I am German. I am female. What is there to 'state' with or about art? What is there to manifest? Art is a personal, in my case multi-disciplinary, performative, idiosyncratic strategy to uncover what is unknown to me, to explain to myself what is going on in this world, to find out about how and which things are connected. Each project is different, I start with a sea of open questions and ideas and a priori am hesitant to state a thing. Except one: without generosity, art is pointless.
Espacio Micus
My German Arboretum
The screen - work in progress
Filmic research about a therapeutical method that contains projecting a traumatic event onto an empty screen.
My German Arboretum
A family tree projected. A work taken from installation to performance. From white cube to black box.
Rhein - Ausflug der toten Mädchen
Residency in order to create a performance about the river Rhein that flows through the city of Cologne. Working with folded paper, maps, autobiographical material, photos.
ART XL - My German Arboretum
My German arboretum is my family tree. Mapping the lives and deaths of my ancestors. Mapping their names, positions and characteristics. About centuries and through History. 'I have spent a lot of my life making space for the dead. Only the rigorous practice of history can help us let the dead go; you can only forget them by remembering.' Hillary Mantel
RHEIN! – feat. Anna Seghers, The Dead Girls’ Outing
As part of the Goethe Investigating residencies I research past and future of a river. The Rhine, glorified as 'father' Rhine, romanticized by artists, abused by nationalists. How will his future look like? After drying up and making an end to transport between Switzerland, Germany and The Netherlands, will he find another industrial purpose - as a resource for Lithium? Image: Sander van Wettum
Museumnight. European Break-up. Invisible Thread that connects us all
I was supposed to show my work at the Museum Night and decided to ask other fellow artists to exhibit as well. Each work had 'a thought' towards Europe: Christine Saalfeld, Paul Perry, Caio Vita and Jeanine Verloop, Robin Kolleman, Regina Wenig and Martin Lejeune, Luis Maly, Katerina Konarovská. Image: Christine Saalfeld's research
MERGE
Choreographer Sato Endo invited me to create the visuals for her piece MERGE. An indoor and outdoor performance in which dancers, video projection, sound and surroundings come together and merge. Site specific work that changes with each location. Image: Performer Angelina Deck on square 1940
SAMTMANN
Collaboration with Regina Wenig. A long-term series of documentary theater performances. Based on interviews with a family with four young children. Over the course of 20 years we met and documented how their lives changed. Each time they entered the stage together with us. (And took a great risk). Image: mother of the family in her original wedding dress during a performance