Susanne Clausen is a German and British artist, curator and Professor of Fine Art at the University of Reading. She works often in collaboration with

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under the name Szuper Gallery, under which she publishes most of her works; consisting mainly of performances, videos and multi-media installations, paintings and drawings. For the University of Reading, as well as being a professor, she holds the title of Director and Founder of Reading International, also serving as the head of the Art between 2011-2017. She has lived and worked in

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Germany,

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and

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England, having exhibited across the world in galleries and art spaces spanning from the

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London, to the

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Arts Centre Vancouver and the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art Russia.

Life and Work

Susanne Clausen first studied Fine Art at the Academy of Fine Art Munich, Germany, or ''Akademie der Bildenden Künste München'' between 1988-1994. She then studied at the

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, London England (Part of the

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) between 1997-1999. Here, she received an MA in Fine Art Media.

Szuper Gallery

Together with artist

, Susanne Clausen has worked under the name Szuper Gallery. What originated as an actual gallery based in

Germany, now serves as a name for a variety of pieces with well known projects such as Liftarchiv, or Luquid Trust. Szuper Gallery generally specialises in multimedia installations, but has worked in a large range of mediums.

University of Reading

Between 2011-2017, Susanne Clausen served as the head of the Reading School of Art, or Department of Art (previously). In 2016, she founded the arts festival 'Reading International', as part of the UoR and the Reading Year of Culture. This project brings together artists and performers from across the world to show in the town of Reading, and is self described as "Led by artists from the Reading School of Art at the University of Reading and hosted by a rich mixture of partners within the town, Reading International produces several major projects each year, in which artists and curators are given a platform to make new work in response to the unique social and historical context of Reading and wider Berkshire".

References

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