Artist Biography

"I am an artist and architect based in New York and in Athens, Greece. Born in Germany where I graduated with an architectural degree from the University of Dresden I relocated to New York City in 2000 with a multi-disciplinary practice realizing work including at venues such as Manifesta 8, Galeria HIT, National Museum of Contemporary Art Romania, SITE:Lab, the Queens Museum, Montalvo Art Center, and the Jule Collins Smith Museum, among others, in addition to a significant number of public art installations throughout the US. My architectural work has been recognized through competitions, including the finalist design for the World Trade Center Memorial in New York, my winning competition entry for the Africa Centre near Cape Town, South Africa, and through publications and exhibitions of proposed and built work.

Honors include the Kaplan Director’s Award of the Cape Cod Museum of Art, and generous grants from institutions such as the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Foundation for Contemporary Art, CEC ArtsLink, and the American Institute of Architects, among others. I was artist in residence at Mac Dowell, MoKS - Center for Art and Social Practice, ORTE Residency, I-Park Residency, Vermont Studio Center, and Nu'Vem on Pico Island, Azores.

Educated as an architect my work is firmly based in a spacial practice, with a particular focus on installations in the public sphere. A recurring interest explored in my work is how space, material assembly and related processes allow for the experience of the spatial condition in relation to its place, and to bring into focus notions of material, cultural and spatial ecology embedded in the built environment. Over the past decade I have occupied myself with a series of bodies of work that each operate within their own conceptual plain, but that share an engagement with the built environment and the specificity of site.”

Artist Statement

""Basics"" is a series of temporary public interventions, exploring an abstracted notion of form, space and utility in public sculpture. The work wants to be experienced both as a sculptural gesture in dialogue with its environment and as an extension to the public space. Initially conceived as part of a larger museum installation, the series has since had a substantial number of iterations throughout the US."

Basics #62 Statement

Basics #62 is part of an ongoing series of temporary public art installations realized throughout the US over the past 9 years. While each sculpture within this series is unique to its site, all installations are conceived as temporary installations in public space, and are made from 2x4 dimensional lumber. So beyond its formal beauty, the work may ask: What does it mean to live in time? To participate in public space? And to be part of the most basic material culture that surrounds us?