1964 Born in London
lives in Berlin since 1997
92-95 Slade School of Fine Art, London
84-85 London College of Printing
83-84 St. Martin’s School of Art, London
2014 The Art of Peace,
A/Political Gallery, London.
With Nora Darwich as Mirror Image,
2013 EinDruck,
curated by Perennial Art, Halle 14, Leipzig
2012 HIGH END,
HGB, Leipzig
2011 Kunst Druck Druck Kunst,
Klostergalerie, Zehdenick
2010 La Nouvelle Génération de Leipzig,
Galerie Monica de Champfleury, Paris
Schnittstelle Druck,
Bildermuseum Leipzig and HGB Gallery Leipzig
2007 Der Wal, oder Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel,
Galerie der HGB Leipzig
Great Graphics, Xylon Museum, Schwetzingen
2005 Orangen und Kabelsalat, Galerie Zeisler,
Berlin
2004 TOPPAN Printing Museum, Tokyo
A-21 International Art Exhibition,
Contemporary Art Space, Osaka
2004 The most Beautiful German Books,
Casa di Goethe, Rome
2003 Bilderbogen, Klingspor Museum Offenbach,
Frankfurt Main
Triennale für Form und Inhalte,
Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt Main
& Museum of Art and Design, New York
2000 Kunstkreuz, Berlin-Friedrichshain
Triennale für Form und Inhalte,
Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt Main
2014 Cutting Away the Void-Hafer al Farargh,
art lab Berlin iphonedoctor, Germany.
With Nora Darwich as Mirror Image
2013 Cutting Away the Void-Hafer al Farargh,
Jadal Centre for Culture and Knowledge, Amman,
Jordan. With Nora Darwich as Mirror Image
2013 Portrait Studio Project,
Deutsch Arabische Freundschaftsgesellschaft
(DAFG), Berlin
2011 Portrait Studio Damascus,
British Council Damascus
2010 Workshop show with Yaser Safi,
c/o Kozah Gallery, Damascus
Open Studio, in collaboration with
Klostergalerie, Zehdenick
True Love, HGB-Leipzig
2006 Mein Hut der hat drei Ecken,
with Ingo Meller und Fred Smeijers,
HGB Galerie-Leipzig
2004 Fritz Best, H.O.T. Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1999 Ick bin Du bisch er sie es is,
Museum Bergsdorf, Germany
1997 Graphic Traffic, with Dieter Haase,
The Eckersley Gallery, London
1996 DRUCK einDRUCK überDRUCK, with Dieter Haase,
Galerie am Weißen See, Berlin
1997 Bunt, Roxy-Hallen, Ulm, Germany
1993 Ein Ab Aus, Künstlerhaus-Ulm, Germany
04-10 Professor of Printmaking,
Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig
97-00 Visiting Lecturer,
University of the Arts Berlin
94-96 Visiting Lecturer,
London College of Printing
2013 one month residency in Amman in Partnership with,
Souriat Across Borders, Molham Team and Jadal
Centre for Culture and Knowledge. Linocut
workshop with Syrian refugee community.
2011 Two month Residency in Damascus hosted by the
British Council. Portrait Studio Damascus
Involves working in a small community on the
was a documentary art project in response to the
beginning of the Syrian revolution.
2010 One month residency in Damascus.
Workshop with the Syrian Artist Yaser Safi.
Production of the series Sham City.
2006-10 As professor of Fine Art at the Academy
of Visual Arts in Leipzig, direction of a
series of exchange projects between the
Academy in Leipzig and Art faculties in the
Middle East. As well as Leipzig workshops were
held in Cairo, Amman, Beirut and Tripoly.
1991 One month residency at Glasgow
Print Studio as part of an exchange project
with the Druckwerkstatt im Künstlerhaus
Bethanien, Berlin.
1989 3 months as artist in residence in the
printmaking department, Tyler School of Art,
Pennsylvania University, Rome, Italy.
2010 Last Judgements, 86 pages, hand made paper
with watermarks, letterpress printing & offset
lithography on mould made paper, edition 35.
Published by John Gerard.
2009 Wanderer, Edited by Fritz Best and Heidi
Specker, with 20 Students from HGB-Leipzig.
2003 Bi, 32 pages, handmade paper, letterpress
and offset lithography, edition 20.
Published by John Gerard.
2000 Das Handmassaker, Die Lottokiller,
text by Oscar Heym. Edition Mariannenpresse.
1998 Trans, 14 pages, handmade paper, stone and
offset lithography, intaglio and relief
printing techniques, edition 20.
Published by John Gerard.
1992 Tag und Nacht, handmade paper, letterpress
printing, edition 20. Published by John Gerard.
2014 Unknown, Unseen, Unsung,
Artraker catalogue
2011 Sham City and other Travels,
Fritz Best, catalogue
2004 Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2003,
Stiftung Buchkunst
2003 Das Künstler Buch,
Neues Kunsthaus, Ahrenshoop
2003 Triennale für Form und Inhalte,
catalogue, M.a.K Frankfurt Main
2000 Triennale für Form und Inhalte,
catalogue, M.a.K Frankfurt Main
2000 Literarische Welt - Nr.39/2000 special Edition
1999 Ick bin, Du bisch, er sie es is,
Fritz Best, catalogue
1994 Papierschöpfungen,
Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum, Leipzig
A political collection, London/ Casa di Goethe,
Rome/ Deutsche Bibliothek, Leipzig/
Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg/
Grassi Museum,
Leipzig/ Klingspor Museum,
Offenbach/ Museum of Applied
Arts, Frankfurt
Main/ Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek,
Hannover/ Stiftung Buchkunst, Frankfurt
Main/ TOPPAN
Printing Museum, Tokyo/ Xylon
Museum, Schwetzingen/
The Library of Congress,
Washington DC
Screenprinted paper sheets pasted onto stretched canvas and worked over with mixed media. Slade MA Degree Show in the quadrangle at University College London, 1994.
Installation views of works belonging to the project, Inside Out conceived for the Mein Hut der hat drei Ecken exhibition, 2006.
an artists’ book made with students of the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig to coincide with an exhibition at the Kunstverein Marburg. Curated by Fritz Best and Heidi Specker. A Grimms fairytale retold serves as a means of exploring the idea of collective authorship. Produced in the Workshops of the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig.
21.5 X 15.5cm, 176 pages, embossed linen binding. Edition 100, Leipzig 2009
Hiwar fanni (Artistic Dialogue) and Through the Looking Glass, funded by the DAAD, the Goethe Institute and the German foreign office were programmes designed to bring Arabic and German students together in a series of practical projects, stimulating debate and intercultural dialogue.
