Susanne Rottenbacher

Susanne Rottenbacher (born 11 July 1969) is a German artist primarily concerned with light, color and installation.^[1]

Life and work

Installation "Freiheit!", Christuskirche, Cologne, 2012

Installation "Disassembly". Museum of Now, Berlin, 2019

Installation "Colours in disorder", DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, 2019

Susanne Rottenbacher studied stage design at Barnard College^[1] from 1988 to 1991 in New York (B.A.) and then (1991-1992) completed a degree in light (MSc) at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning in London. She worked as a set designer at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and as a light designer for the "LichtKunstLicht" planning office. In this context, among other things, she designed the lighting design for the Federal Chancellery and the new government buildings. She has been working as a freelance light artist since 2007. Susanne Rottenbacher creates expansive installations from sculptural elements that can best be described as light-colored bodies. Her sculptures are characterised by great lightness and transparency and change in dialogue with the surrounding space and times of day. They penetrate the surrounding space like three-dimensional drawings and thus reinterpret it. The organically curved forms seem to be in dynamic motion and at the same time frozen in time and space.^{[citation needed]}

Awards

1991	Josephine Paddock Fellowship, Columbia University, New York City
1992	Henry Bartlett Travel Fellowship to Prague, University College London
2004	General Electric Edison Award of Excellence
2005	IIDA Award of Merit, Illuminating Engineering Society
2009	Nomination for "Targetti Light Art Award 2009"
2013	First prize (call for entry), C.O.R. building Düsseldorf, permanent installation "Gustaf"
2016	Artist in Residence, Centre of Contemporary Art, Centro Cultural Andratx Mallorca

Exhibitions (selection)

2007: LICHTBERLIN, Parcours Großer Tiergarten Berlin, Group exhibition
2008: "Berlin im Licht", Märkisches Museum, Berlin, Group exhibition
2010: Lichtparcours Braunschweig 2010, Group exhibition
2011: "MAX", Max-Planck-Institut, Berlin, Solo exhibition
2012: "Freiheit", Christuskirche Köln, Art Cologne, Solo exhibition
2013: TINA B., The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, GASK gallery (Czech Museum of Fine Arts)
2014: "Scheinwerfer, Lichtkunst in Deutschland im 21. Jahrhundert", Kunstmuseum Celle
2014: Art Dubai, Salsali Private Museum, Dubai
2015: The Looking Glass Room's Exploding Inevitable - 11m2, Berlin, Solo exhibition
2015: German Cool - SPM Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, Group exhibition
2016: "Unpainted LAB 3.0. (Nate Hitchcock)", Kesselhalle München, Group exhibition
2017: "Signal, Lichtkunst aus der Sammlung Robert Simon", Kunstmuseum Celle,
2017: La Biennale di Venezia, Group exhibition "Body and Soul", Palazzo Pisani, UNPAINTED art fair
2017: "Disassembly", BOX Freiraum, Berlin, Solo exhibition
2018: Haus am Waldsee im Bikini Berlin, "The Twist 01", Solo exhibition
2018: "Border Matters", Kunsthalle 1, Centre of Contemporary Art, Centro Cultural Andratx Mallorca, Group exhibition
2018: "Commedia della Luce", Gallery SER, Centro Cultural Andratx Mallorca, Solo exhibition
2019 "Museum of Now", Berlin Art Society, Berlin, Group exhibition
2019 "Winterlicht", DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, Solo exhibition
2020 "PArt-Producers Art Platform", Rene Spiegelberger Stiftung, Hamburg, Group exhibition (digital)
2020 "In einem anderen Licht", Kunsthaus Dahlem Berlin, Solo exhibition
2021 "Im Schein der Sterne", Museum Starnberger See, Group Exhibition

References

^ ^a ^b "Article about Susanne Rottenbacher" (PDF). BOB, The international magazine of space design.

External links

[reflikethis-1] "Article about Susanne Rottenbacher" (PDF). BOB, The international magazine of space design.

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