*1974 in Überlingen, Germany
Education
2011-2013 Filmarche Berlin Camera department
2009-2010 Master of Fine Arts, Art School Berlin-Weißensee, Germany
2002-2008 Studies of Fine Arts/Sculpture at Art School Berlin- Weißensee
2006-2007 MA Urban Studies program at San Francisco Art Institute
2007 Volunteer and curator at Artist´s Television Access, San Francisco
1999- 2002 Travel and work as stonemason around Europe
1996-1999 Apprenticeship as stonemason in Duderstadt und Kassel
Scholarships
2017 Best Documentary (Chasing Houses), New York Film Week, USA
2016 Stiwdio Maelor Artist Residency, Corris, Wales, GB
2015 Künstlerinnenförderung / Scholarship for female filmmakers by Senate of Berlin
2015 Grant by Stiftung Erinnerung-Verantwortung-Zukunft, Berlin
2015 Grant by St.-Pauli-Archiv Hamburg
2013 Villa Aurora artist residency, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2013 Grant by Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg
2012 Grant by Capital City Funds Berlin
2012 Grant by Bundesstiftung Magnus Hirschfeld
2003-2009 Academic scholarship, Hans Böckler Foundation
2008 USA-Research scholarship, Hans Böckler Foundation
Exhibitions and screenings (selection):
2018 Ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival Vienna, AT
2018 unDependence Film Festival, Stirling / Edinburgh, GB
2018 World Film Festival, Tartu, EST
2018 Soleluna Human Rights Film Festival, Milano, IT
2018 Female and Trans Workers in Construction, Cöthen, D
2018 Boddinale, Berlin, D
2017 Biberacher Filmfestspiele, Biberach, D
2017 Filmfest Eberswalde, international competition, D
2017 Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival, Taipei, TW
2017 Suburbinale, Groß-Enzersdorf, A
2017 Durban International Film Festival, Durban, SZA
2017 New York Film Week, NYC, USA
2015 Homosexualität_en, German Historical Museum, Berlin, D
2015 Art[]Gender[]Art, Galleri KiT, Trondheim, NOR
2014 The Barjoy Chronicles: of One and Many, Art Gallery 2905, San Jose, CA, USA
2014 Hit Parade, PM Gallery, Toronto, CAN
2014 Vagabundenkongress, Stuttgart, D
2013 virtual borders – travelling lightly, Grenswerte, D/NL
2013 Picturing Places Around the World / Remix. Video works from the collection of Video-
Forum at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), in the framework of the Year of Germany in
Russia 2012/2013, BB NCCA, Kaliningrad, RUS
2013 Kunstraum AVUS, Kommunale Galerie Berlin
2012 trans*_homo, of lesbian trans*gays and other normalities, Schwules Museum, Berlin
2012 virtual borders, Saarländische Galerie, Berlin
2012 Vie, Treasure Island, CA, USA
2012 to dyke_trans | dis_visualizing re_locating de_silencing | Galerie Funke, Berlin
2011 Monsters, Collaborate Gallery, Oakland, CA, USA
2011 a.D., Kunsthalle Berlin-Weissensee
2011 Akkumulatornacht (6), Kurzsuechtig, Leipzig
2011 The World Will Devour You, So You Better Taste Good, e-flux, New York, USA
2010 Möglichkeitsraum, „The Life of a Film Archive“, Documentary, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2010 MA Show, Uferhallen, Berlin
2010 Equinox, Grimmuseum Berlin
2010 Justin Time Filme, Kino des Kingdom of Cologne, Köln
2010 Anadoma Film Festival, Ausstellung Galerie auf Zeit, Braunschweig
2010 Ordinary aliens longing for marriage in mysterious homelands, Arsenal, Berlin
2009 Sommerkino, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
2009 Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt
2009 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
2009 Political Shortcuts, FU Koblenz
2009 ici Berlin, La Condition Publique, Lille-Roubaix
2008 Tape Modern Number 03, im Tape Berlin, Heidestrasse Galerien
2008 One Night One Artist: 2D-Short Films, Video screening, Kunstverein Freiburg
2008 Margins Out/In, Video screening and Lecture, Institut für Theaterwissenschaften, FU Berlin
2007 = ist gleich, Project with Inge Mahn und Jaroslav Koslowski, students of Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee and Academy Poznan, Galerie Nord Kunstverein, Berlin
2007 Another Country, by Equal Access, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley
2007 The Clone Ranger and his Trusted Steeds, Still Lights Gallery, San Francisco
2007 A Poodle, No Horse and 25 Femmes, Video screening, Artists´ Television Access, San Francisco
2007 Transcities Berlin Bucuresti, monitor screening, arsenal experimental, Berlin and Sala Dalles, Bucharest
2007 The Diversity Project, by Equal Access, Online, San Francisco Art Institute
2006 Non-Spaces, AVUS, Project, Berlin
2006 How the West was won, LLGFF- Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, London
2005 Kunstfilmbiennale Köln
2005 Mysafir; Lost in Translation, Istanbul Biennial
2005 Zoom-out-Festival Berlin-Warschau
2005 Lokale, Schwerin
2005 AlbTräume städtischer Hygiene, Konzertsaal der UdK, and Galerie Nord, Turmstraße, Berlin
Curatorial projects
2012 trans*_homo, of lesbian trans*gays and other normalities, Gay Museum, Berlin
2010 Ordinary aliens longing for marriage in mysterious homelands, film program, Arsenal, Berlin
2010 Gender, Photography and beyond, series of workshops and events, Berlin-Weißensee School of Art
2007 A Poodle, No Horse and 25 Femmes, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco/USA
2007 Queer Readings, Salon, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco/USA
2005 AlbTräume städtischer Hygiene, Galerie Nord, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
Talks & Teachings
2015-2016 Gender and Diversity in the Media, Workshop, Naturfreundejugend, Berlin, D
2015 Mobile Work-Life Arrangements, Late-summer-school, Institue of Anthropology, University Freiburg, D
2015 Gender Sender, animation film workshops, Trans*InterQueer e.V., Berin, D
2015 Flying over Gropiusstadt, animation film workshop, Stadtvilla global, Berlin, D
2013 Exploring highly mobile life-worlds, panel, SIEF-conference, Tartu, EST
2013 Artist Talk, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, USA
2010 StandUp Empowerment video workshops, LGBT counseling center, Berlin, D
2010 Drag King workshop, Gödölö/Budapest, H
2009/10 video projects, Pfefferwerk Berlin
2007-current Linedance instructor & event organizer, Berlin Rodeo/ Café fatal, SO36, Berlin
2005 Drag King workshop, Budapest, H
2005 Drag King Workshop, women’s project of the Hans Böckler Foundation, Zülpich
2004/05 Co-direction of the 2-semester project seminar, Fremdkörper-Hygiene-Raum;
University of the Arts Berlin, with Isabell Lorey, Desirée Pilz, Jakob Schmidt
Filmography
2017 Chasing Houses, 60 min
2016 „…dass das heute noch immer so ist“ („continuities of exclusion“) – about the concentration camp survivor Maria Potrzeba, (collaborative project with Tom Weller and Heike Rode), 52 min
2014 Gay Abandon (camera), 5 min
2012 Night in the Woods (script, camera), 12 min
2012 Etikette (Labels), Video/Installation, 15 min
2011 Ich bin ein Kunstwerk (I am a work of art), Video, 8 min, with Miss Pinky, Vienna
2010 Monster, Video, 2:40 min
2008 Möhrenstraße, with K. Honheit, 14 min/Loop
2007 Toss it, Baby, Video, loop, 7 min
2007 Alter Egos, Video animation, 4 min
2006 Geisterbahn (Haunted House Ride), Video, 1:00 min
2005 Passing Suburbia, with Christine Woditschka, Video, 8:40 min/loop
Jury
2013 Ethos of Impermanence: Architecture that Responds to Change, USC, School of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2011 andererseits, Künstlerische Einwürfe zur Frauenfußball WM 2011, Schwules Museum* Berlin
2011 Goldelse Award, Berlinale film festival
2008 committee, Professor of Sculpture, Berlin Weißensee School of Art
2005 committee, entrance examinations, Berlin Weißensee School of Art
Further experiences
2018 Lernkultur: Evaluation futurium, Haus der Zukünfte, Berlin
2016-2017 Lernkultur: Evaluation Schlosskeller, Museum des Ortes
2015-2018 Lernkultur: Evaluation „PAN – Perspectives on Nature“, Natural Science Museum, Berlin
2010 Volunteer, Gay Museum, Berlin
2007 Volunteer, Artists´ Television Access, San Francisco, USA