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)