I am a German and Britsh painter and live and work in London.

  I started my artistic career in the early 1980s in Hanover. 
  From 1978 - 1982 I worked as an assistant and practitioner 
  at the studio of the German artist Leiv Warren Donnan's. 
  After completing an MA in Philosophy and German Literature 
  at the Freie Universität Berlin in 1988, I decided to focus on my art. 

  I am an abstract painter in the broadest sense. I usually work in 
  series that pursue a specific topic. 
  In the painting process, I often use surrealist or automatic 
  techniques such as frottage, collage, decalcomania, grattage or 
  stamping techniques. Popular materials are varnish, ashes, sand, 
  fabric, pigment, pastel, Chinese ink, emulsion, and acrylic on a 
  wide variety of bases such as wood, felt, roof slate, rice paper 
  or conventional canvases. 
  The pictures are sometimes ‘semiabstract’, i.e. they have an organic, 
  dystopian or planetary ductus (figurative reference).


  Solo Exhibitions (selection)

  2024  'Curiosities, Remnants and Communication Problems', Pictorem Gallery, London
  2022  'The Senses of Plants', Pictorem Gallery, London
  2018  'New Pictures from Alleland', Pictorem Gallery, London
  2017  'Pictures from Alleland', Stone Space Gallery, London 
  2015  'Trip to Galicia' and 'Discontinuity', Pictorem Gallery, London
  2014  'Paintables', Stone Space Gallery, London
  2013  'Unblind Ambitions', Curated by Tara Aghdashloo, The Invisible Line (TIL) Gallery, London
  2010  'The Schnellzeit Project' Oxford House Gallery, London
  2005-10 Bishopsgate Institute, London: 
           Series 'Moons of Saturn' at the Great Hall (2005 - 2010)  
           and Corridor (2005 & 2007), Foyer (2005 & 2006)
  2003  Rivington Gallery, London
           Pavilion Gallery, Colne (Lancashire)
           Meinhold and Reucker Gallery, Berlin
  2002  Ars Nova Gallery, Berlin
  2000  Rivington Gallery, London
  1999  Hanging Space Gallery, London
  1998  Möller Gallery, Warnemünde
  1997  Pfefferberg Gallery, Berlin
  1996  Speicher Nr.1 Gallery, Waren (Müritz)
  1995  Aufzeit Gallery, Berlin
           Münsterland Gallery, Berlin
           Pommersfelde Gallery, Berlin
  1994  Expo 88 Gallery, Moscow
  1991  LightBand Gallery, Berlin
  1990  Das Dasein an sich Gallery, Dortmund
           Das Dasein an sich Gallery, Berlin
  1988  Das Dasein an sich Gallery, Berlin


  Group Exhibitions (selection) 
  2024  ACME - open studios, London
  2024  'Colour me in', curated by Gisli Bergmann and Patrick Bryson, Pictorem Gallery 
  2020  Southwark Park Galleries 36th Annual Open
  2019  Barbican Arts Trust, ArtWorks Open, selected by Emma Talbot and Alex Schady
  2014  GRÜN…GRÜN…GRÜN, Friendly Society Gallery, Berlin
  2013  'The Discerning Eye' Exhibition 2013, Mall Galleries, London
  2006  Künstler der Galerie, Friendly Society Gallery, Berlin
  2005  'Horizonte', Friendly Society Gallery, Berlin
           Group Show, Rivington Gallery, London
  2004  'Kunst im Quadrat', Friendly Society Gallery, Berlin
  2003  Group Show, Rivington Gallery, London
           Open Exhibition, The Cresent Arts Gallery, Scarborough
  2002  Artists' Books, Saltburn Art Gallery, Saltburn
           Funkhaus MDR, Magdeburg (Ars Nova Gallery, Berlin)
  2001  Frankfurter Bookfair for Art Books, Frankfurt (Eagle Gallery, London)
  2000  'Zwischenstation', City Carré, Magdeburg
           Group Show, Rivington Gallery, London
  1999  Grand Machè, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (Ars Nova Gallery, Berlin)
           Group Show, Rivington Gallery, London
  1997  'Neues Informell', Detlef Dorow Art Agency, Berlin
           The Blue Gallery, London
           Pommersfelde Gallery, Berlin
           AUFZEIT Gallery, Berlin
           Kunstmarkt Dresden (Pommersfelde Gallery, Berlin)
  1996  Kunst statt Werbung, Underground Gallery, U2 Alexanderplatz, Berlin
           Accrochage, Artforum Gallery, Hanover
           'Painting, Collages, Found Objects', Gleditsch 45 Gallery, Berlin
           Schmolling Gallery, Wedemark
  1995  Accrochage, Artforum Gallery, Hanover
           Musej Gallery, Moscow
  1994  Dom Twortschestwa, (Russian Artist's Group), Tschiljuskinskaja, Russia
  1994  Hohmann Gallery, Walsrode
           Musej Gallery, Moscow
           Broschwitz Gallery, Berlin
  1993  ACUD Gallery, Berlin
  1993  Kulturraum Rathaus, Rathaus Schöneberg, Berlin
  1990  'Der Riss', Kunstverein Lichtenberg, Berlin
           Nikita Ogurcov & Boris Born, "Das Dasein an sich" Gallery, Berlin
           'Auswahl', LightBand Gallery, Berlin
  1981  Ballhof Gallery, Hanover
  1980  Ballhof Gallery, Hanover