ONLINE NOW!
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
Virtual exhibition opening of DE AFUERA DENTRO INSIDE YOU / OUTSIDE ME
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!
a new self-portrait ... and a virtual exhibition
Concept research for new work during the confinement in Paris.
INSIDE YOU OUTSIDE ME
Concept research for my upcoming virtual exhibition INSIDE YOU OUTSIDE ME during confinement
in Paris.
Artist Monday ZOOM
Artist Monday is online!
Me and my artists friends from Shanghai are now located everywhere, Kathryn Gohmert, Chris Gill,
Maleonn, Christophe Demaitre. Reuniting France, Germany, UK, China, Belgium!
ActOnition in Vietnam
In April 2019, artist Zane Mellupe and I ran around Vietnam to guerrilla paste art works against
violence. We call the works Antonyms and the performance an ActOnition!
Artist talk with Susanne Junker & Marija Jovanovic
Belgrade photo month hosted an artist talk with Susanne Junker & Marija Jovanovic about photography,
feminism and being a women in the art world.
Opening photos
David Pujado, founder and director of the Belgrade Photo Month festival
Susanne Junker
David Laufer, LauferArt Galerie
David Pujado, founder and director of the Belgrade Photo Month festival
Marija Jovanovic, founder and director of CEDRA, center for social balance, Belgrade
Susanne Junker
Artist statement: Re-Searching Identity
Selfie culture? Researching Identity through self-portraiture.
In the 1990s I earned a living as a subject in front of the camera. Years later, I radically
shifted this orientation: I became the author of my own representation, gradually creating an
extensive body of self-portraits. I have been doing this kind of work ever since, questioning
always the position of the subject-woman with respect to the camera lens.
When I first began my work as a photographer, I drew inspiration from the work of Claude
Cahun and Cindy Sherman among others, and I felt myself in good hands in this rather
exclusive club of self-portraiture artists. Who could have imagined that 15 years later,
“selfie” would become the word of the year in 2013 and that what seems like everyone in the
world would be snapping away with a built-in camera-telephone turned around and aimed at
themselves?
How the “self” actually figures in our increasingly “selfie culture” and what we as artists choose to put
in our frames? Is there a difference of how do we present ourselves on social media and in art
galleries? What does “perfection” mean? I ask about the distinction between art photography and
contemporary selfies? In so doing, I evoke the explosive combination of anxiousness and celebration
that comes from daring to realise abstract ideas with one’s own body, during the performance of the
absolutely singular mixture of numbness and physical pain produced by the photo shoot as an
experience of the process of creating art. What, if any, continuum can we draw between the image
produced by that intense experience and the quick image produced by an I-Phone X and available filter
work?
Susanne Junker
Belgrade Photo Month
Dear friends and colleagues,
I am happy to announce that my work was selected for the Belgrade Photo Month festival, following
the kind invitation from curator David Pujado and David Laufer from LauferArt gallery. I am presenting
a new exhibition “Re-Searching Identity” that focuses on some of my first works from the 1990s, a
new installation from my ongoing project ID-Identity and selected student works that were developed
during my workshop “Re-Searching Identity” that I taught at the China Academy of Art in 2018.
Re-Searching Identity
29.3. - 13.4.2019,
Opening: 29.3 at 18h at Laufer ART, Svetozara Radića 4,
Belgrade, Serbia.
lauferart.com Belgrade Photo Month
Sponsored by: Smokvica
I am inviting you to notice the conversation "21st century woman" with art historian Marija Jovanović
at the culture center UK Stari grad in cooperation with Cedra Belgrade.
21st century woman, a conversation with Marija Jovanović, 30.04.2019, 11-13h, at UK Stari grad,
Kapetan Mišina 6a, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
Belgrade Photo Month
The catalogue is here!
