Suzanne Treister

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Suzanne Treister (* 1958 in London ) is a British contemporary artist . Her work is known for conceptually engaging with new technologies, addressing their relationship to society, alternative belief systems, and the possible future of humanity.

life and work

Treister lives and works in London . She completed her artistic training at Brighton Polytechnic (1977–1978), at Saint Martin's School of Art (1978–1981) and at the Chelsea School of Art (1981–1982).

Originally starting as a painter in the 1980s, she became a pioneer of digital art , media art and game art in the early 1990s . She is considered a pioneer in the field of digital and new media art and has been developing fictional worlds and organizations since the early 1990s. Her projects often span several years and include fantastic reinterpretations of existing taxonomies and stories that examine the existence of economic, military, or paranormal forces in their covert and invisible work in the world. Her works can be found in collections at Tate Britain , the Science Museum London and the Center Pompidou in Paris.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • Digital Commission, Serpentine Galleries , London (2019)
  • SURVIVOR (F), fig-futures at The Box (hosted by KARST), Plymouth (2019)
  • Le voyage à Bordeaux de Suzanne Treister - Histoires parallèles et récits excentriques, CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (2018)
  • Works from SURVIVOR (F), IMT Gallery , London (2017)
  • HFT The Gardener, PPOW, New York (2016)
  • HFT The Gardener, Annely Juda Fine Art, London (2016)
  • HFT The Gardener, Exhibition Research Lab (ERL) at Liverpool Biennial 2016, Liverpool (2016)
  • HEXEN 2.0, Fig-2, Institute of Contemporary Arts London (ICA), London (2015)
  • Post-Surveillance Art, Acting Out Festival, Primary, Nottingham (2015)
  • Rosalind Brodsky's Electronic Time Traveling Costumes, Schaufenster am Hofgarten, Kunstverein München , Munich (2015)
  • HEXEN 2.0, Aksioma Project Space, Ljubljana (2015)
  • Post-Surveillance Art, Chisenhale Gallery , London (2014)
  • Post-Surveillance Art, Maggs Bookshop, London (2014)
  • Social Factory, 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014)

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • LINZ FMR 19, Donaulände, Linz (2019)
  • Broken Symmetries, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool (2019)
  • Computer Grrrls, Hartware Medienkunstverein (HMKV), Dortmund (2019)
  • Divided We Stand, Busan Biennale 2018, Busan (2018)
  • Cloudbusters. Intensity vs Intension, Tallinn Print Triennial, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM), Tallinn (2018)
  • Perpetual Uncertainty, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö (2018)
  • Open Codes, Living in Digital Worlds, ZKM , Karlsruhe (2017)
  • '&', Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz (2017)
  • As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics, IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2017)
  • WRO Biennale 2017: DRAFT SYSTEMS, WRO Art Center, Wrocław (2017)
  • alien matter, Transmediale 2017, House of World Cultures , Berlin (2017)
  • You Say You Want a Revolution: Records & Rebels 1966–70, Victoria and Albert Museum , London (2016)
  • Air de Jeu, Extension du Domaine du Jeu (Broadening of the game-field), Le Nouveau Festival du Center Pompidou 6th Edition. Espace 315, Center Pompidou , Paris (2015)
  • RARE EARTH, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary-Augarten, Vienna (2015)
  • L'avenir (looking forward), 8th Biennale de Montréal, Montréal (2014)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Suzanne Treister CV. Retrieved March 2, 2019 .
  2. ^ Clarke, Andy (Writer on video games in art), Mitchell, Grethe .: Videogames and art . Intellect, Bristol, UK 2007, ISBN 978-1-84150-954-9 .
  3. ↑ Jonathan Griffin: Suzanne Treister. In: Frieze. Frieze Publishing Ltd., March 3, 2007, accessed on March 2, 2019 .
  4. ^ Larsen, Lars Bang: Spike Art Quarterly . Ed .: Spike Art Magazine. No. 58 . Vienna 2019, p. 66 ff . ( spikeartmagazine.com ).
  5. ↑ GLOBAL Renaissance 2.0: Man as a possibility being . In: Dieter Bechtloff (Ed.): KUNSTFORUM International . tape 237 . Kunstforum International, Cologne December 2015.
  6. ↑ Tate Britain: Suzanne Treister. In: Tate. Tate Britain, accessed March 2, 2019 .
  7. ^ Science Museum Group: Suzanne Treister. In: Science Museum Group. The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, accessed March 2, 2019 .
  8. ^ Center Pompidou: Extension du domaine du jeu . Ed .: Center Pompidou. Paris May 27, 2015, p. 6th f . ( centrepompidou.fr [PDF]).
  9. ↑ Suzanne Treister CV. Retrieved March 2, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Suzanne Treister CV. Retrieved March 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Treister, Suzanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH London