SUSANNE WAWRA

Susanne Wawra

Susanne Wawra (b. 1980, Germany) lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. Susanne completed a Master's Degree in English and Communication & Media at the University of Leipzig, Germany and moved to Dublin to work for an International big player in 2007. After an exploration of the highs and lows of business, she decided to swap a secure career for life as an artist.

Wawra graduated in Fine Art Painting at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and won the Talbot Gallery and Studios Most Promising Graduate Award 2016. Further, she received a Highly Commended in the global Undergraduate Awards (2016) and has been listed as one of the four artists in the Visual Arts Category of '50 People to Watch in 2017' in The Irish Times.

Her work has been shown at Miami New Media Festival (2016), Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, USA; OSTRALE 'O15 (2015), Dresden, Germany; BIDEODROMO (2015), Bilbao, Spain and Pop Maskulinity (2014), Gayfield Creative Spaces, Edinburgh, Scotland.

In April-August 2019, Susanne participated in an group show titled A Vague Anxiety at The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) Dublin. The exhibition, curated by Seán Kissane, featured the work of emerging Irish and international artists exploring climate change, the housing crisis, borders and identity. Read Natalie Pullen's excellent paper, "Susanne Wawra: Painting memory, subjectivity, emergence" written in the context of this exhibition.

Susanne was a member of our AGA group in 2020 and joined the Olivier Cornet Gallery as a represented artist in February 2021.
Art Education         

2016 BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland. 
2006 MA English and Communication & Media, University of Leipzig, Germany.
Solo exhibitions
2022
REMMIDEMMI, Custom House Studios & Gallery, Wesport, Ireland
2020
Sitzfleisch, Olivier Cornet Gallery (online show in our new 3D virtual space)

FERNAUSLÖSER, Galerie Ringelnatz, KUKUNA, Bad Tabarz, Germany
2018
Living in a Bubble, Luan Gallery,  Athlone, Ireland. Click here to listen to a great 'in conversation with' curator Rayne Booth

Portale (Portals), Cube Space, The LAB, Dublin, Ireland.
Group Exhibitions
2021
'Memento, Looking back, Looking forward', a winter group art show.

2020
'On Paper', a winter group art show co-curated with Jackie Ryan.
'Resurfacing', end of Summer group show, 6-28 August 2020
'The Morphing Feminine', Bloomsday group show, 16 June - 30 July 2020

2019
A Vague Anxiety, East Wing, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin, Ireland (see film here). Concerning The Other, An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk, Ireland. ‘Drawing on Don Quixote', group show curated by Olivier Cornet at National Opera House (Oct 2019, Opera Festival Wexford), VUE Contemporary Art Fair (Nov 2019, RHA Dublin), Olivier Cornet Gallery (Jan to Mar 2020).

2018
Syntonic State, TULCA, Galway, Ireland. 9th International Printmaking Biennial Douro, Portugal.HUMAN RIGHTS? #EDU, IAA AIAP Unesco, Opera Campana Caduti, Rovereto, Italy. Borderland + Memento, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford, Ireland.
2017
Di Carta / Papermade 3, Palazzo Fogazzaro, Schio, Italy. Annual Contemporary Art Exhibition, Mason, Hayes & Curran, Dublin, Ireland. Concerning The Other, Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. Cairde Visual, The Model, Sligo, Ireland. Property, Roman Susan Art Foundation + RP/WR Historical Society, Chicago, IL, USA. Words Matter, Side Street Studio Arts, Elgin, IL, USA.
2016
Miami New Media Festival, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, USA. Moving Bodies Festival, MART Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. NCAD Graduate Showcase*, NCAD, Dublin, Ireland.

* "Susanne Wawra’s memories of travels in Europe and beyond take a more exuberant, enveloping approach in paintings dense and dizzy with sheer sensations" (art critic Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, "Visual Art: Anxious, formidable work at graduate shows", Tue, Jun 21, 2016)



2015
Handle with Care, OSTRALE ‘O15, Ostragehege, Dresden, Germany. Les Instants Vidéo, [.Box] Galerie, Milan, Italy. Time To Change Art Project, Tent Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2014
POP Maskulinity, Gayfield Creative Spaces, Edinburgh, Scotland. TIAF 2014, The Rag Factory, London, England. Pixels of Identity, Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice, Italy. 
Selected Screenings
2018
Cefalú Film Festival, Palermo, Italy.

2017
Rural FilmFest, El Edén de la Mancha, Spain. Human District Festival, Belgrade, Serbia. Les Instants Vidéo, Escuela de Arte Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2016
KURZSUECHTIG, Schaubühne Lindenfels, Leipzig, Germany. FICAE International Short Film & Art Festival, Valencia, Spain. 

2015
BIDEODROMO, BilbaoArte, Bilbao, Spain. UN*DEPENDENCE Film Festival, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland.
Awards, Residencies & Speaking

2018
Workshop “Frohe Zukunft”, German Literature Dept., University College Dublin, IE. Cill Rialaig Residency, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry, Ireland. Artists Speak, Visual Artists Ireland, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland. Artist Talk and Walkthrough with Curator Rayne Booth, Luan Gallery, Athlone, IE. Culture Night Gallery Guide for solo show ‘Living in a Bubble’, Luan Gallery, IE.

2017
‘50 People To Watch in 2017’, The Irish Times.
  
2016
Talbot Gallery and Studios Most Promising Graduate Award, Dublin, IE. Speaker, Highly Commended in Visual Arts, Undergraduate Awards, DCU, Dublin, IE.
Collections
2018  Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation, New York, USA.
2017  OPW, The Office of Public Works, Ireland; Mason Hayes & Curran, Dublin, Ireland.

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