Ausstellung "Lebenslinien" am 3. November in Tempelhof

Mit Musikalischer Begleitung! Fotografien und Lasercut-Zeichnungen von aktuellen und früheren Patient*innen des Vivantes Hospiz in der Wenckebachstraße 23 in Berlin-Tempelhof. Herzlichen Dank an das Kulturamt Tempelhof-Schöneberg für die Förderung des Projektes!

Bitte bis zum 20. Oktober anmelden unter info(at)susanbuckow.de!

Hotel Heimat - Ausstellung mit Abschlussfest am 12. August in Zeitz, Sachsen-Anhalt

Den allergrößten Dank an die zahlreichen Mitmacherinnen und Unterstützer, die die Ausstellung in der Alten Bibliothek in Zeitz mit uns gemeinsam am und im Projekt "Hotel Heimat" gearbeitet haben!

re:publica - Burned Out Money

I will show a series of lasercut works named "Burned Out Money" concerning this years theme CASH at re:publica 2023. 

Filmkostüme für POP-UP AUSSTELLUNG 15. - 22. April 2023 (Berlin Alexanderplatz)

Die Ausstellung OSTGLUT macht Biographien von Ostdeutschen sicht- und erlebbar. Ausgehend von den Lebensgeschichten zweier Generationen ihrer Familie zeigt Katja Tannert Exponate, Tondokumente, dokumentarische, aber auch performative Videos sowie Installationen. Die (Theater-)Künstlerin tritt im Atelier für Nachwendegeschichten vor dem Haus der Statistik am Alexanderplatz selbst in den Dialog. Kommt vorbei und guckt, was es mit der Steuerstrumpfhose auf sich hat!

https://ostglut.de

Ab 16. April täglich von 12 bis 20 Uhr im HANGAR OTTO am Haus der Statistik, nahe Alexanderplatz Berlin. 

"Atelier Heimat" - Abschlussausstellung am 11. Februar im Altfriedländer Gutshaus

Ein vorerst letztes Mal reisen wir ins schöne Altfriedland um die Ergebnisse des letzten halben Jahres zu präsentieren. Karina Liutaia und ich waren seit Juli letzten Jahres jeweils etwa eine Woche monatlich im Gutshaus der Zukunft zu Gast, haben uns mit ehemaligen Bewohner*innen unterhalten, ein Gutshaus-Memory drucken lassen, Zeichen- und Tonworkshops mit dem tollen Altfriedländer Seniorenverein durchgeführt und vieles mehr. 

Ermöglicht wurde das Rechercheprojekt durch ein Sonderstipendium der Akademie der Künste, Initial 2. Herzlichen Dank auch an die Besitzer des Gutshauses und die tollen Altfriedländer/innen, die uns so herzlich aufgenommen haben! 

Art in Residence - A temporary Sleep Installation in Zeitz (Saxony-Anhalt)

Art in Residence can still be visited for an overnight stay inside of an exhibition until January 31th!

Money Machines: A wandering Sleep Installation with Performance - September 2022 at Mayer Pavilion, Berlin

Mayer Pavilion and me invited artist guests to witness a performance by Katja Tannert and Martin Wagner in the attempt of washing money and the creative act from their uncertain past. “Money Machines” was the opening event of "Art in Residence", an experimental art project by Susan Buckow. A very collaborative evening of great joy, some weirdness and laughter. A one night experimental art evening exploring collaborative art making and a planned portion of unplannedness. 

"Art in Residence" series is generously funded by BBK Bundesverband Bildender Künstler and thematizes the relations between creatives and gentrification. 

Tag des offenen Denkmals - September 2022 in Altfriedland, Brandenburg

Ein sehr schöner Tag mit tollen Gästen, ehemaligen Bewohner/innen und der örlichen Freiwilligen Feuerwehr im wunderbaren Oderbruch in unserem temporären "Atelier Heimat".

Gemeinsam mit Anwohner*innen von Altfriedland möchten wir das Gutshaus-Gebäude in ein gastfreundliches „Atelier Heimat“ umgestalten. Wir fangen damit an, die Anwohner*innen und ehemaligen Nutzer*innen des Gutshauses nach ihren Erinnerungen zu befragen, sammeln Geschichten, persönliche Eindrücke, evtl. alte Abbildungen von den Räumen sowie weitere Erinnerungsgegenstände, die uns die Vergangenheit des Gebäudes erzählen können.

Die Webseite des Gutshauses der Zukunft findet sich hier. Mehr über das Projekt Atelier.Heimat gibt es auch auf Instagram.

„Atelier Heimat“ wird gefördert durch die Akademie der Künste aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen des Programms NEUSTART KULTUR.

Anonyme Zeichner - Exhibition until August 24th

I am very happy to be part of the beautiful exhibition at Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin Neukölln! Photos by Anonyme Zeichner, check out the beautiful concept at their website. 

Die Welt danach - Costume Design for Dance Theatre

I was glad to collaborate with Berlin´s great Costume Collective which provides a huge amount of costumes to rent in order to enable more sustainable theatre productions. August features my design for "Die Welt danach" as costume of the month on their website.

Looking back I am astonished because the atmosphere of the play, which was staged in the ruin of a church ruin developed a kind of life on its own. I remember that the costumes turned out very dark/dystopian despite me starting out with very bright and colourful moodboards. The piece was originally meant to thematize the uncertain future after Covid, but ended up coinciding with the eruption of the war in Ukraine just during the last rehearsals. As the news were so omnipresent, the whole piece suddenly got a whole new layer of perception added, with the darkness of that time being reflected in costumes and stage design, even though no one of us had consciously seen a war coming. For me, it was a little creepy yet beautiful, like a reminder that art seems to chose to be created through us instead of the other way around.

In this perspective, the art becomes the actual creator and the artist the medium "used".

Summer 2022 – Costume Design for KABOOOM, rette sich er kann!

Another beautiful collaboration with co>labs from Nürnberg, featuring a human-animal dancer. Photo by Sebastian Autenrieth. 

Summer 2021– Planting Plants 

Inspired by the time spent in community-oriented Auroville I took the chance to get funding by the Senate to start a neighbourhood project enhancing greenliness as well as neighbourhoodliness by planting in public spaces in the concrete-ridden district of Friedrichshain. 

Spring 2021 – Investigating NFTs 

I am interested in the ongoing "etherization" of our analogue world, especially money which seems to become more and more abstract in my personal view. Curious to see where everything is going next. Some samples of my work can be found on Open Sea.

Winter 2020 – Research into Artificial Intelligence

Investigating creative collaborations with Artificial Intelligence using GAN 2 applications. Above is one of my favourites - a heart shaped version of planet Earth.

Winter 2021 – AI x UBI Platform

Creation of a prototype platform with the idea to generate Unconditional Artist Salary/Basic Income by selling automated art created by algorithms as a response to the first Christie´s auction of an AI work around that time. Surprisingly, I failed to find support in this endeavour and had to kill the project. The beauty of the idea was to undo some ideas around work and ego. 

I also created an alter ego social media fake persona with the algorithmically created fake face pictured above and enjoyed some silly flirtations as well as political questioning in the virtual realms of Instagram. The project triggered way more questions than answers with every turn, so I was actually a bit relieved to let it go. 

Summer 2020 – Opening a temporary Art Space

To use the standstill two friends & me opened a temporary art space in Berlin Neukölln. It was especially beautiful to see how open and grateful the neighbours were for cultural input after half a year of semi lockdown.  We invited musicians, invited passers-by for our weekly tea time drawing sessions and had an exhibition, before gentrification continued and the space got refurbished after two months. 

Funny Times – Cancellations

Cancellation of my planned exhibition at Republica Berlin because everything got cancelled during that time.

January to March 2020 – Experimental Utopia

Almost by chance I ended up living three months in Auroville, an experimental township in South India. A very special time that was ended just as unexpectedly as it started after the Indian government went into panic mode and decided to lock the whole country down almost overnight. Altogether a very weird yet beautiful experience highlighting the extreme contrasts existing in parallel on our planet earth. 

This time marked an important passageway as I had unexpectedly stumbled upon a physical representation of what I had been trying to create in my work. In lack of a better expression I would call it finding an actual utopian spaceship that has landed on earth. 

September 2019 – Augmented Reality Workshops

Aurora School for Artists - training to integrate Augmented Realities into artistic practice at University of Applied Sciences (HTW Berlin).

January 2019 – Exhibition & Werkschau Program

Group exhibition on January 23rd at The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin.

Artist residency & research in Chile´s Atacama Desert until mid-November, watching the stars and working on a project with La Wayaka Current, an artist-led organisation developing projects in connection to remote environments ecology and communities.

Spring 2018 – Explorations

Travelling in Northern Colombia & research into Peruvian indigenuous culture which impressed me with a seemingly miraculous connection to plants and wildlife.