Susanna Hertrich is a Berlin-based, internationally exhibiting artist working at the intersection of art and science. Her cross-media practice focuses on our relationship to technology in a world where artificial-technological and natural-biological ecosystems are increasingly merging. Central to this is an exploration of the Unknown of (upcoming) technologies through objects, images and films that bridge the gap between imagination, speculation and reality. Her works often revolve around sensory augmentation, the invisible world of signals and waves that comprise our electromagnetic infrastructures, and the exploration of the magical and the notion of the »supernatural« in technologies, considering mythologies and techno-animistic angles and including perspectives of the non-human.
Her projects have been shown and screened in institutions, including the Triennale Milano, HEK, Basel, HKW, Berlin, Boston Center for the Arts, FACT, Liverpool, Marta Herford, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Z33, Hasselt, Bureau Europa, Maastricht, Vienna Biennial/MAK, Vitra Design Museum, V&A Dundee, CAFA art museum, Beijing, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Hyundai Motor Space, Busan, and EMAF, Osnabrück.
Susanna was awarded the Über Lebenskunst grant by Kulturstiftung des Bundes (2010) and artist-in-residence grants at Tokyo Wonder Site (2008), as well as Tsinghua Media Art & Science Laboratory in Beijing (2008) and Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto (2015) at the invitation of the Goethe institute, and TOKAS Tokyo Art and Space (2019) at the invitation of Atelier Mondial. Her work is featured in numerous international publications and books.
She has collaborated with international research labs, including the People and Practices Group at Intel Corporation (2007), the Pervasive Interaction Lab at Open University (2009), the Meta Perception research group at the University of Tokyo (2009), the Design Research Lab at the UdK in Berlin (2010-11), and the Critical Media Lab at the Academy of Art and Design FHNW in Basel (2014-19).
In 2021/22, she published the book »Following the Elephant-nosed Fish. Reimagining our Sensorium« with Shintaro Miyazaki.
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Reviews:
SZUM | „Superorganizm” wystawa w ramach XIII Festiwalu Przemiany w Centrum Nauki Kopernik w Warszawie
Süddeutsche Zeitung | Alle auf den Mars
Triennale Magazine | L’arte vista da un neuroscienziato. Intervista a Giorgio Vallortigara
Liceo Magazine | Susanna Hertrich: más allá del arte
Boston Globe | A dread to think… examines anxiety
Hyperallergic | Prosthetic Devices for the Modern Psyche
Berlin Art Link | Studio visit with Susanna Hertrich
Vice | Here’s a Wearable Prosthetic That Detects Air Pollution
Labiotech | BioArt in Berlin: Making Dystopia Beautiful with Prostheses and the Transhuman Life
XSEAD | Prostheses for Instincts – Susanna Hertrich
Art21 Magazine | A willing participant at EMPAC’s “Uncertain Spectator”
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Full CV upon request