A.rtistic C.urriculum V.itae
1973_1987 travelling to Corsica, France, during for the summer holidays with my family. My parents accompanied a friend, who organized each year a 1-month stay for youth-groups, an immersion in nature - and I've been part of it for several years, with my parents and my brother, alwas at the same place, at Porto/ Corsica, France. This period was very inspiring, creating the (first)IDeA of an possible "intact" or "ideal" world.
1973_1978 had my first professional project in painting pebbles of the beach. Collecting roundet glasshards.
Also In the early years : a fable for singing, day-dreaming, painting, scetching & photography, observations.
1982 chance encounter with Joseph BEUYS ("Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler"), at the nuclear power station in Biblis, Germany (event organized by the ecologist party "die Grünen", where my father was a member).
1986 workshop in Cheshire, UK, scolar exchange, at Cheshire Collegue of arts, crafts and design, discoverin and learning screenprinting, collectif exhibition with the other students.
1986/87 Creatif mentoring by Sigrid Krause, aquarell-painter in Rüsselsheim- Königstädten, Germany.
1987 got my drivers licence.
1987 last travel with my parents to Porto, Corsica, France.
In june 1989 unpreseenable self-chosen death of my mother, I D (Irene Dörsam, her birth-name). Startet writing a diary since the first day after, directing me to her, which is still going on... sometimes.
July 1989 workshop, portrait- photography & professional face-painting (film& actors) in Rüsselsheim, Germany.
1989_1991 scetching workshops with Dorel Dobocan, in Mayence, Germany.
1989_1990 "voluntary social year" at the red cross hospital "pain-center", Mayence, Germany.
Encounter with Doctor Dei-Anang, chief-medical of the hospital and artist-painter, who allowed me to scetch the patients in recovery-room (against the rules for the first time..).
Encounter with young lady and friend, Barbara Derix, Taunusstein, Germany, who made me discover the glass-world in the workshop and galerie of Derix Glass Studios. Gratitude.
1990_1994 apprenticeship and work as glass-painter at Derix Glass-Studios, with friend an collegue Olaf Hanweg(sirhanway), glasspainter in Taunusstein, Germany. Companion piece 1993.
1994 we got, with Olaf Hanweg, the "1rst European youth-artist-prices " (me with my work: "Fundorte"- Glass-stelen- metal/screenprinting on glass, glass- etching/ photographs of frozen ice-puddles). Exhibition at the European Glass-Fair "Glas-tec" in Düsseldorf, Gemany in 1994. Gratitude. (Companion piece realized at Derix Glass-Studio, Taunusstein/ Wiesbaden, Germany. Work presented here for the Laguna Art-Price.)
In 1993 also as a glass-painter, I realized a work for Derix Glass-Studios : a church-window, conceived by Prof. Ernst Fuchs, Vienna, for the Church of "Thal", Austria. The architectural design by Fuchs for the whole church was a kind of "neo-retro-fiction-kitsch-art-nouveau".. a kind of a Disney-feeling inside(ask google!).
The commanded stained glass-window reprensents a madonna with her child, realized with screen-painting and glass-:etching. It had been financed by Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who wanted to offer this window to the village "Thal", where he was born. I hadn't the chance of an encounter with him in Thal.. ;)
During Derix -times I have had the chance to work with a lot of amazing artists..., John Kenneth Clark, Brian Clark, Raphael Seitz..... . Gratitude.
1994_1995 Glass-workshops in Kramsach Glass-school, Austria (learning glass-sculpture, fusing, pâte de verre).
1996 workshops in Wiesbaden (expérimentation of pantomime, other practise of plastic arts, photography, scetching..).
1996_1997 start of creating painting groupes with disabled persons in Rüsselsheim and Wiesbaden, Germany (workshop for disabled people).
1998_2002 studying arts & therapy (plastic arts) at the highscool of arts, social arts&therapies in Ottersberg, Bremen,.Germany. Diplom art-therapist in aug.2002 (state-approuved).
A lot of artistic practise (engraving techniques, sculpture, scetching, free arts.....) and psycholgical classes.
Interest for performance arts(Marina Abramovic) & video-installations.
1999 performance live "red&blue" in Nürnberg, with Rahmi Schulz, artist, friend& glass-painter at the Derix-studios.
2001 Own experimentations in performance &video. Video-installation : "Milchmal", in which I used Milk fir a kind of filmed Video-ritual & self portrait.
Using "milk" for calligraphy, writing on old glass-window-shades...
Working with honey&milk. Experimentations, in etching, scetching, photography, video, installation, ....
Final artistic project: a video-installation/incl.ready-mades, called "Das kleine Glück", representing a kitchen-scene of the 60's (furnitures) & an video-installation, I filmed.the chickens living nearby my flat (I lived farm, un the country nearby Bremen, north- Germany).
Thesis about the "The playful imagination in the therapeutic context".
2004 "animation artistique" for children in holidays in Algajola/ Corsica,
Arrival in (return to) France.
2005 volontary / artistic facilitator for adults with disabilities at "Personimages", Paris.
Since 2005 educator and social pedagogue at "ILVM-Institut le Val-Mandé", accompanying humans with disabilities, in Saint-Mandé/Paris (accompanying daily life&travel/ creative activities : scetching, photography, mosaic, engraving-techniques, visiting museums, exhibitions...).
2006_2009 engraving workshops for my own with Mercedes Uribe, Paris.
2009 organisation of a private artist in résidence-groupe with study-friends at "Le 100", centre cuturel et solidaire, Paris.
2011_2023 Art therapist at ILVM (several techniques and atelier peinture/Arno Stern).
2012 participation at the collective exhibition " art brut-absolument excentrique" with ILVM-artists in the main city hall of Paris (organisator: "CEAH", collectif évènementiel art&handicap).
2012_2021 co-teacher/facilitator of engraving techics for disabled persons at ILVM, with EROLF TOTORT, Atelier Iconografitte, Saint-Mandé, Paris, France (several collectiv exhibitions for the ILVM- artists).
Since 2005 regular inspiring stays in the Balagne-region of Corsica, France, with the french family.
2017 formation "the servant of painting play" with Arno Stern, Coslieu Paris
2017 voyage à Sicile, Cefalù.
2021 Cyanotype-workshop with Ayda-Su Nuroglu, Paris.
I'm projecting to create un atelier à Paris for the continuity of my own works (a "draft in glass/1:1 sculpture glas-installation".... & a lot of other I D e A S... ;)).
