Exhibition graphics for “Three Doors”, HKW – Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2022.

Timeline design, printed leaflet for “Three Doors”, HKW – Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2022.

Book Design for the project “Kunst braucht Kohle” by the artists Chantal Romani & Jana Vanecek, published by _957 Independent Art Magazine, Luzern 2022.

Exhibition graphics for “Love? – Eine Werkstatt”, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Kulturen der Welt, Cologne, 2022/2023. (Photography: RJM)

Visual appearance for “Love? – Eine Werkstatt”, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Kulturen der Welt, Cologne, 2022/2023.

Timeline documenting the night of the racist terror attack of Hanau in the exhibition “Three Doors – Forensic Architecture/Forensis, Initiative 19. Februar Hanau, Initiative in Gedenken an Oury Jalloh” in Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, 2022. (Photography by Norbert Miguletz)

Visual appearance for the exhibition project “I MISS YOU” at Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Kulturen der Welt, Cologne, 2022.

Visual appearance for the exhibition project “Aliens are Temporary – A Mutating Tale”, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch, Berlin, 2022.

Visual appearance of the annual exhibition KHM Rundgang, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, 2022.

Web design for the digital history project “Departure Neuaubing – European Histories of Forced Labor”, Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, 2021/22.

Visual appearance for the digital history project “Departure Neuaubing – European Histories of Forced Labor”, Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, 2021/22. (Photography: Juliane Bischoff)

Book design of “Critical by Design? – Genealogies, Practices, Positions”, edited by Claudia Mareis, Moritz Greiner-Petter & Michael Renner, published by transcript design, Bielefeld, 2022.

Visual appearance of the 70th anniversary of the “Kommission für Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien (KG Parl)”, Berlin, 2022.

Visual appearance for the theater project “Anthropos Ex” by the Initiative for Applied Melancholy.

Visual concept and editorial design for the Zeppelin Museum Magazine, 2021.

Visual appearance of SHOWCASE, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, 2021.

Visual appearance and exhibition graphics for “Vers un imaginaire numerique” (Designing the Computational Image – Imagining Computational Design) at Centre du Design de l’Université du Québec à Montréal, 2021. (Photography by Michel Brunelle)

Graphic design of the exhibition catalogue for “Gesticulating… Wildly” by Helen A. Flanagan at IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen 2021.

Editorial Design of KHM Magazin, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, 2021.

Visual appearance of the annual exhibition KHM OPEN, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, 2021.

Visual appearance of the exhibition “…lebt und arbeitet in Berlin” by Sonya Schönberger at alpha nova & galeria futura, Berlin, 2021.

Graphic design in the exhibition “Investigative Commons” at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, 2021. (Photography by Miguel Brusch)

Visual appearance of the online event “Platz für Diversität!? – Festival für diskriminierungskritische Allianzen zwischen Kunst und Bildung” (Web design together with Veronika Albrandt), 2021.

Design of the campaign for the “International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women*” (November 25, 2020) installed at two window fronts of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.

Web design for the online journal of “grund_schule kunst bildung” (web development by Nicolas Kort), 2020.

Visual appearance of the exhibition “Fragmented Narratives” by Sharon Paz and Elianna Renner at alpha nova & galeria futura, Berlin, 2020.

Graphic design for the project “Cyber String Species” by Collective Mycelium, 2020.

Visual appearance of the annual exhibition, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, 2020. (Photo: Dörte Boxberg)

Visual appearance of the annual exhibition, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, 2020.

Visual appearance of the annual exhibition, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, 2020. (Photo: Dörte Boxberg)

Visual appearance of the exhibition “Critical Zones – Observatories for Earthly Politics”, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 2020.

Web design of the virtual exhibition platform for “Critical Zones – Observatories for Earthly Politics” (web development by Agentur für kranke Medien, Berlin), concept developed together with the curatorial team, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 2020.

Exhibition graphics for “Critical Zones – Observatories for Earthly Politics”, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. July 23, 2020 – Jan 8, 2022.

Visual appearance of the exhibition and event series “A Feminist Perspective for Berlin Today” at alpha nova & galeria futura, Berlin, 2020.

Graphic design of printed matter for the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, 2019/2020.

Graphic design of printed matter for the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, 2019/2020.

Diagrammatic visualizations for the exhibition “Hostile Environment”(s) by Lorenzo Pezzani, ar/ge kunst, Bolzano. Nov 21, 2019 – Feb 8, 2020. (Photo: Tiberio Sorvillo)

Editorial design and generative cover design of the journal “grund_schule kunst bildung – band sieben: lernen”, edited by Kirsten Winderlich, published by Athena Verlag, 2020.

Graphic design for the award show of the friends’ association of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, 2019. (Photo: S. Rupieper)

Visual appearance of the exhibition “Infinity Room I”, ArtLab, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. April 12 – July 28, 2019.

Visual appearance of the symposium “City Sounds – City Atmospheres. The auditory legibility of urban habitats and their atmospheres”, organised by the DAAD – German Academic Exchange Service at CLB Berlin, 2019.

Graphic development of a timeline comparing two case studies of ecocide in the exhibition “Centre for Contemporary Nature” at U–jazdowski – Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw. March 15 – September 22, 2019. (Photo: Bartosz Górka)

Book design of “DIA-LOGOS – Ramon Llull’s Method of Thought and Artistic Practice”, edited by Amador Vega, Peter Weibel, and Siegfried Zielinski, published by ZKM Books together with University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

Diagrammatic contribution to the publication “DIA-LOGOS – Ramon Llull’s Method of Thought and Artistic Practice”, published by ZKM books together with University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

Book design (with Mona Hofmann) of “Un/certain Futures – Rollen des Designs in gesellschaftlichen Transformationsprozessen”, edited by Marius Förster, Saskia Hebert, Mona Hofmann, and Wolfgang Jonas, published by transcript verlag, 2018.

Visual appearance for the performance “PENDULUM” by Collective Mycelium, 2018.

Visual appearance of the exhibition “Thinking Machines – Ramon Llull and the ars combinatoria”, ArtLab, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. November 3, 2018 – March 10, 2019.

Book design of “Federlesen – Anthologie Nr. 13”, a collection of texts resulting from the literary residency of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation, 2018.

Visual appearance of the exhibition “DIA-LOGOS Ramon Llull & the Ars Combinatoria” at ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe. March 17 — August 5, 2018.

Design of two timelines in the exhibition “Counter Investigations: Forensic Architecture” at Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), London. March 7 — May 6, 2018

Editorial design and generative cover design of the journal “grund_schule kunst bildung – band fünf: sprachen”, edited by Kirsten Winderlich, published by Athena Verlag, 2018.

Visual appearance of the event “Beside Besides” initiated by Zone Expérimentale, Basel, 2017.

Book design of “Zur Genealogie des MedienDenkens”, edited by Daniel Irrgang & Florian Hadler, published by Kadmos Verlag, Berlin, 2017.

Editorial design and generative cover design of the journal “grund_schule kunst bildung - band zwei: material”, edited by Kirsten Winderlich, published by Athena Verlag, 2016.

Graphic design of “Atlas of MediaThinking and MediaActing in Berlin”, edited by Kristin Moellering and Leon Strauch in collaboration with Stefanie Rau, published by UdK Berlin and transmediale festival 2016, Berlin.

Design of the exhibition catalogue “Avlagringar”, an event series at the Ecological Theater in Stockholm, 2015. With and for Anna Asplind and Daniel AlmgrenRecén. (Photo: André Wunstorf)

Book design of “Gated Istanbul” by Ekkehart Keintzel, published for the corresponding exhibition at A Trans c/o Zweigstelle Berlin as part of the 6th European Month of Photography Berlin, 2014.

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