The White Line A 103-metre-long white line winds through part of the sculpture park – a ribbon that ends or begins in Lake Bolsena. It is a temporary site-specific installation in the truest sense of the word. White, a symbol of purity, clarity and peace, in many...
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 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...
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...
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 – 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...
Journey of Ulysses On three standing iron circles are indicated the countries that Odysseus has reached during his 20 year long travels. Between them stretch red lianas that mark his winding paths. In the installation, confusing entanglements and nets mark the...
“The Egg of Origin”, 2012 dimensions: 8’6″ x 7’11” x 12’16″materials: wire frame, drawings of various kinds, mounted on mesh and lattice work, ribbons painted with asphalt paint, ink on paper venue: Steffisburg...
“Ritmo e Linea”, Orvieto 2010 Exhibition in the context of Umbria Jazz 2010 Chiostro di San Giovanni di Orvieto (cloisters of Saint John in Orvieto), Italy Strips of canvas, mats of wire, 10,50 x 10,50 x 4m (32’81” x 32’81” x...
“Seilzeichnung Synapse”, (Field drawing), 2009 site specific installation in the context of “Atelier Aperti 0″, Orvieto, Italy 600m (1968’) of rope, 77 wooden poles, 51 aluminum rods, 17 x 17 m (55’77″x 55’77”) ...
“The Flying Temple”, Land Art Exhibition “KunstLandschaft 2006/2008″ Büsum , Northsea, Germany 300 wooden poles, aluminium anchorage 1700m (5577’428″) rope, 50m (164’042″) wiring, 32,50 x 14,30m (105′ x ...
dimensions: variable Campus California State University, Turlock/ CA,USA...
Dimensions: 4 x 16 m (13.123 x 52.493 ft) Materials: ribbon grids, ropes, steal wire Venue: in front of the Galerie im Elbeforum Brunsbuettel, Germany Exhibition: Susanne Kessler: Bilder, Bücher und Gebilde ...
“Il Fregio di Palermo”, 2001 (The Frieze of Palermo) Dimensions: 1,50 x 30 m (4.921 x 98.425 ft) Materials: reinforcement wire materials, iron sheets, gloss paint, ropes, rubber-cut-outs Venue: Cantieri alla Zisa / Goethe Institut Palermo, Italy...
Ausmaße: 5,00 x 4,00 x 4,50 m Materialien: Ausgeschnittene Asphaltfarben-Zeichnung auf Nessel, montiert auf Netze, gehӓngt an Eisenstangen und Stahlseilen Ausstellungsort: über dem See im Park vom Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg Hau Ausstellung: Susanne Kessler:...
19’8″ x 68’11” ft Materials: Aluminum, iron frames, iron pipes, canvas, drawings on netting, asphalt paint on cotton cloth, cut outs mounted on netting Venue: Bonn / Bad Godesberg over the river Rhine in front of the Petersberg, Germany...
“Recording disappearance”, 1996 1,80 x 2 x 11 m a modified army tent Lalit Kala Academi, New Delhi, India...
“The Babel Mesh”, 1996 6 x 1,20 m Mumbai,...
— Exhibition Venues New Delhi 1996 Hyderabad 1996 Lahore 1996 Chennai 1995 Documentation Susanne Kessler in India and...
“The Universe Moves”, 1995, 4 x 5,50 x 11 m, Chennai,...
45’11” x 68’10″50-year old fisherman scaffold, dismantled from the Tiber River delta in Rome, mounted on a bunker of World War II on the west coast of Denmark, winddrawing of the human inner ear, diameter 19’68” asphalt paint on...
dimensions: 13’12” x 32’80” x 39’37” materials: wood poles, string, muslin, paper, asphalt paintr venue: quarry near Dusseldorf, later the Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany ...