curriculum vitae

since 2022 Professor of Urban Design, School of Design, Offenbach University of Art and Design
2018–2022 Spokesman project mo.de - the mobility design project / LOEWE research cluster Infrastructure – Design – Society.
2018 Curator (with Christian Holl and Felix Nowak) of the exhibition »Living the Region - Rhine\Main« at DAM - German Architecture Museum Frankfurt.
2014 Curator (with Lilet Breddels, Arjen Osterman) of the exhibition »The Good Cause. Architecture of Peace - Divided Cities«, Architekturmuseum der TU München / Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.
since 2012 Steering and coordination comittee member for Offenbach Masterplan.
2012 PhD in Art History; Doctoral thesis on »The City and Its Imaginary - Urban Spatial Images«.
since 2011 Spokesman Architecture Summer Rhine-Main. Memeber of steering comittee.
2010-2021 Endowed Professor at the Offenbach University of Art and Design, Germany. 2014 Founder member of Designinstitut für Mobilität und Logistik (with Prof. Georg-Christof Bertsch, Prof. Peter Eckart).
2009 Curator of the exhibition »In der Zukunft leben!«, DAZ / German Architecture Center. 2010: neues Museum Nürnberg; Kunsthalle Darmstadt.
since 2008 Program director Archis Interventions / South Eastern Europe. Projects in Kosovo, Romania, Cyprus and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
2008 Curator of the exhibition »Balkanology. New Architecture and Urban Phenomena in South Eastern Europe«, SAM / Swiss Architecture Museum Basel. 2009: AzW / Architecture Center Vienna. 2010: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest. 2011: Belgrade Heritage House, Belgrade International Architecture Week; Art Pavilion, Podgorica; Vivacom Art Hall, Sofia Architecture Week. 
2005–2012 Project about informal building in Prishtina together with Archis Interventions/Prishtina.
2005 Founder member of Archis Interventions. 
2003 Associate Member Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA - Federal Association of German Architects). 
since 2001 Editorial consultant to the Dutch periodical Archis/VOLUME.
2003–2006 Adviser at the postgraduate program (Bauhaus Kolleg) of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. 
2002–2010         International Building Exhibition (IBA) »StadtUmbau Sachsen-Anhalt 2010« advisory board member. 2003–2004 Direction of the project »Stadt-Ring Aschersleben«. 
2001 Curator of the exhibition »Space and Time in Megalopolis«, City Gallery Prague; together with Eva Schmidt. Cocurator of the Cityscape conference, Biennial for Architecture + Media, Graz / Austria.
2000–2001 Adviser at the postgraduate program (Bauhaus Kolleg) of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.
1999–2000 Editor and curator of the publication and exhibition »Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen - Cities of the 21st Century« (together with Dirk Luckow), Bauhaus Dessau, May 2000. Guest editor to the Dutch periodical Archis. Together with Eva Schmidt editor of the publication »Robert Smithson: Schriften und Interviews«, and curator of the Robert Smithson exhibition at Kunsthalle Vienna, November 2000.
1994–1999 All artistic projects in cooperation with Grete Peschken.
1998 Berufener Experte (adjunct professor) in the Academy of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.
1995–1998 Projects in the field of architecture, design and visual arts at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. Organization of symposiums and lectures in theory of aesthetics in the Academy of the Bauhaus Dessau.
1997–2001 Architectural competitions and urban design projects with landscape architects and architects.
1992–1996 Scientific lectureship in theory of perception at the University of Arts Berlin.
since 1994 Publications in the field of art theory and urbanism.
1994 Award of the Senator for cultural affairs Berlin.
1987–1989 Cofounder of the theatre »Schauplatz«, Berlin. Organization of exhibitions.
1987–1996 Work as freelance artist.
1981–1987 Studies of Visual Arts at the University of Arts Berlin. 1986 Meisterschüler (Master Class).
1961 Born in Hannover, Germany.