BIO

Susanne Thurn (* 1974, Bremen) is a visual artist living and working in Hamburg, Germany. She graduated in illustration, print making, and textile design in Hamburg and London. After having worked as an illustrator and designer for many years she started to exclusively focus on her arts practise. Her approach is going back and forth between intuition and contextualising, using the tool of repetition and a constant focus on the line – be it the line drawn with a pencil or the single thread of a piece of textile. Her minimalistic and delicate works explore the relationship between gesture and material, line and body, form and object.

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EDUCATION

2017 – 2022 studies of textile design with Gesa Lange at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Design and Media (M.A)

1993 – 2001 studies of illustration and print making at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Design and Media and at Central Saint Martins (Diploma)

EXHIBITONS

2023   Susanne Thurn & Stephan Elleringmann duo show at Fatale Galerie, Hamburg (Germany)

2022   “Verbotenes Terrain“ group show at Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren (Germany)

2022   “Something you already know“, solo show at pop-up space Kreativgesellschaft, 

            Hamburg (Germany)

2021   “Right here, right now“, solo show at Whitegrid Gallery, Berlin (Germany)

2021   Group show at Fatale Galerie, Hamburg (Germany)