Contemporary artist, Berlin/Hamburg, Germany

born 1985 in Kaltenkirchen

2017
Master of Fine Arts, class Matt Mullican, HfbK Hamburg
2015
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Hfbk Hamburg

Member of Saloon Hamburg

Part of the Producers Art Platform, a Crisis Initiative for Art by Spiegelberger Stiftung

grants and prizes

2020
PArt Artists’ Fund support grant, Spiegelberger Stiftung, Hamburg

2019
Artist-in-Residence travel grant, Grafikwerkstatt Dresden, Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg / Amt für Kultur und Denkmalschutz Dresden

2016
nominee, Karl H. Ditze-Stiftung, postgraduate grant
nominee, Freundeskreis der HFBK, postgraduate grant

2013
nominee, Hiscox Art Prize, Kunsthaus Hamburg

selected shows

2021
WE WERE HERE, solo exhibition, mom Artspace, Hamburg (postponed from 2020 due to covid)

2020
You’ve got mail!, international Saloon network exhibition, mom Artspace, Hamburg
cancelled due to covid: Apollo war gestern, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg

2019
#3, leikela annual show, Michael Horbach Stiftung, Cologne
Offene Ateliers, Ateliers Kraftwerk Bille, Hamburg
Quirin Privatbank, Hamburg
Artists-in-Residence Grafikwerkstatt Dresden, Alte Feuerwache Loschwitz, Dresden

2018
Projected.Capital, Roehrs & Boetsch, Zurich, Switzerland
Zeichensysteme, Emerging Artists 2018, Affordable Art Fair, Hamburg
Farewell to Matt Mullican, HfbK Gallery, Hamburg
#WELCOMETOTHEREALWORLD, Gudberg Nerger Gallery, Hamburg
TYING UP SATURN, Astrid Ehlers and Anneke Kleimann, Künstlerhaus Frise, Hamburg

2017
Winter exhibition, Nudel Galerie, Ober-Ramstadt
A needle scratches the surface, MfA graduate show, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg
xpon goes x, xpon art, Hamburg

2015
k ≈ 0, Astrid Ehlers and Anneke Kleimann, Hinterconti, Hamburg
Absolventenausstellung, BfA graduate show, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg
“-“, Astrid Ehlers, Marko Mijatovic, Goscha Steinhauer and Malte Stienen, Galeriefest Kassel, Tokonoma, Kassel

2014
Open Class, xpon art, Hamburg

2013
Hiscox Art Prize, Kunsthaus, Hamburg

2012
Klasse Mullican, Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin
Hamburger Himmel, City Höfe, Hamburg

2009
Gängeviertel, Speckstraße, Hamburg