CV – susanne britz

1974 born in Neuwied am Rhein
lives and works in Berlin since 2005

Education
1995-2001 Studies of Fine Arts & Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Tutor for Epistemology, Research Assistant Art Theory
2002 advanced studies in photography | class of Prof. Dr. Vladimir Spacek

Scholarships and Awards
2022 Scholarship “NEUSTART KULTUR”, Foundation Kunstfonds, Bonn
2021 “NEUSTART KULTUR” grant for digital mediation formats, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin
2020 KUR(ona) Fellowship Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems
2018 Prize winner Losito Art Award “Integration”
2012 BRITA Art Award for Artistic Photography (2nd prize), Wiesbaden
Project Grant Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop
2011 Scholarship Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
2009 Prize winner “junger westen”, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
2008 Scholarship Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop
2007 Scholarship Ostrava, Czech Republic
2006 Scholarship Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf
2004 Nominated for the Vordemberge-Gildewart Scholarship
2002 Scholarship Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems
“honored artist”, digital new art award, “homeless at home”, Frankfurt
2001 Prize winner Salzburg – Scholarship of the city of Mainz | class of Ernst Caramelle
2000 Scholarship of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

Solo exhibitions

2023 “CIRCUIT, Susanne Britz”, Studio im HOCHHAUS, Berlin
2022 “ÜBER GÄNGE”, Gallery in the German Order Castle, Münnerstadt
“constellar”, Susanne Britz & Maja Rohwetter”, Axel Obiger, Berlin
2021 “Let us find new pictures!”, Made in Balmoral, Bad Ems
2020 “transformer, Susanne Britz & Mia Hochrein”, Inselgalerie, Berlin
2015 “lirum larum laborum, Susanne Britz & malatsion”, Kunstverein Ahlen
2013 “Laboratoire des possibles, Susanne Britz & malatsion”, Kunstverein Bellevue-Saal, Wiesbaden
2012 “Situative Systeme, Susanne Britz & Marcus Ahlers”, Kunstverein Neukölln, Berlin
2010 “neonbird”, cabinet at the Kunsthaus Essen | “Raumgänger”, gallery in the Saalbau, Berlin
2009 “transit”, photography, Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf
2007 “ava ost”, Gallery Jáma 10, Ostrava, Czech Republic
2006 “urban biotic project”, participative installation, 48 STUNDEN NEUKÖLLN, Berlin
2002 “in vitro”, exhibition series Balmoral Fellows, Bad Ems

Group exhibitions
2023 “ZIMMER frei”, Axel Obiger, Berlin | “Die Obiger Galaxis, Compiling Caspar David “, Axel Obiger, Berlin |
2022 “FLUX4ART”, Landesmuseum Mainz | “detect – zeichnend Welt begreifen”, Galerie Parterre, Berlin | “Passage”, Museum Treuchtlingen | “Lines Fiction”, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin | “Künstler:innen für Künstler:innen”, Kunstverein Neukölln | “still:leben”, Westwerk, Hamburg | 15 MIN OF FAME – Action for BerlinArtWeek, Skulpturverein, Auguststraße Berlin
2021 “ready made”, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg | “PINK PANIK”, Kunstverein Neukölln, Berlin | “Bilder zur Straße”, Offspace io lux, Berlin
2020 “6 out of 192”, Galerie oqbo, Berlin | “We used to build castles”. The Tub, Balinn Art Space, Pingeyri, Iceland | ” The collection brought to light”, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
2019 “Moments of transferring and storing”, AKKU, Stuttgart | “vorübermorgen”, 48 STUNDEN NEUKÖLLN, Kesselhaus KINDL, Berlin | “Flüchtige Entwürfe”, DKB, Berlin | “Versuch und Irrtum “, exhibition for Prolog X9, c/o Kunstpunkt, Berlin | “Iceland between us, No.4”, Bjarmanes, Skagaströnd, Iceland
2018 “Integration”, exhibition Losito Kunstpreis 2018, Löwenpalais der Stiftung Starke, Berlin | “10 years”, Kunstverein Neukölln, Berlin
2017 “agens & reagens”, rk gallery for contemporary art, Berlin | “paperfile #13”, oqbo, Berlin
2016 “Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf”, KunstHaus Potsdam | “lockere Wolken”, Prolog, booklet for drawing and text, Galerie Parterre, Berlin
2013 “von mir aus”, project space Alte Feuerwache, Berlin | “aus ernst wird spaß…das ironische in der kunst”, DKB , Berlin
2012 “BRITA Art Prize”, KunstHaus Wiesbaden | “Das Eigene und Andere in der Fotografie – eine Ausstellung für Hannah Höch” DKB, Berlin | “junger westen 1948 bis 2011, Die Preisträger”, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
2010 “Tapetenwechsel”, Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop
“Hildegard Project”, Valvegalleria, Northern Photografic Centre, Oulu, Finland
2009 “junger westen 2009”, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen | “strichwärts”, drawings, Galerie Pankow, Berlin | “Bleistiftkonzert”, Gallery Inga Kondeyne, Berlin
2008 “Glück gehabt”, art in the underground, Kunstverein NGBK, Berlin
2007 “Unverzagt, the Hotel Balzer”, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems
2005 “grenzenlos”, Plauen Art Association, Gallery in the Malzhaus, Plauen
2004 Works from the Rhineland-Palatinate Collection, KMK, Bonn | “klasse/atelier”, House of Art, Brno, Czech Republic | Exhibition for the Vordemberge-Gildewart Scholarship, Landesmuseum Wiesbaden
2003 “Emy-Roeder-Prize”, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
2002 “Deutsches Eck”, Gallery Vaclava Spaly, Prague, Czech Republic | “Grafinnova”, Ostrobothnian Museum, Vaasa, Finland | “and then there were nine”, Fruchthalle Kaiserslautern | “fremde Heimat”, digital new art award, Dominican Monastery, Frankfurt am Main

Publications
2023 “FLUX4ART, Art in Rhineland-Palatinate”, exhibition catalog, Mainz
“What was going on in 2022? Gezeichneter Jahresrückblick in der Galerie Parterre,” Elke Linda Buchholz, Tagesspiegel, 02.01.22
2022 “detect”, Prolog, booklet for drawing and text, edited by Anton Schwarzbach and Dorit Trebeljahr, Berlin
2021 “Vom Lied der Eskimos”, exhibition review “ready made”: Christoph Schütte, FAZ, Kultur, Rhein-Main-Zeitung, 27.10.2021 | “Re-“, Prolog, booklet for drawing and text, ed. by Anton Schwarzbach and Dorit Trebeljahr, Berlin | “Let us find new pictures!” Filmic exhibition documentation, Made in Balmoral in Bad Ems, video: kulturbuero nr5
2020 “what you don’t see, abstract”, exhibition catalog, edition timpani, Berlin | “Absage”, Prolog, booklet for drawing and text, ed. by Anton Schwarzbach & Dorit Trebeljahr, Berlin | “Die Sammlung ans Licht gebracht 4, Susanne Britz, o.T.”, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen | “Struktur(en) – Differenz(en)”, Prolog, booklet for drawing & text, ed. by Anton Schwarzbach & Dorit Trebeljahr, Berlin
2019 “A hat, a stick, an umbrella; Susanne Britz”, catalog issue, edition timpani, Berlin | “Versuch und Irrtum”, Prolog X9, booklet for drawing & text, ed. by Anton Schwarzbach & Dorit Trebeljahr, Berlin
2018 “More Berlin front page”, Tagesspiegel, contribution Losito Art Prize: Nicola Kuhn, Berlin, 20.10.18 | “Losito Art Prize 2018, Integration”, catalog, Berlin
2016 “the art for the art”, Prolog X8, booklet for drawing and text, ed. by Anton Schwarzbach & Dorit Trebeljahr, Berlin
2015 “punktlandung, Susanne Britz”, catalog, Blurb
2012 “Drawing at the time V”, Susanne Britz, contribution: Reinhard Ermen, Kunstforum International, vol. 215
2011 “Strategies of technical image forms”, contribution: Florian Schaper, in: “The image between cognition and creativity”, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld
2010 “junger westen 09”, contribution: Claudia Posca, Kunstforum International, vol. 200 | “Raumgänger”; exhibition catalog, Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin
2009 “junger westen 09”, catalog, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen | “watchlist”, contribution: Jens Hinrichsen, Monopol, October issue, 2009 | “strichwärts – Zeichnungen”, catalog, edited by Kulturamt Pankow, Berlin
2008 “Emy-Roeder-Preis”, catalog, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen | German Graphic Arts Triennial, catalog, published by Kunstverein Frechen
2007 “Unverzagt, the Hotel Balzer”, contribution: Rainer Hoffmann, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Revolver publishing house
2005 “klasse spacek”, contribution: Reimund Stecker, publishing house “Das Wunderhorn”, Heidelberg
2003 “Emy Roeder Prize”, catalog, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen
2002 “in vitro”, Balmoral Fellowship 2002, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems | “klärwerk”, catalog of the Balmoral Fellowship, contribution: Klaus Gallwitz, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems | “Grafinnova 2002”, catalog, ed. by Jaako Linkamo, Vaasa, Finland | “The German Corner”, contribution: Klaus Gallwitz, in: Umilec magazine, Prague, Czech Republic

Curatorial projects
2021 “ready made” together with Anita Stöhr Weber, nkv Aschaffenburg
2017 “agens & reagens” together with Anita Stöhr Weber, rk-Galerie for contemporary art, Berlin

Art & Architecture
2021 House at the Aue, commissioned work for Hellmann GbR, Groningen near Scharbeutz
2014 Jury work art on building for LIDL, Kulturamt Neukölln, Berlin
2008 “Glück gehabt, Kunst im Untergrund”, Kunstverein NGBK, Berlin

Cultural Education
2012 – 19 Project Coordination Youth Art School YoungArts Neukölln | Coordination Photo Olympics #1-#7 | Artistic Workshops Neukölln | Organization of project work & workshops on cultural education
2009/10 cultural education projects, Hannah-Arendt-Gymnasium, Berlin
2004 Museum educator, State Museum Wiesbaden

Lectures | Lectureships
2023-2024 Lectureship Leuphana University of Lüneburg
2020 “A seal of approval for artist-friendly institutions”, Symposium Weglängen, Inselgalerie, Berlin
2010 “My drawing shuttle- between analog and digital”, lecture, Institute for Art and its Mediation, Leuphana University Lüneburg | “Künstlerische Projektarbeiten zu Hannah Arendt”, lecture, Institute for Art Didactics and Aesthetic Education, udk-Berlin
2009 Susanne Britz in conversation with Dr. Thomas Wild about the exhibition “transit”, Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf