Susanne Clausen is a German and British artist, curator and professor of fine art at the

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. She works often in collaboration with Pavlo Kerestey under the name Szuper Gallery, under which she publishes most of her works consisting mainly of performances, videos and multi-media installations, paintings and drawings. For the

, apart from being a professor, she holds the title of director and founder of Reading International, also serving as the head of Art between 2011 and 2017. She has lived and worked in

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, Germany,

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and

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England, having exhibited across the world in galleries and art spaces spanning from the

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London to the Western Front Arts Centre Vancouver and the

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Russia.

Life and work

Clausen first studied fine art at the Academy of Fine Art Munich, Germany, or ''Akademie der Bildenden Künste München'' between 1988 and 1994. She then studied at the

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, London England (Part of the

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) between 1997 and 1999, where she received an MA in fine art media.

Szuper Gallery

Together with artist Pavlo Kerestey, Clausen has worked under the name Szuper Gallery. What originated as an actual gallery based in

Germany, now serves as a name for a variety of pieces with well-known projects such as Liftarchiv, or Luquid Trust. Szuper Gallery generally specialises in multimedia installations but has worked in a large range of mediums.

University of Reading

Between 2011 and 2017, Clausen served as the head of the Reading School of Art, or Department of Art (previously). In 2016, she founded the Reading International arts festival as part of the UoR and the Reading Year of Culture. This project brings together artists and performers from across the world to show in the town of Reading and is self described as "Led by artists from the Reading School of Art at the University of Reading and hosted by a rich mixture of partners within the town, Reading International produces several major projects each year, in which artists and curators are given a platform to make new work in response to the unique social and historical context of Reading and wider Berkshire".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Clausen, Susanne Living people Year of birth missing (living people) German contemporary artists Academics of the University of Reading Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art 21st-century German artists 21st-century German educators German curators German women curators