Vita

1980

Born in Dublin, Ireland

1999 - 2005

Fine Art, B.F.A & Meisterschüler, University of the Arts Berlin, Germany

2002 - 2003

VAV Audio-Visual Media, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2006 - 2008

MFA in Art & Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts, California, USA

Scholarships & Awards

2025

Ludwig-Gies-Preis für Kleinplastik der Letter Stiftung Köln

2024

GASAG Kunstpreis der Berlinische Galerie

2020

Max Klinger work stipend

2019

Kunstfonds work stipend

2016

Berlin Senate Department of Culture and Europe Work stipend

2014 - 2016

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship

2013

Villa Romana Fellowship & Residency, Florence, Italy

2006 - 2008

CalArts Interdisciplinary Grant, California

2002 - 2005

Cusanuswerk Scholarship

Selected solo exhibitions

2026

Circuits, Kunstverein Dresden and Galerie der Kustodie im Görges-Bau, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

2025

Knot in Arrow, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany

2024

edge out, GASAG Art Prize, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Stubborn Shadows / Scáthanna Seasta, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland

2023

View from Above, as part of the series Speaking to Ancestors curated by Keumhwa Kim and Pauline Doutreluingne, Wasserspeicher, Berlin, Germany

2021

Clouded in Veins, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Ruhrfestspiele, Recklinghausen, Germany

2018

Ore Oral Orientation, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Common Carrier Case, Ungefähr ≈ 5, Cologne, Germany

2016

Can you speak to me in a language I don‘t understand? Hugo Ball & Mariechen Danz, Ernst-Bloch-Zentrum, Ludwigshafen, Germany

2015

WOMB TOMB, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany

2014

Ideographic Insulation, CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel, Switzerland

2013

Imprint Pressures, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany
INK SET, Venus & Apoll, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
CUBE CELL STAGE, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
CUBE CELL STAGE, Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany

2011

KNOW AEON, KNOW OMIT, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany

2010

Mapping the subaltern: an ideographic balance, Koh-i-noor, Copenhagen, Denmark
TOWER VESSEL TOOTH, TÄT, Berlin, Germany

Selected group exhibitions

2026

Carriers, alexander levy, Berlin, Germany

2025

Human Tetris, FLⒶT$, Brussels, Belgium

2024

Turbo Global, Zeitgeist Irland 2024 , Schloss Britz, Berlin, Germany
Heilung der Erde, Dschingis Khan, Schamanen und Aktricen, ein utopischen Reich: Eurasien,
50 Jahre Deutsch-Mongolische diplomatische Beziehungen 2024, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
Healing the Earth, Chinggis Khaan National Museum Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

2023

M OTHER S, Pavillon an der Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany
Endlich Frieden! Die Sorge um sich und die anderen, ROHKUNSTBAU 28, Schloß Altdöbern, Germany
Das Gehirn in Wissenschaft & Kunst, Berliner Medizinhistorischen Museums der Charité, Berlin, Germany

2022

Das Gehirn in Kunst & Wissenschaft /the Brain in Art & Science, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
Oblivion, abundance and aquarius (the age of) , OPEN, Berlin, Germany

2021

Technoschamanism, HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany
Ruhr – Ding: Klima, Haltern am See, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Germany

2020

OUTSIDE WITHIN — Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt, Germany
STUDIO BERLIN — Berghain, Berlin, Germany
Unworthy Cosmovisions / Radical Imaginaries — The Backroom, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Druck und Hingabe: Eine Widmung an Max Klinger — Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, Naumburger Dom, Naumburg, Germany

2019

Der montierte Mensch — Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
I Walk with Phantoms — Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
The Seventh Continent — 16th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Algorithmic Rituals II – Ancient and Newborn Intelligences — BOX Freiraum, Berlin, Germany
Auf Herz und Nieren — Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany
Copines Copains Berlin — Galerie Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
40.000 A Museum of Curiosity — Fellbach Triennial of Small-Scale Sculpture, Fellbach, Germany
Peau ! — Collectif Acétate, location not specified
And Berlin Will Always Need You — Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
Art Basel Hong Kong — Galerie Wentrup, Hong Kong, China
Body in Pieces — KAI 10, Düsseldorf, Germany
In Medias Res — Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany
Hauptsache Kopf. Von Jawlensky, Warhol, Cahn — Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany
Infratekture — TIER – The Institute for Endotic Research, in collaboration with transmediale, Berlin, Germany

2018

Agora — High Line Art, New York City, USA
Blind Faith: Between the Visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art — Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Versuch über eine Revolution — Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
Aktive Asche — Bärenzwinger, Berlin, Germany
Holen und Bringen — Werkleitz Festival, Halle (Saale), Germany
3hd Festival — Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2017

Viva Arte Viva — 57th La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
ARTIFICIAL TEARS. Singularity & Humanness—A Speculation — MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
Rest in the Furrows of My Skin — Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Hours and Hours of Inactivity — n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
New Scenario H O P E — Online exhibition and Altana Galerie, Dresden, Germany

2016

THE WHITE SHADOW — Peles Empire, Berlin, Germany
Other People’s Feelings — König Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Möglichkeit Mensch. Körper | Sphären | Apparaturen — Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, Germany
MAPPING THE BODY. The Body in Contemporary Life — TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria
Karl Schmidt-Rottluf Scholarship. The Exhibition 2016 — Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

2014

One Step Ahead Moving Backwards — km temporaer, LEAP, Berlin, Germany
Leiko Ikemura’s XXVI — Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin, Germany
One Thousand and One Session — Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
Warm Math — Balice Hertling at The Film Center, New York City, USA
Kill All Monsters — Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, Switzerland
Drive the Change — 100plus, Zurich, Switzerland
Skeptical Thoughts on Love — Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Tentura and Antitentura — FKSE – Fiatal Képzőművészek Stúdiója Egyesület, Budapest, Hungary
PERHAPS ALL THE DRAGONS IN OUR LIVES ARE PRINCESSES — SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

2013

VILLA ROMANA: When to Lead and When to Follow — Carico Massimo, Livorno, Italy
Villa Romana 1905–2013 — Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
Süden – Villa Romana: Art, Music & Performance — Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin, Germany
CULM — Night Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
A History of Inspiration — Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
BERLIN.STATUS [2] — Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Love Is Colder than Capital — Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria

2012

Discussing Metamodernism — Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany
30 ARTISTS / 30 SPACES — Neues Museum – State Museum for Art and Design, Nuremberg, Germany

2011

No More Modern: Notes on Metamodernism — MAD Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, USA
No More Modern: Notes on Metamodernism — 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Based in Berlin — Atelierhaus Monbijoupark, Berlin, Germany
HotSpot Berlin. Eine Momentaufnahme — Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany

2010

Zeigen: An Audio Tour through Berlin — Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany

2009

The Generation: Younger Than Jesus — New Museum, New York City, USA
OPEN International Performance Art Festival — 798 Art District, Beijing, China

Selected performances

2025

Stubborn Shadows, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2023

Speaking to Ancestors, Wasserspeicher, Berlin, Germany

2021

Somatic Charting, The Institute of Endotic Research, Berlin, Germany

2019

The Wolf and The Head on Fire, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany

2018

Knot in Arrow: Ideographic Insulation, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

2017

Knot in Arrow: Ore Oral Orientation, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Clouded in Veins: A Subjective Geography, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

2016

Of Scream Of Stone, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Can You Speak to Me in a Language I Don’t Understand?, Ernst-Bloch-Zentrum, Ludwigshafen, Germany

2015

A Voiced Gesture, Villa Romana and Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence, Italy

Unlearning, Lulu, Mexico City, Mexico

2014

Clouded in Veins: Possible Readings of Kerstin Brätsch’s “Unstable Talismanic Rendering”, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York City, USA

Body/Book, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

2013

INK SET, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany

2012

Rhyme & Reason, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany

2011

Knot in Arrow: The Dig of No Body, Based in Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2010

Mapping the Subaltern: An Ideographic Balance, Koh-i-noor, Copenhagen, Denmark

2009

Fist: Emoting Structures, OPEN International Performance Art Festival, Beijing, China

Complain the Explanation, New Museum, New York City, USA

They Cast No Shadow, Gallery 1927, Los Angeles, USA

2008

Mapping the Subaltern: A Subjective Geography, Wight Biennial, Broad Art Center, Los Angeles, USA

Wolf, Wildness at Silver Platter, Los Angeles, USA

2007

Gospel of Bully, Kunstverein Kassel, Kassel, Germany

2006

Heartattack, Areal 28 Projects, Berlin, Germany

Solas-Un, Kunstverein Kunsthaus Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Marsmother, Kunststation Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany