1967 - 68 Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Academy of Fine Arts), Stuttgart (Malerei bei K.H. Sonderborg)
1969 - 72 Music Studies at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik und Bildende Kunst (State School of Music and Fine Arts) in Hamburg and the Hochschule für Musik (School of Music) in Graz
1972 - 74 Studies at the Musikhochschule Zürich (Zurich School of Music) and the Freien Kunstschule Zürich (Zurich Free Art School, under Serge Stauffer)
1974 Move to Milan
1974 - 76 Studies in Composition (under Franco Donatoni) and Electronic Music at the Milan Conservatory, Degree
1974 - 80 Concerts and Performances in Europe and the USA; Cooperation with Fabrizio Plessi (Video Performances); seit 1980 Sound Installations and Sound Sculptures
1980 - 81 Electronics Studies at the Milan Technical Institute
1986 First works with light; 1987 Move to Berlin
1988 Prize winner of the "Kulturkreis" in the BDI; Barkenhoff grant, Worpswede
1989 Guest lecturer, Jan von Eyck Academy, Maastricht
1990 Working grant from the Kunstfonds Bonn e. V.
1990 - 91 Teaching position at the Kunstakademie Münster (Münster Art Academy)
1991 First installations with solar energy; Working grant from the Senate for Cultural Affairs Berlin
1991 - 94 Guest professor at the Hochschule der Künste (School of Art), Berlin
1992 Grant from the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand, New Zealand
1994 Atelier grant from the Berlin Senate; Guest professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris DAAD grant, Paris
seit 1994 Professor for "Sculpture/Audio-visual Artt" at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar (Saar School of Fine Arts), Saarbrücken
seit 1997 Member of the Akademie der Künste (Academy of the Arts) Berlin
1999 Heidelberger Künstlerinnenpreis (Heidelberg Female Artists Prize)
2000 Composition grant from the Berlin Senate for Trautonium Carl Djerassi Honorary Fellowship
2002 Grant from the International Artists« Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS), Stockholm