artist statement

Everyday life is like Virginia Woolf describes in her books, a collection of moments that are like little lanterns strung together in a candlelight vigil. Moments of idleness, of loneliness, of dreams, yearnings, friends, love, isolation, - moments of the surreal, blurperceived in the real everyday life. Poetry where we suspect no more.It is always a perspection of how one views the world. Perhaps in Tokyo in 2010 this is a reality. My everyday life. I, myself, my friends and the people around us. On weekends and other days ... a stream of unconsiousness from the small breaks that allow us time to dream. My photographic work uses abstract imagery and visualisations of silence, the poetry in everyday life, the life cycles and different perspections of reality and the confusion of realities in the absurd, in a dream or in the surreal. What interests me above all is to create an atmosphere of ambiguity in my photos and to explore what life really means to me.

solo shows

2010
silent neighbours Himalaya Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
150 Jahre Deutschland Japan. Installation with the German School/German Embassy
Lam and Jam Gallery I am so empty... Installation, Shanghai, China

2009
silent neighbours- Deutsche Bank Award
photo-booth one year installation Cafe Boonna, Shanghai, China.
photo-booth one year installation Cafe Combine, Tokyo, Japan

group shows

2011
DAAD, Butterbrot und Bier, German Center, Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan
Schöne Künste, #5, Kunstraum Brebach stellt sich vor, Saarbrücken, Germany
Kunst im Wald, Saarbrücken, Germany
The 6th Terrace Annual 2011, London. UK
Tokyo Graphic Passport, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
CIEl "The future is green", Luxembourg.

2010
CULTUREINSIDE FOR HAITI, Luxembourg
DAAD, Butterbrot und Bier, German Center, Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan
Beautified Tabu, Fashion Edition, Tokyo, Super Deluxe, Japan
Tokyo Graphic Passport 2010 /Portfolio Viewing Award Exhibition, 3331 Arts Chiyoda
Offene Ateliers Brebach, Saarbrücken, Germany
Supermonday, Groupexhibition White Lillies, during Photomonths, London, UK
Festival PhotoPhnomPenh, “Intersection project” Cambodia
Festival PhotoPhnomPenh, Meta House, Cambodia
DNA Leed TV, Groupexhibition, Hongkong, China
DYAPORAMA, Slideshow, Tokyo, Japan

2009
Irgendwo und nirgendwo.chika little more Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
group show of the winners of BCCKS/little more book competition.
selected by Nakajima Hideki

2008
Karen geht. irgendwo und nirgendwo. Silo, Saarbrücken, Germany. group show.
Postgraduate Certificate Photography, Central Saint Martin‘s College. group show.
Postgraduate show Central Saint Martin‘s College at Back to the Woods, London.
Postgradute Certificate show, Allumni Monday in the Club of the University of the Arts.