1981 born in Dshangi – Dsher, Kyrgyzstan (former Soviet Union)
EDUCATION
2001 – 2003
Studies of History at the Westfälische-Wilhelms-University, Münster (DE)
Fine Art at Kunstakademie Münster (DE)
2004 – 2009
Fine Art at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (DE)
2012 – 2013
Postgraduate Program at HISK – Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Ghent (BE)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Body Trouble. L21 Gallery, Palma (ES)
We never grow tired of each other. Cosar HTM, Düsseldorf (DE)
2020
Female Fame, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Marl (DE)
00, L21 Gallery, Palma (ES)
2018
Hotel Atlantik, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen (DE)
Salon Tactile, Galerie Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf (DE)
2017
Performing Domesticity, Rita Urso Gallery, Milan (IT)
Second Home, Philara Collection, Düsseldorf (DE)
The Phantom Table, Sofie Van de Velde Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2016
Body Body, Kunsthaus Essen, Essen (BE)
2015
What Bananas Say, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (AT)
Elbows & Knees, Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf (DE)
2014
The Seamstress, Her Misstress, the Mason and the Thief, Tenderpixel, London (UK)
2013
NRW Förderpreis (with Jan Paul Evers), Kornelimünster, Aachen (DE)
Architecture, Anyone? (with Clare Noonan) Het Paviljoen, Ghent (BE)
2012
Rehearsal, Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf (DE)
CINEORAMA – Pavilion of Moving Images, Jacobigarten, Düsseldorf (DE)
2011
Hosted by/ Dissolved TerritorieS (with Kasper Akhoj) MA, Düsseldorf (DE)
Shifters, Wilhelm Lehmbruck – Museum, Duisburg (DE)
2010
Substitute & Replacement, Kuttner Siebert Gallery, Berlin (DE)
Clear of Clouds (with Frauke Dannert), Bell Street Project Space, Vienna (AT)
2009
Playstation (with Sarah -Jane Hoffmann), Fons Welters Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
002 – FAK, (with Andreas Kurz) Förderverein für aktuelle Kunst e. V., Münster (DE)
2008
CoolTools, Baustelle Schaustelle, Raum für Junge Kunst, Essen (DE)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Sin Rumbo. Confrontar la Imago Mundi. Es Baluard, Palma (ES)
2022
Opta Data. Essen, Germany (DE)
Atruvia. Karlsruhe, Germany (DE)
FWO. Brussels, Belgium (BEL)
Fraunhofer Institute in Freiburg, Germany (DE)
Musterung – Pop und Politik in der zeitgenössischen Textilkunst, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg (DE)
Happiness is a State of Mind, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (DE)
Identität nicht nachgewiesen. Neuerwerbungen der Sammlung des Bundes, Bundekunsthalle, Bonn (DE)
Unendliche Geschichten: Sammlung Oehmen at the Museum Ratingen (DE)
2021
Force Times Distance – On Labour and its Sonic Ecologies, Sonsbeek 20-24 (in Collaboration with Wendelien Van Oldenborgh)
Mobilia, Kunstverein Mönchengladbach
2020
Sonsbeek, Arnhem (NL)
Pattern! Pop and Politics in Contemporary Textile Arts, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (DE)
Mind the Gap! Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt (DE)
2019
Skulptur, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg (DE)
2018
IDEAL STANDARD. Speculations on Bauhaus today, Zeppelinmuseum Friedrichshafen (DE)
Eruption from the Surface – The Origami Principle in Art, Museum Marta, Herford (DE)
(Als) tekens in de ruimte, Emergent, Veurne (BE)
2017
La Norme Idéale, LevyDelval Galerie, Brussels (BE)
Sammlung mit losen Enden, Kornelimünster Aachen (DE)
Neither Innocent Nor Guilty, Daily Lazy Project Space, Athens (GR)
2016
Reflector, Plus One Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
Inhabited by Objects, CAB, Brussels (BE)
The People’s Cinema, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (AT)
More Canvas, Sofie Van de Velde Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
Every Letter Is a Love Letter, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn (EE)
2015
From I to K, Schloss Ringenberg (DE)
Lekker Licht, Centraal Museum, Utrecht (BE)
Un-Scene III, Wiels, Brussels (BE)
As It Seems, Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf (DE)
The Catwalk, Komplot, Brussels (BE)
2014
Der entfesselte Blick, Marta, Herford (DE)
Concept Store, NEST, The Hague (NL)
The fair shake of the whip, Herrmann Germann Contemporary, Zurich (CH)
Labyr, Euroboden Hochbunker, Munich (DE)
2013
Combinations, Loop Art Space, Seoul (KR)
TRANSFER, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (DE)
Diplomats and Martyrs, German House, London (UK)
blowing the whistle, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf (DE)
Defining Space, Die Bastei, Cologne (DE)
Geometrie Variable, Les Crayeres, Reims (FR)
2012
Dorothea von Stetten Kunstpreis 2012, Kunstmuseum Bonn (DE)
Nam June Paik Award 2012/ Förderpreis 2010, Kunstmuseum Bochum (DE)
The Reality of the Unbuilt, Haus für Musiker/Raketenstation, Stiftung Insel Hombroich, Neuss (DE)
he/she/it/did/said/would, Tenderpixel Gallery, London (UK)
Orchesterwechesel, Rheingold Collection at Schloss Dyck (DE)
2011
Sammlung im Prozess: Neupräsentation und Leihgaben, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl (DE)
the shape of forms to come, Kuttner Siebert Gallery, Berlin (DE)
Sunbeam in the Glasshouse, 701 e.V., Düsseldorf (DE)
2010
5 X 3, Kunstraum, Düsseldorf, DE
Unser System, Kuttner Siebert Gallery Berlin (DE)
2009
along the rhine, KIT – Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf (DE)
19. Bundeswettbewerb: KunststudenInnen stellen aus, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (DE)
2008
unsculptured, Galeria Atelier 35, Bucharest (RO)
62. Bergische Kunstausstellung, Museum Baden, Solingen and Städtische Galerie Remscheid (DE)
ART FAIRS
2023
ARCOMadrid. L21 Gallery, Madrid (ES)
2022
SWAB 22.L21 Gallery, Barcelona (ES)
ARCOMadrid. L21 Gallery, Madrid (ES)
2021
ARCOMadrid. L21 Gallery, Madrid (ES)
2020
ARCOMadrid. L21 Gallery, Madrid (ES)
COMISSIONS
2022
Opta Data. Essen, Germany (DE)
Atruvia. Karlsruhe, Germany (DE)
FWO. Brussels, Belgium (BEL)
Fraunhofer Institute in Freiburg, Germany (DE)
2021
Detours, façade of the Stadtarchivs Recklinghausen (DE)
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2020
Stiftung Kunstfonds Neustart Stipendium (DE)
Kunststiftung NRW Prokjektförderung (DE)
Begrenzt – Entgrenzt. Zeit für eine Zeitenwende? (DE)
Projektstipendium des Ministeriums für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (DE)
2019
Artist Residency at CCA Andratx (ES)
2018
Working grant Stiftung Kunstfonds
2015 – 2018
Studio grant at Kölnischer Kunstverein
2015
Schloss Ringenberg Stipendium resindency
2013
Catalogue grant Kunststiftung NRW
Sabam Art Award (Belgium)
2012
North Rhine Westphalia art award
Transfer grant /residency Korea/NRW, Seoul
2011
Project grant Kunststiftung NRW
2010
Nam Jun Paik award
Support grant Kunststiftung NRW
2009
Wilhelm- Lehmbruck award
Audi Art Award
