Video Pioneer, Media Sculptor
Born 1940 Aix-la-chapelle, Germany 1960-65 studies of art, art history and philosophy at  Werkkunstschule Braunschweig, Ateneum Helsinki, Hochschule der Kuenste Berlin, Freie Universitaet Berlin and Columbia University New York. Since 1969 films and video work, video sculptures, photography and performance. 1970/71 co-initiator of the foundation of Video-Forum Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK) inaugurated in 1971 with the 16-mm-film of Kahlen Reversible Processes (production NBK). 1973/74  cofounder and participator in ADA I and ADA II (actions of the avantgarde) in Berlin. 1982 founder, designer and builder of the art center Ruine der Kuenste Berlin,opened in 1985. 1988 founder of the 24 hours artists radio: Sender Ruine der Kuenste Berlin (1988-1994). Since 1969 numerous video- and photo-performance-activities and one-man exhibitions in Western and Eastern Europe, in the USA, in Middle- and South-America and in Asia. Among others: 1975 25 Video Tapes Cycle Assimilations; 1982  Arbeiten mit dem Zufall, den es nicht gibt, NBK and Neue Galerie Aachen. 1986 Video Sculptures 1969-1986 Galerie am Koernerpark Berlin; 1988 Lichtjahr 1988, (artists, scientists and psychic media on the subject time)  Ruine der Kuenste Berlin, contribution to: Berlin - Kulturstadt Europa; 1992  Ephemere Stuecke, Riga/Latvia Museum of Foreign Art; Museum Manes, Prague; NeuerAachener Kunstverein; 1996  Nothing But Dust, video-, photo-, sound- and dust-installations, Peking Art Museum, 1998  Shanghai Art Museum;  Turn Table Hong Kong, Goethe-Institute Hong Kong; ITPark Gallery Taipei; German Cultural Center Taipei;
365 answers in/on time, Radio Sender Freies Berlin, 11 hours production; 1999  Inhaling Time – Exhaling Space, video-, photo-, sound- and dust-installations at IT Park Gallery Taipei; Huang Rui Studio Osaka. Since 1985 continuous video documentations in Tibetan influenced Himalayan countries  like Bhutan, Sikkim, Spiti, Nepal, India, Mongolia, Tibet and China, so far 16 productions (90-120 min. each) so called Thang-stong rGyal-po Series. 2000-2003 Three years retrospective in ten parts at Ruine der Kuenste Berlin. >forward