Artiststatement, 2026

Raised and educated in the former GDR and living in the UK since 1992, my work is shaped by the political systems and social changes that have defined different stages of my life.

Since 2015, my practice has developed through research-based work using photography, sculpture, and archival materials. Early projects focused on themes of control, propaganda, and the emotional impact of living under restrictive systems. Working with materials from personal and public archives, I altered and reconfigured them to question how meaning is constructed, controlled, and remembered.

More recently, my work has shifted in method while continuing this enquiry. Instead of directly intervening in archival material, I work with a single photographic image that is repeatedly placed into changing environments. Through light, water, and shifting viewpoints, the image is altered by external conditions rather than by my hand.

Across all of my work, I am interested in how images are shaped by the systems they exist within—whether political, social, or environmental—and how these systems leave traces. The work explores how something persists while being changed, and how meaning remains unstable over time.