Biography 2019 - Work on the series The Other Day 2013 - 2018 Work on the series An Abundance of Caution 2009 - 2012 Work on the series The Passage 2004 - 2010 Work on the series The Quiet of Dissolution 2001 - 2003 Travels in Argentina, Chile and Switzerland, photographing for the series Forces , work on building and photographing models for Forces 1999/ 2000 Travels in North America, Iceland, England and Switzerland for the series you are here (DG Bank Art Grant) 1998 Stay in Australia, Work on the project you are here 1997 Graduation at the Fachhochschule Dortmund, Degree Diplom Visual Communication, Photography and Film Work on the project No Sense of Place in New York, (German Academic Exchange Service Grant) 1995/ 1996 Study at the School of Visual Arts, New York, Major Photography (Fulbright Grant) 1993 Travels in Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica, work on the series GAP 1991 Begin of the study at the Fachhochschule Dortmund, Germany Major Visual Communication, Photography and Film 1989 - 1991 Studies of Art and Art History, University Siegen 1988/ 1989 Travels in Guatemala and Costa Rica 1968 Born in Siegen, Germany Solo Exhibitions 2022 The Other Day , Gallery Tanit, Munich, Germany 2019 Ausgewählte Werke/ Selected Works , Gallery Fabian & Claude Walter, Zurich, Switzerland2016 A Survey , Gallery Tanit, Munich, Germany2013 Foto Kunst Stadtforum, Innsbruck, Austria Gallery Fabian & Claude Walter, Zurich, Switzerland 2012 Gallery Tanit, Munich, Germany 2011 TH 13, Bern, Switzerland 2010 Kunsthalle Göppingen, Germany 2009 Gallery Fabian & Claude Walter, Zurich, Switzerland 2007 fiedler contemporary, Cologne, Germany Gallery Fabian & Claude Walter, Zurich, Switzerland 2006 Gallery Tanit, Munich, Germany Galerie Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany 2005 Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany Gallery Fabian & Claude Walter, Zurich, Switzerland 2004 Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany 2003 fiedler contemporary, Cologne, Germany Gallery Akinci, Amsterdam, Holland Gallery Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany Gallery Tanit, Munich, Germany 2001 fiedler contemporary, Cologne, Germany La Filature, Mulhouse, France Goethe Institut, Paris, France Palais für aktuelle Kunst, Glückstadt, Germany Gallery Windows, Bruxelles, Belgium Gallery Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany 2000 Gallery Bill Maynes, NewYork, USA Gallery Akinci, Amsterdam, Holland Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany Group Exhibition 2022 The Mast Collection , Bologna, Italy Paris Photo , Gallery Tanit, Munich, Germany Paper Trail , Gallery Tanit, Munich, Germany 2021 Paris Photo , Gallery Tanit, Munich, Germany Trepang Syndrome, Wladiwostok, Russia Trepang Syndrome, Novosibirsk, Russia 2020 UNO-Flüchtlingshilfe, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Berlinische Galerie, Germany Models of Nature in Contemporary Photography/ Modell-Naturen in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie , Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Berlin, Germany2019 Models of Nature in Contemporary Photography/ Modell-Naturen in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie , Kallmann Museum, Ismaning,Models of Nature in Contemporary Photography/ Modell-Naturen in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie , Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany2018 Pendulum - Moving goods, moving people. Images from the MAST Foundation’s collection, MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italy photo stories , Galerie Tanit, Munich, GermanyLAND_SCOPE. Photographic Works from Roni Horn to Thomas Ruff in the DZ BANK Art Collection , Muenchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, GermanyNew Territory: Landscape Photography Today. , Denver Art Museum, Denver USA2017 Eve , Amar Gallery, London, UKYou want truth or beauty? , Kunsthalle im Kunsthaus Nexus, Saalfelden, GermanyBewegung im Bild, Die informelle Malerei trifft auf die Geste in der Fotografie , Maerkisches Museum, Witten;Art Foyer, DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt, Germany 2016 Beauty and the Beast, The Animal in Photography , Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USAMagical Surfaces: The Uncanny in Contemporary Photography, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, Londom, UK Landscapes , Gallery Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie2015 Climats artificiels, Espace Fondation EDF, Paris, FranceThe Mirror Of Illusions , Gallery Tanit, Munich, GermanyTake One: Contemporary Photographs , Philadelphia Art Museum, PhiladelphiaImagine Reality , Ray 2015, Frankfurt, GermanyLandscape on my Mind, Landscape photography today Hamish Fulton to Andreas Gursky , Kunstforum Vienna, AustriaÜber Wasser, Malerei und Photographie von William Turner bis Olafuer Eliasson ,Bucerius Kunstforum, Hamburg, GermanyHuman Nature , Art Collection Deutsche Börse, NRW Forum Düsseldorf, Germany2014 Fürs All Genug , Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, GermanyHuman Nature , Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Deutsche Börse Group, Eschborn, GermanyWunderkammer , F&C Walter Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland2013 No Place like Home , Kunsthalle HGN, Duderstadt, GermanyJenseits der Ansichtskarte , Galerie Stihl, Waiblingen, Germany2012 Collectors of Skies , Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, USAGround Control , Jahresmuseum im Kunsthaus Muerz, AustriaPhotographieren , Gallery Tanit, Munich, GermanyLandscapes , Fabian & Claude Walter Gallery, Zurich, SwitzerlandElsewhere on the Meuse , Venlo, NetherlandsFür Hund und Katz ist auch noch Platz , Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, GermanyHome , Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, Germany2011 Surveyor, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, USAPeople and the City , Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art, RussiaTwenty Five , Fabian & Claude Walter Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland2010 The BMW – Paris Photo Prize , Paris Photo, FranceBumpy Ride , Fotografia Roma 2010, Rom, ItalyElsewhere, Idyll and Friction in the Landscape , Sint- Michielsgestel, NetherlandsFotografie , Landesvertretung Baden-Württemberg, Germany2009 Manipulating Reality, How Images Redefine The World , Strozzina ccc, centro di cultura contemporanea a palazzo strozzi, Florence, ItalyIndagaciones y Myradas, tenerife espacio de las artes, Tenerife, SpainHängung # 5, Deutsche Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Alison & Peter Klein , Kunstwerk, Eberdingen-Nussdorf, Germany,summer group show , fiedler Contemporary, Berlin, GermanyFerne Nähe, ‚Nature’ in Contemporary Art , Kunstmuseum, Bonn, GermanyExpedition Polaris , Haugar Art Museum, Tønsberg, NorwayTrouble in Paradise , Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, USAThe Best of Photography , Gallery Fabian & Claude Walter, Zurich, SwitzerlandVon A-Z , Gallery Fabian & Claude Walter, Zurich, Switzerland2008 Review , fiedler Contemporary, cologne, GermanyFreakish Nature , Gallery Fabian & Claude Walter, Zurich, SwitzerlandEinblick , Mönchehaus Museum GosslarDie Landschaft jenseits der Romantik , Gallery Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany2007 Vraisemblances , Gallery Xippas, Paris, FranceIn den Alpen, Kunsthaus Zurich, SwitzerlandWhite Out , Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn& Taxis, Bregenz, Switzerland;Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Germany Überblick: Konstruktionen der Wahrheit , Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie 2007, Darmstadt, Germany2006 Gletscherdämmerung , Eres Stiftung, Munich, Germany Fai da te. Il Mondo dell’Artista , Centro D’Arte e Cultura San Paolo Esposizioni, Modena, ItalyI may be sometime , James Nicholson Gallery, New York, USA20 years Gallery Fabian & Claude Walter ,Galerie Fabian & Claude Walter, Zurich, Switzerland2005 Ideal Worlds – New Romanticism in Contemporary Art , Kunsthalle Schirrn,Frankfurt, Germany Hoch Hinaus , Kunstmuseum Thun, SwitzerlandMunch Revisited , Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund, GermanyStrömungen , Gallery Wäcker & Jordanow, Munich, GermanyPerspective Contemporaine , Gallery Vedovi, Bruxelles, BelgiumOn the right Slope, Gallery Anne Barrault, Paris, FranceGezähmte Natur , Brandenburgische Kunstsammlung, Cottbus, Germany2004 A Traveller , Gallery Akinci, Amsterdam, NetherlandsWaves II - Tribute and Degressions , Musée Malraux, Le Havre, FranceNatur ganz Kunst , Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, GermanyPhotography XL II , Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Frankfurt, GermanyContemporary Art from Germany, ECB, Frankfurt, GermanyLandscapes , Special Exhibition, Art Cologne, GermanyGezähmte Natur , Brandenburgische Kunstsammlung, Cottbus, Germany2003 Wonderlands , Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, GermanyIn Nature, From the Obsessive to the Blind , X Photography Biennale, Turin, ItalyNicholson Gallery, San Francisco, USA Ordnung und Chaos , Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland2002 Better Than the Real Thing , Smart Projects, Amsterdam, NetherandsSaar Ferngas Preis, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany True Fictions , Ludwig Forum Aachen, Kunstverein, GermanyLingen, Kunst Haus Dresden, Kunstverein Bad Arolsen, Germany 2002 Between Construct and Reality - Landscape in Contemporary Photography , Suermondt LudwigMuseum, Aachen, Germany Franciscus,Kunstenaars brengen een ode, Fries Museum Leeuwarden, Netherlands2001 The Promise of Photography , The Collection of the DG-Bank, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, GermanyWild Gliders , Aschenbach & Hofland Galleries, Amsterdam, NetherlandsUtopien heute , Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, GermanyGallery Bernier/ Eliades, Athens, Greece 2000 Landscape in Contemporary Photography , Landesmuseum Oldenburg, Germany1999 La Filature, Mulhouse, France Landesmedienzentrale, Hamburg, Germany 1998 Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany European Photography Contest, Vevey, Switzerland Kodak Nachwuchsförderung (young talent), Cologne, Germany Zeche Eins, Essen, Germany 1997 Galerie Energy, Dortmund, Germany 1996 Museum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund, Germany 1993 Galerie der Neuen Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany Grants / Awards 2016 Prix Pictet Nomination 1999 DG Bank Art Grant 1998 Otto Steinert Preis, Honorable Mentioning Images 98, Grand Prix de la Ville de Vevey 1997 Rheinhard Wolf Prize Kodak Prize for Young Artists 1996 Fulbright Grant DAAD Grant (German Academic Exchange Service) Work In Collections (Selection) Los Angeles County Museum Of Art (LACMA); Brooklyn Museum; Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg; Collection Hans Grothe, Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg; DZ Bank; Deutsche Bank; Deutsche Börse AG, European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt; Münchner Rück, Munich; EON AG, Düsseldorf; Westdeutsche Landesbank, Düsseldorf; Collection Alison & Peter Klein, Eberdingen- Nussdorf, KMS Fine Art Group Private Collections in New York, Paris, London, Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Zurich, Hong Kong, Seoul