Key Points

• Light festivals and light art projects in Germany, Austria, Iceland, Finland, Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium, including Lichtstadt Feldkirch, Lichtparcours Braunschweig, Winter Lights Reykjavík, LUNA Leeuwarden, UMBRA Vitoria-Gasteiz, LUMO Oulu and List í Ljósi Seyðisfjörður
• Permanent works in public space in Schöppingen (since 2005), Lippstadt (since 2013) and Hamburg-Blankenese (since 2015)
• Features in WDR WESTART, NDR Kulturjournal, kultur.west, KUNSTFORUM International and Reykjavík Grapevine
• Honourable Mention, International Light Festivals Organisation Awards 2021, for shouldered streetlight

Biography

• 1996–2001 Studied Object Design with a focus on Environmental Design and Light Art at Fachhochschule Aachen (University of Applied Sciences). Diploma 2001: Lichtinstallationen für Innenstädte (Light Installations for Inner Cities)
• Since 2003 freelance artist. Exhibitions, performances and light art projects in Germany and abroad; work and fellowship residencies in Germany, Scandinavia, Spain, Greece, Iceland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Bolivia
• Since 2009 artist group Scheibe & Güntzel with Swaantje Güntzel (project series PRESERVED)
• Since 2009 shouldered streetlight
• Since 2012 curatorial work and jury activity, including for Stadtbesetzung (Kultursekretariat NRW, Gütersloh)
• Since 2015 workshops with children, young people and adults, including for Kulturrucksack NRW and Stadtbesetzung

Series and Projects

shouldered streetlight

Performance series, since 2009

A man in a grey suit carries a street lamp on his left shoulder through landscape and public space. When darkness falls, the lamp lights up. The performance moves between everyday observation, light intervention and a quiet search for orientation and belonging. Since 2009, from Hamburg to Lanzarote.

Selected stations

• 2026 La Nature Festival, Vielsalm / Hautes Ardennes, Belgium
• 2025 Lichtstadt Feldkirch, Austria · Winter Lights Festival, Reykjavík, Iceland · List í Ljósi, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
• 2024 Lichtparcours Braunschweig
• 2023 UMBRA Light Festival, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain · Hamburg-Pöseldorf
• 2022 LUNA Light Festival, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands · Kiel-Schilksee · Vörå, Finland · Västerbotten, Sweden · Trondheimfjord and Bindalsfjorden, Norway
• 2021 Berlin-Tiergarten, by invitation of the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt) · Bergkamen
• 2019 Internationales Bauforum Hamburg, Kieler Straße
• 2018 LUMO Light Festival, Oulu, Finland
• 2017 List í Ljósi, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland · Schöppinger Lichtkunstnacht · Lippstadt
• 2016 shining gap, Botanical Garden Osnabrück · Lanzarote, Spain
• 2010 MARTa Herford
• 2009 Schwäbisch Hall

WÄLDER (Forests)

Long-term project, series since 2018, first interventions 2017

221 years of Westphalian spruce forestry. A long-term project about its end. The series deals with the transformation of a cultural landscape, the disappearance of spruce forests and the traces this process leaves in landscape and society.

• 2023 Fichten [WÄLDER] II, DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst (with SAUNA)
• 2023 Fichten [WÄLDER] II, Brennstoff, Städtische Galerie Viersen
• 2021 FICHTEN [WÄLDER] I, performance project, Meschede
• 2018 WÄLDER, LEMGO WORKS, Lemgo
• 2017 LEERSTAND (WÄLDER), Lemgo

PRESERVED

Scheibe & Güntzel, since 2009, with Swaantje Güntzel

PRESERVED examines how people in a region have fed themselves from the surrounding nature over centuries, and how this knowledge shows itself in the landscape.

• 2025 Rågens Rike, Vörå, Finland
• 2024 Der Garten der Synagoge, Lippstadt
• 2023 HEIMATEN, Freilichtmuseum Molfsee
• 2021 Klimarondell, Städtische Galerie im Park, Viersen
• 2021 Schwemmland, Kunstwerkstatt, Monheim am Rhein
• 2020 Altland – Neuland [Gemüseschießen], Schloss Senden
• 2019 Grünkohl, DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst
• 2018 Die Siedlung, Düsseldorf-Garath
• 2017 Survival Gardening, Kloster Bentlage, Rheine

Further stations in Gran, Norway; Saxnäs, Sweden; Vaasa, Finland; and Aabenraa, Denmark

Further recurring series

HOUSE OF WIND

MÜLL / Herde  

FESTE

Selected Exhibitions, Installations and Projects

2026

• MÜLL / Herde II, Nächte der Lichtkunst am Hellweg, Lippstadt

2025

• STRØMME BÆRER MERE END VAND, Atelier Etch, Aabenraa, Denmark
• Aabenraa Fjord Series, light interventions on the Aabenraa Fjord
• ROTLICHT II (rood licht), LUNA Light Festival, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands

2024

• ROTLICHT, Lichtparcours Braunschweig
• MÜLL / Herde, 20 Jahre Lichtpromenade (20 years of the Lichtpromenade), Lippstadt
• Leid + Einsamkeit, installation, Marienkirche Lemgo

2023

• Fichten [WÄLDER], DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst
• ROTLICHT, design exhibition for the Lichtparcours, Kunstverein Braunschweig
• Natur und Technik, Galerie Watson, Hamburg
• Brennstoff, Städtische Galerie im Park, Viersen

2020

• [INSTANT] LANDSCAPE, Städtische Galerie Eichenmüllerhaus, Lemgo
• Leid + Einsamkeit, light art walk at Wasserschloss Reelkirchen

2019

• Kunstmuseum im Marstall, Paderborn

2018

• NACHTFOYER, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
• PLASTIFIED II, Lanzarote, with Swaantje Güntzel

2016

• I DON’T HAVE A GUN, Villa de Bank, Enschede, the Netherlands
• PLASTISPHERE, Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, with Swaantje Güntzel

2015

• FESTE V – The Weight of Godot, Kunsthalle M3, Berlin
• 17:36, group exhibition, Lichtcampus, Hamburg

2014

• Past.Present.Performance, Galerie Münsterland, Emsdetten
• GrensWerteWeltausstellung, Kloster Bentlage, Rheine

2013

• OWL 3, MARTa Herford

2012

• PAiN / European Festival of the Night, Lapland, Sweden
• Aabenraa Artweek, Denmark
• Up the trees, Kunstmuseet Brundlund Slot, Aabenraa, Denmark

2010

• Ein Schiff wird kommen, solo survey exhibition, Kulturgut Poggenhagen

2009

• abseite, KölnSkulptur 5, Skulpturenpark Köln

2007

• Waldparkplatz, KurtKurt, Berlin

2005

• Skulptur Biennale Münsterland

Selected Light Art Festivals and Events

• 2026 La Nature Festival, Vielsalm, Belgium
• 2025 Lichtstadt, Feldkirch, Austria
• 2025/2018/2017 List í Ljósi, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
• 2025 Winter Lights / Vetrarhátíð, Reykjavík, Iceland
• 2025 / 2022  LUNA Light Festival, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
• 2024 Lichtparcours, Braunschweig
• 2023 UMBRA Light Festival, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
• 2023 ParkLicht, Meppen
• 2022 LUNA Light Festival, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
• 2018 LUMO Light Festival, Oulu, Finland
• 2017 Nacht der Lichtkunst „Hellweg ein Lichtweg“, Lippstadt
• 2017 Schöppinger Lichtkunstnacht, Schöppingen
• 2016 Shining Gap, Osnabrück

Permanent Works in Public Space

• Since 2015 LICHT, Blankenese Cemetery, Hamburg
• Since 2013 abseite, Lichtpromenade Lippstadt
• Since 2005 Er macht seine Engel zu Winden (He Turns His Angels into Winds), Schöppinger Berg, Schöppingen

Awards and Grants

• 2023 Project grant KunstKommunikation, DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst
• 2022 NEUSTART KULTUR grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds
• 2021 Honourable Mention, International Light Festivals Organisation Awards, for shouldered streetlight
• 2020 Project funding, Kunststiftung NRW
• 2019 Project grant KunstKommunikation, DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst
• 2007 Kunstpreis „Junger Westen“, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, shared 2nd prize and honourable mention

Residencies and Work Stays (Selection)

• 2022/24 Abramsgården, Vörå, Finland
• 2019 Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
• 2016 Glasslåven, Gran, Norway
• 2016 ARTECITYA / Goethe-Institut, Thessaloniki, Greece
• 2015–2025 repeated work stays at Ricklundgården, Saxnäs, Sweden
• 2013 Plattform, Vaasa, Finland
• 2011 Bergmancenter, Fårö, Sweden
• 2011 Stiftung Pro Artibus, Ekenäs, Finland
• 2011 DIVA Programme, Aabenraa, Denmark
• 2006 Lower Saxony annual fellowship, Künstlerhäuser Worpswede

TV

• 2023 WDR, WESTART: report on DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, with an interview in the sauna, in connection with FICHTEN [WÄLDER]
• 2022 NDR Kulturjournal: report on shouldered streetlight at the Olympic Centre Kiel-Schilksee, 29 August 2022
• 2014 NDR DAS!: television report on shouldered streetlight on the Elbe dyke in Wedel
• 2014 Radio Bremen: television interview on shouldered streetlight in the Wesermarsch
• 2014 WDR, WESTART Meisterwerke: Er macht seine Engel zu Winden