Projects

 

photo of bird nest with gold leaf
Seventeen Grams Of Longing •
2024
An intercontinental art project about two brother’s fascination with bird-migrations motivated by their own traumatic early childhood separation after World War II
Florence Hasard •
2018
Historic facts and fiction woven together exploring the nature of remembering
Process 34
The Sophie La Rosière Project •
2016
The creation of a female 20th century French Painter
Wax Inclusion Projects •
1990
(Ongoing) Objects encased in wax
Prototypes of Dirty Laundry - Installation view
Wax and Tar Casts •
2020
Sculptures resembling lava, magma or obsidian
Photo of wax sculptures in installation
He Dreamed Overtime •
2012
Lost love, obsession, and a man driven to create peculiar sculptures
Ou Topos Toronto 2012
Ou Topos, Toronto - Abandoned Trailer Project •
2012
A survivalist scenario
photo of dolls face
Ellen's Gift •
2009
Shortly after giving birth, Ellen was diagnosed with hysterical blindness
Honest Eds Storefront
Honest Threads •
2009
Lending and borrowing stranger’s clothing allowed people to walk in each other’s shoes, literally
He Named Her Amber •
2008
A historical excavation sparked controversy when revealed as a contemporary art project
Joseph Wagenbach installation
The Legacy of Joseph Wagenbach •
2006
Joseph Wagenbach’s legacy blurred the boundaries between fiction and reality
Therese - embroidery
Therese •
2004
Thoughts and dreams magically embroidered themselves onto the virgin sheets of an abandoned dowry
photo of table and chair with concrete cast in wall
Auf Borg Und Fund (Lend and Found) •
2003
A Permanent Art in Public Space Project in a Kindergarten
Emerging From Walls
Emerging From Walls •
2003
Casts of body parts emerge from walls
Monopati Berlin
Monopati Berlin •
2000
A siamese twin art project in two different cities
Monopati Munich
Monopati Munich •
2000
A siamese twin art project in two different cities
Paulina •
2000
A woman recalls her childhood memories of the forced laborer who worked for her family
Side Effects, embroydered message on towel on floor
Side Effects •
2000
Artistic interventions in hotel rooms slightly altered the guests' overnight experiences
Vorsichtig Frägt Die Hand Nach Dem Gedanken (The Hand Tenderly Asks About The Thought) •
2000
A baby incubator installed for display and interaction
You Don't Return...
You Do Not Return From The Place That Does Not Exist •
2000
Artistic interventions in hotel rooms slightly altered the guests' overnight experiences
Blind Date / REPLA©E
BLIND DATE / REPLA©E •
1998
Following an invitation to participate in the art-series "Blind Date", I sent a substitute
Putting Things In Order - rubber stamps in drawer
Putting Things In Order •
1998
On-site created notes, poems and drawings could be exchanged with works of other visitors
Mneme - pile of photos
Mneme •
1996
A discovered tenant ‘s legacy speaks of her struggle with the history of her family of origin.
First Aid storage room Implements (detail)
Erste Hilfe (First Aid) •
1995
A room in Kunstverein, Hannover converted to a first aid station
Huckepack (Piggyback) •
1995
Hotel guests were offered to share their room with a fictitious occupant
night dress (detail)
Leihgaben (On Loan) •
1995
Resident’s nightwear and linens from social institutions were exhibited in a public gallery
Paidi
Paidi •
1994
The exhibition of collected human milk samples created an unexpected intimacy
childs footprints
Trittsiegel (Imprints) •
1994
Häussler integrated footprints of a child with the other animal prints in a natural history museum
Xenotope 1994
Xenotope •
1994
Visitors to the improvised hotel-room were asked permission to archive their used bedsheets as art objects
Pro Polis entering the wax covered room
Pro Polis •
1993
A hotel room in Milano, Italy, was coated with wax from floor to ceiling, including the furniture… An homage to Medardo Rosso.
Sugar Angel - in chappel
Sugar Angel •
1992
The x-ray of a baroque putto revealed a scalpel hidden inside
Wallpaper Mutation (Venire Alle Mani) •
1991
Oak leaves collected around the site of the Chernobyl Power Plant after the nuclear accident in 1986
drawing - woman with cat
Drawings •
1990
(ongoing) various works on paper
picture of some printed photographs on a table
Ou Topos, Munich - A Synthetic Memory •
1990
An apartment filled with numbered candles related to stories of criminal acts and tragedies
photo of a stockpile of canned food wrapped in lead
Ou Topos, Vienna - Apartment Project •
1989
Mysterious artifacts left behind by an elderly man revealed a deep anxiety about the future and a survivalist’s obsession with scarcity and preparedness