Vita

Current
Lives and works as a freelance artist in Halle (Saale)

2020
Founding of the studio community Goldene Esel with Annette Friedrich

2019–2022
Part-time employee of museum education at the Museum Neues Weimar
with a focus on the Dorfner-workshop

2014–2016
Part-time employee of the graphic workshop at Hochschule Anhalt in Dessau

Since 2014
Founder member of the book artist network b.a.c.H. (book art center Halle)

2012
Foundation of the artists’ group Hentschel, Horn und Lass – Büro für funktionslose Architektonik

2011–2022
Teaching in the Kreativwerkstatt Aschersleben as part of school projects

2011
Foundation of the Studio for Book Art Rita Lass

Since 2010
Member of the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. (Professional Association of Visual Artists Saxony-Anhalt)

Since 2009
Founder member of the art and project space Kiosk am Reileck hr.fleischer, 2011–2019 on the board

2008–2010
Research assistant in the library of Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle

2007–2008
6-month stay abroad in Norway at the Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen (khib) as part of an Erasmus scholarship

2003–2010
Study at Burg Giebichenstein HKD Halle, Concept Art Book area with Prof. Mechthild Lobisch and Book Art with Prof. Sabine Golde, 2010 diploma with Prof. Mechthild Lobisch and David Bielander

2003
Activity as a bookbinder at Mückenschweinverlag in the storeroom at Katharinenberg, Stralsund

2002
Restoration work at Boguslav Radis, restorer for books and paper, Lübeck

2001–2002
7-month stay abroad in Croatia (including 4 months of internship in the bookbinding and restoration department at the State Archives Split)

1998–2001
Apprenticeship as a bookbinder for special and individual production, journeyman’s certificate, award as the best in the year of the state of Berlin

1998
High school diploma

1979
born in Berlin