Art history, archives, and institutional projects. A decade of documentation work across collections in Germany and Austria — before Bitcoin, and now alongside it.

I spent the better part of a decade working with archives and collections across institutional settings in Germany and Austria. At the Göttingen State and University Library, I worked on several projects over multiple years, spanning archives and special collections. The work involved digitization, documentation, and provenance research — over 15,000 objects, coordinating editorial standards across archives, IT, and external partners. Alongside that, I contributed to DFG-funded research projects and taught courses in art history there.

A man in a gray blazer, white shirt, and black tie standing outdoors in front of a modern concrete building with large windows and a water feature.

Exhibition projects took me to the Kunstsammlung der Universität Göttingen, the Landesmuseum Hannover, and the Kunsthalle Hamburg — work on German Romanticism, 19th-century drawing, and modern print culture. More recently, exhibitions in Vienna at the Belvedere Museum and independent galleries, on contemporary art.

Earlier work at the Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel involved the documentation of portrait collections across prints, paintings, and applied arts.

Research fellowships at the Central Institute for Art History in Munich, the Albertina Museum in Vienna, and the Centre for Cultural Studies in Lübeck supported work on archival sources, curatorial practice, and the history of collections.

What gets preserved, what gets lost, and why — these questions followed me into Bitcoin. They're at the center of both bodies of work.