WESEL, GERMANY, 1967
LIVES AND WORKS IN BELFAST AND BERLIN
WWW.SUSANNEBOSCH.DE
WWW.RESTPFENNIG.COM
WORK EXPOSED IN MADRID ABIERTO HUCHA DE DESESOS:¡TODOS SOMOS UN BARRIO, MOVILÍZATE!

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Themen, die nicht zählen, Orte, die nicht wichtig sind, Kunstverein,Würzburg.

2004
Mensch weg/ Insan yitmis / Meri helazbune (human disappeared), sox36, Berlin.

2004
ATA, Galerie35, Berlin.

2001
Restpfennigaktion/ Left-over Penny Campaign, SchmidtBank-Gallery, Nürnberg.
Installation and Interviews, Left-over Penny Campaign, Gallery sox36, Berlin.

1998
Restpfennigaktion/ Left-over Penny Campaign, Gallery Kohlenhof, Nürnberg.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Festival della Creatività, Fortezza da Basso di Firenze, Fondazione Sistema Toscana, Florence, Italia.
Exhibition of Berlin Senate Sholarship for Istanbul, Künstlerhaus Bethanien,Berlin.
The History of Crisis II, curated by Tessa Gibbin and Monica Nunez, Project Room Dublin and Belfast Exposed, Belfast, Ireland
Exhibition of Berlin Senate Sholarship for Istanbul, BM SUMA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER Istanbul.

2008
THE COMMON GOOD: The Enterprise of Art, PAN | palazzo arti napoli, Napoli.

2007
PAN SCREENING, PAN | palazzo arti napoli, Napoli.
Rubin, Contemporary Museum of Art & Design, Nürnberg.

2006
Daily artist at the XV BIENNALE DE PARIS, online shop with designs by Susanne Bosch, snebtor, María Linares, France.
Visa Quartett at Rundgang, Bauhaus-University, Weimar.

2005
Institute for experience with the unknown, soundinstallation in the belltower of the Galleria della Provincia de Modena / Chiesa di San Paolo and Chiesa delle Monache, in the frame of The Bauhaus moves / La Bauhaus si muove, artists of the Bauhaus-University Weimar being guests in Modena.

2002
Kunstbank, Berlin (together with Marisa Maza/ exhibition of Berlin Senate stipends) Währungswechsel/ change of value, Städtische Gallery Fürth, Deutschland.

2000
SomaVision, Art and Media Centre Adlershof, Berlin.
Wettbewerb U2 Alexanderplatz (collaboration with Ulrike Dornis and Jens Hanke) competition for subway-station U2, NGBK, Berlin.
Goldrausch XI _unterwegs/ Goldrausch XI_on tour, Presentation at Kunstbunker Nuremberg /  Kunstraum Düsseldorf/     halle_für_kunst Lüneburg/art forum, Art Fair Berlin.

1999
Wie Macht Kunst?/ What Makes Art?, Fridericianum, Kasseler Kunstverein (collaboration with Vollrad Kutscher), Kassel.
Materials, Künstlerhaus Bremen.
Sozialmaschine Geld (social-machine money), O.K., Centre for  Contemporary
Art, Linz, Austria (collaboration with V.Kutscher)
Klinik, Morphing Systems (.collaboration with Stephan Kurr), Zürich.

1997
Germinations 9, Villa Arson, Nice, France 
Förderpreisträgerausstellung, Kunsthaus Nürnberg.
Germinations 9, Tutesall/ Chateau de Bourglinster, Luxembourg.

1996
Germinations 9, Prague, Castle, Czech Republic
KunstRaumFranken, Kunsthalle Nürnberg.

PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
2009-2010
Madrid Abierto 2009-2010, public art intervention in Madrid.

2009
Verwunderlich, dass Ihr Euch wundert, aber wir tun es auch. Multimedia Installation in Cafe Kotti, Berlin (contribution to the exhibition of Berlin Senate Sholarship for Istanbul).
An·nex, Homage to John Cage "4'33", public intervention, Boyd Park, Belfast, Susanne Bosch in collaboration with Dragan Miloshevski & Michelle Moloney, Northern Ireland.
AGENCY, Billboard in public space, Berlin.

2008
Art, Media and Contested Space, Billboard in public space, Belfast Biennale 2008, Northern Ireland
THE COMMON GOOD: The Enterprise of Art, PAN | palazzo arti napoli, Napoli.

2007/8
WHOSE VOICE IS IT ANYWAY?, Migrant-Media-Project in Belfast with screenings: 2MOVE: IRELAND, Belfast/Navan, NVTV/Belfast, Northern Ireland.

2007
IKEA says HOME is the most important place, FIX07 – 7th International
Performance Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
A viewing, public intervention in collaboration with Sandra Johnston and Marilyn Arsem, Out Of Site 2007, Dublin, Ireland.
Performative event APPROPRIATE in collaboration with Alma Suljevic,(Sarajevo), Marilyn Arsem (Boston) and Sandra Johnston (Belfast), Northern Ireland.
Top trumps Polish Migrants at Northbound Conference, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

2006
Mobile economies at Permanent moving, DGB Haus Berlin and public space Berlin-Schöneberg.
Top trumps Work Migration at Out Of Site 2006, Performance in public space, Fringe Festival Dublin, Ireland.

2005
Institute for experience with the unknown, soundinstallation in the belltower of the Galleria della Provincia de Modena / Chiesa di San  Paolo and Chiesa delle Monache, in the frame of The Bauhaus moves / La Bauhaus si muove, Modena.

2004
Hic bir yere gidememek/ Nirgendwo Ankommen/ To arrive nowhere I-III, Café MittenMang and outdoor in Reuterkiez, Berlin.
WG/3Zi/K/Bar, Düsseldorf.
LOCK YOUR MIND, Apartman Project Space, Istanbul.
Káko ßi dúschitschke mója? / How are you, my little soul? Lovesongs for Gropiusstadt, sound installation in an elevator in Gropiusstadt, Berlin.

1998-2002
Restpfennigaktion/ Left-over Penny Campaign, art in public space project with collection sites in Wuhlheide, Berlin, centre of Nuremberg, Marienplatz, Munich, Alexanderplatz, Berlin.

1996-97
Curriculum Vitae, poster action in Prague, Nuremberg, Nice and Luxembourg

SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS
4/2009
Open Space Learning Exchange, in collaboration with Dr. Cherie Driver and Jo Töpfer, Connswater, Northern Ireland.

8/2008
Summer School Art in Public, Open Space Technology Training, in collaboration with Dr. Cherie Driver, Jo Töpfer, Michael M Pannwitz, Connswater, Northern Ireland.

9/2007
Summer School Art in Public, Artistic Communication Forms in Spaces of Social Interaction, Belfast, in collaboration with Catalyst Arts, Francis Zeischegg, Ailbhe Murphy and Ele Carpenter, CatalystArts Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

2006
13 Monday Night Lectures, TEMPORARY INTERVENTIONS in cooperation with the ACC Gallery Weimar.

2005/06
12 Monday Night Lectures, ART AND COMMEMORATION, in cooperation with the ACC Gallery Weimar.

2004   
12 Monday Night Lecture, NEW ARTISTIC STRATEGIES, in Cooperation with the ACC Gallery Weimar.

2001-2002
member of Kunstcoop© , www.kunstcoop.de in collaboration with the NGBK (Neue Gesellschaft Bildende Kunst, Berlin and the artists Nanna Lüth, Carmen Mörsch, Ana Bilankov, Bill Masuch, Ulrike Stutz, Maria Linares), Berlin.

10/2000-12/2002   
Initiator of the sox36 - space in Oranienstrasse 175 in Berlin, Kreuzberg, Deutschland in cooperation with Alessio Trevisani/dancer, Stephan Kurr/artist, Marbo Becker/actor.

1996/97
Co-curator with Christina Oberbauer of the yearbook/ Jahrbuchs 1997 walking through society Institute of Modern Art Nürnberg,Germany, 15 positions on site-specific or     interventional artwork: Guerrilla Girls, Olav Westphalen, Ute Meta Bauer/ Fareed Armaly, Sabine Kammerl, Bernard Brunon/Jade Dellinger, Rikrit Tiravanija, Maria Eichhorn, Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler, Iris Häussler, Shedhalle Zürich.

ACADEMIC RELATED ACTIVITIES
since 2006
Lecturer in Fine Art Research, Interface Art and Its Locations /  FOCUS: Art in Contested Spaces and Art & Documentation, University of Ulster, Belfast / Northern Ireland | Course Director of the MA Art in Public.

2005/ 2006        
Assistant professor of the international MFA-programme Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus-University, Weimar.

LECTURES
7/2009
The Pre-History of Crisis II, round table discussion, Belfast Exposed, Belfast,Northern Ireland.

2/2009
Urban Buddy Scheme, Conference, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain.

11/2008
Decision committee meeting in PAN, Napoli.

10/2008
Art, Media and Contested Space, panel member, MAC, Belfast Biennale, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

2/2008
Culture moves, Symposia on Art in Social Context, Evangelische Akademie Tutzing, München.

2/2008
Public-Private: Art in Public Space, Symposia in Cultural Theory, Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, Bonn.

2000-2002
Artist-talks in Weimar (ACC-Gallery and Bauhaus-University), Nuremberg (University and Städtische Gallery Fürth), Frankfurt a.M., Halle (University), Kunsthaus Bremen, Berlin (NBK and artist-run-gallery Weiss), Gallery KS Würzburg, Deutschland.

7/2007
Die pARTizipanten, KOMM, lecture and workshop to develop a public art tender for the city of Nuremberg, Nürnberg.

6/2007
Poland in Northern Ireland, lecture, Social Change and Resistance, conference, Gdansk, Poland.

6/2007
ART RADIO LIVE, radio talk for Venice Biennale, www.wps1.org, invited by PS1, PAN, and the Perna Foundation, Italia. Scientific Committee member for the EU project FUTURE (Future Urban Research in Europe), http://www.urban-future.net/, Sverige.

4/2007
AHH conference CONTESTATIONS: Ex-Jugoslavia: Looking at neighbouring concepts, workshop and lecture, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1/2007
Presentation of paper Human traffic in/from Istanbul and chair of one part of the conference Public sphere Istanbul, Bauhaus University Weimar.
Part of roundtable about Sustainable action in relation to culture, Nürnberg, Deutschland.

11/2006
Chair at APPROACH, roundtable meeting of international performance artists, I CONFESS, Switch Room, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

10/2006
Chair at FAQ, Trauma, memory and counter-memory in relation to space, Culturlann, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

5/2006
Performative events in public space, University of Art Berlin-Weissensee in cooperation with office of Public Art Berlin.

4/2006
Urban Social Space, Conference of the city development in Jena, Deutschland.

11/2005
Art in the social realm, University of Applied Science, Frankfurt/Main, Deutschland.

6/2004
Art/Activism/ Civil society, with Lael Klime/Jerusalem, ACC Gallery Weimar.

1/2004
The true, good and beautiful, between art and working reality, University assel, Deutschland.

11/2003
Introduction of my art practice, Loft, Istanbul.

2003
Art is something for rich people, my mother said, symposium art and economy, Werketage Berlin.
Working Situation, lecture, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Deutschland.
The model of selfgeneration, Goldrausch Künstlerinnen-Projekt, Berlin.

EDUCATION 
2004
Four months training course for Civil Conflict Transformation / Civil Peace Service, Academy for Conflict Transformation, ForumZFD.

1999
Goldrausch, artist project grant, professionalisation programme for female artists, Berlin.

Since 1996   
Working as a freelance artist.

1990-96
University Erlangen / Nuremberg and Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, Master Student in Fine Arts.

1993
Guest semester at Universidad Complutense, Madrid/Spain, Art and Spanish,
Madrid.

AWARDS AND GRANTS
2009
Self-Arranged Residency to Madrid, Arts Council Northern Ireland.

2008/9
Travel grant, Arts Council Northern Ireland to Mae Sot at the Thai Burmese
Border, Thailand.

2008
Pilotproject Gropiusstadt, Berlin. Invitation to AGENCY* to live one week in
Gropiusstadt to develop a site specific project.

2007
Visiting Arts grant, Henry Moore Foundation/ Arts Council Northern Ireland/Scottish Arts Council/ British Council for the one week performative event APPROPRIATE in collaboration with Alma Suljevic, (Sarajevo), Marilyn Arsem (Boston) and Sandra Johnston (Belfast).

2006
Percentage of Art Commission, Bezirksamt Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Berlin (invited to submit an idea and model).

2003
Cultural exchange grant for Istanbul, Turkey from the Berlin Senate of Science, Research and Culture.
Pilotproject Gropiusstadt, Berlin. A project developed by Birgit Anna Schumacher & Uwe Jonas. Invitation, to live one week in Gropiusstadt to develop a site specific project.

2001
Working grant from the Berlin Senate of Science, Research and Culture.

2000
Project grant from the Berlin Senate of Science, Research and Culture.

1998
Residency in Nicaragua, office of international affairs, Nuremberg 3 months in San Carlos, Nicaragua. With Almut Determeyer.

1998
Klinik, Morphing Systems (collaboration with Stephan Kurr), Zurich, Swiss (Cat.). Invitation to develop a site-specific work in an abandoned hospital. project curated by Teresa Chen, Dorothea Wimmer and Tristian Kobler.

1997
Award of the Foundation Fine Arts Nürnberg.

1995
Germinations Europe, residency for European artists in Poland.

1993
Summer Academy Salzburg, Austria, workshop with Nan Goldin, financed by the Bavarian Ministry of Culture.

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
2009
Brae Art Centre, Ballymena, Northern Ireland.

CATALOGUES 
2009
Istanbul/Berlin fellows1998-2009, sourcebook, Berlin, pg 82-87 (Cat. Exp.).

2009
Yearbook of pilotproject Gropiusstadt, Berlin, pg 12-14 (Cat. Exp.).

2008   
Yearbook of Bauhaus University Weimar, pg. 148-163
Preoccupations: Things Artists Do Anyway, 111 Artists Reveal Their
Passion, Published by 泥人laiyanprojects & Studio Bibliothèque, HongKong, Edited by Cornelia Erdmann and Michael Lee Hong Hwe
Public Istanbul – Spaces and Spheres of the Urban Edited by Prof. Dr. Frank Eckardt and Dr. Kathrin Wildner, Transcript, Frankfurt.
Des/IRE, Designing Houses for Contemporary Ireland, Gandon  Editions / National Sculpture Factory Cork, Ireland.

2007
Rubin, 40 Years of Institute of Contemprory Art Nürnberg.
Istanbul Dergisi, Magazine, edition May 2007
Istanbul Dergisi, Magazine, edition Sept. 2007
The art of creating the Tomorrow, Spaceshuttle catalogue, Belfast
Im Dienst der Sache, stadtkunst magazine, Berlin.
Shifting the Stereotypes, Visual Artists' News Sheet, Issue 1.

2006
Schnittstelle Kommunikation, book about communication in art, Berlin.
Lock your mind, Istanbul-Berlin project in 2004 (Cat. Exp.).

2005    
Yearbook of pilotproject Gropiusstadt, Berlin (Cat. Exp.).

2004    
Yearbook of pilotproject Gropiusstadt, Berlin (Cat. Exp.).

2002       
Sox36, programme 2000-2002, catalogue about the projects URTUX, art as utopia, Yearbook of the Institute of Moderne Art Nürnberg.

2000-2002
Kunstcoop©, book about pilotproject artist do art-mediation/-education/communication at the NGBK, Berlin.
WährungsTausch, catalogue from exhibition at Städtische Gallery Fürth (Cat. Exp.).

1998
Berlin Alexanderplatz U2, catalogue from competition art at the subway, 12 selected projects, (Cat. Exp.).
Sozialmaschine Geld, Kunst.Positionen, catalogue from exhibition about money at the O.K. Centre for Contemporary Art Linz, Austria, (Cat. Exp.).
Restpfennigaktion, broschure about the project in public space
Morphing, catalogue from exhibtion in abandonned hospital in Zurich, Suisse.

1996
Isswas, Bavarian American Hotel, Nürnberg (Cat. Exp.).
Germinations 9 (Cat. Exp.).

1996/97
Kunst Raum Franken, Kunsthalle Nürnberg (Cat. Exp.).

REVIEWS
2009
The Pre-History of Crisis II, Sunday Times, 3rd August 2009
The Pre-History of Crisis II, BBC Radio Ulster, 10 min Interview, 7th July 2009
CNN Turk, 9.4.2009.
Liane Thau, Bilder vom Alltag und ein Jubilaeum, Die Kitzinger, 27.3.2009.
Aivers, Aine, A Report on Interface Summer School: Open Space Technology Training, Belfast, 10th - 16th of September 2008,   Visual Artists’ News Sheet, Issue 1, 2009.

2008
Scala, radio feature about my work in Belfast, WDR  3, Deutschland.

2007
Joan Fowler, High Stakes, Visual Artists’ News Sheet, Issue 6, 2007, pg 23
Cherie Driver/ Anne Marie Dillon, On and on, Visual Artists’ News Sheet, Issue 5, 2007, pg 10.

2004
Roswitha Buchner, „Hic bir yer gidememek“, Bayrischer Rundfunk, Sept. 2004.
Stefan Strauss, Thailändische Schmusesongs im Neuköllner  Fahrstuhl, Berliner Zeitung, 24.08.2004.
Meike Jansen, Einblick (57), TAZ Berlin, S. 28, 04.08.200
M. Reichelt Philip Wiegands »Bar« und die Geschichte des sox36, Kunstforum International, pg 263 ff, Köln.

2002
5,3 Tonnen Pfennige sind 50 0000 Euro, Süddeutsche Zeitung,  28.06.2002, pg 42.
Wahjudi, Claudia Die Münzmanagerin, Zitty / Kunst, 9/2002,  pg 83.

2001
Falk, Sabine Wunschproduktion, kunststadt, stadtkunst, Nr.  47/2001, Berlin, pg 23.
Schmidt, Peter Von der Potenz der Restpfennige, Süddeutsche  Zeitung, 8/2001, pg 56.
Wagner, Thomas »Restpfennig«, FAZ, 31.12.2001, Feuilleton.

1999
Das Fidericianum Magazin, Kunstverein und Kunsthalle Kassel, Heft 3, Herbst 1999, pg 32 ff

1998
Kunstforum International, Bd. 149, S.108-109, Köln. 
Blättner, M. »Restpfennigaktion«, Kunstforum International,  S.414-15, Bd. 140, Köln.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006
Weimar Day-to-Day (co-editor with Prof. Liz Bachhuber) Verlag der Bauhaus Universität Weimar. Liebe Mariela, catalogue text for Mariela Limerutti.

2005
Schiller goes public (co-editor with Prof. Liz Bachhuber) Verlag der Bauhaus Universität Weimar.

2003
Restpfennigaktion, book about the project in public space, including the collection of 1601 wishes, text contributions from Claudia Wahjudi, Dr. Volker Volkholz (sociology), Prof. F.B. Simon (psychology and economist), 314 pages, published by Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg. Restpfennigaktion, poster about the project in public space.

1997
Walking through society, Yearbook of the Institute of Moderne Art Nuremberg 1997 in collaboration with Christina Jacoby.

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