Susa Templin |
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Susa Templin (*1965, Hamburg) studied from 1987 to 1993 at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and at the University of the Arts in Berlin. She has taught at the Bergen National Academy of Arts, KHiB, Norway, the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, and the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe. Since 2019, she has been heading the Analog Photography Laboratory at the University of Art and Design Offenbach. She lives and works in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main.
Since her studies, she has been examining the medium of photography in expansive installations, exploring its spatial qualities. In ever-evolving series of works, the artist deconstructs and reconstructs the photographically captured space, both analog and digital, investigating it in terms of the third and fourth dimensions. Her photographic, sometimes walk-in spatial installations have been exhibited in renowned national and international institutions, including the Kunsthalle Mannheim, the Berlinische Galerie - Museum für Moderne Kunst, Berlin, the Fotogalleriet Format, Malmö (Sweden), the Kunsthalle Nürnberg, the Städel Museum Frankfurt, the MAM, Museo de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (Brazil), the Museum Folkwang Essen, the Goethe-Institut Washington D.C. (USA), the Museum für Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt, and the Biennale des Images in Paris (France). Susa Templin's works are represented in numerous public collections such as the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, the Berlinische Galerie - Museum für Moderne Kunst, Berlin, the Kunsthalle Mannheim, the art collection of DZ BANK, and the photography collection of the Historical Museum in Frankfurt am Main, in the Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, and the Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic, Bonn. In addition to numerous scholarships, including those from the Hessische Kulturstiftung for New York, OCA in Oslo, the working grant from Künstlerhaus Balmoral, or the AA Residency at the German Foreign Office in Berlin, she has received awards such as the international WeldeKunstpreis for Photography, the working grant from the State of Hesse, the scholarship from the Kunstfonds Bonn Foundation, and regularly participates in national public art projects. |
