MOMMY ISSUES

“mommy issues” explores the complex entanglements between motherhood, mental illness, and transgenerational trauma. The artist approaches these themes from a dual perspective: as the daughter of a mother with schizophrenia – and as a mentally ill mother herself. Her works move between personal archive and social analysis, between intimacy in digital spaces and a public, political stance. At the core lies the question of how mental illness shapes relationships – and how these experiences inscribe themselves into bodies, everyday rituals, and communication. The project reveals how art can open spaces where what is often suppressed or silenced can be spoken. “mommy issues” invites a sensitive engagement with familial imprints and the transmission of pain, love, and care.

My Solo exhibition took place at Necktar127 gallery Stuttgart between June 14th and July 13th 2025.

Stress simulatur (2025)

The first months of motherhood are marked by insomnia, malnutrition, isolation, and a complete collapse of routine. Conditions that, in other contexts, are deliberately used as methods of torture to break people down. Yet mothers are expected to endure them out of love and responsibility for their children. I built an alarm device with a siren that simulates the intense stress response triggered by a baby’s cry. The sound evokes the instinctive urgency and anxiety that arise when your child needs something. A biological alarm that demands immediate action. The simulator is programmed to go off at least every three hours, mirroring the rhythm of breastfeeding, when a newborn typically wakes to feed. Through this work, I aim to translate the invisible psychological and physical strain of early motherhood into an experiential form, confronting the contradictions between care, exhaustion, and resilience.

Little little (2025)

my red flags (2025)

Don't date me before you know them

nightmares on sunny Mountain

an A3 sketchbook full of collages with nightmares I had when I was in the "Sonnenberg Klinik" (sunny mountain clinic) Stuttgart in 2020 for three months.

the traumatized urge to...

A google search hidden in the room of Necktar127 gallery.

THEARAPIST DRAMA

A conflict I experienced with my therapist at the beginning of my recent therapy, revolving around addiction and attachment disorders. I made a "close friends" instagram story about it.

He sniffed cocaine, she breastfed (2025)

I used babyformula and a 3-D printed iphone as a reminder that the wild Party times for Baby mothers are over, because there's something more important in life now.

Epigenes (2022)

I created a spiral using computational design. I programmed cells that symbolize our DNA, containing the genetic information we inherit, and a second spiral that rotates within it, representing environmental influences. Together, these two elements determine our susceptibility to certain conditions. Such as mental illness, autoimmune diseases, or even cancer.

DYSREGULATED

I fimed my hands that didn't stop trembling when I was under enormous emotional and physical stress.

My first 3-D Animation that shows a rotating heart

MY HEART (2018)

Borderline (2025)

I once was diagnosed with Boderline before I knew I had PTSD. These diagnosis both have a lot of similar symptoms and women often get misdiagnosed. I wrote a poem that I put on the floor as a line you can overstep.

Phones from MUM (2025)

Messages my mum wrote me after giving birth on whats app. Playful installed as 3D printed iphones that also work as toys for toddlers.

glückshaube (2024)

My daughter was born inside the amniotic sac. A phenomenon that occurs in only about 1 in 80,000 births and is traditionally believed to mark a child as lucky.

Messages my mum wrote me during pregnancy.

ultrasound (2024) & ULTRASILENCE (2021)

Some children are born. Others are not.
Motherhood is something vast. So immense that every woman should have the right to decide for herself whether her body and soul can carry it.

nervous (2025)

my nervous system is affected by Trauma. I made Vinyl Cuttings with barbed wire to catch the feeling of a dysregulated nervous system.

Nachrichten von mama

messages from my book put on a 30 square meter wall and on the windows, visible from the outside of necktar127 gallery Stuttgart

Nachrichten von mama

messages from my book put on the outside windows of necktar127 gallery Stuttgart

110: Sirens and violence (2025)

Vinyl cuts on paper with bullet holes used by German police to practice shooting
Video of police officer Marilén Bistricianu changing into her uniform