Susi Kramer
Happiness is the best way to describe my body of work, which thrives on colors, light and transparency, paired with an irrepressible curiosity and love of experimentation.
Cheerful is likely the best description of Susi Kramer’s character, an attribute that the color, light and transparency of her work well reflect. And that cheerfulness is matched by an unbounded curiosity and interest in experimentation. Anyone visiting one of her exhibitions or atelier almost always discovers something new, whether in forms of composition or combinations of materials.
Susi Kramer developed her unique visual vocabulary of simplistic dots, spirals, colored spots, small figures, crowns, and angels that − much like pictograms − recur again and again in purely monochromatic, undiluted colors. She uses each motif individually, or combines them as points of color in wholly luminous paintings. Her palette not only recalls the French Mediterranean coast with its blue and turquoise tones of sky and sea, but also the orange and reds of the soil and clear summer colors in Southern France that have drawn generations of artists before her. It’s no surprise to find that Susi Kramer has a studio in a tower high above Cannes, and draws inspiration from those surroundings.
Of the various materials she uses, acrylic glass is the one she enjoys working with most. Having discovered it only some years ago, she has since made it the mainstay of her art. While initially, she simply cast single color fields and figures into acrylic glass objects, she began in short order to integrate many-layered surfaces into her pieces. That innovation enabled viewing straight through the piece and the generation of three-dimensional images that, depending on the light conditions and perspective, come to vibrant life. Her work becomes increasingly complex, as towering steles, friezes, and cubes are the matrix into which three-dimensional objects are embedded. Despite the artist’s increased demands on technology, production, and creative power, the works never forfeit any of their cheery playfulness, and the steles stand like proud pictogram-decorated obelisks in the landscape. Susi Kramer is keenly interested in manufacturing technologies and experiments with forms and materials. Just so, a piece of fine tulle or organic materials – such as gold-painted boxwood twigs, small bones from a archeological dig, or autumn leaves – might suddenly appear in her vocabulary.
Residencies
1972 - 1975
Iran
1985- 1989
Hong Kong
Exhibitions
Solo
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
Museo Fondazione Luciana Matalon, I-Mailand
Galerie Carzaniga, Basel
Keller Galerie, Zürich
Hirslanden, Aarau
Galerie artune, Frick
Galerie Carzaniga , Basel
Birshof Münchenstein
Galerie Nouchine F-Nizza
Galerie Monica de Champfleury, F-Paris
Galerie Aquatinta, Lenzburg
Galerie Monica de Champfleury, F-Paris
Galerie art4art, Erlenbach
Galerie am Paradeplatz, Zürich
Park Hotel, Weggis
Swiss capital group, Zürich
Galerie Aquatinta, Lenzburg
Galerie Carzaniga, Basel
Kunstkommission Adliswil
Galerie Proarta, Zürich
Gluri-Suter Haus, Wettingen
Galerie Wild, D-Frankfurt
Galerie Aquatinta, Lenzburg
Kulturforum, Laufen
Contemporary Art Galerie, Zürich
Hypo Swiss, Zürich
Galerie Carzaniga, Basel
Spittel, Küttigen
Galerie zwöi, Kantonspital, Aarau
Meck a Frick, Frick
Galerie Aquatinta, Lenzburg
Contemporary Art Galerie, Zürich
Alliance Francaise, Singapore
Group
2019
2018
2017
2016
2013
2006
2005
1994
1993
Art to touch, Muri b. Bern
Triennale der Skulptur Bad Ragaz
Kulturhaus Palazzo, Liestal
Swiss Cap, Zürich
MAG Montreux
Kulturtankstelle, Döttingen
Grand Hotel F-Cap-Ferrat
Rehaklinik, Rheinfelden
Villa Berberich, D-Säckingen
Art Fair
2018
2016
2015
2012
2009
2007
2005
2004
2003
2002
2000
1999
1998
1997
1995
Harbour Art Fair, Hongkong
Hybrid Madrid, Spain
Kunst Zürich
Kunst Zürich
Kunst Zürich
Kunst Zürich
Art Karlsruhe D-Karlsruhe
Art Karlsruhe D-Karlsruhe
Kunst Zürich
Kunst Zürich
Kunst Zürich
Kunst Zürich
Kunst Zürich
Art Karlsruhe D-Karlsruhe
Kunst Zürich
Kunst Zürich
Kunst Zürich
Art Basel
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