As a sculptor I have always done a lot of drawings, technical ones out of practical necessity and free ones for joy and pleasure of the immediacy of expression they offer. The need to make more out of the medium drawing has, over time, led me to cut into the drawings in order to gain a sense of space and make the drawing come into life.
In this way I made my first reliefs that were initially very hermetic volumes which possessed strongly pictorial qualities. I have always been fascinated by their dual function as image and object. The deliberate positioning of the relief image on the wall then prompted me to work with side-specific installations to integrate the respective architectural situation into my artistic concept.
| 1960 | born in Oberhausen |
| 1980 | Studied at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts under Norbert Kricke, Ulrich Rückriem, and Erich Reusch |
| 1987 | Bachelor of Fine Arts in the Integration of Fine Arts and Architecture, Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts |
| 1989 | MFA in Sculpture, Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts |
| 1998-2006 2006/07 | Lives and works in New York Pollock Krasner Fellowship |
| 2010/11 | Teaching position at SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design), Lacoste, France; Atlanta; Savannah, GA; USA |
| lives and works in Königsdorf, Germany |