Work experience:

1995 – present: Artist, art critic, freelance writer and illustrator, based in Stuttgart/Germany

1993 – 1995: Art Director with advertising agency Bates Saatchi & Saatchi, Budapest/Hungary

1990 – 1993: Johannes-Gutenberg-Schule, Stuttgart/Germany. graduating in Graphic Design

1989 - present: Freelance writer in the cultural field

Exhibitions and projects (selection)

2025: 

Speaker, key-panel “Conference on Opportunities in the Arts“, Transcultural Exchange, Boston/USA

2024:

Special honours, Clara-Menck-Stipend, German Journalists’ Association, for the magazine project FeuerbachGo

2023:               

• Artist in Residence, Luopioinen/Finland

• Award “Feuerbacher Biber“ for magazine project "FeuerbachGO"

2022:          

"Three Kimonos", „Le stanze delle meraviglie/Wunderkammern“, Verbania/Italy

2021:             

• “Lifelines“ Installation, Old Yarn Factory/Fabbricca della ruota“, Biella/Italy                          

• Exhibitions on Dante's Inferno and Dante's Purgatory, along Lago Maggiore/Italy

2019: 

• “Medelplanin matkassa, exhibition with Anja Matilla-Tolvanen, celebrating 300 years of alphabetisation in Finland, Arkki Main Library of Pälkäne/Finnland

• Book and Illustrations “Medelplanin matkassa“ with Anja Matilla-Tolvanen,  ISBN 978-952-94-2526-6

• Artist-in-residence, Hovinkartano/Finland

since 2019: 

Installations, „Sentiero dell arte“, in Trarego/Italy

2018 & 2017: 

Exhibition „Le stanze delle meraviglie/Wunderkammern“, Villa Giulia, Verbania/Italy 

2016: 

• International Artist symposion and exhibition/„The Bethlehem Altar“, Catholic University Bethlehem/Palestine 

2015:      

• Symposion Hovinkartano/Finland, land art celebrating composer Jan Sibelius.

• Project „Mirroring“ with artist Romy Achituv (Israel/USA)

• Joint exhibition “Laogai“, Amnesty International Italy and Commission “Cry“ for the collection of Laogai Museum, Washington D.C./USA

2014: 

• Artist-in-residence and fellowship, Haslla Art World Gangneung/South Korea            

• Joint exhibition “Pinocchio”, Sejong Center Seoul/South Korea            

• “Very Last Shirts and more” exhibition, All Arts Festival Morbach/Germany

2013: 

Book Art Exhibition „In Memoriam Charlotte Salomon“, touring Northern Italy

2012: 

• Guest Lecturer at Istituto Franzosini, Verbania/Italy • Featured Artist for the lecture series “Women in Art” by Antonella Prota Giurleo, Italy

2011: 

• Artist-in-residence and fellowship, Haslla Art World, Gangneung/South Korea

• Exhibition “Very Last Shirts”, Wilhelmspalais, Stuttgart/Germany

2010: 

• „52 Lives”– piece for the victims of the Cumiana massacre 1944, Cumiana/Italy

• Exhibition and commission „How to write a novel“, Didactic Collection, Parco della fantasia, Omegna/Italy

2009 - 2018: 

Collaboration with artist Jac Howard and exhibitions, Seaham/England

2009:

• „Scriptease“: Exhibition, Amherst University/USA, with Chen Li (Italy/China) • Contributing artist, „Good Mail Day – A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art“ by Jennie Hinchcliff and Carolee Gillian Wheeler, Quarry Books, USA

2008: 

“Tiles“ project for India and China, Transcultural Exchange, Boston/USA

since 2007: 

Mentor and Speaker, Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts, Transcultural Exchange, Boston/USA

2006: 

• Public Reading with writer Wolfgang Jenne, “GlemskulTour“, Ditzingen/Germany 

• The “Shimmer“ Project, Transcultural Exchange, Boston/USA and presentation of experimental jewelry “Love@2ndSight“

2005:

• Organizing mail art project “Rot=Red“, Stuttgart/Germany

• Performance with percussion artist Daniele Vineis, Occhieppo/Italy

• Featured in the American mailzine „Red Letter Day“, San Francisco/USA

2004: 

• Exhibition “Levélváltás/Exchanging Letters“, „New Postal Gallery“ and  „Centenial Coffeehouse“, Gyula/Hungary         

• Performance “A Season Called Art“ with Montasir Chemao (Morroco), Occhieppo/Italy         

• Illustration for national „Bible Quote 2005“, Evangelische Gesellschaft, Germany

2003: 

• Public Reading, Stuttgart Bookfair and publication “Hungary revisited“         

• Joint book art show “LIBERazione“, touring Northern Italy, and catalogue 

• One year of  “Art goes to school – pupils meet fine art“, Occhieppo/Italy

2001:

• Performance “What’s Art?“ with Artist Marisa Cortese in Occhieppo/Italy

• Audiences’ and Curators’Awards for “Játék“/„Child’s Play“ series, International Symposion of Contemporary Art, Békés/Hungary      

since 2001: 

Italian art symposia, Occhieppo Inferiore, Verbania, Cesare Boscone/Milan, Omegna, Bergamo and Naples, exhibitions and catalogues 

2000:         

• Writer-in-Residency, Association of German Writers, in Weingarten/Germany         

• Winner of the logo award, Torony Radio, Békés/Hungary 

1999 – 2011: 

Hungarian art symposia, Békés, Budapest and Szeged, exhibitions 

1999 - 2002: 

Member of the „Young Writers Society“, Stuttgart University 

1999: 

Poetry-Award of the Karlsruhe Association of Literature, Germany 

1998: 

Exhibition at Elek World Meeting, Elek/Hungary 

1997: 

Guest of Honor, Marsovszky Artist Association, Gyula/Hungary: residency, exhibition and catalogue 

Affiliated: EDAN Artists’ Association, England, and Network of Haslla artists, South Korea 

Exhibitions in Germany, South Korea, Finland, Italy, Palestine, Spain, Austria, Romania, Argentina, Brasil, India, China, in Great Britain and in the United States Collections: Haslla Art World, Gangneung/South Korea, Catholic University of Bethlehem/Palestine, Arthothek Ditzingen (D), Didactic Collection/Centro Gianni Rodari Omegna (I); Collections of Cumiana (I), Weissach (D), Gyula (H), Aiud (Ro), Budapest (H), Hovinkartano (FI) and Luopioninen (FI), Csuta Collection (H), ProLoco Collection Occhieppo (I),  Collection S. I. V. I. E. R. A. Verbania (I), EDAN (GB), Schloss Taxham (A) and some private collections. 

Artist-in-Residence in Haslla/South Korea, Hovinkartano/Finland and Luopioinen/Finland 

Readings of own prose in Germany and Hungary