Curriculum vitae
| Lives and works in Düsseldorf (D) | |
| 1966 | Born in Bischofsburg (Pl) |
| 1999-2002 | Düsseldorf Academy of Art (Prof. Thomas Ruff) Graduated in 01/2002 (Meisterschüler) |
| 2014 | Masterclass Photography, Schwäbische Sommerakademie, Irsee, (D) |
| 2013 | Masterclass Photography, Schwäbische Sommerakademie, Irsee, (D) |
| 2001 | Visiting lecturer, Statens Handverks- og Kunstindustrieskole, Oslo (N) |
| 1996 | Visiting lecturer at the School of Fine Art, Umea (S) |
| 1993-1999 | Düsseldorf Academy of Art (Prof. Bernd Becher) |
| 1987-1992 | College, Düsseldorf, graduated as business economist |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2022 | Terra incognita, Fiebach & Minninger Galerie, Köln (D) |
| 2020 | Spectrum, Kunstforum Hermann Stenner, Bielefeld |
| 2019 | China City, Brise Gallery, Chengdu, China |
| cityscape, Künstlerloge, Ratingen (DE) | |
| 2018 | Übergang, Berlaymont Building, EU Commission, Brussels (B) |
| 2017 | Übergang, Tempel Museum Etsdorf (D) |
| 2016 | Chongqing Scapes, Organhaus, Chingqing, China |
| 2015 | poststructure II, Fiebach & Minninger Galerie, Köln (D) |
| sign out / poststructure, Lausberg Galerie, Düsseldorf | |
| latest projects, Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod, (IS) | |
| 2013 | poststructure, Fiebach & Minninger Galerie, Köln (D) |
| 2012 | poststructure, Heinz-Martin Weigand Gallery, Berlin (D) |
| 2011 | SIGNS, Josef Schulz & Georg Karl Pfahler, Galerie Wagner + Partner, Berlin (D) |
| 2010 | sign out, Fiebach & Minninger Galerie, Köln (D) |
| Berg och Gränser, Fotografins Hus, Stockholm (S) | |
| ÜBERBLICK, Kunstverein Emsdetten (D) | |
| sign out, Galerie Weigand, Ettingen/Karlsruhe(D) | |
| 2009 | übergang, Galerie Wagner + Partner, Berlin |
| übergang, Dollinger Art Project, Tel Aviv, Israel | |
| übergang, Kunsthaus Essen | |
| 2008 | übergang_2, ZF-Kulturstiftung im Zeppelin Museum Friedrichsfafen * |
| terraform, Galerie Weigand, Ettlingen/Karlsruhe (D) | |
| Formenlehre, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg * | |
| sachliches, Goethe-Institut Riga, (LV) | |
| Forms, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, USA) | |
| 2007 | Crossings, Galleria Manuela Klerkx, Milan, (I) * |
| Simulacrum, Kunstverein Göppingen * | |
| übergang, Fiebach & Minninger Galerie, Köln * | |
| 2006 | übergang, Galerie Heinz-Martin Weigand, Ettlingen/Karlsruhe (D) |
| 2005 | Real & Unreal, Gallery Lumiere, Seoul, (South Korea) |
| Subareale, Kunstverein Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt (D) | |
| Hallen, MuWa, Museum für Wahrnehmung, Graz (A) | |
| Neue Arbeiten, Fiebach & Minninger Galerie, Cologne (D) | |
| 2004 | Shape and Space, Galerie Heinz-Martin Weigand, Ettlingen/Karlsruhe (D) |
| Mostra #1, Studio Manuela Klerkx, Milan (I) | |
| 2003 | Formen, Galerie Heinz-Martin Weigand, Ettlingen/Karlsruhe (D) |
| Wald und Wiese, Fiebach & Minninger Galerie, Cologne (D) | |
| 2002 | Acker 204, Düsseldorf (D) |
| 2001 | Galerie Januar e.V., Bochum (D) |
| Centre Commercial, Fiebach & Minninger Galerie, Cologne (D) | |
| Gist Galerie, Brummen (NL) | |
| sachliches, Galerie Heinz-Martin Weigand, Ettlingen/Karlsruhe (D) * |
Awards and Grants
| 2021 | Annual work scholarship 2021 of the Stiftung Kunstfonds |
| Artist residency: Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France | |
| 2020 | Winner of the CityArtist NRW art prize, www.cityartists.de |
| 2018 | Artist residencies by Brise Gallery: Chengdu, Ningbo and Hefei |
| 2016 | Artist residency: OmneLab, Castelfranco, Italy |
| Artist exchange: Düsseldorf - Chongqing, China | |
| 2015 | Artist exchange: Düsseldorf - Ein Hod, Israel |
| 2013 | Grant for video / animation, onomato Düsseldorf |
| Co-Founder Project Space SPAM-CONTEMPORARY, Düsseldorf | |
| 2011 | Public Installation at Pearson International Airport, CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, Kanada |
| 2010 | Artist exchange: Düsseldorf - Moscow House of Photography |
| 2009 | Public Art Project, Oset Water Treatment Plant, Oslo |
| 2007 | Grant of the ZF-Kulturstiftung Friedrichshafen |
| 2005 | Winner of the Festival „Voies Off“ de Recontres d Arles, Arles, (F) |
| 2002 | Grant of the Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes NRW (D) |
| 2001 | Winner of the db Architekturbild |
| European Architectural Photography Prize 2001 (1st Prize) | |
| 2000 | Winner of the Kodak und Large Format Inkjet Award |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2022 | Horizon, Interrupted, garage Rotterdam, NL |
| Photofestival OFF Bratislava, Passage, FOG gallery, Bratislava | |
| 2021 | BIENALSUR 2021, Punto de fuga, Vanishing point, km 52, Buenos Aires, Argentinia |
| 2020 | Flusslandschaften, Kunstarchiv Kaiserswerth, Düsseldorf |
| Wir sind wieder sichtbar!, Videosceening, Onomato, Düsseldorf (D) | |
| 2019 | DIPF, DongGang International Photo Festival, South Korea * |
| Omne/Work, territorio come laboratorio, Door Gallery, Rome, (IT) | |
| Altered Landscape; Natascha Borowsky, Josef Schulz, SITTart, Düsseldorf (DE) | |
| 2018 | Omne Fest, Castelfranco, (It) * |
| Image l Architecture, Photo BaoHe 2018, Hefei, China | |
| 2017 | FIF, International Photography Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brazil * |
| Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China * | |
| Randland, Schunck Museum, Heerlen (NL) | |
| 2016 | At Home in the World, 516Arts, Albuquerque, (USA) |
| Der typologische Blick, SK Stiftung Kultur, Köln (D) | |
| Splitter & Amalgam, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf (D) | |
| Transit, ACUD, Berlin (D) | |
| 2015 | Commitment to Scenario, Galerie Heinz-Martin Weigand, Berlin (D) |
| BRAUHAUSER/MERKISCH/PUFLEB/SCHULZ, WP8, Düsseldorf (D) | |
| 2014 | FERNSEHZIMMER, Glashaus Worringer Platz, Düsseldorf (D) |
| Another Place / Another Space / Together, Leeschenhof, Düsseldorf (D) | |
| Onomato Video Stipendium, Onomato, Düsseldorf (D) | |
| 2013 | FIF, International Photography Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brazil |
| Urban Structures, Offspace Flurstrasse 16, Düsseldorf (D) | |
| Au-delà des façades, Frac Franche-Comté, Vesoul (F) | |
| 2012 | ATLAS, Galerie LWS, Paris (F) |
| Digital Tradition, the last hypermarkt, Galerie 2600, Arles (F) | |
| Hijacked 2, Zephyr, Mannheim (D) * | |
| 2011 | Die Erfindung der Wirklichkeit, Akademie-Galerie, Düsseldorf * |
| CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, (CA) * | |
| Stiftungspreis für Fotokunst 2011 Eberdingen-Nussdorf (D) | |
| Seoul Photo Festival 2011 The Detour of the Real, Seoul (KR) * | |
| 2010 | Hijacked 2, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (AUS) |
| Open Landscape, Galerie Wagner + Partner, Berlin (D) | |
| Constructed spaces, gist galerie, Amsterdam (NL) | |
| Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Darmstadt (D) | |
| Point of Entry, SCAD, Lacoste, France | |
| 2009 | Point of Entry: The Space Between Art and Architecture, SCAD, Savannah, (USA) |
| Gemeinsam in Bewegung, Wuhan Art Museum, (China) * | |
| Art City, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, (DK) | |
| Topoi, Galerie Weigand, Ettlingen (D) | |
| Collectors Choice I + II, Museum für neue Kunst, zkm, Karlsruhe (D) | |
| One Step beyond Reality, Galerie Wagner + Partner, Berlin (D) | |
| Broken Vision, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Manheim (D) * | |
| Kubaturen, Künsterhaus Dortmund | |
| Parkheft presentation, Malkasten Düsseldorf (D) | |
| 2008 | Notes of Space, with Tamara Zahaykevich and Gerwin Luyendijk, Gist, Amsterdam (NL) |
| indoors/outdoors, Gallery Manel Mayoral, Barcelona (ES) | |
| What you see is what you get, Dollinger art Project, Tel Avis, (Israel) | |
| Building Pictures, MoCP, Chicago, (USA) | |
| F/Stop, International Photography Festival, Leipzig (D) * | |
| Panoramen und Fragmente, Goethe Institut, Lille, France (F) | |
| Zeitrauschen, former Kongresshalle, Nürnberg (D) | |
| 2006 | ReGeneration, Aperture Gallery, New York (USA) |
| Pingao International Photography Festival, China * | |
| 2005 | ReGeneration, 50 Photographers of Tomorrow,Musée de l‘Elysée, Lausanne (CH) * |
| all about Düsseldorf, white box / kulturfabrik, Munich (D) | |
| Voies Off, Festival Off de „Recontres d Arles“, Arles (F) | |
| 2004 | Chassez le naturel..., Biennale de Liège, Liège (B) * |
| 2003 | Ansichten und Ausblicke, Fiebach & Minninger Galerie, Cologne (D) |
| Fotografie: Andreas Gefeller, Thomas P. Proffe, Josef Schulz, 14-1 Galerie, Stuttgart (D) | |
| Plastic City, Galerie Van Dedem & Tielkemeijer, Olst (NL) Viziuni in Arhitectura, Bukarest (R) | |
| 2002 | Von Zero bis 2002, Museum für Neue Kunst mnk / zkm, Karlsruhe (D) |
| Digitale Bildwelten, KSK Art Prize, Recklinghausen (D) | |
| In Szene gesetzt: Architektur in der Fotografie der Gegenwart, Museum für Neue Kunst mnk / zum, Karlsruhe; Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren; Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Erlangen (D) * | |
| Transfer: Reisen in Zeiten von Cyberspace, Städtische Galerie, Böblingen (D) * | |
| 2001 | 4 Fotografen - 4 Positionen, Galerie Haus Schneider, Ettlingen/Karlsruhe (D) |
| db architekturbild 2001, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn * | |
| 2000 | Digitale Bildwelten, KSK Art Prize, Recklinghausen (D) |
| ArtBahn-Wettbewerb 2000, bach.selbeck, Düsseldorf (D) | |
| Ausgezeichnet: Fotografien 1998-2000, Kodak Prize Winners, Photokina, Cologne (D) | |
| 1998 | gestern genau jetzt, SK Stiftung Kultur, ARTCologne, Cologne (D) |
| * = catalogue |