Education

MFA State University of New York, USA

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Art Academy Dusseldorf), Germany

Scholarships and awards (selection)

2022 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, USA

2013 Project Grant, Kunststiftung NRW, Germany

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)

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

2011 
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