I am an artist mainly working with the photographic medium which I combine with audio, text and video. My work revolves around how complex questions of climate change can be communicated through visual storytelling. In my work I seek to find ways to encourage more empathetic relationships to our ecological surroundings. Ecology and extinction, ecological interdependence and the human impact on the environment are recurring themes in my artistic practice. Intimately related to this, I am strongly interested in the psychological and emotional effects of climate change, both on a personal and artistic level. Ever since I was a kid, I have experienced emotional states of ‘eco-anxiety’ which refers to the “chronic fear of suffering an environmental cataclysm”. It touches me deeply how animals and plants are being exploited by humans and systems of industrialism. Because of that, values of ecological justice have become a strong motivating force in my artistic practice. The main purpose of my artistic path is to increase our capacity for compassion for non-human beings and I believe storytelling is a fundamental part of improving this emotional capacity.
Group Exhibitions & Public Presentations (selected)
2026 | (upcoming) Prospects, Art Rotterdam, Gruppenausstellung, Rotterdam, NL |
2025 | (upcoming) donner wie blitz (Fenstergalerie), Ausstellung mit Pezi Novi, München DE |
2025 |
Fiction(al) Writing Playground with Rosa Zangenberg, event, Some other Space, Rotterdam, NL |
2024 |
Somewhere Else is Closer than You Think, online exhibition,
Der Greif - Guest Room: New Grounds,currated by Hannah Fletcher and Alice Cazenave
Somewhere Else is Closer than You Think, performative talk,
theatrical dinner, Fotodok, Utrecht, NL The Land of Milk and Marsh, perfomative talk, collaboration with sumerie, Deeper than Ocean, Rotterdam, NL |
2023 |
Somewhere Else is Closer than You Think Group Exhibition: In Times Of Trouble We Dream With Open Eyes, The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague, NL Somewhere Else is Closer than You Think Graduation show KABK, The Hague, NL Illusion of a happy City Kunstprijs Charlois, theater Zuidplein and metrostation Masshaven, currated by Karin Trenkel, Rotterdam, NL |
2022 |
My Dear Friend Sam Window exhibition, KABK, collaboration with Ben Yau and Daniel Chatard, curated by Beatrice Cera, The Hague, NL My Dear Friend Sam, Yolun Dışında Pop up exhibition, collaboration with Darağaç, curated by Manu Ferneini and Pascal Giese, Izmir, TR Illusion of a happy City Kunstprijs Charlois, Fietspad aan de Dotlaan, currated by Karin Trenkel, Rotterdam, NL Attitudes of Elements Group Exhibition: Countercurrents, Bunker at Waterkant, in collaboration with Creative Court, coordinated by Jana Romanova and Daniël Siegersma, The Hague, NL |
2021 |
The Calm after the Storm Refracted Reality, V2_ , currated by Florian Weigl, Rotterdam, NL |
2020 |
Photo Conversation with Nihayah, Dagmar, Varvaria and Lea Hybrid virtual-real Austausch, Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts, Peterskapelle, Luzern, CH Silent Witness Eye on Art Research Lab, Eye Film Museum Amsterdam, NL |
2019 |
Rainbow Refugee Stories Mucca, currated by Francessco Giordano Munich, DE The Land of Milk and Marsh Photo18, Praterinsel, Munich, DE The Land of Milk and Marsh, halbvoll X halbleer Farbenladen, Munich, DE |
Solo Exhibition
2022 |
Behind two big trees, Cultuur Werkplaats Tarwewijk, De Vitrine Rotterdam, NL |
Grants & Residencies
03/2025 - 07/2025 | Talent Embassy Program, Fotodok, NL & PL |
10/2024 - 06/2025 | CBK I&V, research grant, NL |
10/2024 - 10/2025 | Mondriaan fonds, Artist Start, NL |
09/2023 - 05/2024 | Lighthouse Talent Program, Fotodok, NL |
09/2022 - 07/2023 | DAAD fellowship abroad, DE |
Education
2021 - 2023 | MA, Photography & Society at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KABK), The Hague (NL) |
2019 - 2021 | MA, Lens Based Media Design at the Willelm de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam (NL) |
2014 - 2018 | BA, Fotodesign at University of Applied Science Munich (DE) |
Mentoring
since 10/2023 | Studiencoach, Master of Photography and Society, Royal Academy of Art, Den Haag |
2021-2023 |
Mentor for BA Photography at Royal Academy of Art, |
Selected Publications
2024 | Somewhere Else is Closer than You Think, Der Greif, The Sustainable Darkroom & Tamsin Green Guest Room: New Grounds, online The Butterfly of Somewhere Else is Closer than You Think, collaboration with Julia Wilhelm, self published (theatical dinner), Fotodok, Utrecht NL |
2023 |
Portret van de Tarwewijk, interview and commisioned work Kulturweerkplats, Rotterdam, NL the ice was blue and the ice was thick of Somewhere Else is Closer than You Think, self publsiehd, Zine Camp, Rotterdam NL |
2022 |
CHIP FOTO-VIDEO Digital, featuring Counter Currents, Attitudes of Elements, CN Ying Yang; A collection of thoughs for/how selfpublishers (to) balance the sruggle of publising in the climate crisis area, curated by Floor van Meeuwen, Beautiful Plastic Bag, Rotterdam, NL |