Susanne Rottenbacher

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The artist at her studio, 2013

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

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Life & Work

Installation "Freiheit!", Christuskirche, Cologne, 2012 Frei 08.jpg
Installation "Freiheit!", Christuskirche, Cologne, 2012
Installation "Disassembly". Museum of Now, Berlin, 2019 Disassembly 2 lo.jpg
Installation "Disassembly". Museum of Now, Berlin, 2019
Installation "Colours in disorder", DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, 2019 Colours in disorder lo.jpg
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. [2]

Awards

1991Josephine Paddock Fellowship, Columbia University, New York City
1992Henry Bartlett Travel Fellowship to Prague, University College London
2004General Electric Edison Award of Excellence
2005IIDA Award of Merit, Illuminating Engineering Society
2009Nomination for "Targetti Light Art Award 2009"
2013First prize (call for entry), C.O.R. building Düsseldorf, permanent installation "Gustaf"
2016Artist in Residence, Centre of Contemporary Art, Centro Cultural Andratx Mallorca
20181st place KAB competition board area "Headquarters Evangelische Bank eG", Kassel
2022Shortlist Nomination: Art in Architecture Competition Extension of the Federal Chancellery, Berlin

Exhibitions (selection)

Further reading

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References

  1. 1 2 "Article about Susanne Rottenbacher" (PDF). BOB, The international magazine of space design.
  2. https://www.susannerottenbacher.de/cv.php