1972 born in Pfaffenhofen (Germany)
1991-1993 Animation studies, California Institute of Arts Valencia, California (USA)
1993 Grant of the Walt Disney Character Animation Funds (USA)
1995-1999 Studies of painting at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig in the class of Prof. Arno Rink
2000-2002 Master Studies with Prof. Arno Rink
2007 Foundation of the LUBOK publishing house
2016-2022 Professorship for painting and graphics at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig
lives and works in Leipzig

Solo shows (selection)

2022 Spiel mit dem Feuer, AKI Gallery, Taipei (Taiwan) // Das Gläserne Eck, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
2021 Pictoriality in Print, Musashino Art University Museum and Library, Tokyo
2019 Crippled Symmetry, Museum of fine Arts, Leipzig// IMAGE, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
2018 César - Christoph Ruckhäberle, Sorry we're closed, Brussels // Noa Noa, Thaler Originalgrafik, Leipzig // Print Selections, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York // Paradise Lost, Ampersand Gallery, Portland (USA)
2017 Volkskunst Fabrik, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst (Germany)
2016 Malerei/Grafik, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig // New Paintings, ZieherSmith, New York // Christoph Ruckhäberle, Ampersand Gallery, Portland (USA)

Group shows (selection)

2022 Bilderkosmos Leipzig. 1905-2022, Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
2021 German Painting Now, Telegraph, Olomouc (Czech Republic)   
2020 Gestern, heute, übermorgen, Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Oder (Germany)

2019 Gratwanderung, August Macke Haus, Bonn (Germany) // Nähe und Distans, Landtag Brandenburg, Potsdam (Germany) // Heads, Galerie der Stadt Wels, Wels (Austria) // The Leipzig Connection, Croatian Association of Artists (HDLU), Zagreb (Croatia)

2018 Painting from Leipzig, Antonio Colombo, Milan (Italy) // Gaudiopolis, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (Germany) // Dritte, Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein, Pfaffenhofen (Germany) // Eros and Thanatos. SØR Rusche Collection Oelde/Berlin, Museum Abtei Liesborn, Liesborn // MdbK meets G2. Painting from Leipzig since 2000, Museum of Visual Arts, Leipzig // Zeigen und Sagen, Deutsche Bundesbank Geldmuseum, Frankfurt/Main

2017 doing identity. Collection Reydan Weiss, Kunstmuseum Bochum (Germany) // Ladder to Heaven, Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein, Pfaffenhofen (Germany) // Jetzt Druck machen, Angerlehner Museum, Thalheim (Austria) // Monday is a Day between Sunday and Tuesday, Tanja Leighton, Berlin

2016 Storyteller. Contemporary Art from Leipzig, Nationale Art Museum & Goethe Institut Hanoi (Vietnam) // Pink Powder - de la Cruz Collection, Cotilla Gallery, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (USA) // LUBOK - prints and artist books, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf // Made in Germany: Contemporary Art from the Rubell Family Collection, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas (USA)