The opening of the exhibition will take place at 2pm on 28th February 2019, in NEON gallery.
The exhibition is open until 15 March 2019.
The unversity authorities and the curatorextend the invitation for
THE LECTURE AND MEETING WITH THE ARTIST -
Friday, 1st MArch 2019, at 12:00 midday, in the conference room 410, CSU.CI
The exhibition is curated by Katarzyna Koczyńska-Kielan
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The multitude and multishapes of Susanne Kessler's work, which within the overall project consists of objects, models, films, drawings and installations, is extremely impressive.
In addition, it is fascinating to see how all works exhibit autonomy while also connecting with each other, and referring to the line that began at the origin of all creation-the line that interconnects everything. In a quasi-organic growth process the line develops continuously – at times very abstractly, at times by way of linking and condensing. A more variegated artistic vision, like a musical fugue, is hardly imaginable.
(Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen, director of the Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum 2018)
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Susanne Kessler was born in Wuppertal, lives in Rome and Berlin.
She studied painting and graphics at the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin and at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London (MfA). She won the DAAD scholarship, the scholarship of the Goslar Kaisering, the Paul Strecker Prize of the City of Mainz. Work trips took her to Ethiopia, Guatemala, Mali, Pakistan, India, China and Iran. All these places have left their mark on her work. As a guest lecturer, she taught at California State University (CSU) and as a professor of sculpture and drawing at City University New York (CUNY). Since 2005, she participates in the "Viewing Program" of the Drawing Center New York. She prefers large installations in indoor and outdoor space. She had solo exhibitions, among others, in the Von-der-Heydt Museum Wuppertal, Gustav Lübcke Hamm Museum, Landesmuseum Mainz, Kunstverein Speyer, Klingenmuseum Solingen, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Museum Schloss Moyland Castle, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, National College of Art Lahore, PK, Kunst Museum Solingen, Goethe-Institut Rome, IT, Goethe-Institut Washington/DC, USA; Sala Santa Rita, Rome, IT, Museum Maam, Rome, IT, Cantieri alla Zisa, Palermo, IT, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, IN, Lalit Kala Academi New Delhi, IN, Taleghani Artist Forum Tehran, IR, Andrew Shiva Gallery New York, USA, Galerie M Berlin, Foundation DominoArt Reutlingen; American University Museum, Katzen Art Center, Washington/DC,USA, Museum BoCS Art, Cosenza, IT and the Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum.
