Susanne Leutenegger

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Susanne
  Susanne was born and grew up in Sankt Gallen in Switzerland
1983-87 Studies at the College of Art and Design, Cork, Ireland
1987 National Diploma in Fine Art (with distinction)
Title of final thesis: "Paul Klee's Visual Poetics,
shaped by German Romanticism".
1987-94 Lives and works in Oldenburg, North Germany
1994 Returns to live and work in Cork
2000-02 Diploma in Art History at University College, Cork
From 2004 Full member Backwater Artists’Group Studios, Wandesford Quay, Cork City
2005 Founder member the cooperative Gallery Arthaven Gallery, Crosshaven, Co. Cork
2008-12 Training as practitioner in the Feldenkrais Method, Awareness through Movement
   

Susanne’s work is included in the public collections of University College Cork, Glucksman Gallery Cork, Cork Printmakers.

In Germany, City Councils of Oldenburg, Luebeck, Vechta, Hamburg, Hannover, Bremen have been collecting and showing her work.

In Switzerland, the cities of St.Gallen and Wil, Schweizerische Volksbank, UBS Art Collection, Switzerland have included her work in their collections.

Susanne’s Art can be found in numerous private collections in Germany, Switzerland and Ireland.

Work permanently represented by Galerie Kunstueck, Oldenburg, Germany; Galerie Flora, Wil, Switzerland; Galerie Artforum Hannover, Germany, Arthaven Cooperative Gallery, Crosshaven, County Cork and Studio One, Kinsale.

   
One Person Exhibitions
 
2010 Cronin’s Dining Room, Crosshaven
2006 Galerie Quimby Huus, St.Gallen, Switzerland
2005 Galerie ARTHAVEN, Crosshaven, County Cork
2004 South Tipperary Art Centre, Clonmel, Tipperary
2003 FORM Gallery, Paul Street, Cork City
2002 Signal Art Centre, Bray, Dublin
2000 Galerie Raubach, St.Gallen, Switzerland
1994 Stadtmuseum Deggendorf, Bavaria
1993 Produzentengalerie Passau, Bavaria

"Schaukelt Schiff", Initiative for Art, Bremerhaven
1992 Atelier Galerie, St. Gallen, Switzerland
1991 Galerie Neue Kunst, Wil/ St.Gallen, Switzerland
1990 "RaumGebilde", Galerie Art East-Art West, Hamburg,
with installation "The Secret Teahouse"

"New Work", University College Cork

Initiative for Art, Bremerhaven, North Germany
1989 Galerie ars lubecae, Luebeck

"BauArten", Atelierhof Bremen

"losgelassene Waende", Galerie Neue Kunst,
Wil/ St.Gallen, Switzerland
1988 "Back from Reality",
Kunstverein Kaponier, Vechta, North Germany

Galerie am Fuerstenwall, Duesseldorf
   
Selected group exhibitions

2011

"Place-Space", Backwater Artists Group, C.I.T. Gallery, Wandesford Quay, Cork

Members Exhibition, Lavit Gallery, Cork

Lightbox exhibition. Tom Barry’s Cork. Backwater Artists Group

2010 Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin, Invited Artist to Members Exhibition

Doswell Gallery, Rosscarbery, County Cork

Crawford National Art Gallery Cork, 20 Years Backwater Artists

Royal Hibernian Academy, Children First Art Show
2009 Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, County Cork

Studio One, Kinsale, County Cork

Turn-Berlin Galerie, Berlin
2008 Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery, Kinsale

CIT Exhibition Centre, Bishopstown, Cork
2007 “Margin”, Office of Public Works, St.Stephen’s Green, Dublin

“The Gallery Girls”, gallery ARTHAVEN, Crosshaven, Co.Cork
2006 Stone Gallery, Pearse Street, Dublin

Gallery ARTHAVEN, Crosshaven, Co.Cork

Joan Clancy Gallery, Dungarvan, Co.Waterford

The Old Market House Gallery, Dungarvan,Co.Waterford
2005 “C 2”, Crawford, Municipal Gallery, Cork City (catalogue)

Galerie Kunstueck, Oldenburg, Germany

“When Colour spreads its wings” Gallery ARTHAVEN, Crosshaven, Co. Cork

“Inhouse Out”, Backwater Artists Studios, Wandesford Quay, Cork City

2004 South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

Form Gallery, “On Site”, Summer Exhibition, Cork City

The Waterford Arts Festival, Waterford City Council, Co. Waterford

“The Raw- not the cooked”, Fenton Gallery, Cork City
2003 Lavit Gallery, selected members Exhibition (selected)

O`Sullivan Bewick Art Gallery, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow

Private Collector Gallery, 95th Street , New York

Art Trail, Tig Fili. Cork and Backwater Artists’ Collective, Cork.
2002 Art Trail, Lavit Gallery, Cork

Galerie Kunstück, Oldenburg, Germany
2001 Drawing and Dance Festival in Granary Theatre, University College Cork.
Performance with Jools Gilson-Ellis

Art Trail, Tig Filì, Cork

Galerie Flora, St.Gallen, Switzerland

"And on complementing images”, Installation during Art Trail,
Academy House, Academy Street, Cork City
2000 Galerie ARTFORUM, Hannover, Germany

Art Trail, Tig Filì, Cork City
1999 The Modern Art Collection, University College Cork (catalogue)

Art Trail, Lavit Gallery, Cork
1998 Art Trail, Cork Artists’ Collective, Cork (catalogue)
1996 Galerie ARTFORUM, Hannover
1995 "Artists from the Gallery",
10 Years Producer's Gallery Passau, Bavaria (catalogue)
1994 "European Artists living in the North German Region", Oldenburgische Landesbank

"Kunstforum, european artists” Kulturzentrum Oldenburg
1993 “Eleven Artists from Oldenburg"
city twinning exhibition in Cholet, France (catalogue)

"Artists from the Gallery",
Galerie ARTFORUM, Hannover

"AktMalerei" (Life Painting), Kunstverein Eisenturm, Mainz/Frankfurt
1992 „NORD-SUED“
Kunstverein Landau, Bavaria, Germany (catalogue)

"Alles ist in Fluss" (Everything is flowing, Heraklit)
mural installation and performance
Karg Producers Gallery, Oldenburg, Germany (catalogue)

Kunstmarkt, Regional Art Centre, PFL, Oldenburg

"Childhood and Youth", artists from the group Karg in association with
the University of Oldenburg, Stadtmuseum Oldenburg (catalogue)
1991 “Three Swiss Artists”, Galerie ARTFORUM, Hannover

“GKK Kunst91, Groninger Kunstenaars Kollektief, Netherlands (publication)
1990 “Women artists from Oldenburg”, touring exhibition, (catalogue)

Artists from the group KARG, Oldenburg
1989 "Junge Kunst"
Two artists in the Palais Rastede, Oldenburg

"Artists from the Group Karg", Oldenburg
1988 "Sich Lassen"
two artists' exhibition and painting performance,
Bund Bildender Kuenstler, Oldenburg
1987 "Distinguished Graduates from Irish Art Colleges",
Project Art Centre, Dublin

"Five Cork Artists", Lavitts Quay Gallery, Cor
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Art-related activities
   
2006 Teaching visual and aesthetic awareness in the collaborative project between Cork City Council, Glucksman Gallery and Primary School, Cork
2005 Founder member of ArtHaven Gallery, Artists’Cooperative Gallery, Crosshaven, County Cork. www.Arthaven.ie

Backwater Artists’ Talks at Crawford Municipal Gallery to celebrate Cork Capital of Culture 2005
2004 Full studio membership Backwater Artists Group, Wandsford Quay, Cork
2003 Adult Education classes “Drawing with the right side of the brain”.

Teaching Meditation and Drawing in Irish Primary Schools
2000 ArtFlight Award, Irish Art Council
1997 Part-time teaching at Crawford College of Art, Cork
1994 First Prize : North German Raiffeisen Bank Arts Awards for Young Artists
1991 Lecturer in Drawing at University of Oldenburg, Germany
1990 Artist-in-residence, University College Cork
1988 -94 Lecturer in Colour Theory and Drawing,
Regional Technical College of Architecture, Oldenburg
1988 Founding member of the Artists Cooperative and
Producers Gallery KARG, Oldenburg


© Susanne Leutenegger 2011