Artists
Suse Weber Born in 1970 in Leipzig, Germany | Lives and works in Berlin and BrĂĽssel
Suse Weber works in such diverse media as sculpture, sound, installation, film, theater, and performance. In her mostly large-scale installations, she develops a specific semiotic system that suggests the emblematics of national symbols, elements from club heraldry, or coat of arms symbols, but also works in quotations from art history and historical and political references.
Weber’s development of her own symbols generates a vocabulary that is employed in the sense of a personalized iconography and is continually placed in new contexts and worked into a variety of objects in her installations. In the creation of her works, Suse Weber uses a combination of industrially produced raw materials and materials she has made herself that, due to their handcrafted perfection, approach the quality of mass produced industrial products. Her emblematic sculpturesare conceived out of this mix. They are three-dimensional works or stage-like scenarios in which the artist generally makes personal appearances at set times and, in a special system adapted to each individual installation, uses the objects that she calls marionettes to act out a story.
Suse Weber’s works reflect tradition and power, symbolic systems and social structures. And can also, as in the work,Dönerpuppe,raise questions concerning identity and belonging. The installation created in 2004 compares Turkish and East German symbols, while touching upon points of social conflict like integration processes, suppression, mechanisms of repression, and dealing with “foreign” mentalities.
Education
1995-2000 | Universität der Künste Berlin |
1998 | Royal College of Art, London |
Awards (selection)
2008 | Stiftung Kunstfonds |
2007 | Josef und Hilde Wilberz Stiftung, Mönchengladbach |
2005 | Elektroakustisches Studio | Projektförderung der Akademie der Künste / Kunstfonds Bonn |
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2010 |
Suse Weber und Simon Thompson, 20a Northburg Street London Suse Weber. Tanzschule fĂĽr eine Marionette, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin |
2009 |
Suse Weber: Formula: Congorama #3, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, BrĂĽssel Marta SMS, Kunstverein Lingen zu Gast im Museum Marta Herford Formel:Congorama, Base-Alpha Gallery, Antwerpen Formel:Verein, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin Formel:Congorama #1, Troubleyn Laboratorium, Antwerpen |
2008 | Formel:Verein, MMIII Kunstverein Mönchengladbach, Mönchengladbach |
2007 | Kunstsoldaten, Montgomery, Berlin |
2006 | DTO – Emblematische Skulptur, Akademie der Künste, Berlin |
2005 | Fort Trommel – Symbole mit neuer DNA, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden |
2004 |
Schöne Schwarze Belgierin, The Service Antwerpen, Antwerpen Dönerpuppe, Galerie Meerrettich Berlin, Pavillion der Volksbühne, Berlin |
2003 |
Das Ziel, gemeinsam mit PTR, Autocenter, Berlin Schwarzblut Neid, Maschenmode – Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin |
Group exhibitions (selection)
2010 | studies & theory, KWADRAT, Berlin |
2009 |
System, M.1, Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt Full of Emptiness, Bel etage, Berlin Berlin 2000, Pace Wildenstein, New York |
2008 |
Die Wiederholung der Zeichen, Gebert Stiftung, Rapperswil, Switzerland Vollendete Zukunft, Galerie Parterre, Berlin APPELL, Verbeke Foundation, Kemseke, Belgium |
2007 | Autocenter, Berlin |
2006 |
Meerettich on Ice, VolksbĂĽhne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin Construction, Ratio and Sense, Galerie Galerist, Istanbul |