Susanne Kessler

Susanne Kessler ( born 1955 in Wuppertal ) is a German - Italian painter, illustrator and installation artist.

Life

Susanne Kessler studied from 1975 to 1982 painting and graphics at the University of the Arts ( University of Arts ) in Berlin and the Royal College of Art ( RCA) in London. In 1992 she won the Paul Strecker Award of the city of Mainz. In addition to grants and residencies they held more than 50 solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions throughout Europe as well as India, Pakistan, Mali, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Iran, Latvia and the United States ( Turlock / CA, Washington / DC, New York / NY, Charlottesville / VA ). 2001/2002 she was invited as a visiting professor at the California State University, Stanislaus / USA. Subsequently other teaching activities, so in 2010 at the Academy of Arts in Riga / Latvia and 2011 at the City University of New York, NY / USA.

Susanne Kessler lives in Berlin and Rome.

Work

Susanne Kessler became known for her large-scale, organic-seeming installations. Primarily on the basis of the drawing she has worked for many years with nature-friendly, living structures. Some of her work is dedicated to representations of the interior, for example, the structure of the human brain, the visual appearance and his inner complex structure is discussed. In this case, the brain is the origin of everything that arises in the world and exists for everything perceptible and as a source of human consciousness. Only the limitation on their brain, on one's own thinking and visualization, according to Kessler promotes an "I " construction, which moves away from science and into an artistic world. Often fragments of thought, even trains of thought that deal continually with biological models, integrated into a system for drawing and form a complex web of overlapping patterns and poetic content. By combining scientific drawings and own associations and imagination to convey their installations, the image of an organic network. " The branched life remains enigmatic and explosive, mysterious like a cocoon ..." she once described it. In the center of her work, the principle of life is made visible as a flow of vital energy, as conversion process that equally reflects the working process of the artist. Series of drawings are again and again integrated into installations, to renew them out of themselves. Spaces arise with graphic signs and symbols, which, on the part of the kinetic energy of the room with. Each environment is adapted directly to the site. The starting point is the fleeting, because only in the temporary existence of the wheel of life is visible. It all starts, comes and goes. By always new room conditions and site-specific dynamics of the conceptual work of Susanne Kessler symbolizes the conception of evolution.

As an illustrator, Susanne Kessler looks at the intersection between current and ancient conditions, remain on both sides at the same distance, which, although influenced repeatedly by location and material, but internally independent.

Installations

Susanne Kessler, " Ritmo e Linea ", Museo Faina convento di San Giovanni, Orvieto / IT, 2010

Susanne Kessler, in bilico, gallery Epicurus, Wuppertal, 2009

Susanne Kessler, Board (6m x 1,20 m x 0,80 m ), 2005

Susanne Kessler, Survival kit, 2005

Susanne Kessler, Room of evolution, Tehran / IR, 2003

Susanne Kessler, site-specific work in Lahore, India, 1996

Susanne Kessler, site-specific work, " The universe moves" in New Delhi, India, 1995

Susanne Kessler, shape Carousel, 1988

Awards and scholarships

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2013 Project Space German Künstlerbund Berlin
  • 2013 The Manchester Science Festival, Victoria Warehouse, Manchester / GB
  • 2011 Washington Project for the Arts, Washington / USA
  • 2010 Ex GIL, Rome / IT
  • 2010 Museo Faina and Ex - convento di San Giovanni, Orvieto / IT ( solo)
  • 2010 WHITE CONCEPTS, Berlin
  • 2009 Gallery Epicurus, Wuppertal ( solo)
  • 2009 Gallery Inga Kondeyne, Berlin
  • 2008 Galleria Dora Diamanti, Rome / IT ( solo)
  • 2008 John Jay University Gallery, City University New York, NY / USA ( solo)
  • 2007 Second Street Gallery Charlottesville, VA / USA ( solo, site-specific )
  • 2005 Nassau Kunstverein Wiesbaden
  • 2005 American Association of the Advancement of Science, Washington DC ( in collaboration with the Goethe Institute Washington / USA) ( solo)
  • 2003 Fajr Festival, Taleghani Artist Forum, Tehran / IR ( solo)
  • 2001 Gustav Luebke Museum, Hamm ( solo)
  • 2000 Cantieri alla Zisa / Goethe Institute Palermo / IT ( solo)
  • 1999 Beuys archive Moyland Castle Museum ( solo)
  • 1995 Monks House-Museum of Contemporary Art, Goslar ( solo)
  • 1995 Von der Heydt - Museum, Wuppertal ( solo)
  • 1994 Municipal Gallery Albstadt ( solo)
  • 1992 Landesmuseum Mainz ( solo)
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