Susa Templin
SPATIAL ABSTRACTIONS
BEND AND FOLDS
SITES AND CONSTRUCTIONS
SITES AND CONSTRUCTIONS, LINIENSTRASSE BERLIN
FENSTER, TÜREN, BERLIN
INTERIORS AND OTHER ROOMS
INSTALLATION VIEWS
Susa Templin who lives in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main, works with photography and three-dimensional spatial models, a concept that she concretized during her studio fellowship in New York and has since developed further.
From her analogue work with photographic images and the resulting models, she develops large walk-in installations, such as for the Kunsthalle Mannheim, Kunsthalle Nürnberg or the Berlinische Galerie.
Her works always question the flat image and create new spaces in a variety of ways and sizes.
In addition to numerous international exhibitions, lectures and teaching activities, Templin has also received various art projects in construction, for example for the Frankfurt University Hospital and the Ministry of Finance in Wiesbaden.
Her extensive archive of photographs of room fragments – a corner of a room, a piece of curtain, a certain door situation – always analogously photographed and processed in her own laboratory – Templin uses for new, atmospherically dense room designs. With the technical possibilities of photography and installation, the artist realizes subjective qualities of architecture and spaces.
lives and works in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main in Germany.
EDUCATION
Studied at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin and the State University of Fine Arts, the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1987 – 1993
Lecturer for Analogue Photography at the HFG Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach, since 2019
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (IN SELECTION)
Grundrisse, Kunsthalle Lingen 2020
Space Available #2, Spor Klübü, Berlin 2020
Premises., Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Berlin 2020
Spatial Abstractions, AA Residency Exhibition, Auswärtiges Amt, Berlin, 2019
Sites and Constructions, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, 2018
Through the Backdoors to the Indoors, Photogallery |format| Malmö, 2016
Room Service, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2015
Rooms, Galerie Thomas Rehbein, Cologne, 2015
Other voices, other rooms, Galerie Rasche Ripken, Berlin, 2014
Real Estate, Reiss-Engelhorn Museums/ Zephyr, Mannheim (catalogue), 2013
Triangle of Need, Gallery Rasche Ripken, Berlin, 2011
BerlinBaroque, Berlinische Galerie, Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin (Publication), 2007
Indoors Landscapes – permanent installation, Kunsthalle Mannheim (Publication), 2003
Landscaping, NewmanPopiashvili Gallery, New York, N.Y. (catalogue), 2002
Landscaping, Goethe Institute, Washington D.C., 2001
Hermit – Temporary, Folkwang-Museum Essen, (catalogue), 2001
Presenting the Suite 106, NewmanPopiashvili Gallery, New York, 2001
3 Feet 6 Inches Deep, AuBase Gallery New York, N.Y. (catalogue), 1999
Fishtank, installation for EXPO 2000, Hanover (catalogue), 1999
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (IN SELECTION)
In weiter Ferne so nah, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin (catalogue), 2020
Landscaping, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, 2019
Room With A View, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, 2019
Realität Check, Collectors Collective Berlin, Kunstraum Potsdam, 2019
Nullpunkt der Orientierung, DZ Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt/Main, 2019
200 Jahre Städel – 200 Künstler, Galerie Perpetuel, Frankfurt/Main, 2017
Indoors Landscape, walk-in photo installation, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, 2017
The Fourth Dimension, Museum of Photography Braunschweig, Germany, 2016
Back to the future of photography, DZ Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt/ Main, Germany, 2016
You Cannot Do Nothing, with Sven Johne, Peter Fend, Kommunale Galerie Berlin, 2016
Home base: The Interior in the Present, Kai 10 Düsseldorf, (catalogue), 2016
How should I know what she likes?, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, 2016
Home base: The Interior in the Present, Kunsthalle Nürnberg (catalogue), 2015
Silent Heroes, Essenheim Art Association, Essenheim, 2015
About Color, with Thomas Werner and Hague Yang, Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, 2015
Winner Exhibition Welde Art Award, Stadtgalerie Mannheim, 2014
The Window in View, DZ-Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt/Main, 2013
Real Estate, Neuer Gießener Kunstverein, Gießen (catalogue), 2013
Keeping up Appearances, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, 2012
More Songs about Buildings and Food, with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York, 2012
White, black and a little sky blue, with H. Warmuth, Galerie Thomas Rehbein Cologne, 2012
Balmoral Blend, Arp Musem, Remagen (catalogue), 2010
More than the eye can see. Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt/Main (catalogue), 2008
Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima, 2008
Museo de Artes Visuales, Colección Santa Cruz – Yaconi, Santiago de Chile, 2008
Museo de Arte Moderna (MAM), São Paulo, 2008
One Hundred Years Kunsthalle Mannheim, Kunsthalle Mannheim, 2007
Contemporary Art Museum (MARCO), Monterrey, 2006
Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, 2006
Museo del Banco de la República, Bogota, 2006
Full House, Mannheim Art Gallery, Mannheim, 2006
Urban Sequences, Kunsthalle, Erfurt (catalogue), 2002
Leuchtspur, in cooperation with the Museum für Moderne Kunst, with James Turrell, Joseph Kosuth, Dan Flavin, Frankfurt/Main (catalogue), 2002
Screen, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, 2001
Architectural Constructs in Contemporary Photography, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, 2000
Flakk, or that extraordinary sensation of being abroad even when at home, curated by Andrea Kroksnes, The Nordens Hus, Reijkjavik (catalogue), 2000
New York, New York, Amerika-Haus in cooperation with the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main (catalogue), 2000
Biennale de l’Image- Paris ’98 – solo presentation curated by Lewis Baltz, Paris (catalogue), 1998
ART IN CONSTRUCTION REALIZATIONS
Room Reforms, temporary installation, Epiphaniaskirche, Frankfurt/Main, 2015
Indoors Landscapes II, variable lightbox work, Michael Loulakis Collection, Berlin & Frankfurt, 2012
Geometry in the Red Garden, wall work for the State of Hesse, University Hospitals Frankfurt/Main, 2009
Landscaping, walk-in lightboxes Rooms, Collection Schaub, Ludwigshafen, 2006
Green light photo sculptures, Dillenburg Police Headquarters, Hessen, 2004
Surrogate Landscape, Allianz Insurance Art Collection, Hamburg, 2003
Fishtank, temporary art at the building installation for Expo-Café, Hanover, 1999
Cleaning, permanent photo installation for the Cabinet Hall of the State Parliament of Wiesbaden, State of Hessen, 1996
Milk, four photo installations for the tax offices in Frankfurt/Main, State of Hessen, 1995
COLLECTIONS
Museum Folkwang, Photographic Collection
Berlinische Galerie, Museum of Modern Art, Architecture and Photography, Berlin
Kunsthalle Mannheim
Deutsche Bank Art Gallery Berlin and Frankfurt/Main
NBK, New Berlin Art Association
DZ Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt/Main
Michael Loulakis Collection, Berlin
Art Collection of the Hessian Parliament, State of Hesse
Hessian Cultural Foundation, Wiesbaden
SCHOLARSHIPS/PRIZES
AAResidency, Stipendium des Auswärtigen Amtes und der Berliner Galerie, 2018
Award of the Welde Art Prize for Photography selected by Luminita Sabau and Florian Ebner, 2013
Bonn Art Fund, Catalogue, 2012
Fermynwood Art Centre, Norfolk, England, 2008
Studio Scholarship, OCA, Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo, 2004
Scholarship of the State of Rheinland-Pfalz, Künstlerhaus Balmoral, Germany, 2001
Scholarship of the Hessische Kulturstiftung (New York), 1996
Scholarship of the State of Hessen, Germany, 1995
Art Promotion Prize of the Frankfurt Artists’ Aid, 1993
PUBLICATIONS