Artists
Susanne M. Winterling Born in 1971 in Rehau, Oberfranken, Germany | Lives and works in Berlin and Oslo
Susanne M. Winterling’s work in her films, photographs, collages and installations critically engages the representation of realities. Prevailing modernistic concepts, gender power structures, and hierarchical historiographies are captured in her works, with an eye for the repressed, and investigated for their validity.
In her work, she repeatedly focuses on individual, significant but rather periphery, figures in shared historical memory like the architect Eileen Gray in the installationThe Jewel and Troubled Water(2008) in the coat check areas of the Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Winterling’s site-specific approach is clear in this work. Her installations often make reference to the rooms and contents of the building in which they are on display. In a complex mesh of references between the differing concepts of Gray, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe, the artist mirrors and exposes blemishes in the history of modernistic architecture.
Another distinctive feature of Winterling’s work is the probing of the limits of the medium being used. In her 16mm films, she captures the everyday gestures and movements of things in such a way that they can, due to their haptic quality and sensitive presentation, enter into an equitable dialog with the actual things in the room.
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2012 |
Vertigo, Galerie Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg Nox and Shelter, Tempo Rubato Tel Aviv, Israel |
2011 |
Sandy Brown, Berlin Fotogalleriet Oslo |
2010 |
Centre d’Édition Contemporaine, Genf Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe |
2009 |
Gesellschaft fĂĽr Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen Fondazione Morra Greco, Neapel The Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis BAWAG Contemporary Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo |
Group exhibition (selection)
2012 |
Kunstverein Freiburg Galerie Pedro Cera, Lissabon |
2011 |
Coming after, The Powerplant Toronto |
2010 |
Von realer Gegenwart: Marcel Broodthaers heute, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Milk Drop Coronet: 30 Austellungen zur Virtuosität des Dinglichen, Camera Austria, Graz ...nur Papier, und doch die ganze Welt...:Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto |
2009 |
Little Theatre of Gestures, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel; Konsthall, Malmö Scorpio’s Garden, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin Modern Modern, Chelsea Art Museum, New York |
Bibliography (Auswahl)
2010 |
Matthias Reichelt, "Susanne M. Winterling", in: Kunstforum International, Band 202 Jens Asthoff, „Susanne M.Winterling”, in: Artforum, April Georg Patzer, "Nichts ist wie es scheint", TAZ 15.2.2010 |
2009 |
Kirsty Bell, "Susanne Winterling", Camera Austria 105 |
2008 |
Joseph Del Pesco, „Susanne Winterling”, in: Flash Art, October Karen Rosenberg, „A Member of the Wedding”, in: New York Times, August Daniel Voelzke, „Susanne M. Winterling”, in: Monopol, April |