*1994 in Germany
lives and works in Münster, Germany
Education
since 2025 Master’s student under Mariana Castillo Deball
Visiting student with Suchan Kinoshita
2023–2026 Master of Education from the Academy
of Fine Arts Münster and the University of Münster
(Degree in Art, German, Educational Sciences, German
for Students with an Immigrant Background, and a
practicum semester)
2019–2025 Diploma (Akademiebrief) in Fine Arts from the
Academy of Fine Arts Münster
(under Mariana Castillo Deball)
2018–2022 Bachelor of Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts
Münster and the University of Münster
(Degree in Art, German, and Educational Sciences)
2015–2017 Sociology and Cultural and Social Anthropology,
University of Münster
2013 High school diploma (Abitur) from Gymnasium
Arnoldinum, Burgsteinfurt
Scholarships
University of Fine Arts Münster's scholarship for Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts (2023)
Exhibitions
2026 Trophische Kaskaden, Academy of Fine Arts Münster
2025 hadi, freunde (Graduating Exhibition),
Academy of Fine Arts Münster
Am Tisch. Essen und Trinken in der zeitgenössischen Kunst,
Museum Ostwall, Dortmund
Does the ground remember?, Kulturverein Dülmen e. V:
touch and compress, Academy of Fine Arts Münster
2024 for Friends, Schloss Styrum Ateliers
PAPMAP im papergarden, Academy of Fine Arts Münster
2023 LEAKY ARCHIVE: not allowed to rot,
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne
The Temple of All Beings, Salzburg International Summer
Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg/Austria
into the archive, Academy of Fine Arts Münster
2022 Kunst in der Region 22, DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst
mogu mogu, Academy of Fine Arts Münster
2021 nichts nichts nichts, außer aber alles, Gelsenkirchener Kunstverein
Ein Gang Aus Gang, Wewerka Pavillon Münster
Zu Gast am Silbersee II im Rahmen des Ruhr Ding: Klima,
Urbane Künste Ruhr, Haltern
KODEXTIV typescape, Münster
2020 Wo kann alles sein?, Kunstakademie Münster
Wellenlänge, Kunsthaus Kannen, Münster
2019 Werkschau, Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi, İstanbul/Türkiye
InBetween, im_keller, Münster
Projects/Residencies
2-week residency at the International Summer Academy Salzburg, Austria (2023)
1-week project with We Are Here Venice, Pellestrina/Italy (2022)
1-week project with Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul/Türkiye (2019)
Publications/Catalogs/Editions
digesting the room to collect attribution of meaning to the stars. Merle Borgmann/Xi Yeling. Münster: Self-published 2025.
ich konnte es vorher nicht festhalten. Merle Borgmann. Gelsenkirchen: Self-published 2022.
Leaky Archive: not allowed to rot, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne / Kunstakademie Münster, 2024.
exedupro#5: The Temple of All Beings. Ed.: Angelo Plessas. Salzburg: Self-published 2023.
nothing, nothing, nothing, but everything, Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen / Kunstakademie Münster, 2021.
Published in
Arts of the Working Class. (2026). No One Is Illegal (40). Berlin.
Durukan, T., M. M. Eilers, J. Mönch, and L. Nachtmans (eds.) (2025): Summer Sets, Ablage P: No. 2. Münster: Self-published.
Plessas, Angelo (ed.) (2023): exedupro#5: The Temple of All Beings. Salzburg: Self-published.
Since 2020 I have been working various positions related to art education, organisation and teaching (e.g., schools, museums, university). For a specific list of institutions please send a request via email.