Susken Rosenthal
Most of Susken Rosenthal' s conceptual artworks are based on the exploration of space and perception. Her large-scale installations are mostly set up temporarily in public spaces. They are developed in relation to the environment and its architectonical, social or natural characteristics. These artistic interventions are manipulating the place. The artistic work and the environment become a unity that changes the everyday function and the esthetics of the site. Often she uses anamorphic methods in order to irritate the perspective of the viewer. She also builds indoor installations that she develops specifically for different exhibition situations and which are dealing on a more abstract level about perception and proportion of space.
Depending on the different concepts she works with different materials and techniques such as wood, plastic and metal.
Her work as a curator is closely connected to her personal art work. These two acitivities influence each other. Since 1996 she is artistic director of Kunstpflug e.V.. KUNSTPFLUG is a non-profit artist-run initiative that is based in the countryside in the area Land Brandenburg in East Germany, just one hour South West of Berlin. The intention of KUNSTPFLUG is to produce contemporary art projects in public spaces of rural areas. These interdisciplinary, participatory and site-specific art projects are both contrasting to and reflecting typical local subjects based on the post-wall development such as demographical change in small cities in former GDR.
KUNSTPFLUG collaborates with national and international partners, curators and organizations.
Susken Rosenthal was born in Stuttgart. She graduated from the UdK Berlin (Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin West). She works and lives in Berlin and Land Brandenburg.
CV
1879-86 Studies of fine art in Berlin (UdK), Florence (Italy) 1987-88 Post graduate stipendium at the California Institute of Arts, Los Angeles1994 Work stipendium of Land Brandenburg
1996 Work stipendium of art foundation Baden-Württemberg
1997 Art prize of Land Brandenburg
2001 1st prize for artistic idea, competition for the representation of Land Brandenburg, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
2002 Catalog grant from the Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung
2004-06 Professor for grafic studies at the College of Design, Hochschule Dessau
2007 1st prize competition Kunstwanderweg Hoher Flaeming
2010 Artist residency, Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, Land Brandenburg
2012 Artist residencies in Finland (Saari Residence/Mietoinen and Platform/Vaasa)
2012 Artist residency in Kosice K.A.I.R., Slowakia
2013 Kamiyama Artist Residency, Japan
2015 Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst des Landes Brandenburg
2019 Artist residency, Bortolomiol SPA, Valdobbiadene, Italy
since1995 director of numerous international art projects for the artist initiative Kunstpflug in the area of Potsdam-Mittelmark, South Brandenburg
Installations and Exhibitions (selection)
(S= Single presentation)1984 Football Drawings, Deutscher Sportbund, Frankfurt a.M. (S)
1990 Blue Pattern, Westwerk, Hamburg (S)
1992 Boomerang, KX Kunst auf Kampnagel, Hamburg (S)
1993 Nachtbogen, kunst-raum-straße, Galerie O2, Berlin (Catalog)
1994 5 Blicke auf die Wirklichkeit, Parochialkirche, Berlin
1994 Basic Space, Het Stroomhuis, Neerijnen, Holland (S)
1995 Here they come, Rathaus Tempelhof, Berlin (S)
1995 Konsum Projekt, Baitz(Catalog)
1995 Stipendiaten des Landes Brandenburg, Waschhaus, Potsdam (Catalog)
1996 The Window, Piano di Mommio, Italien (S)
1997 Kunsthaus Raskolnikoff, Dresden (S)
1997 Belziger Kunsttage, Belzig (Catalog)
1997 Brandenburgische Kunsttage , Drewen (Catalog)
1997 Förderpreisträger des Landes Brandenburg, Kunstspeicher, Potsdam (Catalog)
1998 Heimspiel, Städtisches Museum Schloß Reydt (Catalog)
1998 Petals IV (Zweierausstellung), Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart (S)
1999 Kunsthalle Vierseithof Luckenwalde (two people exibition)
1999 Doppelpaß, Springer-Passage, Hamburg (Catalog)
2000 Kunstfußball-Fußballkunst, Deutsches Olympiamuseum Köln (Catalog)
2000 Memory and Vision, Teil I, Panzerhalle, Groß-Glienicke
2001 Art is emotion, Galerie kunst-in-de-kerk, Nijmegen
2001 Memory and Vision, Teil II, Artist Residence Herzlya, Tel Aviv
2002 Verborgene Gärten, Landesgartenschau Wismar (Catalog)
2002 Die Melancholie als Gärtnerin, Buchholz
2002 Piotrkowska Festival, Lodz
2003 Cambio Constante IV, Zaragoza
2003 En Route, Kunst für Autofahrer, Teil I, Region Aragon (Catalog)
2003 En Route, Kunst für Autofahrer, Teil III, Lodz
2004 Stipendiaten des Landes Brandenburg, Brandenbg. Kunstsammlungen, Cottbus (Catalog)
2004 Dialog Loci, Küstrin, Polen (Catalog)
2004 Anpfiff, Opel Live Center, Rüsselsheim
2005 Ball im Kopf, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg (Katalog)
2006 Die Schönheit der Chance, Institut für Moderne Kunst, Nürnberg
2006 Geld schießt keine Tore, Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim
2006 Normalnull, schwimmende Installationen, Berlin
2007 Unter Kiefern, Kunstwanderweg Hoher Flaeming, Land Brandenburg
2008 Haus Nr.9, Project Village Resort Brandenburg? im Stadtraum von Beelitz
2008 Aesthetics and Emotion, Galerie K, Freiburg
2009 Internal Compasses, SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio
2009 Social Structure, participative sculpture, Vox Populi, Belzig
2010 Wiepersdorfer Kasten, Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf
2010 Nach draußen (towards outside), Faktor_L, Luisenforum Potsdam
2010 5760 Minutes-Synchronous Recordings, fortress Burg Eisenhardt Belzig (two people exibition)
2011 Andererseits, Schwules Museum, Berlin
2011 La Cascade, Festival Les Accroche-Coers, Angers, France
2012 Punainen ja Koivut, Installation, Saari Residence, Mietoinen, Finland (S)
2012 Finnish Dream, public art work, Vaasa, Finland (S)
2012 Mirage, public art work, Kosice, Slowakei (S)
2012 5 Octaeders, public art work, Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal (two people exibition)
2013 Some Ways Open Space, Project Upper Spaces/Lower Spaces, Haifa, Israel
2013 FIFA Worldcup 2006 series, Sports Spectator Exibition, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
2013 Mountain, Sofia Arsenal Museum of contemporary art, Watertower Art Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria
2013 Uusi Naapuri, On the thresholds of privacy, Mynämäki, Finland
2013 Kimono Stones, Kamiyama, Japan
2013/2014 Shimobun Cloud, Kamiyama, Japan (S)
2015 Irrläufer, Projekt Erratiker, Baitz
2015 Kern, Zwitschermaschine, Berlin (S)
2015 Abwicklung, Förderpreisträger d. Landes Brandenburg, Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus (Catalog)
2016 Bodenprobe, Zechenpark Barsinghausen, IntraRegionale Hannover (Catalog)
2017 Flying Carpet, Darb1718 Art Center, Cairo
2017 Broken, Inter!m Festival, Grabenstetten
2018 Fountain, Park of Castle Kaarz, Mecklenburg
2019 Out and about, Kunstraum Retz, Austria
2019 Cocoon, Parco della Filandetta, Valdobbiadene, Italy
2020 Shaking Space, project space MAG3, Vienna
2021 Landeinwärts, Landtag Land Brandenburg, Potsdam
2022 Ausgespielt., Kunsthalle Bahnitz, Land Brandenburg
Catalogs:
Susken Rosenthal, Raumerfahrungen - Installationen 1992-2002,
Editor Herbert Schirmer, Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung 2002, ISBN 3-930382-73-3
Susken Rosenthal - Workin with Space 2003-2019, authors edition 2019
Realization of art projects as artistic director of Kunstpflug e.V.
1995 foundation of the art association Kunstpflug e.V. in the region of Hoher Fläming, Potsdam-Mittelmark, Brandenburg1995 Konsum", art in former DDR-shops (with C. Hoffmann u. B. Maubrey)
1996-98 Baitz m. Klang (Baitz with sound), Sound art festival (cooperation with Giannozzo e.V., Berlin)
1997 Belziger Kunsttage, in the public space of Bad Belzig
1999 Areale 99 - Art in the industrial sector", Industral Objekts, machine art, performances, Brück- Linthe
2003 En Route - Art for drivers, Spanish-German-Polish cooperation project in Aragon (E), Hoher Fläming (D), Lodz (PL)
2005 Electronic Guys, Project with Benoit Maubrey and the Audio Gruppe, Beelitz-Heilstätten
2008-10 Leitung Kunsträume auf Burg Eisenhardt, Bad Belzig 2009 Vox Populi, Burg Eisenhardt, Bad Belzig
2009-10 Klangburg- Sound art exibition (cooperation with Singuhr, Berlin), Burg Eisenhardt, Bad Belzig
2011 On the thresholds of privacy / An den Schwellen von Brück, German-Finnish-Danish cooperation project in the public space of Brück, Land Brandenburg
2015 Project Erratiker, Scandinavian-German art project, Baitz, (with Otmar Sattel)
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