Suse Bauer - DIE WERKZEUGE GEHORCHTEN IHR SIE STELLTEN SICH IN REIHEN AUF UND STEINE WURDEN ZU STAEDTEN

Opening reception:
Friday, April 29, 2011, 7 - 10 pm

April 30, 2011: 11 am - 9 pm
May 1, 2011: 11 am - 6 pm

Duration of the exhibition:
April 30 - June 11, 2011
Wednesday - Saturday, 2 - 6 pm


With the programmatic exhibition title 'Die Werkzeuge gehorchten ihr sie stellten sich in Reihen auf und Steine wurden zu Staedten' (The tools obeyed her, they formed a line and stones became towns), Suse Bauer opens up a construction-like system of materialized possibilities. Her works on paper and relief ceramics are elaborately readable, open constructions, options with utopian potential, which defiantly convey the hope for the beauty of thought. Bauer forms the motifs of her works on paper by utilizing pastose layers of oil paint and oil pastels. From multifaceted surface structures, geometric abstract compositions emerge with a pronounced ductile presence. In the most recent ceramics, Bauer composes modular elements on a grid and realizes small lyrical islands. Both in her works on paper and her relief ceramics, Suse Bauer transforms emblematic gestures of the modernistic formal vocabulary into her individualized pictorial language. Isolated figurative picture elements, signs, and symbols merge collage-like through subjective appropriation and restructuring, producing an abstract medium for picture strategies of charging meaning. Notwithstanding their indissolubility, revoking prefabricated pictorial formulas, the works of Suse Bauer resolutely stipulate an individual process of interpretation and knowledge: Man creates his world!

Born in Erfurt, Germany, 1979; lives and works in Hamburg.

2000-2005: Studied at the Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften, Hamburg (illustration).

Scholarships: 2004 scholarship of the DAAD: Studied at the Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem; scholarship of the Deutsch-Israelischen Gesellschaft.

Solo exhibitions: 2010 Galerie Conradi, Hamburg; 2009 Kunsthaus Erfurt; Kunstverein Buchholz; 2008 Galerie Tinderbox, Hamburg; 2007 Galerie Feinkunst Krueger, Hamburg; 2006 Galerie Hafen + Rand, Hamburg; 2005 Kunst und Kulturverein Chez Linda, Hamburg; Galerie S.K.A.M., Hamburg.

Group exhibitions (selection): 2010 Kunsthaus Hamburg; Kunsthaus Hamburg, INDEX 10; Galerie Pankow, Berlin; Schleswig-Holstein-Haus, Schwerin; 2009 Timothy Taylor Gallery, London; Galerie Hafenrand, Hamburg; 2008 Kunstklub, Berlin; Kunsthaus Hamburg; Kunstverein Hamburg; Westwerk, Hamburg; Kunsthaus Erfurt; 2007 Foyer für junge Kunst der Hypo Vereinsbank Hamburg; Timothy Taylor Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven.

Established in a studio house in 2004, the gallery presents trend-setting contemporary art.

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