Curriculum Vitae in abbreviated form
Tertiary Education
Social Pedagogy (Diploma in Social Pedagogy, FHM Munich)
Germanic Philology, Philosophy, Pedagogy (Magister Artium, LMU Munich)
Artistic Training
1987 and 1988: Creative Training and course in drawing by Thomas Möser (Toskana, Italy)
2001: Course in watercolour painting at the VHS Munich
2002: Course in acrylic painting at the VHS Munich
2009: Summeracademy of fine Arts, Salzburg (Austria), Class: Zhou-Brothers (Chicago)
2009 – 2013: Individual Instruction from Elisa Betancort (Lanzarote)
2011: Summeracademy 4801, Traunkirchen (Austria), Class: Zhou-Brothers (Chicago)
2013 /2014: Academy of fine Arts Bad Reichenhall (Germany), Class: Zhou-Brothers (Chicago)
2015: Academy of fine Arts Kolbermoor (Germany), Class: Zhou-Brothers (Chicago)
2019: Academy of fine Arts Kolbermoor (Germany), Workshop with Lynn Schoene (1953 – 2020)
Exhibitions
2023
- “Surgir” Gallery ARTENMALA, Lanzarote (Spain)
- “Metamorphosis” (International Contemporary Art Festival), Quirofano, Arrecife (Spain)
- “20 x 20” Convento Santa Domingo, Villa de Teguise, Lanzarote (Spain)
- „Artbox Project New York 2.0“ The Gallery, New York (USA)
2022
- “Sólo estamos hablando” Gallery ARTENMALA, Lanzarote (Spain)
- “CLASH” La Lacuna Festivals (internet group exhibition)
- “Artists make helpers visible” (2), traveling exhibition, Erlangen, Germany
2021
- “Artists make helpers visible” (1), traveling exhibition, Nuremberg, Germany
- “Distance”, Casa de la Cultura Benito Pérez Armas, Yaiza, Lanzarote
- “MAV Ocupa Los Museos” (MAV Occupies The Museums, virtual exhibition)
- “A la Deriva”, Gallery ARTENMALA, Lanzarote (Spain)
- “Isolation Chronicles”, International virtual exhibition, Sergio Gomez Curates Net
2020
Because of the pandemic all my planned expositions where canceled. I had only two virtual expositions:
- “Lost / Perdido”, La Lacuna Festivals
- “Retreat & Action”, SOLO exposition via Kunstmatrix
2019
- Artbox Project Miami 2.0, Artbasel Artweeks, Miami (USA)
- Lanzarote Art Festival, Sala de Expociones Quirófano, Lanzarote (Spain)
- Gallery ARTENMALA, Lanzarote (Spain) – FACING -SOLO EXP.
- Gallery ARTENMALA, Lanzarote (Spain) – Con el Viento
2018
- 33contemporary gallery, Chicago (USA) – With the Wind
- Hesperides, Villa de Teguise, Lanzarote (Spain) – Ventana abierta
- Art NXT level projects, Chicago (USA) – Self Portraits
2017
- Espacio Dörffi (Art Center), Lanzarote, Spain
- Gallery 33 contemporary, Chicago (USA) – Sketchbook
- Gallery ARTENMALA, Lanzarote, Spain
- Gallery 33 contemporary, Chicago (USA) – Layered
2016
- Gallery ARTENMALA, Lanzarote, Spain – SOLO EXP.
- USK Lanzarote (Bienal OFF), Tías, Lanzarote
- Sala de Expociones “El Aljible”, Haría / Lanzarote – SOLO EXP.
2015
- Bodega “El Grifo” (Vine Museum), La Gería, Lanzarote, Spain
- Gallery ARTENMALA, Lanzarote, Spain
- Alte Spinnerei, Kolbermoor, Germany
- Centro Cívico de Costa Teguise, Spain
- Gallery ARTENMALA, Lanzarote, Spain – SOLO EXP.
2014
- Gallery ARTENMALA, Lanzarote, Spain – SOLO EXP.
- Gallery ARTENMALA, Lanzarote, Spain
2013
- La Puerta Verde, Haría / Lanzarote – SOLO EXP.
- Utopia, Mala, Lanzarote
2012
- Casa de la Cultura “Benito Pérez Armas”, Yaiza / Lanzarote
- Mararía, Arrecife / Lanzarote
Sala de Expociones “El Aljible”, Haría / Lanzarote – SOLO EXP.
2011
- Casa de la Cultura “Benito Pérez Armas”, Yaiza / Lanzarote – SOLO EXP.
with sculptures from Marianne Davis - Gallery “Molina”, Tiagua, Lanzarote
- Russen-Villa, Traunkirchen, Austria (final group exhibition of the class “Feeling is Liberty”, ZHOU Brothers)
2009
- Alte Saline, Hallein, Austria (final group exhibition of the class “Feeling is Liberty”, ZHOU Brothers)
Awards and honors
1996: European Multimedia Award (EMMA) for the Computer Game “Verkehrte Welt”
1997: European Multimedia Award (EMMA) for the Computer Game “Super Toni”.
2002: Publication of my multimedia work “2 Tote” in the anthology for the competition “Literatur.digital, Formen und Wege einer neuen Literatur”, Roberto Simanowski (Publisher), DTV Verlag München
2015: First prize of the competition”V. Certamen de Arte Emergente” (Ayuntamiento de Teguise, Lanzarote)
Professional experience
2 years individual writer of advertising texts and co-writer of film and television
3 years conceptual writer of texts in an advertising agency in Munich. After the first two years: promotion to “Creative Director”
Since 1988, conceptual writer of texts, independent
1991 – 1992: Publishing a series of children’s books in four volumes: “Robby Botter”
Since 1991 independent writer and creative director for Multimedia applications and Internet productions
1995 – 2004 independent artistic works on the Internet
Since 2005: Working as artist (paintings) in Lanzarote (Canary Islands / Spain)