Curriculum Vitae
As a teller of new pictorial stories, I create installations in which photography acts as the main narrative. My body is my projection surface and my projector in equal measure. I define humor as an important means of creating access to my work. Through utter self-reflection, my practice engages with body politics, role concepts, fan culture, moral hygiene and established power structures using costume comedy, pathos and humor. In my staged characters I search and center the absurd, the awkward, the explicit and tragic-comical narratives. After working as a TV-editor in Munich, I studied Graphic Design and Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. I have been awarded the US-travel stipend of the State of Bavaria in 2023, the German Photobookaward in 2019 and the Bavarian Award for the Advancement of the Arts in 2018. My projects got multiple fundings through the federal government and art institutions. I have been nominated for the C/O Talent Award Berlin in 2020 and the German Design Award in 2019. My work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in various exhibitions including Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery Berlin, Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Kunsthaus L6 Freiburg, Kunstpalais in Erlangen, Gallery 207 in Prague, K.L.8 in Brussels, Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and most recently at strobe, Tribeca, NYC. Since 2020, I form the artist duo SÜSSHOLZ with artist Sophia Süssmilch. Since 2018 I am a member of the international women photographers collective Femxphotographers.org. Already since 2016, I work with the artist Lilly Urbat as the duo HOLZINGERurbat.
