SUSANNE THEMLITZ
Geb. in Lisboa, 1968. Lebt in Cologne. Schloss in Lissabon ein Studium der Freien Kunst mit Schwerpunkt Skulptur und Zeichnung ab, bevor sie dann von 1993 – 95 an der Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf bei Prof. A.R. Penck studierte und als Meisterschülerin abschloss.
Solo Exhibitions
2013 À la poursuite d'un papillon / Sans doute l'horizon était là-haut, Houg Gallery, Lyon (FR)
2013 Oh!, Aranapoveda Gallery, Madrid (ES)
2013 Still Alive (se bifurcan y solapan), Ángeles Banos Gallery, Badajoz (ES)
2012 Drei Zeichnungen und ein Wesen, Galerina Steiner, Berlin (DE)
2011 Entre o Tempo (Between the Time), Vera Cortês Art Agency, Lisboa (PT)
2010/11 Entre el Tiempo (Between the Time), Museum for Modern Art Santander (ES)
2010 4 Containers, 1 Drawing and One Landscape / On Board of Victor Hugo, P28, Lisbon (PT)
2010 Silence / 5 elements in bronze and aluminium, probably detached from a graphite and oil drawing, yet to be realized,
Ermida Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Lisbon (PT)
2009 Migratory Landscape / Quand le chat est parti, les souris dansent, MCO Arte Contemporânea, Oporto (PT)
2009 O Estado do Sono (The State of Drowsiness), Paiol / Museum for Contemporary Art, Elvas (PT)
2009 At Eye Level, Vera Cortês Art Agency, Lisbon (PT)
2008 O Estado do Sono (The State of Drowsiness), Pavilhão Branco / Municipal Museum, Lisbon (PT)
2007 Vertebrados e Invertebrais II (The Vertebral & The Invertebrate II) , MCO Arte Contemporânea, Oporto (PT)
2006 Extroversão (Extroversion), Vera Cortês Art Agency, Lisbon (PT)
2006 O Estado do Sono (The State of Drowsiness), Culturgest, Oporto (PT)
2006 Of Subterranean Life, Casa da Cerca, Almada (PT)
2006 Themlitzarium, Casa das Artes, Tavira (PT)
2005 Metamorfopsia Dois Mil e Cinco (Metamorphopsia Two Thousand and Five), Carmona e Costa Foundation, Lisbon (PT)
2005 Vertebrados e Invertebrais (The Vertebral & The Invertebrate), Ponte de Sor Municipal Library, Ponte de Sor (PT)
2004 Zeit Paradies, Carla Stützer Gallery, Cologne (DE)
2004 Paraíso Público / Zeit Paradies, Emmerico Nunes Cultural Centre, Sines (PT)
2003/04 Anthropophobies & Etholomanies / Anonymous Rivals Borderers, Flottmannhallen, Herne (DE)
2003 Modus Vivendi. Genus Mutabile / Anonymous Venetical Creatures, Luís Serpa Gallery, Lisbon (PT)
2003 Ignoramus et Ignorabimus / Lunar Documentation, Promontório Gallery, Lisbon (PT)
2003 Video, Slowmotion, ESTGAD, Caldas da Rainha (PT)
2001 From the Private Life of the Parasites, Outsiders and Borderes, Carla Stützer Gallery, Cologne (DE)
2000 The Egomaniacs and the Imperfects, Manuel Ojeda Gallery, Las Palmas, Gran Canária (ES)
2000 The Egomaniacs and the Imperfects, Gallery Luís Serpa Projectos, Lisbon (PT)
1999 Quiproquo • After the Marvellous Travels of Georges Méliès, Chiado Museum, Lisbon (PT)
1999 The Good, the less Good and other Survivors, Schneiderei Gallery, Cologne (DE)
1998 Portable Landscapes • Strange Things Happen When You Are Abroad, Bores & Mallo Gallery, Cáceres (ES)
1997 Für Fremde, Gallery Konrad Mönter, Meerbusch (DE)
1996 Sculpture, Schneiderei Gallery, Cologne (DE)
1996 Espectros, Luís Serpa Gallery, Lisbon (PT)
1996 Fontes, Associação dos Arquitectos de Portugal, Lisbon (PT)
Group Exhibitions
2013 Sentido em deriva | Works from the Collection Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Culturgest, Lisbon (PT)
2013 2Q13 Women Artists | Women Collectors, Lloyds Club, London (GB)
2013 It's a Women's World II, Martina Kaiser Gallery, Cologne (DE)
2013 Private Appearences, Apard Szenes - Vieira da Silva Foundation, Lisbon (PT)
2013 Um retrato quase apagado, Cerveira Biennal Foundation, Vila Nova de Cerveira (PT)
2013 Foundation, Casa das Artes, Tavira (PT)
2013 Collecting Mushrums is a Dangerous Attitude, Luís Serpa Gallery, Lisbon (PT)
2012 Artist's Books, Ángeles Banos Gallery, Badajoz (ES)
2012 The Brocense Art Award, El Brocense, Cáceres (ES)
2012 Infinite Tasks. When Art and Book Unbind Eachother, , Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (PT)
2012 Dyssomnia / Experimentierzimmer, Hans-Peter-Zimmer Foundation, Düsseldorf (DE)
2012 Otras Flores del Mal, Aranapoveda Gallery, Madrid (ES)
2012 O Fim do Mundo, Neumünster Abbey, Luxembourg (L)
2012 Outdoor, Lisbon & Oporto (PT)
2011 Todo lo visible mi afecta, Ángeles Banos Gallery, Badajoz (ES)
2011 Roads to Whatever / Works from the CAM Collection, Calouste Gulbenkian Fundação, Lisbon (PT)
2011 Eu Podia Fazer Isto, Espaço Atmosferas, IPA, Lisbon (PT)
2011 Gabinete de Curiosidades #1/ Constkamer, Luís Serpa Projectos Gallery, Lisbon (PT)
2010 The Collection of António Cachola, Berardo Museum, Lisbon (PT)
2010 And Than Again, Pavilhão Preto, Municipal Museum, Lisbon (PT)
2010 Invisible Lines, Rua Cavaleiros Espora Dourada, Torres Vedras (PT)
2010 Banyan Project, Kunstgalerie Fürth (DE)
2010 Banyan Project, Fiji Museum (FJ)
2010 Banyan Project, Cook Islands Museum (CK)
2010 Marginália, d’aprés Edgar Allan Poe, Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon (PT)
2010 O dia mais longo do ano, Municipal Theatre, Almada (PT)
2009 She is a Femme Fatale, Berardo Museum, Lisbon (PT)
2009 BES, Lisbon (PT)
2009 Além do Tempo, Dentro do Museu, Nacional Museum Soares dos Reis, Oporto (PT)
2009 Dialogue Boxes on Street Windows / Allgarve, Faro (PT)
2009 Our Time / Video Screening Project, Smallbox, Psychiatric Hospital Centre, Lisbon (PT)
2009 16 Anos de Cumplicidade na Arte, Arts’ and Culture Centre, Ponde de Sor (PT)
2009 Diferença e Simulacro, Junho das Artes, Óbidos (PT)
2009 Banyan Project, The Paul Gauguin Museum / Centre des Metiers d´Art Tahiti (PF)
2009 Banyan Project, Körnerpark Gallery, Berlin (DE)
2009 Banyan Project, National Gallery Bangkok (TH)
2009 Lá Fora, Electricity Museum, Lisbon (PT)
2008 Dibujo Contemporáneo, Centenera Jaraba Foundation, Alovera (ES)
2008 Aquilo Sou Eu, Carmona & Costa Foundation, Lisbon (PT)
2008 Domésticos e Selvagens, MCO Arte Contemporânea, Oporto (PT)
2008 Sovereign European Art, Sommerset House, London (GB)
2008 X Mostra International Union Fenosa, MACUF, A Coruña (ES)
2008 Quel Air Clair.../ The Ar.Co Collection, Pavilhão Preto / Municipal Museum, Lisbon (PT)
2008 Lá Fora, Museu da Presidência, Viana do Castelo (PT)
2008 Parangolé, Museum for Contemporary Art Patio Herreriano, Valladolid (ES)
2008 Bichos, Entre o Homem e Animal, Rafael Bordallo Pinheiro Museum, Lisbon (PT)
2007 Banyan Project, BHU University, Varanasi (IN)
2007 Banyan Project, Meta House, Phnom Penh (KH)
2007 Open Garden, Palácio de Belém, Lisbon (PT)
2007 Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Award, Municipal Museum, Amarante (PT)
2007 O Banquete, Vera Cortês Art Agency, Lisbon (PT)
2007 Transfer, Palácio da Galeria, Tavira (PT)
2007 BES Photo, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon (PT)
2007 Watercolour Show, MCO Arte Contemporânea, Oporto (PT)
2007 Armanda D Ângela F Ana V Fernanda F Maria L Susanne T, Centro Cultural de Lagos, Lagos (PT)
2006 Über Kopf, Flottmannhallen, Herne (DE)
2006 Acchrochage 2, Palácio de Santos, French Embassy, Lisbon (PT)
2006 Finalmente, Carla Stützer Gallery, Cologne (DE)
2005 The Social Contract, Bordallo Pinheiro Museum, Lisbon (PT)
2005 Platen, Themlitz, Walter, Boisseréestraße 5, Cologne (DE)
2004/05 Imaginary Lives, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (PT)
2004/05 Finalmente, Carla Stützer Gallery, Cologne (DE)
2004/05 Entre Duas Luzes, Parliament, Lisbon (PT)
2004 Horizonte(s), 20 Years Luís Serpa Projectos Gallery, Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon (PT)
2004 Die Jägerprüfung, Peter Tedden Gallery & Kunstverein Oberhausen, Oberhausen (DE)
2004 Wild Life, Sommerpalast, Neuss (DE)
2003 Videolounge, part of the exhibition of Hans-Peter Feldmann, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (DE)
2003 Colecção de Arte Contemporânea da Caixa Geral de Depósitos, MEIAC, Badajoz (ES)
2002 Zum Jahresende, Carla Stützer Gallery, Cologne (DE)
2002 Drawing Award, Vieira da Silva Museum, Lisbon (PT)
2002 Acchrochage/Sculpture, Luís Serpa Gallery, Lisbon (PT)
2002 Acchrochage/Drawing, Luís Serpa Gallery, Lisbon (PT)
2002 Contemporary Art • Acquisitions of the Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Culturgest, Lisbon and Oporto (PT)
2002 Some People, Carla Stützer Gallery, Cologne (DE)
2001 Köln Kunst 6, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Cologne (DE)
2001 A Imagem do Momento, Pavilhão Branco, Municipal Museum, Lisbon (PT)
2001 Sculpture Award, D. Luís I Foundation, Cascais (PT)
2001 2001: Odisseia no Tempo, Luís Serpa Projectos Gallery, Lisbon (PT)
2000 Depósito, Casa Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon (PT)
2000 Spanding an Intire Ocean, Culturgest, Lisbon (PT)
2000 O Centre de Art em Montrouge, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon (PT)
2000 Sala do Veado, Natural History Museum, Lisbon (PT)
2000 Salon D’Art Contemporain, Centre Culturel et Artistique de Montrouge (FR)
1999 Le Dernier Cri 99/00, Carla Stützer Gallery, Cologne (DE)
1999 Accrochage, Luís Serpa Projectos Gallery, Lisbon (PT)
1999 Review • Preview, Gallery Schneiderei, Cologne (DE)
1999 The Good, the less Good and other Survivors, Bienal da Maia (PT)
1999 Marae, Enschede (NL)
1998 Seltsam, part of the exhibition Lieblingsort Köln, Schnütgen-Museum, Cologne (DE)
1998 A Figura Humana na Escultura Portuguesa do Séc. XX, Oporto (PT)
1998 Drawing, Schneiderei Gallery, Cologne (DE)
1997 Imagem sem Imagem, Museu de Évora (PT)
1997 ...expecting, from where the wind blows, Bremen (DE)
1996/97 Hors Catalogue, Maison de la Culture d’Amiens (FR)
1996 Artists’ Books, National Library Austria, Vienna, Austria (A)
1996 Bildloses Abbild, Gütersloh (DE)
1996 Kunstaanmoedigingsprijs Amstelveen, Amsterdam (NL)
1995 Paula Soares & Susanne Themlitz, Luis Serpa Gallery, Lisbon (PT)
1995 VI Bienal Caldas da Raínha, Caldas da Rainha (PT)
1994 Luisenstraße 25, Studios A.R. Penck, Düsseldorf (DE)
1994 Formas únicas da Continuidade no Espaço, Luis Serpa Gallery, Lisbon (PT)
1994 Salon D’Art Contemporain, Centre Culturel et Artistique de Montrouge (FR)
1993 V Bienal Caldas da Raínha, Caldas da Raínha (PT)
1993 Finalistas do Ar.Co., Ministry of Finance, Lisbon (PT)
1993 4 aus Lissabon, Janine Mautsch Gallery, Cologne (DE)
1992 Ar.Co.’s Awardees in the Royal College of Art, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (PT)
Art Fair Participations
2013 Art Santander: Ángeles Banos Gallery
2013 Volta 9, Basel: Aranapoveda Gallery
2013 Art 13, London: Aranapoveda Gallery
2013 Arco , Madrid: Vera Cortês Art Agency
2013 Drawing Now, Paris: Houg Gallery
2012 Slick Art Fair, Paris: Houg Gallery
2012 Scope Basel, Aranapoveda Gallery
2012 ArtBa, Buenos Aires: Vera Cortês Art Agency
2012 Just Madrid: Ángeles Banos Gallery
2012 Art Santander: Ángeles Banos Gallery
2011 ArtRio, Rio de Janeiro: Vera Cortês Art Agency
2011 Arte Lisboa: Ángeles Banos Gallery
2011 Arco, Madrid: Vera Cortês Art Agency
2009 Puro Arte, Vigo, MCO Arte Contemporânea
2009 Arte Lisboa, Lisbon: MCO Arte Contemporânea
2008 Arte Lisboa, Lisbon: MCO Arte Contemporânea
2007 Arte Lisboa, Lisboa: Vera Cortês Art Agency & MCO Arte Contemporânea
2007 Foro Sur, Cáceres: Vera Cortês Art Agency
2007 Arco, Madrid: Vera Cortês Art Agency
2007 Docks Art Fair, Lyon: MCO Arte Contemporânea
2006 Arte Lisboa, Lisbon: Vera Cortês Art Agency
2006 Art/Salamanca, Salamnca: MCO Arte Contemporânea
2006 Loop Video Art, Barcelona: Vera Cortês Art Agency
2003 Arte Lisboa, Lisbon: Luís Serpa Projectos Gallery
2003 Arco, Madrid: Luís Serpa Projectos Gallery
2002 Arte Lisboa, Lisbon: Luís Serpa Projectos Gallery
2001 Arco, Madrid: Gallery Manuel Ojeda
2000 Marca 2000, Funchal, Madeira: Projectroom Luís Serpa Projectos Gallery
2000 Arco, Madrid: Gallery Bores & Mallo & Luís Serpa Projectos Gallery
1999 Arco, Madrid: Gallery Bores & Mallo (ES)
1998 Arco, Madrid: Luís Serpa Projectos Gallery (ES)
Grants
1997-98 Centro Nacional de Cultura: Portable Landscapes
1997 Deutsch-Französisches-Jugendwerk: Quiproquo • After the Marvellous Travels of Georges Méliès
1993-95 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation: Meisterschüler at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
1992 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation: Exchange Program with The Royal College of Art, London
1991-93 Ar.Co.: Sculpture and Drawing
1988 EC: Sculpture in Italy
Awards
2012 Drawing: The Brocense Art Award (ES)
2007 Video: Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (PT)
2002 Video: Figueira da Foz International Film Festival (PT)
2001 Sculpture: City Desk (PT)
2000 Video: Dr. Best Foundation, Cologne (DE)
1999 Video: 4th National Video Festival, Ovar (PT)
1993 Drawing: V Biennial, Caldas da Raínha