SUSANNE ROTTENBACHER

STUDIES

1991
B.A. Theatre/set design at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, USA.

1992
M.Sc. Light/lighting at Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, London, UK.

1992 – 1996
Assistant set designer and set designer of Deutsche Oper Berlin, DE.

2001
Lighting designer, Licht Kunst Licht (chancellery, government buildings).

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018
Commedia della Luce, Gallery SER, Centre of Contemporary Art, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, ESP.
Schaufensterausstellung at Bikini Berlin, The Twist 01, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, DE.

2017/2018
Disassembly, BOX Freiraum, Berlin, DE.
Commedia della Luce, Exhibition room IrminRodenstockBeck, Munich, DE.

2015
11m2, Art and Project Space, Berlin, DE.

2014
Gallery Teapot, Cologne, DE.

2013
Soloprojekt VOLTA NY, New York, USA.

2012
3 Kontrapunkte für 20 Ringe, Kunsthaus Grosse Bleichen, Hamburg Art Week, Hamburg, DE.
Freiheit!, Christuskirche, Cologne, DE.

2011
MAX, Max Planck Institut, Berlin, DE.
6 Kontrapunkte für 22 Ringe, Gallery Teapot, Cologne, DE.

2009
My rising spectrum, Max Planck Institut, Berlin, DE.
Exhibition room “Wallrafplatz 1”, Düsseldorf Cologne Open Galleries, DE.

2008
Synthetic Landscapes, Gallery Teapot, Cologne, DE.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018
Border Matters, Kunsthalle 1, Centre of Contemporary Art, CCA Andratx Mallorca, ESP.

2017
La Biennale di Venezia, Group Exhibition “Body and Soul”, Palazzo Pisani, in cooperation with UNPAINTED art, Venice, IT.
Signal, Lichtkunst aus der Sammlung Robert Simon, Kunstmuseum Celle, DE.
Szenenwechsel, Schilder Consulting Pop Up Galerie, Frankfurt, DE.

2016
L´oiseau présente…Kaleidoskop, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin, DE.
Der Flug der Königinnen. Women at work, ROMPONE Kunstsalon, Cologne, DE.
The Difference between Sunrise and Sunset, Castle Tüssling, DE.
Unpainted LAB 3.0., Kesselhalle Munich, curated by Nate Hitchcock, Munich, DE.
deLight, Gallery FeldbuschWiesner, Berlin, DE.

2015/2016
GERMAN COOL, Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, ARE.

2014
Vienna International Art Fair, Vienna, AUT.
Art Dubai, Salsali Private Museum Dubai, ARE.

2013
Scheinwerfer, Museum of Art, Celle, DE.
Contemporary Istanbul, Galerie artOnInstanbul, Istanbul, TUR.
Spectrum, the power of colours, Anacapri, IT.
TINA B., The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, GASK gallery, Prague, CZE.
Rosebud, curated by Jutta Ritterskamp, Christuskirche Cologne, DE.
VOLTA Basel, CHE.
Shine A Light, Exhibition room Manske, Berlin, DE.

2010
Lichtparcours Braunschweig 2010, Braunschweig, DE.
Transparency in progress, Dialog IV: Beijing-Jena, Volksbad Jena, DE.
Skulpturen unterm Turm, Kulturforum in Herz Jesu e.V., Cologne, DE.
Offener Raum Eins, Gallery Grazia Blumerg, Recklinghausen, DE.

2009
Lys over Lolland, Rodbyhavn, Dänemark, DNK.

2008
Berlin im Licht, Märkisches Museum, Berlin, DE.
Tape modern 02, in assoc. with Berlinbiennale 05 & Heidestrasse Galleries, Berlin, DE.
Destructionconstruction, Gallery Teapot, Cologne, DE.

2007
LICHTBERLIN, Grosser Tiergarten, Berlin, DE.

2006
8. Art International Zürich, Installation, Zürich, CHE.
Talents in Residence, Former Federal Railways Authority, Cologne, DE.

AWARDS

2016
Artist in Residence, Centre of Contemporary Art, CCA, Andratx Mallorca, ESP.

2013
First prize, art competition C.O.R. building Düsseldorf, permanent installation “Gustaf” (foyer).

2009
Nomination for Targetti Light Art Award.

2005
IIDA Award of Merit, IESNA (Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-House, National Assembly Administration, Berlin), DE.

2004
GE Edison Award of Excellence (Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-House, National Assembly Administration, Berlin), DE.

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1992
Henry Bartlett Travel Fellowship to Prague, Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, London, UK.

1991
Josephine Paddock Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, USA.