About Me
Artist, Designer, 2001Growing up on the countryside of Lower Austria, I was always drawn to the mystical beauty of nature, as well as its brute force. The dichotomy of this beauty intertwined with brutality is at the core of my work.
The colorful spread of people that I got to meet and interact with daily in my parents’ restaurant taught me a lot about the multitude of lived experiences. The weird, wonky and crooked realities of existence are catalyzed, collected and refashioned in social settings.
Storytelling at the “Stammtisch” is a central aspect to rural living. There are nuances left out, narratives expressed in the pauses, power in the spoken word. This lays the foundation for a lot of my works - to nurture the power of storytelling. Mythicality and ambiguity can be ever greater tools in a world that is catalogued, captured and digitized in minute detail.
Human nature is messy and unclear, and I see my role as an artist and designer as one of a communicator.
Instead of trying to explain human contradictions that can be found in any and every manmade and more-than-human medium, I want to find power in settling into this uncertainty. Drawing on personal stories and experiences, I find myself asking what it was at the core, that burned them into my memory. Why do I feel the way I feel and how can I communicate this feeling with all it’s complex entanglements and meanings.
Education
2019 - Graduated High School; BRG Gmünd
2020 - Beginning of Studies @ Design Investigations, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Prof. Anab Jain
2022 - Guest Semester @ Fashion Design, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Prof. Grace Wales Bonner
2023 - Erasmus Exchange Semester @ Design Academy Eindhoven, Invisible Studio, Prof. Mario Minale and Amanda Montanari
2024 - Intensive Program (Erasmus); “Emergence - Non-Human Communication in interactive Art”, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Prof. Vygintas Orlovas
2024 - Traineeship at Superflux Ltd.
Exhibititons
Shedding Skin, Exhibited at Angewandte Festival 2021
The Foundling’s Tale, Exhibited at Angewandte Festival 2022
Group Exhibition “Sourrendering as Nature”, @ One of Many Rooms, Eindhoven, 2023
Digital Ruins, Exhibited at Angewandte Festival 2024, @ Design Investigations and @ Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures, Curated by Luiza Prado
Digital Ruins Exhibited at Ars Electronica 2024
Digital Ruins featured at the 63th Short Film Collection in Bremen, DE, 2024
“A Designer’s Toolbox for Revolution”, as part of the “Design Revolution Now”-Collective, Vienna Design Week 2024
Other Work
“Utopia Build-a-Box”, Possible Futures Workshop @ European Forum Alpbach 2024, together with @ Johannes Lotze, @ Angela Neubauer
Mentions
Shedding Skin featured as student project in Dezeen, exploring gender and sexuality, 2023
Digital Ruins BTS-Photo featured in Der Standard, Article on Angewandte Festival 2024