ABOUT

E: My works are an exploration of time, memory, and the ephemeral nature of existence. I am interested in the intersections of history, technology, and cultural memory. Through the media of film and photography, I seek the dialogue between the past and present, the tangible and the intangible.
In my works I interweave my interest in architectural ruins and obsolete technologies to examine their influence on the present and to question the construction of history.
This results in audiovisual reflections that invite the viewer to examine the subtle details of their living environment.
A central aspect of my artistic research approach is the exchange in collaborations.

D: Meine Arbeiten sind eine Erkundung von Zeit, Erinnerung und der ephemeren Natur der Existenz. Mich interessieren die Überschneidungen von Geschichte, Technologie und kulturellem Gedächtnis. Durch die Medien Film und Fotografie suche ich den Dialog zwischen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, dem Greifbaren und dem Ungreifbaren.
In meinen Arbeiten verwebe ich mein Interesse an architektonischen Ruinen und veralteten Technologien, um deren Einfluss auf die Gegenwart zu untersuchen und die Konstruktion von Geschichte zu hinterfragen.
Daraus entstehen audio-visuelle Reflexionen, die den Betrachter dazu einladen, sich mit den subtilen Details der ihn umgebenden Welt auseinanderzusetzen. Ein zentraler Aspekt meiner künstlerisch forschenden Arbeitsweise ist der Austausch durch Kollaborationen.

EDUCATION

since 2021
Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (Media Art) Expanded Cinema Class,
Prof. Clemens von Wedemeyer and Mareike Bernien PhD, Leipzig, Germany
2016-2020
BA Fine Arts, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK, Switzerland
Guest-Semester. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA (2018)
2006-2012
Bachelor + Master in Architecture, Technical University Graz, Austria

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018
In the Wabash Window, SITE Galleries, 37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, USA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS

2024
Austrian Artist Films: Programme 2, ICA London, UK
Viennale'24 International Film Festival, AT
Dokumentale'24 International Documentary and Media Festival Berlin, DE
Peripheries Experimental Film & Video Festival, Sweet Void Cinema, September 2024, Chicago, US
2023 
Bilder als Forschung, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden SKD, Japanisches Palais, DE
Sorry, I have to leave, European Media Arts Festival EMAF Campus 2023, Kunstraum Hase 29, Osnabrück, Germany
2022
«Schöne, entrückte Welt», ​Visarte Zentralschweiz, Kornschütte Luzern, Switzerland
Architekturikonen neu gesehen, Pavillon Le Corbusier, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland
DSCH I+II, Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, Germany
2021
The Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize Exhibition - Life in 2020, Austrian Cultural Forum London, England
2020
Common Ground, Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria
2019
Zine in Tokyo, POST Bookstore, Minami-Ebisu Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Diplome19, ZHdK Diploma Show, Exhibition Space BKM, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
2018
ZHdK Highlights, Galerie 2, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
The Photographic, UG im Folkwang, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2016-2017
Schweizweit, S AM Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel, Switzerland
Schweizweit, AIT Architektur Salon, München, Switzerland
Schweizweit, Arc-en-Rêve - Centre d‘architecture de Bordeaux, France

GRANTS / NOMINATIONS

2021
Starting Grant Media Art 2021 and Mentoring Programme 2022, BMKÖS & Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
Work Scholarship Covid-19 by the City of Zurich
2019
Promotion of Aspiring Artists in Photography by Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council
2018
ZHdK Highlights 2018 by Zurich University of the Arts

BOOKS

ONLINE EXHIBITIONS / PUBLICATIONS

2021
Virtual Exhibition: Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize 2020 by the Austrian Cultural Forum London
2020
JapanRevisited202x: then-now-afterAustrian Cultural Forum Tokyo, Online Exhibition, accessed September 9, 2020 
2019
Photographer Spotlight: Katharina Bayer, Selection by Editors, booooooom, accessed April 19, 2019  
2018
Guest-Room, Selection by Urs Stahel, Der Greif, accessed November 22, 2018

COMMISSIONS

2019-2020
Commission for a Photographic Essay, Verein pro archithese (ed.), Swiss Performance 2020, archithese,
March 1.2020: 46-59, Zurich 

using allyou.net