*1972 Erlangen, Germany
lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Rotterdam, the Netherlands
1992-1997 Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart, Germany
1999-2000 Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France
fall semester 2015 teacher at the Parsons New School of Design, New York, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Falsche Kamille, Wilde Möhre, Bitterkraut, RaebervonStenglin, Zürich, Switzerland
Ich bin, varim, je suis, Abendrot: ein Lichtarchiv aus der Zukunft, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany
Pechblende (Chapter 1), Schering Stiftung Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Pechblende (Prologue), Prefix Institute for Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
2014
ALUMINIUM GLAS LINOLEUM STAHL, ADN Pförtnerhaus, Berlin, Germany
2013
RAY, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
Modelling (Construction School), Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Het Licht, RaebervonStenglin, Zürich, Switzerland
2012
Everything was soulful and all souls were one, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Het Licht, KASK, De Zwarte Zaal Gent, Belgium
Cold Time, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
2011
A Silent Crazy Jungle Under Glass, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
2010
Ashes and broken brickwork of a logical theory, GASAG Kunstpreis ’10, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
Ashes and broken brickwork of a logical theory, RaebervonStenglin, Zürich, Switzerland
Ashes and broken brickwork of a logical theory, curated by Wim Waelput,
KIOSK, Gent, Belgium (cat.)
2009
Ashes and broken brickwork of a logical theory, curated by Axel Wieder,
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
One Time One Million (Migratory Birds Romantic Capitalism), Stedelijk Museum
Bureau, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (cat.)
One Time One Million, Uqbar, Berlin, Germany
Untitled (Alphabet), Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2008
The originality of the avant-garde and other modernist myths (former Central Post Office Rotterdam), Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2007
The originality of the avant-garde and other modernist myths, Projectstudio,
Berlin, Germany
2004
TCM - The Quiet American, Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany (cat.)
2003
TCM – The Golden Six, European Humanitas University, Minsk, B
TCM – Rocket Trees, Galeria Laboratorium/CSW, Warszawa, Poland
2002
TCM – Rocket Trees, Hedah, Maastricht, the Netherlands
2000
Stay a While, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
Neon Neige, with Shira Naftali, Galerie Meyers, Aebel & McHale, Paris, France
1999
Rhapsodie, Raum 2, Mannheim, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
LICHTARCHIV, Körnerpark und Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany
In the Belly of the Whale, Witte de With, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Was, wenn Kunst uns weiterbringt? Kunst & Nachhaltigkeit Vol. 6. Neue Werke in der Sammlung, die Mobiliar, Bundesgasse 35, Bern, Switzerland
Die Sprache der Dinge. Materialgeschichten aus der Sammlung, 21er Haus - Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Béton, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
A City is Not a Road – Artists for Ringland, Veilinghuis Bernaerts & Bernaerts Auction house, Antwerp, Belgium
VI x VI Positionen zur Zukunft der Fotografie, Landesgalerie Linz (in cooperation with Kunstverein in Hamburg), Linz, Austria
Race to the Bottom, Schloss Ringenberg, Hamminkeln, Germany
2015
rocks, stones, and dust, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, CA
Nadezhda (Prinzip Hoffnung), Moscow Biennale, Manufacture of Trekhgorka, Moscow, Russia
hollow blocks in windowless room, Knoll Galerie Wien, Vienna, Austria
The Day Will Come When Photography Revises, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Shadow Scenes, Colomboscope, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Conflict, Time, Photography, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany
homecomings: Projective Space, homecomings, Berlin, Germany
Restaging History, OFF Biennale Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
Images That Speak, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, CA
Rotterdam in the Picture, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Unendliche Bibliothek, Gebert Foundation, Rapperswil+Jona, Switzerland
2014
Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Augment This, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA
Tempus Ritualis, Center of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
2013
The Way of the Shovel: Art as Archaeology, MCA Chicago, USA
Vom Schwarm als Prinzip und Phänomen, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany
Tea with Nefertiti, Institute du monde arabe, Paris, France
ALLTAG ZWANGSARBEIT 1938 - 1945, Dokumentationszentrum NS Zwangsarbeit, Berlin, Germany
CONCRETE – Architektur und Fotografie, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Selected Artists 2012, NGBK, Berlin, Germany
Sail Away, we must!, curated by Övul Durmuşoğlu, CDA Projects, Istanbul, Turkey
Sofia Contemporary, Sofia, Bulgaria
2012
Sail away, we must!, curated by Övül Durmusoglu, CDA Projects, Istanbul, Turkey
Tea with Nefertiti, Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
Beyond Imagination, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
In Absent Places We Dwell, Piano Nobile, Geneva, Switzerland
km500.5, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Track, Gent, Belgium
Take The Leap. Peep-Hole Annual Benefit, Peep-Hole, Milan, Italy
untitled (identity of place), KASK, Gent, Belgium
2011
Dreams of Power, Power of Dreams, Zamek Cultural Center, Poznan, Poland
Number One, La promenade, Les Ateliers des Arques, let Lot - Midi-Pyrenees, France
5 Positionen, Kunstmuseum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
2010
Following a Line, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Measuring Potentials, curated by Mark Gloede, Potsdamer Strasse 88, Berlin, Germany
CHIPKA, Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium
2009
Anabasis. On The Rituals Of Homecoming, curated by Adam Budak, Ludwik Grohman
Villa Lodz, Poland
89/09, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
the archeologists, curated by Dieter Roelstraete, Ursula Blickle Stiftung,
Kraichtal, Germany
On Tectonics of History, curated by A. Domesle and M. Krenn, ISCP New York, USA
Aura, curated by Michiel van Iersel, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Konturen, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, Austria
2008
Questioning History, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
On Tectonics of History, Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
Cairoscape, curated by Antje Weizel and Marina Sorbello, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Das Gelände, curated by Thomas May, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany (cat.)
Data Recovery, curated by Ovul Durmusoglu, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy (cat.)
When Things Cast No Shadow, 5. berlin biennale, curated by Adam Szymczyck and Elena Filipovic, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
2007
Poesie des Industriellen, Marianne Brandt Wettbewerb, Industriemuseum, Chemnitz, Germany,
Tektonics of History, curated by Dr. Andrea Domesle and Martin Kren, WYSPA, Gdansk, Poland
Die Wörter, die Dinge, curated by Dr. Vanessa Joan Müller, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Open House, curated by Magnus af Petersens and Elin Strand Ruin, IASPIS Stockholm, Sweden
2006
Sense and sensitivity, curated by Mariette Doelle, TENT., Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Downloads from the Future, curated by Oliver Kielmayer, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland
Downloads from the Future, curated by Oliver Kielmayer, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt,
Zur Tektonik der Geschichte, Center for Contemporary Central European Art/ Faculty of Art and Design, UJEP, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic
Meteorite, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2005
Zur Tektonik der Geschichte, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
TCM / Triumph of the Will revisited, International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
2004
REOILITY beyond reality and Live with the past!, Open Studios, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2002
Parlez vous français, Galerie Hohenlohe & Kalb, Vienna, Austria
Franz West-Burning, MAC, Marseille, France
2001
Franz West-Appartement, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Hortus Ludi, XX Multiple Galerie, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Franz West-Obsorge, Kunsthaus Zug, Zug, Switzerland
Enter, Kunststiftung Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Interactie, De Fabriek, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
NEXIT, Niggendijker, Groningen, the Netherlands
AWARDS
2012
Grant of the Berlin Senate 2012
2010
GASAG Kunstpreis ’10, Berlin, Germany
2009
Preis der Kunststiftung Erlangen
ARTIST PUBLICATIONS
2016
P(ech) B(lende). Library for Radioactive Afterlife, Spector Books, Leipzig
Duskdust, edited by Susanne Kriemann & Lívia Páldi, texts by Kirsty Bell, Lívia Páldi, Jussi Parikka and Maria Barnas, published by Sternberg Press, Berlin, copublished with BAC – Baltic Art Center, Visby
2015
One Audio Book, Audiobook, James Langdon
2013
Susanne Kriemann, Sternberg Press, Berlin
2011
A Silent Crazy Jungle Under Glass – Repetition 1’’, in: Mousse Magazine Blog
2011
Reading Susanne Kriemann, book, Sternberg Pres
2010
ONE DAY, book, Witte de With Publishers
Ashes and Broken Brickwork of a Logical Theory, book, Roma Publications
2009
One Time One Million, book, Roma Publications
2008
12650000, book, Gamec Bergamo
12650, book, A Prior Magazine
2006
Not Quite Replica, book
The Future – Ramses Files, newspaper
2001
ROCKET TREES - The modulated Diary of Atul, book
PUBLICATIONS (selection)
2011
Imperfekte Bilder / Picture Imperfect, Frieze Magazine g/e, Jennifer Allen on Susanne Kriemann, p.84-89.
2009
The preserve of the eye, Mousse, p.26-31.
One Time One Million, catalogue SMBA Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
2007
Pilot 3, catalogue with text by Nicolaus Schaffhausen, 52nd Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
Rotterdam Ontrafeld, textbook, Witte de With, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2005
A Second Sight, catalogue, International Biennale of Contemporary Arts, Prague, Czech Republic,
2004
The Camouflage Museum, Susanne Kriemann - Der Stille Amerikaner/ The Quiet American, Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
COMMISSIONS
2009-2013
ARUCSBO AREMAC, with John Bock and Gerard Byrne, SKOR, Utrecht, the Netherlands
2006
Not Quite Replica - Meteorite, public space, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2004
TCM-Rocket Trees, permanent installation at the Kantonsschule Zürich, Zürich Switzerland
Lake Bermuda, garden project in public space, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
RESIDENCIES
2013
21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
2011
Ateliers des Arques, France
2008
IASPIS, studio residency Visual Arts Fund, Stockholm, Sweden
2007
Project studio Berlin, Germany
2006
IASPIS Stockholm, Sweden
Townhouse Gallery Cairo, Egypt
2005
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2004
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2000
Cité International des Arts, Paris, France
1999
Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
1995
Zurikov Institute, Moskva, Russia
LECTURES
2011
Witte de With, bookpresentation with sound collage by Maziar Affrasiabi, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
St Lukas Akademie, lecture, Bruxelles, Belgium
2010
In collaboration with Aleksander Komarov, ABA Air Berlin Alexanderstrasse voor Fonds BKVB, Berlin, Germany
Jan van Eyck academie, lecture, Maastricht, the Netherlands
Emily Car University, lecture, Vancouver, Canada
2009
About the Audience, lecture, Vitoria–Gasteiz, Spain
2007
Contemporary passages, curated by Angela Serrino, performative reading, Tent, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Lecture, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Lecture, Düsseldorf Kunstverein, Düsseldorf Germany
Lecture, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden
Lecture, Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden
2006
The Future - Ramses Files, lecture, The Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Meteorite – A Story of Relocation, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Economy and Art, symposium, Department of Sociology, University of Basel, Switzerland
2005
Cultures of Money, symposium, Institute for Culture and History, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands,
Organization of lecture series The Others, artists and mediators in interview, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2004
Rocket Trees, lecture, Kantonsschule Zürich, Switzerland
2003
Lecture, European Humanitas University, Minsk, Belarus,
2001
Lecture, ICA, Moscow, Russia