I plan, design and visualise spaces. 
After our bodies and our clothing, 
they are our next perceptible shell 
and shape our ideas of individuality, 
community, togetherness and demarcation. 
We express these underlying structures through social behavior and communicational strategies – conscious and unconscious, verbal and non-verbal.
Starting from there, I create spaces that should enable us to work, live and have fun together more naturally and break down barriers.




Professional Experience

since January 2024:
Dresden University of Fine Arts, Dresden
|| Artistic associate at the research project "rescene"
rescene | Hochschule für Bildende Künste

spring and summer 2022:
Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater, Schwerin
|| assistancy for stage and costume design in two plays: "Der Zauberberg" and "Müller"
|| director: Sascha Hawemann, stage design: Wolf Gutjahr, costume design: Hilde Altmeyer

since summer 2020:
self-employment 
|| stage design, e.g. for HfS Ernst Busch Berlin (direction Max Lindemann), Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin (direction Martin Nimz)
|| spatial planning: founding member of studio rūmi

summer 2020 - spring 2024
|| lecturer at University of Applied Sciences Mainz, subjects: Introduction in the Design Process (B.A.), Regenerative Building (B.A.), Scenic Space (M.A.)

spring 2017 - summer 2020:
Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt
|| freelance for exhibitions, e.g.: Jil Sander - Präsens, Stefan Sagmeister - Beauty, Michelle Elie Collection - Comme des Garçons

summer 2019
„Spieltriebe 8 - festival for contemporary theatre“ at Theatre Osnabrück 

|| artistic direction of two music theatre productions 
|| Scene Design & Costume

spring/summer 2018:
studio aisslinger, Berlin 
|| project lead, detailed planning, material, product photography
|| projects: 25h Hotel Cologne, Alando Hotel Osnabrueck, TLDC restaurant and club Taipeh

spring 2016 + 2017:
raumkontor Interior Architects, Düsseldorf 
|| detailed planning, material, design, layout, competitions
|| projects: ABUS Head Office Gummersbach, CarpetConcept stand for Cologne Furniture Fair, private housing
|| won competition contributions: Johanson Design PlusX, Kultur Ruhr Head Office Essen

summer 2015:
RKW Architects, Düsseldorf 
|| detailed planning for office planning

Education

2014 - 2020
Interior Architecture (BA) and Spatial Communication (MA),
University of Applied Sciences Mainz, Germany

Publications | Awards | Exhibitions

Akademie Musiktheater heute
|| scholarship 2024-2026 for stage and costume design

German Design Award
|| Newcomer 2022 Nominee

design prize Rhineland-Palatinate 2019 Design Talents, category product 
|| fän.

DDS magazine, may 2018 issue 
|| fän.

exhibition at state theatre Mainz, spring 2019 
|| Resolution 217A (III)

„Passagen“ at Cologne: 
spring 2018 || fän.
spring 2017 || Body Architecture

days of industrial culture Rhein-Main, summer 2015 
|| Wächtersbach porcelain

nominee for the Meerwein prize (internal price of the university), 
summer 2015/2017/2018 
|| Body Architecture, ITSX - Mission to Mars, fän.

Additional

since 2023: 
transform magazine
|| second editorial director

since summer 2021:
Cradle to Cradle NGO
|| member of the team lead of the building alliance 

Sonia Hilpert