Susanne Tunn

Susanne Tunn (born 1958 in Detmold ) is a German sculptor. She lives and works in Alfhausen near Osnabrück.

If and work

From 1980 to 1986 she completed an interdisciplinary studies at the University of Bielefeld in art, sociology and educational sciences. In 1991 she was awarded a studio scholarship of Lower Saxony, 1995, a project grant of awareness Land Foundation and a grant from the State of Lower Saxony. Since 1992 she has worked as a professor at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg.

Susanne Tunn preferred material is stone from quarries or other formations or found objects, such as Street stones, stone fragments, but also stone in the form of dust. But she worked early on with other materials, such as wood ( inside the tree, 1988; Chapel at the Klinikum Minden, 2004-2008), concrete ( Peace and Noise in 1998, Loh, 2000, or at work for Sonic Sonsbeek 9), paraffin and wool, coal briquette (breath / meta, 2004), plants ( gill, 1998, Table of the mountain, 1999) or with the metal tin (AD, 28 m² tin; work at Colossal, 2009-2011). There are also sculptural studies using other media (video and film works, photography and drawings).

A key feature of their work is the consideration of the contexts in which stands the respective material, and its historicity. Here, the artistic process changed over time. Early works show a cut in their handling of the object. So they split stone and adds it back together, so that invisible interiors arise ( like it works with wood at work in the interior of the tree ). Increasingly, they developed a more cautious approach. She discovers that the stone that is to be processed, already has a shape, a system, an inner logic. It's about the fragile relationship between the form which the artist creates and the shape which has the stone. This dialectical relationship is particularly evident in the sculpture rotation, which is also located in dormant form and caused by orbiting stone work on rotation.

An essential aspect from the beginning, the situation relatedness of their work. The place where and for which the work will be made ​​is important. It is significant of the nature of each stone ( about Salzburg conglomerate, granite or limestone ), ie the geology. The limited site-specificity that is not so much the interior of studio or exhibition are the actual locations for sculptures and work on them, but rather outdoor spaces. The work Susanne Tunn are precisely placed, sometimes in remote, hardly accessible for viewers locations (eg table of the sea). They are exposed to the influence of nature and thus no eternal objects. They arose prior to the artistic process, are changed by the art and pass part again. Ultimately, therefore, the sculptural concept and contextualized: sculptures are finished and unfinished objects at the same time, they are a large context of growth and decay delivered, the changes the artist by a limited formative intervention.

By the most large-sized objects often show elementary and everyday, this changed, clarified forms such as table, table or beds, but also social and historical contexts are called, the Susanne Tunn occasionally explored in other media, such as photo, video or film work on. Thus, the concept of sculpture is also open to social and historical contexts out ( as in the work of breathing, an installation on the roof of the villa Schlikker in Osnabruck, one formerly used by the Nazis in the construction or installation of 166 beds - Peace and Noise).

Some basic, understanding perspectives on the work can be obtained from minimalism, conceptual art and arte povera. But the artistic work of Susanne Tunn ultimately springs from a continuous pulse to the development of the stubbornness of artistic expression. Your publications on their own works are extremely carefully designed and can be understood as literary extensions of the sculptural work.

Awards

In 1998 she received the Art Award for 350 years of the Peace of Westphalia.

Projects / sculptures and permanent installations

Solo exhibitions (selection )

Exhibitions ( selection)

  • 2000: You were enrolled into the water. Exhibition on the project 3 rooms - 3 rivers. Packhofstraße Hann Munden
  • 2001: Present. Museum of Contemporary Art, Arnhem, The Netherlands
  • 2002: Aquaria. About the unusual relationship between water and human. State Gallery in the Upper Austrian Landesmuseum Linz and Chemnitz Art Collections
  • Interplay. The Hafnarfjördur Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarborg, Iceland
  • 2007: Artscape Osnabrück ( Silverpine Forest, zus with David Svoboda )
  • 2009-2011: COLOSSAL - Art Fact fiction. Exhibition for the public on the occasion of 2000 years Varus Battle ( The Key Sculpture and AD )
  • 2009: Place of Memory - Place of vision. Museo di Roma in Trastevere and Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome

A.D., tin bed, 2009-2011

Chapel Clinic Minden, interior, 2008

Nightshade, 2007

Breathless meta, brown coal briquettes, 2004, installation on the roof of the villa Schlikker

The Cabinet of a Collector, 2003

Loh, Sculpture, 2000

Table of the mountain, 1999

Pol- Stein, 1996

Situation of a group, 1988

Waiting stone (rock ), 1990

Waiting stone (steel ), 1990

Publications

  • Susanne Tunn: Inside the tree, 1990, 48 pages, German / English, texts, inter alia, by Ursula Blanchebarbe and Volker Rodekamp, awarded by the Foundation for Book Art
  • Susanne Tunn: Table of thinking, 1991, 16 pages, text by Ursula Blanchebarbe
  • Susanne Tunn: Table of the desert, 1992, 16 pages, German / Spanish, text by Barbara Wally
  • Susanne Tunn: Table of the Sea, 1996, 18 pages, German / English, texts by Dorothee von Windsheim and Susanne Tunn
  • Susanne Tunn: 166 beds - Peace and Noise, 1998, 48 pages, German / English, texts, inter alia, by Jan Hoet, Nancy Spero, Leon Golub and Susanne Tunn
  • Susanne Tunn: The Congo 's syndrome, 1999, 40 pages, German / English, with a conversation between Barbara and Wally Susanne Tunn
  • Susanne Tunn: Table of the mountain, 2001, 16 pages, German / English, poems and lyrics by Ilma Rakusa and Susanne Tunn
  • Susanne Tunn: BREATH - META, 2004, 44 pages English / German, with a text by Philippe van Cauteren and photographs by Christian Grovermann, Osnabrück
  • Susanne Tunn: table for two couples and a dog, 2005, 16 pages, German / English / Romanian, with a text by Liviana Dan
  • Susanne Tunn: Chapel ( Chapel ) 2004-2008, 56 pages, Kirchberg ( Austria ) in 2008, 27 color illustrations, photographs by Peter Hiibbe, texts by Jan Hoet and Joerg Mertin

Bibliography

  • City (t ) NRW -art, 1997, art 56 homeopathic doses, text by Peter Schmieder
  • 3 rooms - 3 rivers, you were enrolled into the water, 2001, Volume 2
  • Sonsbeek 9, locus - Focus, 2001, Volume 1 and 2, english / dutch, text and interview by Dieter Roelstraete
  • Aquaria. About the unusual relationship between water and man, Linz 2002
  • 20 years Stone Sculpture Symposium, 2007, 208 pages, German / English, International Summer Academy in Salzburg
  • Colossal, 2009, 286 pages, German / English, texts, inter alia, by Jan Hoet, Stefan Lüddemann and Michael Kroeger
  • Wide awake Current - views of the collection MARTa, 2009, 156 pages, German / English
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