Vita

Vita_Teil_1: 

 

1973   born in Berlin (east Germany)
1989–1995   Apprenticeship in painting trade for outdoor advertising and shop window design;
    Training in textile printing and weaving craft – Gobelin Manufactory Halle (Germany)
1995–2000   Studies of textile design at Burg Giebichenstein – University for Art and Design, Halle/Saale (Germany) – diploma
2000–2001   Graduate Scholarship, HKD Burg Giebichenstein, Halle
seit 2001   Commissions as conservator for wall paintings and façade art
seit 2002   freelance artist in Berlin
2004–2006   Postgraduate Studies ‹Art in Context›, University of Arts, Berlin – Master of Arts
     
Awards and Promotions
2000   Postgraduate Scholarship of the HKD Burg Giebichenstein
2001   Letters to an Orchestra, art in public space, realization award, G. F. Händel Concert Hall, textile installation at foyer, Halle
    Advance Scholarship from the Wilhelm Lorch Foundation
2003   IntermediateSpaces, exhibition, project promotion by Cultural Office Berlin Mitte
2011   art prize of the city of Schwabach for the installation Aurum Roses
2018   L102.ART PRIZE 2018 - Moment of Change, 2nd place for the sculpture "Figures de Décoration"
     

Exhibitions

Ornamental · 2016
Blue Break · 2014
Mustergültig · 2012
Arts & Morris · 2012
to–be · 2009/2010
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Solo Exhibitions
2019   dual exhibition; Dana Widawski – Figures de Décoration und Greg Payce – Transfiguration, Art Mûr Berlin
    Ceramic and stencil painting, New Palace in Ostromecko, part of the VI interdisciplinary art festival "Eye Never Sleep", Bydgoszczcz (Poland)
2014   Blaupause  [blueprint, lit. BlueBreak] – underglaze painting – Gallery Gilla Lörcher Contemporary Art, Berlin
2012   mustergültig  [immaculate] – stencil prints – Gallery of the City of Schwabach (Bavaria/Germany)
    Arts & Morris – stencil prints and installation – Gallery Gilla ­Lörcher Contemporary Art, Berlin
2006   Feuchtraum  [Humidor] – installations and drawings – Kunstfaktor Produzentengalerie, Berlin
2003   ZwischenRäume  [IntermediateSpaces] – textile installation and objects – ­Kunstfaktor Produzentengalerie, Berlin
     
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2019   OSTRALE 2019 – biennial – Dresden
    Der Schein der Dinge [The semblance of things] – Scotty Enterprises, Berlin
2018   Moments of Change – L102 Art Prize (2nd prize) – L 102.art society, Berlin
    Wunsiedler Wasserspiele [Wunsiedel Water Games] – art festival – Wunsiedel/Bavaria
2016   Goats – The Goat in Visual Arts – Gallery Mutter Fourage, Berlin-Wannsee
    De Lirio Curiosity Shop Vol. 1 – Gallery Braubachfive, Frankfurt a.M., curated by Caro Suerkemper
    ornamental. – Project Space Bethanien, Berlin, curated by Jörg Hasheider
2015   Festive Arts – Arts Council of the Sparkasse [savings bank] Karlsruhe
2014   Art Video Screening – Gallery Gilla Lörcher Contemporary Art, Berlin
2013/14   Paper works – drawings by Dana Widawski, Susanne Jung and Owen Schuh – Gallery Gilla Lörcher Contemporary Art, Berlin
2013   Zug um Zug – Localize Festival 2013 – Station Pirschheide in Potsdam – object
    Gegenwart  [presence] – Gallery Perpetuel, Frankfurt, curated by Micha Prentovic and Gilla Lörcher – wallpaper painting, installation
2011   Ortung VII – In the Spirit of Gold – curated art project in public space in Schwabach/Bavaria – permanent installation Aurum Roses
    NordArt 2011 – Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf – Ornament & Crime, stencil paintings
    danubeVIDEOARTfestival – City Cinema Grein/Austria – Spring Awakening, video animation
2010   TO–BE, Tokyo+Berlin Communication–Art 2010 – Freies Museum Berlin – object/paravent, wall installation, animation
2009   Berlin+Tokyo Communication Art – Gallery Higure 17-15 CAS, Tokyo – stencil paintings and wall installation
2008   Abseits  [offside] – Kunstfaktor Produzentengalerie Berlin – Fairplay, stencil painting
2007   Altstadt Neu – Spangenberg/Hessen, Bädergasse 10 – My Home is my Hobby, art in public space / façade art
2006   Art Hiking Trail Ars Natura – Hessen/Germany, Castle Ruin Reichenbach, Barbarossaweg X8 – Red Sticks, installation on 5 beeches
2005   Toteninsel – 30 artists approaching Arnold Böcklin’s painting Isle of the Dead – Kunstfaktor Produzentengalerie Berlin – Toteninsel, wall object
2003   Kunstfaktor Zossen (bei Berlin) – Floating Reed Field, art in public space
     
Applied art / art in public space
seit 2015  
Tribut to the Architecture – Façade Art – Drontheimer Str. 19, 13359 Berlin
seit 2014   The Muse Room – wall / stencil painting – music room / library in a historically restored timbered building, Bavaria
seit 2011   The Three from the Building Site – façade art – Revaler Str. 16, 10245 Berlin
    Aurum Roses – wall painting / installation – Schwabach / Bavaria
seit 2002   Letters to an Orchestra – textile installation – G.  F.  Händel-Halle, concert hall foyer, Halle (Germany)