Vita
1980Born in Dublin, Ireland
1999 - 2005Fine Art, B.F.A & Meisterschüler, University of the Arts Berlin, Germany
2002 - 2003VAV Audio-Visual Media, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2006 - 2008MFA in Art & Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts, California, USA
Scholarships & Awards
2025Ludwig-Gies-Preis für Kleinplastik der Letter Stiftung Köln
2024GASAG Kunstpreis der Berlinische Galerie
2020Max Klinger work stipend
2019Kunstfonds work stipend
2016Berlin Senate Department of Culture and Europe Work stipend
2014 - 2016Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship
2013Villa Romana Fellowship & Residency, Florence, Italy
2006 - 2008CalArts Interdisciplinary Grant, California
2002 - 2005Cusanuswerk Scholarship
Selected solo exhibitions
2026Circuits, Kunstverein Dresden and Galerie der Kustodie im Görges-Bau, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
2025Knot in Arrow, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany
2024edge out, GASAG Art Prize, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Stubborn Shadows / Scáthanna Seasta, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
View from Above, as part of the series Speaking to Ancestors curated by Keumhwa Kim and Pauline Doutreluingne, Wasserspeicher, Berlin, Germany
2021Clouded in Veins, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Ruhrfestspiele, Recklinghausen, Germany
2018Ore Oral Orientation, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Common Carrier Case, Ungefähr ≈ 5, Cologne, Germany
Can you speak to me in a language I don‘t understand? Hugo Ball & Mariechen Danz, Ernst-Bloch-Zentrum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
2015WOMB TOMB, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany
2014Ideographic Insulation, CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2013Imprint 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
KNOW AEON, KNOW OMIT, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany
2010Mapping the subaltern: an ideographic balance, Koh-i-noor, Copenhagen, Denmark
TOWER VESSEL TOOTH, TÄT, Berlin, Germany
Selected group exhibitions
2026Carriers, alexander levy, Berlin, Germany
2025Human Tetris, FLⒶT$, Brussels, Belgium
2024Turbo 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
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
Das Gehirn in Kunst & Wissenschaft /the Brain in Art & Science, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
Oblivion, abundance and aquarius (the age of) , OPEN, Berlin, Germany
Technoschamanism, HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany
Ruhr – Ding: Klima, Haltern am See, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Germany
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Discussing Metamodernism — Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany
30 ARTISTS / 30 SPACES — Neues Museum – State Museum for Art and Design, Nuremberg, Germany
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
Zeigen: An Audio Tour through Berlin — Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
2009The Generation: Younger Than Jesus — New Museum, New York City, USA
OPEN International Performance Art Festival — 798 Art District, Beijing, China
Selected performances
2025Stubborn Shadows, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2023Speaking to Ancestors, Wasserspeicher, Berlin, Germany
2021Somatic Charting, The Institute of Endotic Research, Berlin, Germany
2019The Wolf and The Head on Fire, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
2018Knot in Arrow: Ideographic Insulation, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2017Knot in Arrow: Ore Oral Orientation, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Clouded in Veins: A Subjective Geography, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2016Of Scream Of Stone, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Can You Speak to Me in a Language I Don’t Understand?, Ernst-Bloch-Zentrum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
2015A Voiced Gesture, Villa Romana and Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence, Italy
Unlearning, Lulu, Mexico City, Mexico
2014Clouded 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
2013INK SET, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
2012Rhyme & Reason, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
2011Knot in Arrow: The Dig of No Body, Based in Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2010Mapping the Subaltern: An Ideographic Balance, Koh-i-noor, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009Fist: 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
2008Mapping the Subaltern: A Subjective Geography, Wight Biennial, Broad Art Center, Los Angeles, USA
Wolf, Wildness at Silver Platter, Los Angeles, USA
2007Gospel of Bully, Kunstverein Kassel, Kassel, Germany
2006Heartattack, Areal 28 Projects, Berlin, Germany
Solas-Un, Kunstverein Kunsthaus Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Marsmother, Kunststation Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany