Susanne Knaack

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Susanne Knaack, 2012

Susanne Knaack (born March 13, 1962 in Berlin ) is a German painter .

life and work

Susanne Knaack was born in Berlin in 1962. After graduating from high school, she first studied art history and German language and literature there from 1982 , before starting to study painting with Georg Baselitz at the Berlin University of the Arts in 1985, which she finished in 1989. From 1984 to 1986 she was a member of the artist group Gras Fressen . During this time she participated in several exhibitions in the self-help gallery of the same name. From 1989 to 1995 she published together with the artist HH-twenties, with whom she shares since then the studio NOSITIV, workshop notebooks and initiated here regularly Studio Exhibitions.

Susanne Knaack lives and works in Berlin and is represented by Galerie Semjon Contemporary, Berlin.

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Susanne Knaack is a contemporary representative of German conceptual painting. Strongly influenced by American Abstract Expressionism and one of its main exponents , Jackson Pollock , she creates painting that is not traditionally 'painted' with a brush, but is created using her pouring technique that has been developed and refined over the years. The Berlin art historian and art critic Dr. It's not for nothing that Sebastian Preuss writes about the 'inner landscapes' that arise in this way. The painting, in black and white and its mixtures (with light brown and blue nuances), creates formations before the human eye that is interpreted in the perception and memory of the viewer for landscape painting and as a 'seascape', even if this is for landscape painting atypical portrait format contradicts this. The abstract paintings evoke the observer to immerse himself in the pictorial landscape, which he unconsciously equates with landscape painting .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2018 Tableau & Solitaire. Semjon Contemporary, Berlin
  • 2016 painting & monotype. Semjon Contemporary, Berlin
  • 2015 Encounter - Colin Ardley: Susanne Knaack. Semjon Contemporary, Berlin
  • 2014 Landscape & Gardens - Part 1. Together with Takayuki Daikoku, Ribbeck Castle in Havelland
  • 2013 black time - white time. German workshops Hellerau , Dresden; Susanne Knaack. GoArt !, Berlin agency
  • 2012 Susanne Knaack - New Paintings. Semjon Contemporary, Berlin
  • 2011 seascapes. The Hamburg gallery
  • 2010 landscapes and seascapes. Gallery Poll , Berlin; Susanne Knaack , Kunsthalle Zellingen
  • 2009 sea. Water. Lakes. Riddagshausen Gallery, Braunschweig
  • 2007 new work. Hermeyer Gallery, Munich ; Municipal gallery Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin
  • 2006 Paysages. Lavignes-Bastille Gallery, Paris ; Painting and drawing , Berenberg-Gossler-Haus, Hamburg
  • 2005 painting. Poll Art Foundation , Berlin; Computer sheets, Pillango Gallery, Berlin
  • 2004 Susanne Knaack. Gallery Norbert Ebert, Darmstadt ; Seascapes , Magdalena Kaiser Gallery, Siegen
  • 2003 Gallery of the printing company Conrad, Berlin
  • 2001 New work. Poll Art Foundation, Berlin
  • 1999 painting and drawing. Poll Art Foundation, Berlin
  • 1998 seascapes. Poll Art Foundation, Berlin

Works

  • Susanne Knaack, untitled, 2012,
    acrylic on canvas,
    100 cm × 80 cm

  • Susanne Knaack, untitled, 2012,
    acrylic on canvas,
    150 cm × 100 cm

  • Susanne Knaack, untitled, 2012,
    acrylic on canvas,
    300 cm × 200 cm

  • Susanne Knaack, untitled, 2011,
    acrylic on canvas,
    50 cm × 40 cm

  • Susanne Knaack, “Seestück”, 2010,
    acrylic on canvas,
    40 cm × 30 cm

Works in collections

  • HSH Nordbank, Hamburg
  • Artothek des NBK , Berlin
  • Artothek of the Communal Gallery Berlin

Works in archives

  • Morris-Trasov Archives, Vancouver
  • documenta archive, Kassel
  • Archive of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart

Trade fair participations

  • 2015 Art Bodensee and Positions Berlin, Semjon Contemporary
  • 2014 Art Bodensee, Semjon Contemporary
  • 2012 Preview Berlin, Semjon Contemporary
  • 2009 Contemporary Art Ruhr, Essen , gallery per-seh; Art Karlsruhe , Gallery Eva Poll
  • 2008 Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Eva Poll
  • 2007 Tease Art Fair, Cologne , Poll Art Foundation; Berlin Art Salon, “Aaperto”, GoArt Agency!
  • 2006 Berlin Art Salon, Poll Art Foundation
  • 2005 Berlin Art Salon, Poll Art Foundation
  • 2002 Art Forum Berlin , Poll Art Foundation
  • 2000 Art Forum Berlin, Poll Art Foundation

Literature about Susanne Knaack

  • Mark Gisbourne: Susanne Knaack - Amid the Flux. Exhibition catalog, Semjon Contemporary, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9816830-2-8 .
  • Dear artist, draw for me! - Part 2: figuration, illustration, notation and signs. Exhibition catalog, Semjon Contemporary, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-9816830-0-4 .
  • Sabrina Buchholz: Susanne Knaack. Blue Hour. Exhibition cat. Galerie per-seh, Hannover 2015, ISBN 978-3-940576-76-7 .
  • Sebastian Preuss: Susanne Knaack. Inner landscapes. Exhibition cat. Semjon Contemporary, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-940021-53-3 .
  • Joerg Probst: Painting as sailing. In: Susanne Knaack. Landscapes and seascapes. Exhibition cat. Galerie Poll, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-931759-28-5 .
  • Joerg Probst: Nature of Painting. In: Susanne Knaack. Landscapes of Memory. Exhibition cat. Galerie Hermeyer, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-931759-09-4 .
  • Felix Krämer, Martin Faass, Hubertus Gaßner (eds.): From Max Beckmann to Gerhard Richter. Catalog book for the exhibition, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg June 8 to September 16, 2007, ISBN 978-3777436654 .

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personal data
SURNAME Knaack, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin