In my objects crocheted from metal wire, I combine traditional craft techniques with contemporary materials. The final forms of these organic, amorphous structures emerge through an intuitive creative process in which I develop each piece without imposing a predetermined outcome. Every new row of stitches, whether crocheted in a straight line or a circle, or through turning the work, gives rise to new bends and twists as the material finds its own path. My works are inspired by the idea that everything in the world consists of molecules that, stitch by stitch, take shape as living, organic objects.
At Arte Laguna 2026, I’m presenting two sculptures from my new Interplay series: Interplay 1 and Interplay 9.
Both sculptures are crocheted by hand using colored copper wire and cast in transparent resin within a 3D-printed filament mold.
STUDY
2003 – 2007 Munich University of Applied Sciences, Photo-Design, Dipl.
2009 – 2015 Munich Academy of Fine Arts, classes of Günter Förg and Jean-Marc Bustamante, Dipl.
2005-2007 Exchange with Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Calcutta, IND
2011 Exchange with École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, FR
AWARDS & GRANTS
2026 Arte Laguna 2026 Finalist
2025 Arte Laguna Special Prize, IT
2024 Maker Space Scolarship, DE
2023 Studio grant from the City of Munich, DE
2022 Krumbacher Artprize, DE
2020 Studio grant from the City of Munich, DE
2019 VII. Ellwanger Art Prize, DE
2019 2nd place in the 13th Annual B&W Spider Awards, US
2014 Young Portfolio Acquisitions, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, JP
2013 Sponsorship Award from the City of Munich, DE
2011 Musée de l’Elysée, production grant, CH
2011 LfA Calender Prize, DE
COLLECTIONS
City Rosenheim Collection, DE
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (K’MoPA), JP
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York, US
Bavarian State Painting Collection / Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE
RESIDENCIES
2027 NY20+ Art Center, Chengdu, CN
2026 Vanha Paukku Culture Center, Lapua, FI
2026 Fiskars Artist Village, FI
2025 Künstlerhaus Edenkoben, Foundation for Culture of Rheinland-Pfalz, DE
2022 „Le 108“, Orléans, FR, Kunstforum Schafhof, DE and La Miré, FR
2022 Nelimarkka Museum, Alajärvi, FI
2022 Salzamt Linz, in the guest studio of the Province of Upper Austria, The Art Collection, AT
