, SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University, NY

Maieutics, Lawerence Alloway Gallery, Stony Brook, NY

2009

Glamouring, DUMBO, NYC

Now, respiration of the side story, Art Forum JARFO, Kyoto, Japan

Trendwende, Kunstraum Dusseldorf, Germany

Dis solition, Lepsien Art Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany

2008 

Art Entre Quatre Murs, Les Abattoirs, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toulouse, France

Start from Zero, Kalamatra, Video Art Festival Miden, Greece 

Visions in the Nunnery, the Nunnery Gallery, London, UK 

Wir sind auch Film ,video screening, Black Box, Dusseldorf, Germany

Kunst jetzt, “Ida Gerhardi Förderpreis”, Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid, Germany

2007 

KunstFilmTag, video screening, Malkasten, Dusseldorf, Germany 

Turtle Project, with Michael Shamberg, Woburn Studios, London, UK