My work is centered on LANGUAGE and sign systems. I'm working with texts and images: a project can comprise only visualized language or only images. A text becomes image or images become text, story. The most important is the deconstruction of the process of perception, as well as the decontextualisation of the well known. It deals with difficulties of perception, categories of true and fake, memories and false memories, truisms. Mostly conceptual, often serial, material is not fixed or defined.

Geboren 1959 in Europa, lebt in Brest / Berlin.

1979–1984, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris

1985–1996, Slavistik/ Linguistik, Paris, Berlin, Basel

–1996, Doktorat Slavische Philologie/ Linguistik, Basel

2009, "Gnadenlos", Artist´s Window, dock, Basel

2012, "Totalvertextung", Abteilung für alles Andere, Berlin

2012, Vorne Fahrn / Rauchfreie Zone, ngbk Berliner U-Bahn Linie 9, Amrumer Str.

2013, "Leerer Raum", Berliner Kunstverein, Münster

2015, "Vanishing", Yallop's / Nunns Yard Gallery, Norwich (UK)

2017, "Auf dem Holzweg", Konnektor, Hannover

2019, "Innere Zensurbehörde", Galerie Kim Behm, Frankfurt

2011, "In- and Outside Writing", voorkamer, Lier (Be)

2011, “Salons de lecture”, La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse

2013, "Jahresgaben“, Lage egal, Berlin

2014, "Crosswords", Lage egal, Berlin

2016, "Twintig", voorkamer, Lier

2018, "Fast nichts", Galerie Kim Behm, Frankfurt

2023, "Früher und später sind (ungefähr) gleich lang", Villa Renata, Basel

2013, "Ilse Ermens Wörterbuch der Zoologie" / "Ilse Ermen's Dictionary of Zoology",, Lecture, Several Spaces, Berlin, Basel

2015, "Ilse Ermen liest das Postgebührenheft", Abteilung für Alles Andere

2016, "My Spam" (Lecture), Acud Theater Berlin and others

2016, "Swapping Berlin for Norwich", Nunns Yard Gallery,Norwich UK