since 2022
Book development “Project Dark”
funded by the Berlin Senate
since 2022
“Seestücke”
The meeting of staged and
natural stage on the coast of the sea
2015-2022
Development and realization of “Project Dark”
Places of fascism with over 100 motifs
at European locations
2006-2014
Internationally commercially and artistically active
Resident in Berlin and New York, now Berlin
1993-2005
Foundation of “Foto Komossa Berlin”
Self-employed Photographer and artist in Berlin
1989-1996
Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen
Diploma in Communication Design | Photography/Film
with Prof. Erich vom Endt, Jürgen Klauke and
Klaus Armbruster
1990 | 1992
Several months as an assistant to a
food photographer in Paris
1985-1989
Apprenticeship as a photographer then as an
industrial photographer at Thyssen/Krupp in Duisburg
Teaching
2014-2022
Lectureships at artists’ and designers’ conferences
Jury memberships
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
2012
Lecturer | Designer Conference Görlitz
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
2011
Lecturer | Artists’ Conference | Villa Vigoni | Italy
German-Italian Center for European Excellence
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
2003-2004
Deputy Professorship Photography FH Mainz
2004
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Saarland
Guest teacher at the “Kunst macht Schule” program
2003
Guest lecturer, FH Dortmund, Symposium Bilderkriege
Exhibitions
Paris Photo
Art Cologne
Photo London
Positions Berlin
NGBK Berlin
Saarland Museum Saarbrücken
Goethe Institute Dublin
Institute for Information Design Tokyo
Kunst und Gewerbemuseum Hamburg
Neue Sächsische Gallerie Chemnitz
Saarlandmuseum Saarbrücken
Grimme Institut Marl
Internationales Design Zentrum Berlin
Galerie M Bochum
Galerie oqbo Berlin
Photography Now Berlin
Galerie Sabine Schmidt Köln
Yinka Shonibare´s Space London
Gallery Dorothée Schmid London
Galerie Asperger Berlin
Galerie Passére Forcalquiere Frankreich
Press
Frankfurter Allgemneine Zeitung
Art News
Photo Technik International
Die Zeit
Frankfurter Rundschau
Berliner Zeitung
epd Medien
Tip Berlin Magazin
Kabel 1
ORB
Photo from Ulrich Weichert