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is an artist and filmmaker. His productions often negotiate public space and are also shown there, too. Many of them are about or even initiate collaborations and collective learning environments.

 

In his cinematic work he negotiates the potential of self-empowerment through the performative camera, alienating effects in the documentary, and strategies of subjectivation. His film works are mostly characterized by collaborations with the protagonists and experimental settings.

 

His latest works concentrate on memory and resistance. In Cologne he is developing a film-based and by using Augmented Reality also participative monument in memory of the racist attacks by the terrorist NSU network in Probsteigasse and Keupstrasse.

 

He is also Professor for Performative Spaces at the weissensee school of art, berlin. There he initiated in particular the *foundationClass for artists who were forced to flee their home countries.

 

Exhibitions include Berlin Biennale 4, Havanna Biennale. KW Berlin, Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlinische Galerie, NGBK Berlin, ZKM Karlsruhe, MARTa Herford, Steirischer Herbst, Schirn Frankfurt, Kästner Gesellschaft Hannover, MoCA Taipei, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Staatstheater Mannheim, Kunstverein Wolfsburg and Galerie Tanja Wagner.

 

He was nominated for Anni and Heinrich Sussmann Artist Award, committed to the ideal of democracy and antifascism in 2017, the Nam June Paik Award in 2014 and won the Autoren und Produzentenpreis Junges Theater Bremen in 2006.

 

He studied at Universität der Künste, Berlin with Lothar Baumgarten, where he graduated in 2004.

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