Conceptual nominee

Where does the increasing need of taking photographic self-portraits come from? How can the cultural phenomenon be classified? The human is the only living being conscious of itselfs own existence. This awareness is accompanied by the knowledge of the uncertainty of the future and thus the certainty of a loss of control that triggers fear. In order to regain control, the desire for self-assurance manifests itself in reverse. With the increasing mechanization and globalization not only the omnipresence and the variability of the already uncertain future increase. The need for reassurance of the own self manifests itself in the selfie culture. The image suggests „I recognize myself “ and the publication „I recognize myself in the eyes of others“. The often frivolously dismissed narcissistic phenomenon that shapes the generation of the millennials is therefore much more complex than it seems. Selfies are highly media-reflective. The photographers know that they make themselves become an image, and they use it as a communication strategy. By targeting multiple self-containing devices of past-self-duplications on smartphones on to myself, I communicate with versions of myself and allow the otherwise disconnected views to meet in the pictorial space of photography.

*21.11.1992 in Kiel
studies
2012-2018
Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design B.A. & M.A.

exhibitions and awards (selection 2018- 2021)

2021
SIILK Gallery, Berlin (DE)

Fotofestival Schiedam (NL)

LoosenArt, Window into the Virtual, Rome (IT)

Florence Contemporary Gallery, Florence (IT)

The Holy Art, Rebirth: virtual, London (EN)

Photo Pop Up Fair,Stilwerk Düsseldorf (DE)

Scholarship by the Alfred Toepfer Association, Gut Siggen (DE)


2020 /2019 /2018

exhibitions
PEP, New Talents, Berlin (DE)

Art Kolkhoz, Vienna (AT)

Photokina, Cologne Cancelled due to Covid-19

Photo/Media Art Fair - Contemporary Art Ruhr (C.A.R.), Zeche Zollverein, Essen

X-Pon Art Gallery, Hamburg

Association Start Up 2, Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Kiel

New Members exhibition, BBK, Brunswiker Pavillion, Kiel

Fotoudstiling,danish library, Flensburg (SdK)

Annual Fair of the BBK SH, Schleswig

Journey to Kythera, Groupshow, Berlin

BILD WORT ZEIT RAUM, Soloshow, Plön

Photokina,Cologne, with ProfiFoto Magazine and Canon

Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, The Family Of No Man

Foto-Reflexionen 06, Nothern Germany

AWARDS

New Talent Award 2/19, Profifoto Magazine and Canon

Steam machine learning and digital change, Awarded by Hoepfner Association

Grant for emerging artistst, BBK

New Talent Award 1/18 by ProfiFoto Magazine and Canon

Studio Scholarship, Atelierhaus im Anscharpark