Curriculum Vitae | |
| 1976 | born in kaiserslautern, germany |
| grown up in germany (1976-1982), switzerland (1982-1990), and spain (1990-1995) | |
| since 1995 | living in switzerland |
| 1998 - 2000 | schule für gestaltung, zürich, courses in 3-dimensional design |
| 1998 - 2001 | diverse courses in drawing and painting, gold- and silversmithing |
| 1999 - 2003 | berufsschule für gestaltung, zürich: training as goldsmith |
| 2001/2002 | escola massana in barcelona, spain, jewellery class |
| 2002 | opere jewellery school, ravenstein, the netherlands, sommerworkshop "cow now" with ruudt peters |
| 2003 | member of organising committee for ars ornata europeana |
| 2003 - 2006 | member of semesterabeit tutoring team at the vocational college for art and design "medienformfarbe" zurich, schweiz |
| 2006 | artist in residence at foundation jackob bengel and fachhochschule idar-oberstein, d (1 month) |
| 2008 | artist in residence in new york at the studio of the swiss federal office of culture (6 months) |
| 2010 - 2012 | master of fine arts, konstfack, university of arts, crafts and design, stockhom (se) |
| exhibitions | |
| since 2000 | participations in switzerland, spain, the netherlands, finland, germany, usa, sweden, |
| austria, united kingdom, belgium, slovakia, australia, and china | |
| 2001 | solo exhibition, galeriebe, zurich (ch) |
| 2007 | solo exhibition, galerie beatrice lang, bern (ch) |
| awards and grants | |
| 1999 - 2003 | scholarship for the apprenticeship as goldsmith, direktion für bildung und kultur des kt. zug |
| 2005 | swiss federal design grant, bundesamt für kultur, bern (for schadow brooches/shadow inner brooches) |
| 2005 | 1st jury award, formforum schweiz, solothurn (for schadow brooches and heirlooms) |
| 2007 | swiss federal design grant, bundesamt für kultur, bern (for heirlooms, precious stones and bengel collection) |
| 2010 | swiss federal design grant, bundesamt für kultur, bern (for bridal flowers) |
| work in public collections | |
| 2005, 2007 | schweizerisches landesmuseum, zürich |
| 2007 | städtische sammlung idar-oberstein (d) |
| 2009 | AURA slowakia, bratislava (sk) |
| 2009 | sammlung bundesamt für kultur, deponiert im mudac (ch) |