My Gender is Complex

Making Kin

As a non-binary trans person chosen family is the place where I am accepted beyond social attributions and where I have found a queer home.

Making Kin takes this experience as a starting point and questions nature for making kin. How can I understand myself as part of nature? What can I learn from it? In doing so, I use my trans identity to restructure the world. Encountering other forms of existence inspires me to rethink gender and sexuality. Character traits of elements, plants and animals inscribe themselves into my body through projection and add dimensions to it that remain invisible in the heteronormative binary gender model. In doing so, I consciously use my body as what it unconsciously serves in everyday life: as a projection surface.

UPCOMING

June 2023

Berlin, Germany
15.06.2023
7:00 p.m. vernissage with two images from the photographic series Making Kin at the group show Fresh Legs
At Inselgalerie, Petersburger Str. 76A, Berlin


May-June 2023

Berlin, Germany
09.05.-21.06.2023
Exhibition with new images from the photographic series Making Kin
Open daily except for Mondays at Orangerie Neukölln, Schierker Straße 8,next to Gallery Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany


Berlin, Germany
25.05.2023
Midissage with new images from the photographic series Making Kin
From 7:00 p.m. at Orangerie Neukölln, Schierker Straße 8, next to Gallery Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany


August 2022

Berlin, Germany
19.08.2022
Vernissage with new images from the photographic series Making Kin as part of the group show Sounds of Water by the association Studios Australian Embassy East
6:00 p.m. at Kleiner Wasserspeicher Prenzlauer Berg, Diedenhofer Straße, 10405 Berlin
Facebook Event Sounds of Water
Exhibition 19.08.2022- 28.08.2022


June 2022

Berlin, Germany
24.06.2022
Vernissage with new images from the photographic series Making Kin as part of the festival 48 Hours Neukölln
from 7:00 p.m. at Orangerie Neukölln, Schierker Straße 8, next to Gallery Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany
Exhibition 24.06.2022- 02.08.2022


January 2022

Worpswede, Germany
29.01.2022
Photographic series Making Kin in the group show Wahlverwandtschaften Part III - Zwischenruf/Interjection, as part of the 2nd Randlage Artfestival at the gallery KW/RANDLAGE, Dorfstr, 34A, Worpswede.
Exhibition 01/29-02/12/22


October 2021

Berlin, Germany
29.10.2021
4-5 pm (Queer) Chosen Family – An Artist Talk
The photographic series Making Kin addresses chosen family between humans and nature as well as the question how we can overcome binary thinking in gender and sexuality. The artist talk is conceptualized as an open space which invites you to swap ideas about concepts of kinship that transcend the idea of the nuclear family. How can we think connectedness and networks from (not omnly) a queer perspective?

Event within the context of the group show Walking Through The Woods
At Verwalterhaus der Kulturkapellen, Aktuelle Kunst und Kultur Berlin, Prenzlauer Allee 1, Berlin


Berlin, Germany
21.10.2021
Exhibition of the photo series "Making Kin" at the group show Walking Through The Woods - an interdisciplinary art exhibition
Opening: Thu 21.10.2021 2-7pm
Opening hours:
Fr-Su 22.-24.10.2021 2-7pm
Thu-Su 28.-31.10.2021 2-7pm
Finissage: Su 31.10.2021 2-7pm
Im Verwalterhaus der Kulturkapellen, Aktuelle Kunst und Kultur Berlin, Prenzlauer Allee 1, Berlin


Berlin, Germany
07.10.2021
Preview of one photograph from the series "Making Kin" at the group show Wahlverwandschaft, as part of the 2. Randlage Artfestivals
Opening: Thu 07.10.2021 16 - 21.00
Opening hours:
Fr.08.10.2021 15 - 19.00
Thu.14.10.2021 15 - 19.00
Thu.21.10.2021 15 - 19.00 Uhr
Finissage: Fr.22.10.2021 15 - 19.00
At the gallery Neonkunst, Herrfurthstraße 23, 12049 Berlin