After completing his master’s degree in art history and modern and contemporary history in Berlin and Rome (1996 to 2002), he received his doctorate in 2006 from Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Thomas W. Gaehtgens on the history of 18th century French collections with a dissertation on the collections of the Prince de Conti.
Subsequently, until 2008, he was research assistant at the German Forum for Art History Paris (Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art); from 2008 to 2010, research trainee at the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Munich; from 2010 to 2011, research assistant at the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Munich for the international exhibition project on the art of the Enlightenment in Beijing 2011; since 2011, curator for paintings and sculpture of the 19th century to the present. century to the present at the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig; since May 2018 he is General Director of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz with a focus on modern and contemporary art, but also on socio-political issues of the museum; member of various commissions and juries, including the extended acquisition commission of the Art Collection of the Federal Government (Neustart) and the Expert Council for Art in Buildings of the Federal Ministry of Construction.