Meaning emerges. I am interested in how.

An image, a word, a gesture or an object possess no fixed meaning on their own. Meaning emerges through relationships and context. I am interested in the moment when those relationships begin to produce meaning, shift it or disappear. This lies at the centre of my artistic practice.

Since the 1990s, I have worked with painting, drawing, text, installation, performance, video and sound. The medium is never the starting point of a work. It follows the idea or discovers itself through the process of making. Some works begin with a clearly defined concept, while others evolve through observation, experimentation and the act of making itself. What they share is an interest in how images, language, materials, people and situations generate meaning.

I see art as a form of thinking. Rather than illustrating answers I already have, it allows me to ask questions, discover relationships and explore how meaning is constructed. Meaning resides neither solely in the artwork nor in the viewer. It emerges through the interaction between the work, its context and experience.

Rather than communicating a single message, I hope my work invites viewers to discover relationships of their own. Meaning is not something we simply find. It is something we make.

Curriculum Vitae

Born 1971, Basel, Switzerland
Based in Margate, UK

Awards

2025 — Shortlisted, Jackson Art Prize
2024 — Winner, Alpine Fellowship Visual Arts Prize
2017 — Finalist, Anthology, Charlie Smith Gallery, London
2000 — Shortlisted, 34th Fukuoka-City Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Art Museum

Selected Exhibitions & Projects

2026 — Baby, It’s Cold Outside, Off Season Margate
2023 — DIKTAT: DAS BÖSE, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin
2022 — Aktionale IV, Haus der Künstler, Berlin
2021–22 — Turner Contemporary Open, Turner Contemporary, Margate
2020 — Unleashed Speed Unleashed Speech (MISFITS), Kotaro Nukaga Gallery, Tokyo
2020 — Global Conversations, United Nations UN75 (virtual)
2019 — Bad Video Art Festival III, Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2018 — At the Violet Hour, Nayland Rock Hotel, Margate
2017 — Anthology 2017, Charlie Smith Gallery, London
2011 — Afternoon Tea, WW Gallery, 54th Venice Biennale
2009 — Travelling Light, WW Gallery, 53rd Venice Biennale

Selected Projects / Institutional Presentations

2007 — Washroom Talks, Tate Liverpool
2015–16 — The Red Van, travelling residency and exhibitions across Europe

Residencies

2023 — Family Tattoo, Southeast Asia (travel residency)
2015 — The Red Van, travelling research residency, Europe
2012 — monoloqueArt, La maison du comédien, Alloue, France

Collaborative Projects

The Washroom Projects (2005–2006) — participatory performance events in public and institutional spaces
zeiTraum (from 2005) — research-based collaborative project exploring value and authorship
Washroom Talks (from 2007) — video discussions on art, hosted in public and private spaces
Sardine & Tobleroni (2005–2012) — collaborative practice with Victor “Torpedo” Silveira

Full exhibition history available on request.