1965 born in Regensburg; 1986 - 1990 studies at the Hochschule für visuelle Kommunikation in Kassel, specialising in photography (Floris M. Neusuess) and performance (Harry Kramer); living and working as an artist in Berlin since 1990; from 1992 till his death in 1995 married to dramatist Heiner Müller, with whom she has one daughter Anna Müller.



performances (selected): 1987 "Sisyphus", performance in the Salzmann factory, Kassel; 1987 "Fatal Love", performance as part of the festival of performance art of Documenta 8, Kassel; 1988 "Electra Field of Battle", performance at the Sektor 29 performance space, Kassel.


solo exhibitions (selected): 1992 "Perfect Sister", Fiction inc. Gallery, Tokyo; "Allied Powers", Haus der Demokratie, Berlin; 1994 "In Canova's Lens" Erotic Art Museum, Hamburg; 1995 L.A. Galerie, Frankfurt am Main; 1996 Goethe Institute Chicago (in conjunction with a lecture at the Chicago Art Institute); "Colour spaces", Galerie Kyra Maralt, Berlin; 1998 Kunsthaus Nuremburg; 2000 Galerie Raab, Regensburg; 2002 "Mixed Bodies", Charim Galerie, Vienna; 2003 "Flight and Expulsion", Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Berlin; 2005 "Stages", Galerie Echolot, Berlin; 2006 "Death is a Mistake", Literaturhaus Frankfurt am Main; 2007 "We will be Heroes", Krammig & Pepper Contemporary; 2006 "Death is a Mistake - Federal Republic of Germany models of revolution and beauty", video installation at Valhalla/Donaustauf; 2009 "Anatomie Titus   Fall of Rome“, filmic installation: Akademie der Künste, Berlin with an exhibition 04/24 - 05/25 ; Festwochen Herrenhausen „In Between“, Hannover 05/30 – 06/06; Le Reemdoogo – Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Burkina Faso, 06/13; Shizuoka Spring Arts Festival 2009, Japan 07/04-07/05; Redcat Theatre, Los Angeles, in cooperation with Villa Aurora 10/27; Goethe-Institute, Los Angeles 10/28.


group exhibitions (selected): 1992 Mois de la Photo, La Villette, Paris; 1994 "What She Wants", Presence Gallery York / Orchard Gallery Derry, UK; 1998 "Signatures of the Visible" Galerie am Fischmarkt Erfurt, in conjunction with the Rheinland Regional Museum, Bonn; 2004 "Back to Kassel", Kasseler Kunstverein; 2005 "To Live", Fine Arts Gallery, Koroshka, Slovenia; 2006 "Good + Bad", Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid; 2007 "The second Avantgarde", Fotoforum Kassel, Stiftung Moritzburg, Artmuseum of Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle.


publications (monographs): "Perfect Sister" (photographs), Konkursbuch Verlag 1991; "In Canova's Lens" (photographs), Konkursbuch Verlag 1993; "Passion 2000" (photographs) Prestel Verlag 2000; "Death is a Mistake" (photographs and texts), Suhrkamp Verlag 2005. „Anatomie Titus  Fall of Rome“ (photographs and texts accompanying the filmic  installation) published by Theater der Zeit 2009.




Brigitte Maria Mayer
photo © Benno Kraehahn