I am a jealous Curator
I have a MA in Visual Arts {drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, and art history} and some working-experience in design {visual communication, product design, service design, event design}. I’ve enjoyed excellent education an as an artist and designer for years, but never took the challenge seriously to leave my own mark in this fields. After years of learning about contemporary art and design while thinking “Damn why didn’t I made this? I’ve put myself into the vision of at least having my own Gallery and the Institute für Paradiesforschung was born! On October 16, 2014 I have exhibited my first serious solo-exhibition showcasing artwork related to the topic of Paradise. This has lead to the opportunity that I truly never could have imagined — having found my true passion and a root for my own little Paradise. Ever since, my plan is to write further stories, curate art exhibitions, speak at events, and host my own podcast. It’s quite a way to get so far, but I believe that it can be done.
The Institute für Paradiesforschung launched in October 2014, is a place for me to showcase artwork that relates to “something or somewhere wondrous”, in an positive, critical and cutting-edge way. I am fascinated by the idea of an ideal place or time, which, as a matter of course, doesn’t exist. However I got stopped in my tracks every time I saw work related to Paradise. It was awful and wonderful at the same time. But now, over nine years later, my “jealousy” has turned magically, wonderfully, and thankfully into inspiration… but it’s too late to change my mission. In all seriousness, I’ve realized that jealousy can actually be turned completely on it’s head, and used as fuel to get back into the studio. It can only stop you if you let it. That’s when the magic transformation from jealousy to inspiration starts to happen. Granted, when I find work I love, I still find myself saying “Damn, why didn’t I made this”… but now it’s fuel for my creative fire!
As I move forward with this, I think I am definitely a bad artist and a worse designer with a huge self-doubt — with a lot of insecurities, inner-critics, creative blocks and of course the jealousy that all of us have to deal with at some point. So I’ve realized that what I’m most interested in is exposing the work of talented contemporary artists, to overcome my fear of creating stuff. This lead to the idea behind my Master-Thesis entiteled “PARADIES IST DA, WO ICH BIN“, that was publsihed by Amazon as an hardcover in 2016. Every since, I’ve decided to write about Creativity, Art, New Media and Design on a daily bases.
