Based in Hamburg/DE
ARTIST STATEMENT
In my practice through sculpture, drawing, and installation, I explore themes of utopia, the future, care, and society—viewed through the lens of personal
narratives and migration experience. These speculative worlds invite critical reflection and open dialogue, encouraging us to imagine alternative realities.
I work with materials like papier-mâché, ceramics, textiles, metal, and drawing to construct conceptual spaces. In my works, humans and non-human others engage
in gestures of care within fictional worlds of tomorrow. My practice is informed by theoretical research, often drawing inspiration from Eastern European and former Soviet philosophers. Those
thinkers visioned gravity-free existence and reflected ideas about the future, absolute equality, and alternative ways of communicating with each other. By revisiting these concepts in a contemporary
context, I create speculative spaces and their artifacts that expand our collective imagination about possible futures.
With a focus on utopian worlds, my figurative ceramics reflect my explorations of power relations, migration, unhomeliness, and feminist theory, viewed through
the lens of personal mythology and my experience as a female artist with a migration background. Beyond materiality, interaction is an essential part of my practice. Through workshops, artist talks,
and participatory formats, I create spaces for dialogue and collaboration.
My target to evoke feelings of empathy, care, togetherness, and tenderness, reinforcing the idea of art as a communication tool that transcends language
barriers and fosters connection. My work has been exhibited internationally, including at Belvedere 21 in Vienna, Galleria Mimmo Scognamiglio, Tomas Umrian Contemporary, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Austrian
Cultural Forum in Rome etc. I hold an MFA in Sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and an MFA from HFBK Hamburg.
Education
2021-2023
HFBK: Master of Fine Arts(sculpture) class of Pia Stadtbäumer
2016-2021
Academy of Fine Arts: MFA in Textual sculpture class of Heimo Zobernig
2014-2016
MHAT Theatre Academy: Stage Design, class of Stanislav Benediktov
Awards & Grants
stART.up scholarship, Claussen-Simon-Stiftung 2024-2025
Prisma Art Prize 13th edition honorable mention
Studio scholarship, Frappant e. V. supporter by Hamburgischen Kulturstiftung, 2023-2024
Examenstipendium, 2023
Social Student Award Hamburg 2022
Project grant of Freundeskreis HFBK Hamburg 2022
Masterstipendium des Freundeskreises der HFBK HAMBURG e.V.2022-2023
ERASMUS MOBILITY GRANT, 2020-2021
STEP TRAVEL grant, 2019
Support Grant, Latvian Art Academy of Fine Arts,2019
Project Funding Grant, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2019
Project Funding Grant, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2018
Second Year Scholarship, Academy of Fine Arts, 2017-2018
Exhibitions and projects:
2025
- Berlin, DE, Handle with care, EIGEN+ART LAB, Duo with Linda Lach
- Hamburg, DE, •//?//• , Kunstverein Gastgarten, Duo
with Judith Kisner
- Venedig, IT, Unexplored Realms, Galerie 10 &
zero uno, Duo with Andrea Luzi
- Hamburg, DE, Give me
a smile, Feinkunst Krüger, group show
- Rome, IT, Conflicting Feelings, Contemporary Cluster Rome, group show curated by Domenico De
Chirico
- Madrid, ES, The Bell Jar, MXM Gallery, group show curated by Victoria Rivers
- Bologna, IT, Art Bologna with Mimmo Scognamiglio group show
2024
- Berlin, DE, Meteor, Kunstquartier Bethanien, group show
- Olomouc, CZ, Recollections Unfolded, Gruppenausstellung
- Verona, IT, Art Verona, Gruppenausstellung mit der Galerie Mimmo Scognamiglio
- Prostejov, CZ, FSUP Prostejov, group show/festival
- Hamburg, DE, Goodbye Blue Sky, MOM Art Space,duo show with Simone Kesting
- Vienna, AT, Here and Now, Verein Skulptur/Neuer Kunstverein Vienna, curated by Herwig Kempinger and Kasia
Matt-Uszynska, group show
- Hamburg, DE, Sleeping Quarters, Frappant Gallery, solo show
- Horice, CZ, Kosmos, Muzeum a galerie Horice, group show and international festival
- Bratislava, SVK, Reaching the Earth, Umrian Contemporary, solo show
- Carinthia, AT, Wo das Heimische unheimlich wird - ein Grenzgang, Grünspan, group show
- Milan, IT, “Punteggiato di luce, giaceva lì, scintillante, Galleria Mimmo Scognamiglio, curated by Milena
Zanetti
- Köln, DE, Amoured Concrete, Artothek Köln, solo show
- Bratislava, SVK, Unpetrified, Umrian Contemporary, group show
- Krakow,PL, WOMAN ARTIST ON THE MOVE, Dom Norymberski, group show curated by Anka Lesniak
- Ravenna,IT, Un Paradiso Amaro *Visita di Ravenna, Polo delle Arti di Ravenna, group show curated by Judith Augustinovic and Valerie
Habsburg
- Hamburg, DE, Andere Verhältnisse, Kunsthaus Hamburg, group show curated by Ev van
Hettmer
2023
- Hamburg, DE, These Hands That Keep Betraying Me, Hinterconti, duo with Judith Delgado
- Vienna, AT, sharing sessions, Motherboard curated by Sara Alavi Kia, Doris Richter and Stephanie Winter
- Vienna, AT, Vienna Art Week, open studio days with Alfred Rottensteiner
- Warsaw, PL, Warsaw>KIN<Berlin, Galeria Promocyjna, curated by Elisabeth Sonneck and Katie Zazenski
- Yerewan, ARM, What Happened, when? Arten Theatre, group show curated by Vladimir Serykh
- Hannover, DE, Archaic Futures, ADAD Space, group show curated by SALVE Berlin
- Leipzig, DE, Youth Sanctuary, KULTURHaus/Josephkonsum, group show curated by Kulturhaus
- Olomouc, CZ, Constructing Utopia,XY Gallery, group show curated by Anna Bochkova
- Hamburg, DE, Positions 2, Kunstfabrik, group show by BBK Hamburg curated by Carsten Rabe
- Vienna, AT, Über Das Neue (On The New) , Belvedere 21
- Vienna, AT, Supermodels, Kunstraum Super, kuratiert von Bianca Pedrina
- Rome, IT, Bitter Paradise/Viaggio a Roma, Austrian Cultural Forum, group show curated by Judith Augustinovic and Valerie Habsburg
- Prague, CZ, Echo of Depth in Space, Pragovka, group show curated by Anna König Vlk LINK
- Hamburg, DE, Painful Tenderness, Hinterconti, group show curated by Judith Hofer
2022
- Hamburg, DE, Anonymous Drawer, HYCP, group show
- Jerewan/Online, AM, Where are all the painters? Group show curated by ddd.kunsthouse
- Rome, IT,TheAppearance Formula, group show, Andrea Festa Fine Arts, curated by Benedetta Monti
- Prague, CZ, Remember Teach Nature, group show, Pop up Gallery
AVU for SUMO Prague
- Vienna, AT, Just Around The Cosmos, Kunstraum Super, curated by Bianca
Pedrina, solo show
- Potsdam, DE, Der Mensch verlinkt den Kosmos, Rechenzentrum Potsdam, group show
- Hamburg, DE, Silver Lining, GastGarten gallery, group show
- Los Angeles, USA, Related to Transition, SuperBien! at Take Care LA, group
show
- Hamburg, DE, Imagining Health, HFBK Gallery, group show
- Vienna, AT, Ort Der Kraft, Site specific project around group of caves, curated by Anna Bochkova
- Vienna, AT, Teach Nature, Kunsthaus Wien, Group show
2021
- Hamburg, DE I never promised you a rose garden, Einstellungsraum, group
show
- Milan, IT ReA! Venera6, art fair
- Hamburg, DE Rebound, Künsterhaus Sootbörn, group
show
- Prague, CZ This Mess We're In, Svetova1 , group show curated by Zai Xu and Michal
Jalůvka
- Milan, IT Expansa, Tempio del future perduto space, group show curated by NudiBranchi
curatorial collective
- Vienna, AT Smolka Contemporary, Eco Flirt, group show in frames of Vienna Biennale curated by Elisabeth von Samsonow
- Internet 5x3 Space, Temporary monument, solo project
- Vienna, AT Aquarium SPACES, MFA degree show
- Brno, CZ Industra, THE ROOM group show curated by David Bartos and Anna
Bochkova
- Prostejov, CZ Prostejov Contemporary Gallery, Convers[at]ions, group show curated by
David Bartos
- Vienna, AT Parallel Vienna Edition, Undoing Landscape
- Vienna, AT Erste Foundation, Undoing Landscape vol.2., group show curated by Adam Szymczyk
- Vienna, AT Xhibit, Undoing Landscape, group show curated by Adam Szymczyk
- Vienna, AT Stoffe im Raum, Heiligenkreuzer Hof, group show
- Hamburg, DE The Room, offsite solo project
- Hamburg, DE Silent Places, [inthebox] Kuenstlerhaus Sootboern, solo show
2020
- Hamburg, DE Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, SU3, duo show with Naama Salzberg
- Olomouc, CZ Basement Project, Of the Bodies Changed To Other Forms I Tell, solo show, curated David Bartos
- Vienna, AT Palais Lichtenstein, Academy doesn't sleep, group show
- Prague, CZ Pragovka, Erinnerungsinseln, duo show with Valerie Habsburg
- Barcelona, ES Espacio88, Unlock, group show
- Budapest, HU 1111Gallery, group publication (online)
- Rotterdam, NL PRISM AT HOME, group project (online)
- Vienna, AT contribution (drawing) to coloring quarantine, Exile Gallery
- Umea, SE group show, Galleri Socker “20x20x20’
- Vienna, AT solo project ‘The Dawns Here Are Quiet’
2019
- Ostrava, CZ solo show, Galeria PODLAHA ‘Treasure Island’
- Aalborg, DK solo show, ArtRoom1000Fryd 'Zeus,give me my EU pass'
- Vienna, AT group show, Parallel Vienna 'Rethinking vulnerability'
- Riga, LT group show and lecture, New Art Biennale Riga 'Art Future/Future Signs, Latvian Art Academy
- Berlin, DE solo project and performance, Octagon: Zeus, give me my EU pass
- Ljubljana, SVN group exhibition, Mglc Ljubljana: #s02e02 curated by gallery7069
- Vienna, AT solo project, In the morning we all awake sharp-eyed
2018
- Prague, CZ solo exhibition, Meet Art: And we will flow like rivers
- Vienna, AT solo exhibition, Aquarium: Surprise me with the truth
- Tromsø, NO solo exhibition, Galleri Snerk: Memorabilia
- Vienna, AT solo exhibition Aquarium: Hierarchy
- Vienna, AT Kurzbauergasse, Performance lecture 'Victory over the sun. An homage to the titans of art'
- Graz, AT Karl-Franzens-University: Performance lecture and pop-up exhibition as part of the seminar 'I'll be your mirror'
2017
- Prague, CZ group exhibition, GRID Gallery: Prožij kubismus
- Riga, LT group exhibition, Art Academy of Latvia: Opening Performance 'Letters from Utopia', mini-Biennale Art Future/Future Revolution
- Vienna, AT Mican Offspace: Group Exhibition Artists' Waste, Wasted Artists
- Vienna, AT group exhibition, Neuer Kunstverein: Thingness, Performance evening hosted by Yingmei Duan
- Vienna, AT group exhibition, mo.ë Off Space: Group exhibition DADADADA