I (b. 1990) am a German visual artist and researcher, currently living and working in Belgium. Most of my works are handcrafted explorations of socio-political themes.

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I trained as a goldsmith at Staatliche Zeichenakademie Hanau (DE) and studied jewellery design, first in Wismar (DE) and then in Hasselt (BE). My work as an artist was awarded with the Alen-Müller-Hellwig-Preis (2016) and the Landespreis für Angewandte Kunst S-H (2017). Furthermore, I received the Caspar-David-Friedrich-Scholarship (2017-2018), which financially supported my artistic development for a period of one year. In addition to my artistic practice, I taught part-time at the Hochschule Wismar, University of Applied Sciences, Business and Design (DE) from 2018–2019 and from 2020–2021. From November 2021 until October 2025, I have been a PhD student in the arts at Hasselt University and PXL-MAD School of Arts, Hasselt, focussing on (memory-related) deviation as an artistic strategy to reflect on the relationship between jewellery, memory and identity. My research was funded by the Special Research Fund (BOF) of Hasselt University (BOF21DOC04). Since November 2025, I have been working as a postdoctoral researcher at the PXL-MAD School of Arts. My current research project is based on the previous PhD and focuses on memories in materials.

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My work has been included in exhibitions at the Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau (DE); St. Annen museum, Lübeck (DE); Schloss Plüschow (DE); Baltimore Jewelry Center (US); Slovenian Ethnographic Museum, Ljubljana (SI); Pratt Institute Steuben Gallery, New York (US); and the DIVA museum, Antwerp (BE), among others.

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Photo below: DIVA Talk at DIVA museum, Antwerp (BE) on 25 March 2025, photographer: Liesbet Bussche