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* Winterthur/Switzerland, lives and works in Basel/Switzerland and Brussels/Belgium
education
HGK Zürich, Graphic design; Swiss Television Zürich, stage design; HGK Basel, audiovisual design.
from 1995:
videotapes, video installations, documentary videos. Works 1995-97 on cruise-ships around the world, lives 1998-2000 in Montréal/Canada and 2002-07 in Paris, then moves to Brussels.
2000-02 lecturer for video Fachhochschule Vorarlberg/Austria. 2004/06 guest lecturer HGK Lucerne/Switzerland.
videography
2010 Ground is moving
2009 Sinbad - new voyages; Come on into the continents
2008 Karta; Tiger
2007 Taxila
2006 Cairo
2005 Still seeing disappeared the sailors; Songs N°1 & N°2
2004 Come, heavy sleep
2003 Plan fixe
2002 19x barefoot; 5 spots Expo ‘02
2001 Housekeeping
2000 Yellowknife
1999 Felix in black&white
1997 No sunday no monday
grants/awards/residencies
2008 1er prix Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand/France
2006 artist in residence / Pro Helvetia, Cairo/Egypt
2003 1er prix Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand/France
2003 grant canton of Basel
2003 V.I.D. award Berne
2002 artist in residence / IAAB, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris/France
2000 grant canton of Basel
1997 award Film- und Videotage Basel
1998 artist in residence / IAAB, Montréal/Canada
exhibitions
2010 ‘Ground is moving’, solo show at Cinémathèque Québécoise Montréal, 03/19 to 04/25 2010.
2009 ‘Im Schatten der Pyramiden’, Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf.
2008 solo show Kunsthalle Winterthur, ‘Ernte 2007’, Palazzo Liestal/Basel; Cairoscape, Berlin; Galerie Les Territoires, Montréal; Galerie Leclectic, Nouméa/Nouvelle Calédonie; ‘Regionale9’, Kunsthalle, Basel.
2007 Galerie Leclectic, Nouméa/Nouvelle Calédonie; ‘Regionale8’, Plug-in, Basel.
2006 Kunsthalle Winterthur, ‘W’thur sucht den Superstar’; ‘Regionale7’, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel; Galerie ArtCore, Slick Art Fair/FIAC Paris/France.
2005 ‘Swiss video landscapes today, looped sensations’, Tokyo, Kyoto, Fukuoka, Nagoya, Yokohama/Japan; ‘Regionale6’, Plug-in, Basel.
2004 solo show Galleria Laurin, Zurich; ‘Swiss Art Miami’, Miami Beach/USA; Friedrichsbau Bühl/Germany; Filiale Basel.
2003 Galerie artcore Paris, ‘Regionale4’, Basel/Mulhouse.
2002 Nuit Art Vidéo, Théâtre Le Maillon, Strasbourg/France.
2001 ‘Regionale2’, Plug-in, Basel/E-werk, Kunstverein Freiburg Brsg; ‘Helle Nächte‘, Kunstverein Baselland.
2000 Kunstkredit Basel, Kunsthaus Baselland.
1999 Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst NGBK, Berlin; Casa Obscura, Montréal/Canada.
1998 Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Basel; Kunstkeller Bern; CMS/IAAB Basel.
1997 Kunsthaus Glarus; ‘Paradice now’, Zurich.
festivals/screenings
Viper, Basel; VideoEx, Zürich ; Plug in, New Media Forum Basel; Swiss Television; Kunsthaus Glarus/CH; Ciné-Club Xenix, Zürich; Transmediale 2000, Berlin; Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst NGBK, Berlin; Kunstverein Freiburg/Brsg, E-Werk; Kommunales Kino, Freiburg/Brsg; Vidéoformes Clermont-Ferrand; Rencontres Int. Paris/Berlin/Madrid; Invideo Milan; 2nd Intern.Video Art Festival Prishtina/Kosovo; April meetings, Belgrad; Pandaemonium, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, London; OutFest, Los Angeles; The Int’l Fest of Cinema and Technology, Los Angeles; Inside Out, Toronto; Pleasure Dome, Toronto; MIX - The New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival; Swiss Institute New York, NYC; Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois, Montréal; ‘Image et nation’, Montréal; The Vancouver Videopoem Festival; Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge/Canada; Emmedia Calgary/Canada; Microwave, Hongkong; Image Forum, Tokyo; FIV, Buenos Aires.