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