Awakening Voices - Groupshow
October 11 - 18 2022
Galerie Francis Barlier
Paris France.
from left to right:
Figure for the base of a crucifixion # 22 (one year - one photo), self-portrait, 40 cm x 60 cm, 2020.
Figure for the base of a crucifixion # 2, self-portrait, 40 cm x 60 cm, 2000
Figure for the base of a crucifixion # 21, self-portrait, 40 cm x 60 cm, 2017
I am back in the virtual world teaching ART - ME - ART and I am not afraid of uncommon teaching methods to push creativity and identity research forward.
Susanne on screen virtually at the China Academy of Art (CAA) class room teaching identity research through photography and art making.
43 unknown images from my first series
SUPERMODELS?
or:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman
click HERE for the press release and more images
… and I can’t say it often enough:
FEMALE ARTIST HASHTAG SUCKS !!!
La Belle Étoile * s'expose ... group show with the Belle Étoile collective
https://www.la-belle-etoile.art
and the new postcard by La belle étoile Paris is here already!!!
I am extremely happy to announce my book SUPERMODELS? is coming in 2022 in collaboration with the publishing house La Belle Étoile* Paris.
Click HERE to visit La Belle Étoile* website …
I am proudly announcing my participation in the group show “en corps elles” in the Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon.
exposition
du 5 octobre au 31 décembre
La Galerie
bibliothèque de la Part-Dieu
Conditions de vie des femmes et mobilisations féministes
Le corps des femmes fait l’objet de nombreux interdits et tabous, prescriptions et proscriptions. Ce corps, censé les soumettre tout entières à la nature, justifie leur relégation dans des activités circonscrites le plus souvent à la sphère domestique. Pourtant, au cours des siècles, de nombreuses personnalités s’érigent contre cette organisation sociale.
Des personnalités telles Madeleine Pelletier ou des artistes comme Claude Cahun s’attaquent à cette assignation binaire des rôles. Plus proche de nous, notamment dans les années 1970, les féministes mettent à mal les représentations de « la femme » et ouvrent la voie à la conquête de certains droits fondamentaux, de la sexualité à la vie publique. Les slogans autour du corps dont le fameux « notre corps nous appartient » fleurissent de par le monde et le personnel, l’intime deviennent éminemment politiques. Inspirées par les principes du Mouvement de Libération des Femmes ou par les écrits théoriques, les artistes féministes contestent le sexisme qui imprègne et déforme le monde de l’art. Elles font de ce corps fantasmé et méprisé le sujet central de la création artistique. Elles transgressent les limites de l’enveloppe corporelle pour mieux dénoncer les stéréotypes et s’attaquer aux conventions. Aujourd’hui encore les luttes se poursuivent et les interventions des féministes témoignent de la persistance d’une vision patriarcale maintenant les femmes dans une position dominée.
L’exposition a donc pour but de montrer le regard porté sur le corps des femmes et d’insister sur les luttes féministes qui ont participé et participent toujours à cette déconstruction. Elle permet, en croisant les périodes et les documents - affiches, tracts, revues, presse mais aussi estampes, vidéos et plus généralement créations artistiques - de mesurer l’évolution ou non des représentations du corps féminin. La mise en perspective féministe révélera les tabous et les interdits d’hier, posant la perspective de leur éventuel dépassement. D’autres interrogations seront soulevées : luttes et débats actuels. Le corps sexué des femmes, saturé d’attentes sociales, objet de normes, fera l’objet de trois axes de réflexion : culturel, biologique et social.
Anne-Laure Collomb, commissaire de l’exposition
this weekend POP UP POP UP POP UP !!!
jeudi 8 juillet de 18h à 22h
Est Galerie, 76 rue Saint Maur, 75011 Paris
du jeudi 8 au samedi 10 juillet 2021
en présence des artistes
Stéphane Coutelle, Susanne Junker, Laurine Matt, Amir Habibi, Anne Marie Eluard, Valentine Gilbert, Camille Saint-Jacques et Ben Wrobel
I am extremely happy to announce the publishing of the Journal of Culture (JoC) 2020 edition “one year - one photo”, that focuses entirely on my latest self-portrait “Figure for the base of a crucifixion #22”.
https://www.journalofculture.de/
… sadly, there is no way to travel to Shanghai at the moment but at least we can connect virtually with artists from all over the world and WhyWhy Art founder Zane Mellupe and the Goethe Institut Shanghai.
I am very happy to be part of the group exhibition ANTONYMS which takes place at the Goethe Institute in Shanghai / China, opening on Friday, June 11 2021.
Dates: 11th June –30th September, 2021
Venue: Department of Culture and Education of the German Consulate General Shanghai
Cross Tower 101, Fuzhou Road 318, Shanghai
Organizers: WhyWhyArt, Department of Culture and Education of the German Consulate General Shanghai
Supported by: Ifa Gallery, EASA
Following the "Starting a conversation on comparative feminism” exhibition in Nanjing, China in 2017, WhyWhyArt initiated ActOnition – an Action performed in public spaces by individuals and activists to not only acknowledge personal responsibilities but also to Act On, point out and change the unjust aspects of social behaviors.
For that occasion, WhyWhyArt proposed seven initial Antonyms (in a form of graphics) that potentially will become a kind of toolkit of cultural awareness to foster communication – like an emoji of shyness, found in everyone’s mobile phones. Due to the vibrant reactions and ideas of the participants around the world, the number of Antonyms ultimately grew up to 12.
12 Antonyms
– Antonyms against violence, against sexual assault, against domestic violence, against mental violence, against emotional violence, against cultural and spiritual violence, against privilege of knowledge, against environmental violence, against power abuse, against economic abuse, and Antonyms against self-directed violence. The first 7 ActOnitions were performed by Susanne Junker and Zane Mellupe in Vietnam in April 2019.
To involve more participants in this project, WhyWhyArt launched an open call welcoming individuals from all kinds of backgrounds and nationalities. The open call for action was shared on different social media, and promoted through different channels, as well as word of mouth.
Antonyms as a form of ActOnition emphasize the necessity to keep raising awareness for different social groups of "s(he) gender", and is designed to draw attention and to discuss the structural antithesis between development and tradition in emergent economies.
Antonyms clearly depict rejection of sexual, physical and mental abuses perpetrated for anti-social economic interests. Sexual harassment is just one form of exploitation – alongside with labor exploitation, organ harvesting and not to mention cultural constraints related to ancestral prejudices against equality in society.
What could be driving factors for change in traditional societies, where family bonds have been and still are a crucial part of a person’s identity? Is enhancing women rights ever possible in the framework of a traditional family?
Putting social bonds and group interests over individual desires and goals is a necessary pre-condition for a solid, strong traditional society. Everybody must act according to their role and status to ensure the continuation of the tribe. However, the fabric of society, which we perceive as inert and stable is made of acts and thoughts of the leading individuals, and then crystallized and petrified over time.
Our time
In the age of social media and the digital, there are channels for artists and individuals transmitting powerful messages on a scale never seen before.
While preparing this exhibition the Covid-19 pandemic broke out and is still with us – this has allowed the whole world to feel the presence of violence even stronger. Mobility was and is restricted. People are separated by distance and security forces. Oftentimes people have been forced to stay together in limited spaces for an extended time period. This has made people more conscious of violence at work and in society: economic violence, environmental violence, and inequality of how knowledge is spread in society.
Organization
Antonyms – ActOnition is an exhibition with international contributions curated by Zane Mellupe, organized by WhyWhyArt, and the Department of Culture and Education of the German Consulate General Shanghai, supported by ifa gallery, and EASA (European Art and Science Association).
The exhibition is designed as a wall of expressions enabling individuals to show their works and actions – keeping the exhibition growing through the 3 months while it lasts.
During this exhibition, several expert forums will focus on different topics of violence across different sectors – involving anthropologists, artists, researchers and scientists.
More than 40 artists from various countries participate in this exhibition – each one with a very individual approach to talk about violence. Artists include: Abby Robinson (USA), Alan Flesher (USA/Israel), Baiba Ladiga (Latvia), Caterina Notte (Italy/Germany), Charles Leblanc (Canada), Chris Gill (UK), Dana Popa (Romania/UK), Dennis Jere (Zambia), Daniele Mattioli (Italy), Elena Monzo (Italy), Flavia Bigi (Italy), Francisco Hauss (Mexico), Fred Farrow (The Netherlands), Gökçen Dilek Acay (Turkey), Han Bing (China), Hazal Firat (Turkey), Irina Banari (Moldova/China), Julia Scorna (Germany/France), Kate Tipler (UK), Katherin Gutierrez (Columbia), Kathryn Gohmert (USA/Germany), Ke Zhou (China), Kurihara Tadashi (Japan), Leah Bourdin (France/Germany), Leroy Brothers (Belgium), Maria Das Dores (France), Monika Lin (USA), Niamh Cunningham (Ireland), Panos Dimitropoulos (Greece), Paulina Otylie Surys (Poland), Piers Secunda (UK), Raul Alvaro (Spain), Reiji Kobayashi (Japan/Latvia), Samuel Bourdin (France/Thailand), Susanne Junker (Germany/France), Vasily Betin (Russia), Virginie Lerouge Knight (France), We Are (International), Yoky Yu (China/Spain) and Zane Mellupe (EU/China).
Curated by Zane Mellupe
… so happy about my collaboration with @sevali_ taking photos of their new collection of up-cycled coats made out of vintage beach towels! I absolutely love it!
Influenced by 80s pop culture and the German teeny magazine BRAVO, I am excited that I produced, in collaboration with the Journal of Culture (JoC), my first S T A R S C H N I T T, a so like puzzle that when combined, turns into my latest self-portrait “Figure for the base of a crucufixion #22”.
https://www.journalofculture.de/
Happy to announce the invitation to join the Journal of Culture special edition 2020.
On view:
Susanne Junker laying down in front of her work “Figure for the base of a crucifixion #22” and the publisher of the Journal of Culture (JoC), Julia Scorna, March, 2021, Vitry sur Seine, France.
Journal of Culture release: June 2021
Dear friends and colleagues,
I am happy to announce my collaboration with La Belle Étoile* Paris, a new publishing and edition house based in Paris, France.
Visit the online shop:
My virtual exhibition DE AFUERA DENTRO INSIDE YOU / OUTSIDE ME is now ONLINE on La Termicas virtual space.
… “after one solid month of being inside looking outside, I started hanging some of my art works on my building wall and decided that the gallery is the wall where I am. A construction site can be a gallery, a skate park can be a gallery, a fence can be a gallery and furthermore a virtual space can be a gallery. I realized that the way I lived and worked has vanished and my way of creating must be revisited and reinvented while caring about the people I included to maintain the sustainability that is necessary for my artistic and personal growth” …
Susanne Junker, 2020
To begin with, why not enjoy our virtual opening: an entertaining “round screen” with artist Susanne Junker, curator Patrícia Soley-Beltran and ID-Identity participant Laura Buet, presented by Javier Cuevas, Art Lecturer at Málaga University.
Bring your own champagne!
