Category: experimental

2025,

4 video loops with sound,

mp4-file, aspect ratio 16:9,

Limited edition: 5 + 2AP.

This four-part video series explores how landscape is constituted through vision while simultaneously eluding any unambiguous localization. It appears not as a fixed place, but as a moving image that constantly shifts between perception and simulation.

All four videos are designed as loops. With no beginning and no end, they follow a recurring structure reminiscent of both the rhythm of the seasons and the repetition of the Rosary. With each repetition, the perception of the image changes: the familiar becomes foreign, and the foreign becomes familiar. Landscape thus emerges as the result of movement, repetition, and media construction.

01 Grauen (Dawn), 3:31 min

Dawn is breaking. Bare trees pass by; vehicles occasionally cross the scene. Memories echo in the twilight between what has passed and what is to come.

02 Glut (Embers), 7:22 min

Between heat and obscurity, a sandstorm bathes the passing landscape in warm light.

03 Heimsuchung (Visitation), 3:12 min

A thunderstorm is approaching. Raindrops leave fleeting traces as the landscape slowly loses its contours.

04 Wiederkehr (Return), 7:11 min

“Heimat” drifts by. The monotonous sound marks a state between wakefulness and oblivion, while the landscape dissolves into white.

2023,

Video loop with sound,

5:31 min,

mp4-file, aspect ratio 16:9,

Limited edition: 5 + 2AP.

“We all carry a dead child within us.“ _{Christian Boltanski quotes Tadeusz Kantor}

We move through an abandoned house. The rooms hint at their former use without explicitly revealing it. An old class photo keeps appearing on the walls. On the back it reads: “class of 1911.” The people pictured remain nameless. The image begins to change: the children’s eyes move and explore the room in perfect synchrony.

The work draws on a historical photographic practice: post-mortem photography, in which the deceased were staged as if they were still alive—an attempt to capture presence in the image. In the video work, this principle is not simply shifted but subverted: the synchronized eye movements create an artificial liveliness that, precisely through its unnaturalness, makes the absence radically visible.

I position myself as a teacher within the group and become part of this arrangement. The boundary between image and intervention dissolves. In this visual logic, time is not organized linearly, but as a circulating system in which presence and disappearance are inextricably intertwined.

Exhibition History:

2024 – A Room to Yourself, Sonthofen

2023 – House of New Realities, Augsburg

2023 – 75. Great Swabian Art Exhibition, Augsburg

2022,

video with sound,

animation, 3:02 min

“Come,O death, you brother of sleep,
come and lead me away from here;
release my little ship’s rudder,
bring me to a safe harbour!”

_{from: Johann Sebastian Bach Kreuzstabkantate, BWV56}