Born 1955 in Germany near Cologne
Since 1993 living and working in Tampere/Finland
EDUCATION
Workshops, seminars and conferences on contemporary photography, media arts and on curatorship.
1982–1985
Pedagogic and Didactic in Adult Education; University of Bremen/Germany, Certification as University Lecturer
1975–1981
History of Civilisation, Philosophy, Anthropology; University of Marburg/Germany; Master of Arts degree
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE and PROJECTS in Finland 1993 – 2009
- Portfolio Reader at Photography Festivals in Lodz/Poland and Braga/Portugal;
- Curator: Final Work Exhibition of Tampere School of Art and Media;
- Backlight 2008 Project Manager: exhibitions, workshops and seminars in five European
countries; www.backlight.fi
- Curator: Final Work Exhibition of Tampere School of Art and Media;
- Portfolio Reader at TransPhotographiques, Lille/France;
- Jury Member Festival Internationale di Roma-2007; Baume&Mercier Award 2007;
- FOL – European Festival of Light Conference;
- Oracle XXIV, annual international conference of photo curators in Prague
- Young European Photography in Sardinia; Curator of exhibition with two Finnish artists and
catalogue-text;
- Festival Internationale di Roma2006 – The 20th Century; Curator of exhibition with four Finnish
artists and catalogue-text;
- Founding conference for European Fotofestival Union in Lodz/Poland
Project Manager and Curator;
Lecture: Aspects of intercultural communication in Backlight project;
- Counter Photography – Japans artists today; Exhibition in Museum Centre Vapriikki Tampere
with 12 artists; Cooperation with Shoto Museum of Arts / Tokyo and with Japan Foundation;
TEACHINGS in Finland 1994 – 2009
2001 to present
- University of Tampere: Dep. of Intercultural Communication Studies; Courses on Perception
and Identity in Visual Art and Media
- Tampere School of Art and Media: Supervisor and Art Critic in post-graduate studies; Lectures
on European Media History; Backlight related workshops, supervision and productions
1994 to present
- University of Art and Design, Taik-Helsinki; Lectures on European Media history;
2003/2004
TEACHINGS in Germany 1984 – 1992
1985–1992
- Fotoforum Bremen; Chief-organizer of the Institutions workshop department; freelancer
1986–1987
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008 Backlight 2008 catalogue
2006 Festival Internationale di Roma 2006; contribution to the catalogue
Menotrentuno Sardinia; contribution to the catalogue
2005 Backlight2005 catalogue
2002 Backlight2002 catalogue
1984 Resistance and Persecution in National Socialism in Bremen 1933–1945; Image-text documentation in the Federal States Archive research project.
Alena Zhandarova Ivanovo Project: Cornflower tea and concealing chocolate It’s a story about one girl, her attitude to life, time and space around. Every photo have a different state, which in the end of the story create a new full picture. It’s like a map, which help her not to forget, that every fear and […]
Irina Yulieva Saint-Petersburg Project: Russian youth 60 percent of Russian population resides in small towns, urban settlements and villages. The conditions are very different from those of the big cities — unemployment, lack of education, greater difficulties in social and communal area. All of that makes people to move into bigger cities. While urbanization process […]
Sergey Kozmin Moscow Project: Common place After the 1917 Revolution a housing crisis began in St Petersburg. The Communist Party’s decision was to requisition large parts of the upper class people’s living space for new working class tenants. This new form of housing became known as “communal apartments” or “kommunalka” in Russian. Usually the people […]
