Susanne Kriemann is an artist based in Berlin and Karlsruhe. She is Professor of Code & Image at the HfG, visiting lecturer at NYU Berlin and co-founder of the artists' initiative AiR Berlin Alexanderplatz in Berlin.

Kriemann examines the medium of photography in the context of social history and archival practice. With an expanded concept of the photographic document, she reflects on the world as an analogue "recording system" for human-caused processes. This has led to a preoccupation with radioactivity and mining, archaeology and the concept of slow violence. A special feature of Kriemann's work is the use of pigments from the material being studied and the use of these pigments in various techniques of image production.

Kriemann's work has been exhibited internationally, currently (2024) at KunstHausWien Museum Hundertwasser, Tavros Athens, CCA Montreal, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven and the Diriyah Biennale in Saudi Arabia. Her works were part of "Mining Photography" at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg and Image Ecology at C/o Berlin. Pictures and texts of Susanne Kriemann have been published internationally, and since 1998 she co-authored seventeen artist books.

"The examination of what it means to record the world we are part of and how to receive ‘what wells up all around us’ are essential components of my teaching for the Code & Image professorship.

In seminars, workshops, colloquia and excursions, we focus on developing a critical awareness towards form, content and material and collegially formulate our experiments and art works at HfG’s shared studio and laboratory spaces. Working with a sustainable approach to media are fundamental.

When studying Code & Image, students can get to know the whole range of technical and material-specific possibilities of analogue and digital light-based processes and develop their individual and shared approaches.

Based on a fundamentally expanded concept of drawing with light, photosynthetic materials are tested and further engaged with as collaborating entities.” (Susanne Kriemann, 2024)

Links:

susannekriemann.info

airberlinalexanderplatz.de

fotografie.hfg-karlsruhe.de