2008

• Honorary mention Paradoxien des Öffentlichen, Duisburg, Project “Fernfühler”
• Honorary mention Cynet-Art Dresden, Project Double Helix Swing

2006

• Honorary mention Ars electronica, Double Helix Swing

2003

• Stipendium Schloss Balmoral (Bad Ems)
• Special mention for memory of space, FCMM-Festival, Montreal

2002

• Winner of a competition for an installation in a metro station (”Wehrhahnlinie” Düsseldorf)

2001

• Milla & Partner-Award for Media Art, 14. Stuttgarter Filmwinter

2000

• grant from the “Stiftung Kunst und Kultur NRW”

1999

• Winner of the Kunst-am-Bau competition Universität Cottbus
• Spiridon Neven-DuMont award
• award from the city council from Düsseldorf
• research project inoutSite (Forschungs-AG Multimedia NRW)

1996

• Ringenberg-grant from Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen

1995

• Transfer-Stipendium Italy
• postgraduate studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (Valie Export)

1994

• award for installation art (Rheinland-Pfalz)

1991

• DAAD-grant for New York
• Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-grant (catalogue)

1990

• Artist-in-residence in Rotterdam

1987-1988

• DAAD-grant for Marseille/Aix-en-Provence; studies with Louis Bec and Vilem Flusser

1987

• “master degree” with Günther Uecker

1985-1986

• grant for the “Cite des Arts”, Paris

1981-1989

• Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, fine art studies