Muscle Works

Since 2025

This project looks at the performance of masculinity through the visual language and rituals of physical culture. Drawing on bodybuilding, exercise culture, posing, self-imaging, and repetition, the project uses photography, moving image, performance, and installation to explore how masculine bodies are trained, displayed, measured, desired, and made legible.

Selected Works

Muscle Works

Studien der Übungen

Video installation, currently consisting of five video loops, since 2024

The installation examines how physical culture shapes and constrains the body, from nationalist gymnastics and modern fitness rituals to the subtle regimes of self-optimization. Yet repetition also becomes a site of refusal: gestures slip, slow, exaggerate, falter, become absurd. The body resists its own choreography, queering ideals of strength, purity and control.

Since 2025

Collage featuring a shirtless man with tattoos, manipulated photos of a woman's face with eyes obscured, documents, blueprint, and annotations related to observation and analysis.

As an artsitic research method, cruising approaches movement through public space as a form of embodied research. Borrowing from the gestures, attention, and spatial practices of cruising, the project explores how bodies read their surroundings, respond to other bodies, and produce temporary relationships with places that are often overlooked, regulated, or passed through.

Selected Works

Cruising as Method

Nothing Is Connected to Everything

2026, 5-channel video installation

Cruising the Edges of the Field

2026, archival research, proposal

Working through “cruising” as a non-linear method of movement and research, I move between landscape and archive, following indirect paths, encounters, and gaps. Walking, performative gestures, and photographic and video documentation are combined with archival research and interventions such as annotation and redaction.

What emerges is not a reconstruction of queer history in the region, but a dispersed counterarchive shaped by absence, where fragments begin to accumulate and reveal how memory persists without fully appearing.

Strafsachen: Cruising the Gaps in the Archive

2025, archival research, drawing, paper, pencil, crayon

A new reseach direction of my practice investigates the archival silence surrounding the persecution of homosexual individuals in Carinthia, Austria under National Socialism.

Since 2021

A shirtless man with tattoos stands in a construction site with unfinished walls, rubbish, and graffiti. Trees without leaves are in the background.

An ongoing artistic research project examining the relationship between the body, architecture, and spatial order. Through photography, moving image, performance, and installation, the project explores how bodies are measured, positioned, contained, and made legible through architectural systems, while testing ways of inhabiting and disrupting those structures.

Selected Works

Architecture Undone

This project explores how systems of architectural design function performatively in space, creating spatial logics through which power, proportion, gender, and normativity are ritualized.