Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland in 1976. Currently based in Berlin.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS, LECTURES
| 2022 | “What makes itself/Was sich selber macht”, Galerie Genscher, Hamburg “Countless living structures/Unzählige lebendige Strukturen”, Kunstkästen im Stadtraum Schaffhausen/CH |
| 2021 | “Constellations of particular shape/Konstellationen partikularer Gestalt” in Kollaboration mit Michael Hirsch, Agva Ciat, Berlin |
| 2020 | “Aloof Afoot”, Madonna Nirvana, Berlin “Berliner Hefte meets… Jennifer Bennett”, Presentation of SAVE at Books, People, Places, Berlin |
| 2019 | “Replacing the market with community/Markt durch Gemeinschaft ersetzen”, Vebikus Kunsthalle, Schaffhausen/CH |
| 2018 | “Directing all directions”, C/OSchocke, Hamburg Lecture “No future might not be true, but let me share my fear with you”, Blake&Vargas, Berlin |
| 2017 | With “Corporation of people’s situations-COPS” Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof Reading from “SAVE” at Galerie Neubad, Lucerne/CH |
| 2016 | Lecture on “Self.organization and indigenous communities”, Oslo 10, Basel “Finally release-endlich loslassen”, Aktion 2025, Hamburg “SAVE_Book release + brainstorming”, Reading w. Karin Kurzmeyer, Corner College, Zürich “Being home”, Gallery Dorothea Schlueter, Hamburg “Go discuss-Die Künstlerin isst mit”, Exhibition and daily performance, Oelfrüh Cabinet and Restaurant Pane e tulipani, Hamburg |
| 2014 | “On the actuality of the extended definition of art/Zur Aktualität des erweiterten Kunstbegriffs”, Lecture at Gallery Genscher Park, Hamburg |
| 2013 | “alienated”, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, containing the lecture “How reading organizes itself”, presentation of online reading archive jbbooks.net |
| 2012 | “C’est le canon à venir-c’est le canon à revenir”, Diplomashow, HfbK, Hamburg |
| 2010 | “Recourse on New Objectivity/Rückgriff auf die neue Sachlichkeit”, WCW – Gallery, Wilhelmsburg |
| 2008 | “In the internal space of second nature/Im Binnenraum der zweiten Natur”, Trottoir, Hamburg “Haven of the forms without content/Herberge der Formen ohne Inhalt”, Pudel Collection, Hamburg |
| 2007 | “The closest is also the most obvious, is the reality of constructed concretion/Das Offensichtlichste ist auch das Naheliegendste, ist die Tatsächlichkeit der konstruierten Konkretion”, Hinterconti, Hamburg |
| 2005 | “3 courses”, Vebikus, Schaffhausen |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2021 | “Crownshy”, Outpost, Colares/PT |
| 2020 | “Invitation to Love”, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven |
| 2019 | “Die Welt am Draht”, Kunst19 Zürich, internationale Messe für Gegenwartskunst mit Kunsthalle Schlieren “Territorium”, Kunsthalle Schlieren, Zürich “Uneasy alliances”, Transmediale at Haus der Kulturen der Welt/HKW, Berlin With Corporation of peoples situations “Real estate of emergency”, Transmediale, HKW, Berlin |
| 2018 | With Corporation of peoples situations “There is no point in being dramatic”, Künstlerhaus Dortmund “1000 Sterne”, Gallery Mikael Andersen, Kopenhagen/DK |
| 2017 | “Performing relationships”, Kunstverein Leipzig “Body electric” Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin “Trip Detroit” Raum 2, Neu Tramm, Wendland “Parcours humain” Atelier Mondial, Basel |
| 2016 | with Corporation of people’s situations-COPS “Workshop: Being present/Körperliche Anwesenheit” Poolhaus Blankenese, Hamburg |
| 2015 | “Applicants exhibition for the Hamburg Artist Grant”, Kunsthaus Hamburg, DE “Ernte 2015”, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen/CH “Unearthed”, Butter Projects, Detroit/Royal Oak, USA “Contraofertas”, Timebag, Medellin/Colombia “Audio Call”, framed by the exhibition “Feminist Avantgarde of the 1970s” at Kunsthalle Hamburg “City talk/Stadtgespräch”, Real Estatics with Lene Benz and Alice Peragine, Metropolitan perspectives, Citycurator, Hamburg “The Corporation”, Research exchange at Motel Spatie, Arnhem/NE |
| 2014 | “Ditto-Ditto”, Book fair, Trinosophes, Detroit “In spring Darling”, Kunstverein Hamburg “Call-Stein in my mind”, Arthur Boskamp Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt “Readers Digest”, Jägerstrasse, Basel “Applicants exhibition for the Hamburg working grant”, Kunsthaus Hamburg |
| 2013 | “Trippy-Hippy-Pastorale”, Schloss Kalsdorf, Collection Reinisch, Ilz/AT “Beatitude”, Rue Rivoli 54, Paris “Power and habit/Macht und Gewohnheit”, Gängeviertel, Hamburg “Swiss art awards“, Basel |
| 2012 | “Betriebsausflug”, KUB, Leipzig “In touch, what is a contact”, AplusA Gallery, Venedig/IT “On things/Über die Dinge”, Kulturstiftung Schloss Agathenburg, Agathenburg “Jennifer Bennett und Alexander Hoepfner”, Gallery Dorothea Schlueter, Hamburg |
| 2011 | “Friendsandloversinunderground”, Underground, Willy-Brandt-Strasse, Hamburg “Das Unvorhersehbare/The unpredictable”, Vebikus, Schaffhausen/CH “52.5293°N, 13.3964°E “, Substitut, Berlin |
| 2010 | “The frayed ends of perception”, Forgotten Bar, Berlin “ph- levels of juices”, Ph-Projects Gallery, Berlin |
| 2009 | “Erntenullneun”, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen “stück man rück”, Fotofolgen, HfbK Hamburg |
| 2008 | “Between space and content”, Museum of art and ideas, HfbK Hamburg “City makes art/Stadt macht Kunst”, Exhibition in the Linden neighborhod, Hannover |
| 2007 | “Ernte 07”, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen |
| 2006 | “…”, Gallery of the HfbK, Hamburg “577 km süd”, GKK Kunst Spektrum, Krefeld |
| 2005 | “Boutique Art for the masses”, Les Complices*, Zürich |
| 2002 | “Viewing/Sehen”, UBS – Kulturfenster, Schaffhausen “Ernte 02”, Vebikus, Schaffhausen |
GRANTS, AWARDS
| 2021 | Kunstfonds Bonn Sonderförderprogramm 20/21 – Neustart Kultur |
| 2018 | One year stipend, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn |
| 2015 | Studiogrant from the City of Schaffhausen in Berlin |
| 2013 | Manor artprice, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen |
| 2012 | Karl H. Dietze price for diploma- exhibition and thesis, HfbK, Hamburg |
| 2010 | One year stipend for foreign students, HfbK, Hamburg |
| 2009 | DAAD-Price for foreign students, HfbK, Hamburg |
| 2009- 2014 | Live- and workstipend at artistresidency Vorwerkstift, Hamburg |
ORGANIZATION, PROJECTS, RESIDENCIES
| 2020 | SOFT SOIL all year Working group at nGbK, Berlin |
| 2019 | Memorial in public space for the victims of compulsory measures, ordered by Kanton Schaffhausen Residency at KUBA, Kulturahnhof Klein Warnow |
| 2018- 2021 | active with Kunstblock and beyond, Berlin |
| 2017 | Convention “Pre-Mortem” with CALL at Worpswede Colony One month Studiogrant at FrankfurtLab with “Corporation of people’s situations-COPS”, Frankfurt Residency at Kabuff/E-Werk, Freiburg i.Br. |
| 2016 | Research-residency at former GDR-Watchtower, Flutgraben, Berlin |
| 2015 | Residency at Campos de Gutierrez, Medellin/CO Residency at FILTER Detroit/USA Residency at 8550 Ohio/USA |
| since 2015 | initiator and member of the formation “Corporation of people’s situations-COPS” (real estatics-artistic strategies on the use of space) |
| 2014 | Residency at FILTER Detroit/USA Residency at 8550 Ohio/USA |
| since 2014 | member of the platform “CALL” (Artists in contemporary feminism) |
| 2012 | “The Wo minus Man at Oelfrueh”, Workshop on feminism, Gallery Oelfrueh, Hamburg |
| since 2011 | since 2011 Solo Experimental Music project as jentle ben with bass, voice and drumcomputer |
| 2011 | Organization of the group exhibition “The unpredictable” Vebikus, Schaffhausen |
| 2011- 2014 | “Heavy Mental”, Organization of concerts at artistresidency Vorwerkstift, Hamburg |
| since 2010 | Part of artistcollective “friendsandloversinunderground” |
| 2009 | Member of the curating group “Die Reliktion” at the exhibitionspace of Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg |
| 2006- 2007 | Member of the curating group of Vebikus Kunsthalle, Schaffhausen |
| 2001 | “Action table-set” for Restaurants in Switzerland “Action Errorist” Textilprints for friends |
PUBLICATIONS
| 2022 | “Next Gen – ein social fiction Roman”, mit Textem Verlag Hamburg |
| 2017 | “Fragmente zu Eigentum” in The Watch; Residencies at Schlesischer Busch, Berlin Text on “Generations and knowledge” in Europa muss sterben, Munich |
| 2016 | “Save” Artistbook on the development of nationstates and self organization, published September with Textem publisher, Hamburg |
| 2014 | “Noctui” Music on SD-card, split with Nika Son, Hamburg |
| 2013 | “If I were a delicate blossom” Jennifer Bennett, Catalogue of the exhibition “alienated”, Textem publishersand Museum zu Allerheiligen, Hamburg/Schaffhausen |
| 2012 | “First takes” Musictape, Zamzamrec, Bristol |
| 2000 | Booklet with writings, self published, Schaffhausen |