The exhibition "SO WHAT!" presents a comprehensive body of work of artist and photographer Susanne Junker. With over 200 photographs, installations and videos, it sheds light on 30 years of creation by this extraordinary artist: from the early self-portraits of the 1990s to her most recent works.

Using her camera as a tool, Susanne Junker, born in 1973, has developed her very own, visually powerful language dedicated to the representation of female identity and the mechanisms of its staging in the media. Her work is characterized by reflections on beauty, gender roles and social power relations - themes that are more topical than ever in an era of digital self-presentation.

Susanne Junker: "I worked as a model in the early 1990s. It was the glamorous era of supermodels, whose perfect physical appearances embodied a beauty standard dominated by the male gaze. These rigid norms were unbearable for me and led me to transform myself from object to author by becoming an artist."

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