Susanne Waltermann - Galerie Michael Haas

Susanne Waltermann

*1959 in Hanover - lives in Cologne

Biography

Where other artists work with paint, brushes and pencils on canvas or paper, Susanne Waltermann uses needle and thread to sew her pictures, stitch by stitch. The effort of the seamstress is inscribed in each of her pictures, as is the laborious process of finding form. In this context, painting over is just as important as sewing as a method of drawing. Radical cutting and dismantling are just as much a part of the working process as reassembly. Wafer-thin silk papers are glued layer by layer with Japanese paper until a wrinkled, onion-like skin forms. The paste binds the skins together and gives them a glassy transparency.

Susanne Waltermann’s work is permeated by ambiguity: the presence and simultaneous absence of the body suggested by the garments depicted. The trivialisation of the sacred and the simultaneous aestheticisation of the trivial in her votive images. In the stitched paper, which creates a complementary image of the image shown on the front with needle and thread on the back of the image carrier. In the process of sewing itself, which injures a membrane, the skin, but is at the same time indispensable for the healing process, and in the craft of sewing, which is defined as ‘feminine’ in cultural history and whose tradition of order, cleanliness and perfection she systematically undermines with irregular, coarse stitches and heavy thread.

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Susanne
Waltermann

1959

born in Hanover

1978 – 84

Studied art and German at the University of Cologne and passed the state examination

1985 – 90

Studied fine art painting at the FH for Arts and Design Cologne, master student of Prof Schriefers

2022

Scholarship from the Kunstfonds Foundation as part of Neustart Kultur

Solo Exhibitions

2026

»Susanne Waltermann«, Galerie Haas, Berlin

2021

»Stoffsuche«, Kunsthaus Alte Mühle, Schmallenberg

2015

»Mathilde«, plus Raum für Bilder, Cologne

Fashionhotel Indigo, Düsseldorf (cooperation with Modelabel Lanius)

2014

»Neue Arbeiten«, Wallstraßengalerie, Mönchengladbach

2011

»Der lange Faden«, Galerie Filser und Gräf, Munich

2010

»Votivbilder«, KGS Zugweg, Cologne (as part of the project »Die Welt ist auch anders, schau hin« by Cornel Wachter and Carolin Pfeil)

2009

»Votivbilder und andere«, Galerie im Turm, Cologne

Kunsthandlung Goyert, Cologne

2007

»Der Faden«, MDZ Art Gallery, Knokke

2006

»Fastenzeit«, Paul-Gerhard-Kirche, Cologne

2005

»Bilder genäht«, Galerie Incontro, Eitorf

2004

»Bilder genäht«, Stadtmuseum Siegburg

Group exhibitions

2025

»The great summer of art – artist camp«, 20 Jahre Projektgalerie Labor, Cologne

»Goyert zeigt«, Kunsthandlung Goyert as guest in the rooms of Galerie Smend, Cologne, with Götz Sambale

2024

»EOS – 2. Schicht«, Christuskirche Leverkusen

2022

»upside down«, Labor Projektgalerie, Cologne, with Thomas Schindler

»Basal Basal«, St. Gertrud, Cologne, with Frauke Gerhard

2021

»Stoffsuche. Textile Positionen der Gegenwartskunst«, Kunsthaus Alte Mühle, Schmallenberg, with Stefan Hann

2019

»Zusammenschau«, plus Raum für Bilder, Cologne

2018 – 22

Kunst Kabinett Hespert, Reichshof

2017

»Fadenarbeiten«, Wallstraßengalerie, Mönchengladbach, with Andreas My and Carola Willbrand

»Der Faden hält die Welt zusammen«, Kunstkabinett Hespert, Reichshof-Hespert, with Carola Willbrand

2015

»Rein Stofflich«, Kunstforum Eifel, Schleiden

»25 Jahre Stadtmuseum«, Stadtmuseum Siegburg

2013

Galerie Eyegenart, Cologne

»Jahresgaben«, Kunstverein Frechen

2012

»Der rote Faden«, Kunstpunkte Eitorf

Handwerkskammer zu Köln, as guest of the Werkschau of the Angewandte Kunst Cologne

»Vanitas«, Kunstforum St. Clemens, Cologne

Galerie Köln-Art, with Beate Prantner

2011

»11 x 11«, Galerie Filser und Gräf, Munich

»Die Welt ist eine Baustelle«, Sammlung KGS Zugweg, Kunsthalle Lindenthal, Cologne

2010

»Am laufenden Band«, Galerie im Turm, Cologne

2008

MDZ Art Gallery, Knokke, with Carola Willbrand

»Eingefädelt – 13 Künstler und der Faden«, Museum Zündorder Wehrturm, Cologne

»Was dich anzieht«, Galerie 11, Cologne, with Manuela Krekeler-Marx and Walter B. Brix

Kunsthotel Artgenossen, Lindlar, with Carola Willbrand

BBK Köln, Stapelhaus, with Manuela Krekeler-Marx and Walter Wolf

2006

»15 Jahre«, Galerie Incontro, Eitorf

»The Young Ones«, MDZ Art Gallery, Knokke