Jerusalem Thorn 2016
Installation: Jerusalem Thorn Dimensions: 386 x 270 x 275 cm (12 ft.66 in. x 8 ft.38 in. x 9 ft. 02 in.) Materials: wire, tape, fabric, plastic bags, plastic net Group exhibition: Berge versetzen Venue: Galerie Ursula Walter, Dresden, 2016 A city like...Jerusalem יְרוּשָׁלַיִם القُدس
Installation: Jerusalem יְרוּשָׁלַיִם القُدس Years: 2013 -2015 Dimension of the installation (variable): 8,22 m x 5,13 m x 2,53 m (27 ft. 8 in. x 18 ft. 5 in. x 8 ft. 4 in.) Materials: wire, tape, fabric, plastic netting Venues: “Women call for Peace”, Andrew...Mapping Jerusalem 2013-2023
Mapping JerusalemJerusalem, a geographical gateway between East and West, is home to the three monotheistic religions of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity – the source of both its greatest gifts and its most intractable challenges.What kind of city is this that, on the...Oceans 2021-2023
Oceans In her oceanic research, Susanne Kessler shapes and transforms seascapes, keeping their flow, movement and agitation present and alive. The sea, based on Karl Jaspers is a parable of freedom and transcendence, but you have to endure the fact that there is no...Borders and Boundless 2017-2023
All Frontiers of the Earth Inventing lines according to aesthetic criteria is Kessler’s specialty. Her “Mappa Mundi“ (2018) shows demarcation lines and the dispersal of boundaries in a crush of lines that distance the heart and mind in order to create a construct that...All Frontiers of the Earth 2019-2023
All Frontiers of the Earth Dimensions: 300 x 135 cm, d 84 cmMaterial: wire, tape, paper, yarn, netting Exhibition: Susanne Kessler. Cartographic line works, 2023 Venue: Kunstmuseum Bayreuth All Frontiers of the Earth – Overture (first image) Dimensions:...Mappa Mundi – Continents 2018
Mappa Mundi – Continents Dimensions: 14 iron frames in different sizes, wall installation of 800 x 380 cm, d 30 cmMaterial: steel frame, wire, tape, paper, yarn Venue: Museo d’Arte Contemporaneo di Roma, MACRO, 2018...Europa 2017-2018
Wall installation Europe, 2018 Dimensions: 220 x 180 cm Material: Stiff coarse and fine soft mesh, wire wrapped with cotton fabric, cut-outs of paper drawings, yarn Exhibition: Susanne Kessler. Odissea, 2018 Venue: Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum, DEThe wall...Boundless 2022
Boundless 10 iron frames hang horizontally from the ceiling on wires at different heights. They float in space, terraced irregularly over an area of 7 x 7 m. The height can vary, here it is 3 m. On this movable steel ensemble are lied the wired drawings of “all the...Line Catcher 2021
Line Catcher A large rope drawing 10 m high hangs between two pine trees at the ancient harbour of Rome (Porto Flavio), where the sea once washed onto the quay walls. It appears like a spontaneous ink drawing in the empty sky that would normally be full of contrails...Three Landscape Tears 2019-2020
Three landscape tears As in her earlier works, Susanne Kessler addresses water as the origin and lifeline. She goes to the sources of Eyach and Schmiecha, and follows the two rivers in the city, one of which flows into the North Sea via Neckar and Rhine, while the...Mappa Mundi 2018
Machine embroidery Material: gauze cloths, sewing thread, iron rods, iron mesh, wire Dimensions: 300 cm (variable) x 220 cm depth 100 cm Exhibition: Mappa Mundi in “Susanne Kessler. Undated” Venue: Kunstverein Lippstadt, DE, 2022 Further...Peregrinazione 2018
Peregrinazione – Meandering Line The materialized course of the line of an odyssey around Cape Horn, documented in the log book of the ship, when it got into trouble and vagabonded for more than three month in the heavy sea, has now grown into an outdoor...Odissea 2018
Odissea The indoor installation “Odissea” consists out of two wall works, South America and the green and homely isle of Föhr and an installation on the floor, representing the wandering line of the journey there where Atlantic and Pacific meet. All three enter into...A Mark in the Sea 2017
A Mark in the Sea During her second stay as Artist in Residence on the isle of Föhr, Kessler realized an experiment with the help of the tides of the North Sea. Kessler brought in at low tide three chestnut logs, planted them deep into the mudflats about 100 m (328...Ulysses in Cosenza 2017
Ulysses in Cosenza – The Line of Ulysses Originally I wanted to draw a line from Castello Svevo through the city to the river. I modified this idea with which I travelled to Cosenza when, during my morning explorations through the city, I found many places that...“Gold and Tar Project”, Exhibition Macht Geld, Galerie VBK Haus der Künstler, Berlin 2017
A new metamorphosis of the Gold and Tar Projects happens 2017 in the Berlin in the exhibition ” money – power “: here the same materials, the golden painted and tarred ribbons as well as all drawings, the fine wire or fabric mesh, the glued...Gold and Tar Project 2011-2017
The „Gold and Tar Project” offers a visible manifestation of the two poles which characterize human life: gold rains down from a golden cloud while, at the same time, so does the flow of tar. Wealth and happiness are just as fleeting as a cloud, constantly threatened by shadowy perils.
550 x 460 x 350 cm (18’ x 15’ x 11’6”)
Strips of canvas, paper, plastic netting, wire mesh, 2 innersprings of mattress, circuit plastic discs, acrylic paint, bitumen, ink
Venues: Frauenmuseum, Bonn; OSTRALE 14, Dresden
Exhibitions: Moneta. 2011; Ostrale 14