Susanne Rottenbacher (born 11 July 1969) is a German artist primarily concerned with light, color and installation. [1]
Susanne Rottenbacher (born 11 July 1969) is a German artist primarily concerned with light, color and installation. [1]
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. [2]
| 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 |
| 2018 | 1st place KAB competition board area "Headquarters Evangelische Bank eG", Kassel |
| 2022 | Shortlist Nomination: Art in Architecture Competition Extension of the Federal Chancellery, Berlin |
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