susanne baumgartner 1963, swiss
“Finding a likeness in disconnected objects” – the specific photographic views of Susanne Baumgartner could hardly be described more accurately. Highly individual discovers the photographer in the streets things, relationships, resonances, echoes that nobody has ever seen, despite its ordinariness. Through her eyes, the seen and visible world transforms. The centering, pre-stamped by our thinking and perception schemata consider is dethroned. It is replaced by a decentralized vision that does not feel bound to the functional relationships of our world, but fragments brings into play another and generates imaginary dialogues and reflections. A waiting replaced by an equal dressed mannequin a double, a telephony render seems to refer to a distant person his interlocutor, an interconnected speaking couple gets into a road barrier echoed. In the pictures of Susanne Baumgartner, the world is not a once and for all as it is, but open to what it could be. For the viewer this means photographic view that he has to learn his part, productively to see – to make viewing habits behind and decipher images, how to read a book: through art, to create internal images and meaning of signs.
Lucius Sombre
exhibitions
2021 group-exhibiton german streetphotograpy festival, hamburg
2020 group-exhibition, head on 2020, photo festival, sydney
2019 group-exhibition, xposure, united arab emirates
2019 group-exhibition, san francisco, street photography festival, “two way street” #womeninstreet
2019 group-exhibition, italian street photo festival rome
2019 group-exhibition, milano street photography festival
2018 group-exhibition, women street photographers new york
2018 group-exhibition, miami street photography festival
2017 group-exhibition, wayne stark galleries at texas a&m university
2017 group-exhibition, odessa college options gallery, odessa tx, usa
2017 group-exhibition, the center for contemporary arts, abilene, tx, usa
2017 solo-exhibition, gastfeld, bremen, deutschland
2015 group-exhibition, galerie am gurten, bern
2015 group-exhibition, bad laasphe, deutschland
2014 solo-exhibition, bern galerieJ14
2013 solo-exhibition gastfeld, bremen, deutschland
2013 group-exhibition, miami street photography festival at the miami art basel 13
awards
2019 finalist rome street photo festaival
2018 finalist miami street photography festival
2017 finalist, texas photograpic society, for tps: 26. international competition
2015 winner at the 10th Annual Black & White Spider Awards
2014 nominee at the 9th Annual Black & White Spider Award
2014 international street photography award, main award commended black&white
2013 finalist www.miamistreetphotographyfestival.org
jury
2019 first german street photography festival
contact
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