Susanne Schwieter

Susanne Schwieter (b. 1971, Basel) works at the intersection of painting and sculpture. Her practice merges analog and digital techniques, combining oil painting with contemporary systems of perception. With a strong focus on process and ephemerality, she creates layered abstract paintings shaped by fluid silhouettes and blurred forms, often derived from Google images or other custom systems. From these paintings, aluminium sculptures emerge — translated, rescaled, and materially transformed.

Her work engages questions of appropriation, translation, identity, and the evolving relationship between humans and technology.

Schwieter received her Diploma of Fine Arts in stage design and the Meisterschüler title under Professor Karl Kneidl at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1997), where she also studied sculpture under Professor Klaus Rinke. After a successful career as a stage designer, she fully devoted herself to the visual arts.

Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at institutions including Kunstmuseum Baselland (CH), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (DK), and Ping Pong Basel/Miami (Art Basel, CH/USA), as well as at galleries such as Loock Gallery Berlin (D), Robert Morat Galerie Berlin (D), and Space Basel25 (CH).

She was artist-in-residence at lyseloth Basel (2018, 2020) and, in 2024, held a two-person residency at Villa Clavel (CH) with stage designer Bettina Meyer.

Schwieter lives and works in Berlin.