Sus Zwick

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Sus Zwick with Michele Fuchs and Muda Mathis (from left to right) during the show "Let's sing Arbeiterin *" by Les Reines Prochaines and Freundinnen *

Sus Zwick (* 1950 in Friborg ) is a Swiss artist in the fields of video, installation, performance and music and lives and works in Basel . In 2009 she and her work were awarded the Meret Oppenheim Prize .

life and work

Sus Zwick received training as a primary school teacher, speech therapist and curative teacher at the University of Friborg . From 1986 to 1988 she studied in the audiovisual design class at the Basel School of Design .

She works as a freelance artist in the fields of video, installation, performance and music and regularly takes part in national and international festivals and in the arts with videos, TV broadcasts, video installations, installations, performances and concerts at home and abroad. Sus Zwick is co-founder of the studio community VIA, AudioVideoKunst, Basel, co-author of the manifesto of great and respected artists and the group of artists table talk . Since the early 1980s she has had alternating, often long-term collaborations with various artists and collectives , continuously with Fränzi Madörin and, since 1990, with her life and work partner Muda Mathis . Since 1991 she has been a member of the music band and performance group Les Reines Prochaines . With various artists she develops video, performance and stage programs such as Die Gottlieber Revue or the latest stage production Let's sing Arbeiterin * for the border community Gottlieben .

Exhibitions (selection)

performance

  • 2020: Maria Himmelfahrt, Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick, Must or Not - Kaskadenkondensator Basel
  • 2019: Let's sing Arbeiterin * , Les Reines Prochaines , Lucas Acton, Sibylle Aeberli, Michèle Fuchs, Sibylle Hauert, Chris Hunter, David Kerman, Chris Regn , Marcel Schwald, Dorothea Schürch , Kaserne Basel, Theater Gessnerallee Zurich, Tojo Theater Bern
  • 2017: A dark horse, Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick, Kunsthaus KuLe Berlin
  • 2017: Fur of Fear , Sybille Hauert, Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick, performance festival in Xi'an, Maibai and Nanchang and in the boxing club Basel
  • 2015 Russia is a man , Anca Daucikova , Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick, Iris Ganz, Fränzi Madörin, performance reading, Klingental exhibition space
  • 2015 Ni Hao , Art of Encounter, Kasko Basel, Mathis / Zwick
  • 2014 Gottlieber Revue , with Evi Nic & C. Chris Regn , Evi Wiemer, Karin Kröll, Katharina Friese, Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick, Michèle Fuchs, Fränzi Madörin, Sibylle Hauert, David Kerman, Dorothea Schürch , Bärbel Schwarz, Bena Zemp, Martin Chramosta, Franziska Welti, Christoph Oertli, Andrea Saemann
  • 2013 Cloth over the city , rummaging through Chur, Chur, Mathis / Zwick
  • 2011 Embracing a Spanish Village , Festival Acciòn Mad, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid, Mathis / Zwick
  • 2010 The song of noise liquide and swing , Handlung und Spur, Oxyd, Winterthur, Mathis / Zwick
  • 2009 time for a second biography , symposium space and desire, ZHdK Zurich, Mathis / Zwick
  • 2009 Die Schwitzende Löwin , Wildwuchsfestival Kaserne Basel, an art (en) entertainment evening with Les Reines Prochaines and guests
  • 2009 My speech therapist is called Sus Zwick , Telling Tales: Long Night of Swiss Performance Art, Kartause Ittingen, Gessnerallee Zurich, Mathis / Zwick
  • 2007 The Great Songbook Of Inspired Clouds , Les Reines Prochaines u. a., Basel barracks
  • 2005 Erleuchtete Ritzen , Sus Zwick, Fränzi Madörin, view of the original, art credit, Basel
  • 2004 Protuberances 2 , Mathis / Zwick, Festival Bone 7, Bern
  • 2004 Protuberances for the longest day , Mathis / Zwick, Kunsthof, Zurich
  • 2003 In the curve of the Ranke , Mathis / Zwick, Generation Gap, Andrea Saemann, Festival Hildesheim
  • 2002 Interfaces , Muda Mathis / Andrea Saemann / Sus Zwick, Plug in, Basel

Videos

  • 2016: Sleep , 3-channel work with Muda Mathis
  • 2015: Olga and Olga and the Korean grandmother , HD Ton, 25 ', Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick
  • 2013: The golden Landscape of Feminism - making of , with Fränzi Madörin and Muda Mathis
  • 2006: Kiev Connection , Video DV 45 ', with Fränzi Madörin and Muda Mathis with Les Reines Prochaines
  • 2005: Carte Postale Sonore , Video DV, 7 ', Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick
  • 2004: Supposition and chance , Video DV, 7 ', Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick
  • 2004: The ideal studio , video DV, 16 'with Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick
  • 2002: Les Reines Prochaines in Thurgau , 5 clips, DV, 10 ', Les Reines Prochaines
  • 2002: Making off - how an installation is created , DV, 4 ', Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick
  • 1998: The invention of the world, with Fränzi Madörin and Muda Mathis
  • 1996: Babette , Video U-Matic, 15 ', English / German. U. title Fränzi Madörin, Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick with Babette Zaugg
  • 1987: The rest is risk, Video U_Matic low, 25 '

Art in architecture and projects in public space (selection)

  • 2014 The elephant is here , ten imaginary sculptures for Helvetiaplatz Bern, an audio walk by Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick and Fränzi Madörin
  • 2010 The gas station , photography, plastic objects, UPK Basel, economic building, staff restaurant, Mathis / Zwick
  • 2009 The precarious of the vertical , photography, foyer Stadttheater Winterthur, 2009/10 season, Mathis / Zwick
  • 2008 The road to nieu Bethesda , a cooperation project organized by Monika Dillier and Andrea Saemann with South African and Swiss artists.
  • 2007 Purity and Danger , Aktion, Münsterplatz, Museum der Kulturen, Basel, with the group of artists, Tisch Discussions
  • 2007 Bonanza II , Video, Letzigrund Stadium, Office for Buildings, DV, 3 ', Mathis / Zwick
  • 2003 audio tunnel , audio installations, Madörin / Mathis / Zwick, Museum for Communication, Bern
  • 2001 Never seen pearls , TV show, Madörin / Mathis / Zwick, a. a. Wanderlust, Point de Vue and Viper, Basel DV, 57 '
  • 2001 Happy radio: Radio Felix , radio play in episodes, Madörin / Mathis / Zwick / Hipp Mathis u. a., Platter Spital, Basel, Kunstkredit, Basel

Prices

  • 2019: Swiss Performance Prize / Audience Prize: Manifesto Reflex Collective, with Monika Dillier, Iris Ganz, Sibylle Hauert, Lysann König, Fränzi Madörin, Muda Mathis, Dorothea Mildenberger, Sarah Elena Müller, Barbara Naegelin, Chris Regn, Andrea Saemann, Dorothea Schürch, Sus Zwick
  • 2019 Swiss Music Prize, Les Reines Prochaines, Michèle Fuchs / Fränzi Madörin / Muda Mathis / Sus Zwick
  • 2012 Atelier Scholarship Berlin from the Landis & Gyr Foundation
  • 2009 Prix ​​Meret Oppenheim
  • 2003 Atelier scholarship in Montréal , Canada, the IAAB
  • 1996 Viper Prize 96 for Video Babette
  • Video Prize of the Videotage Basel, Sus Zwick for The rest is risk, video

Literature (selection)

  • Chris Regn: Interview with Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick. In: Facetten 12 , Kulturstiftung des Kantons Thurgau, Niggliverlag, 2010.
  • Isabel Zürcher: Interview with Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick. In: Prix ​​Meret Oppenheim. Federal Office for Culture (Ed.), 2010, ISBN 978-3-9523580-1-6 .
  • Annina Zimmermann, Pierre-André Lienhard: échanges 4, Fränzi Madörin, Muda Mathis, Sus Zwick , Schwabe Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-7965-2039-6 .
  • Katharina Steffen (Ed.): Everything will be fine! : Visions and experiments from Switzerland , Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 978-3-518-39407-6 (previously: ISBN 3-518-39407-X ).
  • Margrit Brehm u. a .: Muda Mathis & Sus Zwick - the invention of the world. In: yet on the other hand. Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 1998, ISBN 3-925521-44-5 .

Movies

The Hamburg filmmaker Claudia Willke made the documentary Les Reines Prochaines in 2012 - thinking alone is criminal with the Basel free trader film production as a co-production with: Swiss radio and television (documentary TV version 52 min, festival version 77 min)

Web links

Itemized list

  1. ^ First manifesto. Retrieved March 2, 2019 .
  2. ^ Dina Epelbaum: SIKART Lexicon on Art in Switzerland. SIKART, 2012, accessed on August 27, 2016 .
  3. "Thinking alone is criminal": Intrepid and unabashed. January 22, 2013, accessed March 2, 2019 .
  4. Kristin Schmidt, Kristin Schmidt: Gottlieben becomes Czech. Retrieved March 3, 2019 .
  5. Les Reines Prochaines at the height of their art. Retrieved on March 3, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
  6. Dominique Spirgi: captivating audience with the indestructible queens. In: Stadtschreiber. January 24, 2019, accessed on March 3, 2019 (German).
  7. ^ Badische Zeitung: On the rise for 30 years - Theater - Badische Zeitung. Retrieved March 3, 2019 .
  8. On a world and time travel with Germaine. Retrieved on March 3, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
  9. Performance Prize Switzerland. Retrieved September 28, 2019 (German).
  10. Ephemeral, but lively and current. Retrieved on November 5, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
  11. Winner :: Swiss Music Prize. Retrieved September 5, 2019 .