Exhibitions

2025

Bad Arolsen, [UN]apparent worlds, Museum im Schloss Bad Arolsen

The museum in Bad Arolsen Residential Palace provides an extremely festive setting for the smallest fragments of our everyday lives. A really great fit! Who says that only the princely legacy is worth treasuring, marveling at and admiring? My (vegan) insect worlds and the tiny bird paradises impress with their absolute vibrancy and diversity. These are the current prospects we need for a future worth living: Hope is in the smallest detail! Here are the most important details about the exhibition

2024

Schieder-Schwalenberg, withBLAU

I decided to take a digital approach to the traditional craft of blueprinting.

The result is a card game in which traditional motifs meet new structures.

I have taken both the rigid structures of the old craft and the traditional rules of card games as an opportunity to break with the old rules and develop a new deck of cards from them.

Bee, queen…ace is the honeycomb here. Let’s reshuffle the cards for a fair game!

A very small edition of the card deck is still available here

2023

Bad Pyrmont, Romanticism 2.0 – special exhibition at the Bad Pyrmont Castle Museum

At first I was a little in doubt: How would my exhibits be shown to their best advantage in the colorful, classicist halls, against the backdrop of the very colorful textile wallpaper?

The doubts were absolutely unfounded. On the contrary:

I could hardly wish for a better setting for my work. In this setting, the question of the value and importance of my compositions comes to the fore as if by itself and quite vividly. The more than 4,500 enthusiastic visitors to the exhibition – an outstanding number in the visitor statistics of the castle museum in Bad Pyrmont – agreed.

2022

Berlin, Fashion Botanica meets Romanticism 2.0

It was a wonderfully well-rounded affair with you, dear Pia Wessel, Instagram

Pia has enhanced the fashion pieces and accessories with plant parts to create wearable art. In the exhibition space, the dress dolls conveyed what my works on the walls showed: the bizarre and the beautiful belong together! Carrying out the preparations and the entire event in pairs was an absolutely successful experiment. We laughed a lot together. Not just the two of us, but also the many good-humored guests, some of whom were invited and some of whom came spontaneously. This clip, which you can find in my blog article about the exhibition, captures the atmosphere perfectly. Watching it makes me want to organize the next exhibition again.

2022

Bonn, Romanticism 2.0 solo exhibition

Romanticism 2.0 is not just the title of my manifesto. For my exhibition in Bonn, it was also the bracket for the smallest paradises that no longer actually exist. This is precisely why they play a central role in my works.

As already mentioned, I enjoy preparing my events independently in terms of content and organization.

Many thanks to Cornelia Genschow, who also makes her space for art and nature temporarily available to other artists. The gallery was very suitable for several of my exhibits.

2021

Bielefeld, [UN]seeming worlds – special exhibition at the Natural History Museum Bielefeld

The Natural History Museum is housed in a beautiful historic building, which is a real challenge for historical collections with its poorly insulated walls. However, the exhibition there is very authentic. The building breathes history. I really enjoyed the hours I spent there around my exhibition, also thanks to the friendly team. The coronavirus rules had just been relaxed a little and we were finally able to meet again without masks towards the end of the exhibition. In general, it was a pleasure to be able to visit a public event again. At the same time as my special exhibition, the museum was showing a varied collection on recycling and upcycling. There were many repurposed everyday objects to marvel at, especially from the post-war period.

What a contrast: in contrast to the practical objects, my works of art are absolute luxury. They are simply for contemplation.

It could not have been shown more clearly: Art and culture can only emerge and be truly promoted in peaceful times – in order to inspire us all and enrich our coexistence. Art and culture in all their diversity are indispensable!

2019

Bremen, Cape Horn ART The Eleventh

The Kap-Hoorn ART exhibition space in Gröpelingen’s historic industrial port provided a purist and exciting backdrop for this exhibition series, which is unfortunately no longer taking place. Hats off to the KapHoornArt team, who had regularly made this exhibition possible for international artists until then. A nice reminder of my participation in the last event of the series in 2019 is this snapshot of a visitor who, thanks to her dress and standing in front of my work, creates a surprising spatial installation. Now that’s a well-rounded composition.

2018

Fuerstenwalde/Spree, 9th Miniature in the Visual Arts 2018

The miniature has a very long history in art. Incidentally, it got its name, or rather its beginning, with the printing press. The richly decorated first letters of the initially handwritten books were the first miniatures to bear this name.

With this exhibition, my works were nominated for the art prize of the city of Fürstenwalde. All in all, many impressivetiny works came together here, all of which invited you to take a closer look.

Beyond the monumental and pompous, the miniature gives you the opportunity to immerse yourself in infinite stories – if you are prepared to look closely. Each picture is like a window that only opens when your nose is almost glued to the motif.

The theme “Preserving culture” gave me the opportunity to focus on some new types of insects from leftovers and found objects. My insects are hybrids of nature and culture. They pose their own questions about the influence of culture. About value and disvalue, about their positive and negative influences. Culture or unculture?

2018

Hamburg, guest artist in the Jan De Weryha Collection

The works complement each other perfectly in contrast, in the gallery in a direct spatial combination: Jan De Weryha always works the wood in a very archaic way. Rhythm and structure are emphasized in sometimes impressive “monotony”.

The simple elements of my own collages, on the other hand, illuminate every last bit that I can get out of the most banal found object. Jan De Weryha concentrates more on the question of how much change he wants to impose on his material in order to do justice to wood as a material.

This meeting was an open dialog. Thanks also to the Friends of Jan De Weryha for making this exhibition possible.

2016

Florence, Florence Dance Center

An exciting collaboration with young dancers. Their choreography reflected the relationship between men and nature, as did the works of the international participating artists. A successful meeting between performing and visual arts.

2015

Bonn, Audience Award Women’s Museum Bonn

At the end of the 25th art fair at the Frauenmuseum Bonn in 2015, I was able to accept the audience award. With seventy-nine other very interesting applicants, 1st place is an award that makes me proud.

The atmosphere at the weekend was simply fantastic. Not only were the talks with such diverse contemporary artists once again very inspiring, but the really numerous visitors were interested and open to new things.

I only have negative memories of a subsequent discussion on the Internet. One comment in particular expressed serious doubts about the meaning and purpose of a women’s museum.

– After all, men would also have a hard time –

Today, a good ten years later, we see how, despite all efforts, rights and equality between women and men are once again being curtailed worldwide – in an intolerable way.

Art history has not only been cut short by many high-ranking female artists in the distant past. But right now, we women should insist on raising our voices, showing our art, expressing our opinions and drawing attention to unequal treatment. As long as women cannot move around safely anywhere in the world at any time of day or night, a women’s museum is absolutely urgent.

Unfortunately, standing up for our rights as women is once again crucial for a secure future for our entire planet.