Susanne M. Winterling

Susanne M. Winterling works across a variety of media including film, photography, sculpture, and performance. The artist is primarily known for her time-based installations which critically engage the representation of reality. Prevailing modernist concepts, power structures and hierarchical historiographies are captured and investigated in her work in the form of spatial constellations. Her practice emphasizes what pure information and form leaves out – including a sensual approach to media and material informed by the understanding of immersion and power as energy flows. With an emphasis on enhancing our perceptual and critical consciousness, Winterling undertakes affective and material-based research that highlights the subjective interaction between producers, viewers, materials and species in our ecology. 

Winterlings artistic research into ecology, epistemology and science on the particular theme of bioluminescence developed by now into the larger scientific and artistic research network Planetary sensing which amongst other things aims to set up an infrastructure for a research and education lab  where humans and non-humans work together and support each other. 

This and other research reflect within Winterlings project Pandora’s Box a platform and archive of investigations stories and interviews around aesthetic solidarity and empowerment. The larger production Shelter (lighthouse of fragility) incorporates the material aerogel, that combined already in 2013 Winterlings interest in sustainable contemporary material and her research in bioluminescence and luminosity in the ecosystem in relation to her praxis of photography, film and installation.

2021

• TEMPERATE. under your skin, nanocarriers directed through the web of life, Schering Stiftung, Berlin, DE 🌊
• Les Fleurs Du Mal - Wo Alles Ungeheure So Wie Eine Blume Sprießt, Parrotta Contemporary Art, Cologne und Burg Lede, Bonn, DE (cat.)

2020

• In desert times, (w/ The Kalpana), Kunstverein Freiburg, DE 🌊
• Facing New Challenges: Water, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, AT
• Poetic Gardening, Burg Lede, Bonn, DE (cat.)
• The Sea Around Us, The Model, Sligo, IE
• We Are Ocean, ARTPORT Making Waves, Ocean Summit Kiel, DE and Plage du Prophète, Surf rider Foundation, Marseille, FR

2019

• The Shape of the Tortoise (w/ The Kalpana), project 88, Mumbai, IN 🌊
• Schwerkraft und Atem, Parrotta Contemporary Art, Cologne, DE 🌊
• We Are Ocean, ARTPORT Making Waves, Futurium, Berlin, DE
• ART PLACE/ QUI VIVE!, HÆRK, Kunstplass Contemporary, Oslo, NO
• A Seed’s A Star, Loyal, Stockholm, SE
• SPIEGELUNGEN | FlächenTiefenSelbstbetrachtungen, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg, LX
• Freigänger/Åpen Soning, The Knast, Berlin, DE
• Barents spectacle, Kirkenes, NO
• Leben mit Pflanzen, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, DE
• Suddenly gave the effect of sunlight, Melk galleri, Oslo, NO

2018

• Gravitational currents and the life magic, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, CN 🌊
• Océans. Une vision du monde au rythme des vagues, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, FR
• Spiegelungen, alte Feuerwache Projektraum, Berlin, DE
• Lulea Biennale, Lulea, SW
• Between Bodies, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA/US
• Variations on Time, ACUD Galerie Karma Ltd. Extended, Berlin, DE

2017

• passage for the living lights, site specific installation commissioned by Residency 80121, Napoli, IT 🌊
• Otium – Corruption and the Dash, Palazzo Marigliano, Naples, IT
• Tidalectics, TBA 21, Vienna, AT
• Myths of the Marble, Henie Onstad Kunstcenter, Oslo, NO and ICA, Philadelphia, PA/US
• Nodes on fish, stars and the social, Black Box Theater, Oslo, NO
• An Inventory of Shimmers, MIT List, Boston, MA/US
• The Finger that Shows the Moone Never Moons, Dan Gunn Galerie, Berlin, DE
• Conditions of political Choreography, NBK Berlin, DE

2016

• Conditions of political Choreography, CCA, Tel Aviv, IS
• A momentary lapse of reason, Public Access, Chicago, IL/US
• In Search of Radical Incomplete #3: Black Hole Hunters, Kunstverein Langenhagen, DE
• On loan, INCA, Seattle, WA/US
• The Hellstrom Chronicle, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, DE

2015

• Drift, Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart, DE 🌊
• Future Queer, ARK Culture, Istanbul, TR
• Twenty Two, Tempo Rubato, Tel Aviv, IS
• Shadow Scenes, Cinnamon Colomboscope, Colombo, LK
• Jádore, Kunsthalle Lingen, DE
• Streetbodies Space Elevator, Cologne Room, Los Angeles, CA/US
• Lulennial Part 1: A Slight Gestuary, Lulu, México City, MX
• Liebe deine Maschiene, Kunstverein Hildesheim, DE
• Supercommunity live: The Climatic Unconscious, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, SK/CA
• Porifera Camp, Soloshows, São Paulo, BR
• CORRUPTION: Everbody Knows…, e-flux NY, NY/US

2014

• Luminous Bodies, Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo, JP 🌊
• Complicity, Kunstverein Amsterdam, N 🌊
• Introspective Men, Madder 139, London 🌊
• Immersion in minor, Overbeck Gesellschaft, Lübeck, DE 🌊
• Empathetic Vision, Dinos and the Tamer of Horses, Ludlow 38, New York, NY/US 🌊
• RRBGGGRWW (polysemes), Grand Century, New York, NY/US
• Nature after Nature, Fridericianum Kassel, DE (cat.)
• Shirts vs Skin, New Galerie, New York, NY/US
• The White Elephant, after the butcher, Berlin, DE

2013

• Shelter The Lighthouse of Fragility, artSouth: collaborations commission, Keyhaven Nature 
Reserve, New Forest, UK 🌊
• Game Heart Matter, Silverman Gallery, San Franscisco, CA/U 🌊
• Pocketpark, Lüttgenmejier, Berlin, DE 🌊
• Tournament d’object, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen, DK
• Girls can tell, Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst Bremen, DE
• Querung des Gleichers, Künstlerhaus Hamburg, DE
• Don't stop the dance, Tempo Rubato, Tel Aviv, IS
• Vielleicht sehe ich auch zu tief in die Dinge hinein, Overbeck Gesellschaft, Lübeck, DE

2012

• Das virtuose Haus, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, AT 🌊
• Susanne M. Winterling, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, AT 🌊
• Nox and Shelter, Tempo Rubato, Tel Aviv, IS 🌊
• Vertigo, AYE dunkelblau, Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart, DE 🌊
• A disagreeable Object, SculptureCenter, New York, NY/US
• En todo y en todas partes, Kurimanzutto, México City, ME
• Made in Germany Zwei, Hannover, DE (cat.)
• The I is another, Kunstverein Freiburg, DE
• Über Dich, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, DE
• Behind the light, Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, PT

2011

• Tarmac, Sandy Brown, Berlin, DE 🌊
• Complement for Company, Fotogalleriet Oslo, NO (cat.) 🌊
• The Promise, Galerie Crevecoeur, Paris, FR
• Anfang Gut. Alles Gut. Aktualisierungen zu Sieg über die Sonne, Basso Berlin, DE and KUB Arena Bregenz, AT
• Kenwin, Kunstpavillon Innsbruck, Tiroler Künstlerschaft, Innsbruck, AT
• Videoshow, House of Gaga, México City, MX
• Coming after, Powerplant, Toronto, CA
• Abstractions sentimentales, CNAIE, Paris, FR

2010

• Prototyp 2 (Neue Bude) (w/ Ruth May), Kunsthalle Lingen, DE 🌊
• Susanne M. Winterling, Kunstpreis der Stadt Nordhorn, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, DE (cat.) 🌊
• They Called Each Other Horses, Centre d’Édition Contemporaine, Geneva, CH 🌊
• Through the Looking Glass, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, DE (cat.) 🌊
• Evas Arche und der Feminist, (w/ Gerry Bibby), New York, NY/US 🌊
• Von realer Gegenwart: Marcel Broodthaers heute, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, DE (cat.)
• Milk Drop Coronet: 30 Ausstellungen zur Virtuosität des Dinglichen, Camera Austria, Graz, AT
• Lovingly, Rose Peebles, Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, CA/US
• ...nur Papier, und doch die ganze Welt..., 200 Jahre Graphische Sammlung, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, DE (cat.)
• Encadrées, Centre d’Édition Contemporaine, Geneva, CH
• Aftermath, Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto, JP
• Five Year Anniversary Exhibition, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL/US
• Nobody Gets to See the Wizard. Not Nobody. Not Nohow, Anna Kustera, New York, NY, US
• Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree, Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin, DE
• Antigrav, Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart, DE
• You’ll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties, The Center for Endless Progress, Berlin, DE

2009

• …Dreaming is Nursed in Darkness, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, DE 🌊
• Die ums Feuer sind, M.1 Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt, DE (cat.) 🌊
• The Portrait of the Artist as Torquato Tasso & the Stairs for the Servants, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, IT 🌊
• …Of Mice and Blood (for E.K.), Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin, DE 🌊
• Susanne M. Winterling, The Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO/US 🌊
• Susanne M. Winterling, BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna, AT 🌊
• Alliance, Sisterhood, and the Rope, Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo, JP 🌊
• Little Theatre of Gestures, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, CH / Konsthall, Malmö, SE (cat.)
• Scorpio’s Garden, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, DE (cat.
• Warm Summer Days, Indoors, Sandy Brown, Berlin, DE
• T: Quelques Possibilités de Textes, Centre d’Edition Contemporaine, Geneva, CH
• Don’t Expect Anything, Francesca Minini, Milan, IT
• Modern Modern, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, US (cat.)

2008

• Isadora’s Scarf, Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart, DE 🌊
• Pattern Recognition of a Collar to Idealism (Dedication …), Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA/US 🌊
• Precious Future II, Rosphoto State Centre of Photography, St Petersburg, RU 🌊
• All Tomorrow’s Parties: Stage, ArtBasel Statements, CH (cat.)
• Twice Upon a Time, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, AT and Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA/US
• A Starting Point: Intrude Art & Life 366, Dynamics of Change and Growth, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, CH
• Pollen, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt am Main, DE
• Conversations and Readings, Silberkuppe, Berlin, DE
• Multiple, Ke Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, CN
• When Things Cast No Shadow, 5. Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, DE (cat.)
• My Dear Deer, Qbox Gallery, Athens, GR

2007

• I’ll Be Your Mirror, But I’ll Dissolve…, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, NY/US 🌊
• Eve’s Arc and the Feminist, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY/US 🌊
• L'Union (Fondazione Volume), Rome, IT 🌊
• …They Told You the Future Will Be…, Moscow Center for the Arts / Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, RU 🌊
• Migration Addicts, Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, CN
• Kostbaarheden en Bijzondere Vruchten, Aktualisierungsraum, Hamburg, DE
• Aspen 11, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt am Main, DE
• Josef Strau and Galerie Meerrettich, Vilma Gold, London, UK
• Door Slamming Festival, Mehringdamm 72, Berlin, DE

2006

• White Light (m.U. Sammlung J. Stoschek), Düsseldorf, DE 🌊
• EHF Überblick, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Berlin, DE
• Friction-Free, Christianssands Kunstforening, Kristiansand, NO
• The Galleries Show, Extra City, Antwerp, BE

2005

• A Skin Too Thin, Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin, DE 🌊
• Mise en Scene: In Swan’s World, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, CN 🌊

2004

• Was Ist in Meiner Wohnung Wenn Ich Nicht Da Bin, Berlin, DE (cat.)
• Faxecondi, Futura, Prague, CZ

2003

• Rituale, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Berlin, DE
• As Soon as Possible, PAC, Milan, IT
• Recycling the Future, Biennale di Venezia, IT

2002

• Pret-à-Perform, Via Farini, Milan, IT
• Body Basics II, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, DE