artistic research
Semantics of Space
This inquiry – still somewhat peculiar even to myself – emerged partially from The Architecture of the Forest and The Whalesong Project. It follows an intuitive fiction: that spaces possess an inherent language—one that can be deciphered and, in a way, spoken. The project is enriched by conversational explorations with AI. As it remains in progress, I warmly invite you to check back from time to time to see how this journey continues to evolve. 🤗🌱
Ort Als Impuls
Place as Impulse is primarily an attempt to establish an individual relationship with a place. In this context, sound is not used as a technical tool to measure or reflect the acoustic space but as a medium of communication that responds in real time to the environment’s soundscape. Instead of focusing on precise data, the sound I create seeks to engage with the place intuitively and phenomenologically, providing a way to establish an experiential connection to the space.
The Whalesong Project
The Whalesong Project explores the sonic dimensions of architectural spaces. What sounds does a building produce, and what sounds does it receive and transform from the outside? Departing from my Substanzraum thesis, the project seeks alternative representations of architecture – ones that reveal the deep interconnectedness between interior, exterior, and the global space beyond, through sound.
Experimental Dog Walks
Until around 2022, I always went on my exploratory walks – along the beach, in the forest, or elsewhere – alone. Since then, my research assistant Bruce has accompanied me every step of the way. Watching him explore the world made me so curious about how he experiences it that I initiated this project. On our Experimental Dog Walks, Bruce is more than a projection of how we think dogs perceive the world – he becomes a guide and catalyst for our own imaginative journey.
The Architecture
of the Forest
An artistic research initiated by the conditions of the pandemic and its lockdowns. What began as an intuitive inquiry into the formal qualities of forest space gradually evolved into a search for fleeting poetic moments of light and shadow – eventually leading to an exploration of the forest as a ghostly, psychoactive spatial experience.
Substanzraum
My Master Thesis, including works, developed during my studies at the ArtScience Interfaculty ( Royal Conservatoire & Royal Academy of Art The Hague, The Netherlands). Substanzraum is a term which I developed out of my artistic research, Going to the Beach as Artistic Research Practice, a project in which I went to the same place at the beach in The Hague every day for three months. Substanzraum refers to the global space as one coherent body of matter in constant flux and change.
Architecture without Architecture
Architecture without Architecture can be seen as a continuation of the Metaphysics of Architecture project. While it explores related themes – such as analogies between natural and artificial manifestations of architectural space – it places a stronger emphasis on the dialectic between materiality and immateriality in architecture.
Metaphysics of Architecture
My graduation project at the Institute of Architecture (Technical University Berlin). Here, I started my journey into a phenomenological study of formal analogies between architectural and natural expression. Ever since I began my artistic practice, the dialectic between artificial gestures and natural emergence has been a recurring source of inspiration.
Form Follows Fiction
Form Follows Fiction marked my first substantial engagement with artistic research. Although the project was never fully concluded, it laid the groundwork for many of the ideas that would later shape both my academic studies and artistic practice. The central concept was to create objects with a rather uncontrolled form and then reflect on them as if they were found artifacts – essentially reverse-engineering what they could be from an architectural perspective.