Biography Teaching Exhibitions Press

 

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