Susanna Hertrich
SOLO & DUO-EXHIBITIONS
2022
“Un/apparent sensory perception. Disorientations of the more-than-human sensory apparatus”, Liebig12, Berlin with Jonathon Keats
2018
“Die Abhängigkeit unsere Weltbildes von der Länge unseres Moments (On the dependency of our worldview on the duration of our moment)”, Kunstverein Mannheim, DE
2018
“Sensorium of Animals, Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Basel, CH” with Shintaro Miyazaki
2016
“Human Upgrade”, Schader Foundation, Gallery, Darmstadt, DE with Hannes Wiedemann
2015
“Prostheses. Transhuman Life Forms”, Art Laboratory Berlin, DE
2011
“Berlin Wild Life”, Haus am Waldsee/sculpture park, Berlin, DE with Michiko Nitta
2010
“Gloomy Haven”, Felix Ringel gallery/garage, Düsseldorf, DE
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS * = catalogue
2023
“Przemiany Art & Science Festival”, Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw, PL
2023
“Swiss Design Award”, Art Basel, Basel, CH
2022
“Unknown Unknowns. Introduction to Mysteries”, La Triennale, Milan, IT
2021
“Wired Magic”", HEK House of Electronic Arts, Basel, CH
2020
“Sensory Orders. Art and Science Meeting”, Laznia, Gdansk, PL
2019
“Open Studio”, Tokyo Arts and Space Residency, Tokyo, JP
2019
“Future Perfect”, M54, Basel, CH
2019
“Experiment Zukunft”, Kunsthalle Rostock, DE
2019
Open Studio", Tokyo Arts and Space Residency, JP
2018
“The End is Where We Start From. On Tsunamis, Nuclear Explosions and Other Fairy tales”, Balzer Projects, Basel, CH
2018
“Sensorium of Animals”, Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Basel, CH
2017-23
“Hello, Robot”
–/ Vitra Museum, Weil am Rhein, DE * (updated show)
–/ Hyundai Motor Show, Beijing, CN*
–/ Hyundai Motor Show, Busan, KR *
–/ Neues Museum, Biel, CH *
–/ V&A, Dundee, UK *
–/ Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, CH *
–/ MAAT, Lisbon, PT*
–/ Museo San Telmo, San Sebastian, ES *
–/ Design Museum Gent, BE *
–/ MAK, Vienna, AT *
–/ Vitra Museum, Weil am Rhein, DE *
2015–19
“Field Trip Project Asia”, Kuala Lumpur Biennial, MY
–/ Oil Street Hall, Hong Kong, HK
–/ Edwin’s Gallery, Jakarta, IN
–/ The Japan Foundation, Yangon, BU
–/ Tentacles Gallery, Bangkok, TH
–/ Vargas Museum, Quezon City, PH
2017
“Kairos Castle. The Art of the Moment”, Kasteel Van Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek, BE *
2017
“I dread to think…”, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, US
2017
“First I was afraid”, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, New York, US
2017
“Arts Track”, TEI17 conference, KEIO University, Yokohama, JP
2016
“State of Emotion”, State Festival for Open Science, Art and Society, Berlin, DE
2016
“Second Nature”, HEK House of Electronic Arts, Basel, CH
2016
“Collection 18th-19th Century”, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, DE
2016
“Don’t expect anything”, EMAF European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, DE *
2016
“The Next Big Thing is not a Thing,” Bureau Europa, Maastricht, The Netherlands, NL *
2015
“The Ticking of Time”, Emaar Pavilion Gallery, Dubai, UA *
2015
“Digital Art Fest”, National Academy of the Arts, Sofia, BG
2015
“Et Omnia Veritas”, Institute of Design, Kielce, PL *
2015
“The Informed Body”, NODE Forum for Digital Arts, Mousonturm, Frankfurt, DE
2014
“Paraflows: Intimacy”, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, AT *
2014
“III. International Biennial of Contemporary Art”, Mérida, VE
2013
“Fail Again”, Souterrain Gallery, Berlin, DE
2013
“Weblog, Daily Strategies in Contemporary Art”, Municipal Gallery, Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE *
2013
“O’clock”, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, CN *
2013
“Look Twice – Digital Sensuality and Spaces of Tomorrow”, Alte Kongresshalle, Munich, DE
2012
“Hey Alter…”, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, DE
2012
“Get some fresh A-I-R”, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, JP
2012
Revolve, European Media Arts Festival (EMAF), Osnabrück, DE *
2011 Berliner Wildes Leben, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, DE
2011 O’clock, La Triennale di Milano, IT *
2011 Jetzt. Now, MARTa Herford, DE *
2011 Architecture of Fear, Z33 – House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, BE *
2011 Neighbours 2.0, various locations, Warsaw, PL
2010 Membranes, Surfaces, Boundaries. Creating Interstices, Aedes Architecture Forum, Berlin, DE
2010 Uncertain Spectator, EMPAC, Troy NY, US *
2010 Festival for Expanded Media, 23. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, DE *
2009 Playful learning, ICC Intercommunication Center, Tokyo, JP
2009 Piksel Fest, Foundation Gallery 3,14, Bergen, NO*
2009 Tunnel 228, Vaults of Waterloo Station, The Old Vic, London, UK *
2009 Social Interaction in Art and Design, Foundation KOP, Breda, NL *
2008 KithKin Reveals, Selfridges, London, UK
2007 Arts Bots Festival, Academy of the Arts, Gent, BE
GRANTS, RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2023
Falling Walls Science Summit, Art & Science award, shortlist
2023
Swiss Design Awards, nominated for Design Research
2023
Villa Massimo artist residency in 2024, shortlist
2019
Atelier Mondial, full stipend for an artist residency at TOKAS Tokyo Arts and Space Residency
2017
Berlin Senate, travel grant and financial support for exhibition in New York
Goethe Institute, travel grant to Boston
2016–19
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNFS), research grant (42 months)
2015
Goethe Institute, full stipend for an artist residency at Villa Kamogawa
Goethe Institute, travel grant to Sofia
2012
Goethe Institute, full stipend for an artist residency at Tsinghua Art & Science Media Lab, Beijing
Tokyo Wonder Site, artist-in-residency grant
2010
Winner, Über Lebenskunst, Federal German Cultural Foundation/HKW, Berlin with Michiko Nitta
Schering Foundation for Arts & Science Berlin, exhibition grant
2008
Shortlist Designers in Residence, the Design Museum London
2006–08
Bursary, Royal College of Art London
2005
Norwegian Arts Council, Art & Technology project grant
Norwegian Research Council, travel grant for China
1999
Japanese Ministry of Culture and Education graduate stipend (full stipend)
for a summer residency at Tokyo National University of the Arts, Dept. Intermedia Arts,
Prof. Masaki Fujihata
ARTIST PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)
__Hertrich, S. and Miyazaki, S., »Following the Elephant-Nosed Fish. Reimagining our
Sensorium«. Berlin: Diamondpaper 2021. ISBN 978-3-9817925-5-3
__Hertrich, S., «Signale und künstliche Emotionen», in: Witzgall, Susanne und Kesting, Marietta
(Hg.), »Politik der Emotionen / Macht der Affekte«, Diaphanes, Zürich, 2021, p. 194-203.
__Hertrich, S. and Miyazaki, S., Sensorium of Animals, in Salter, Chris (ed.), «Sensory
Orders. The Art and Science Meeting 2020», LAZNIA Center for Contemporary Art), Gdansk, 2020, 70-71.
__Hertrich, S. and Miyazaki, S., Sensorium of Animals, IXDM in collaboration with Balzer Projects, Basel, 2018
__Hertrich, S., Susanna Hertrich in Wenzel, K. und Blohm, M. (eds.), »Half Life. Machines/Organisms – Artistic Positions for
Climate Change and Extinction«, Fabrico publishers, Hannover, 2018. p. 56–59
__Hertrich, S. Instinktprothesen und andere Apparate in Langkilde K. (ed.), »Poetry of the Real«,
Christoph Merian, Basel, 2016. p. 17–24
PRESENTATIONS, ARTISTIC RESEARCH & TEACHING (SELECTION)
2023
Presentation, New Media Class, University of the Arts, Berlin, DE
2022 – 2023
Lecturer/programme head (ad interim MA Experimental Design, IXDM Institute of
Experimental Design and Media Cultures, Academy of Art and Design Basel FHNW, CH
2023
Online presentation, Jacob’s Institute for Design Innovation, UC Berkeley, US
Presentation, Domus Academy MA in Interaction Design, Milan, IT
2022
Artist talk with Jonathon Keats, Un/apparent sensory perception, part of
Forests of Antennas, Oceans of Waves festival, Berlin, DE
2022
Presentation, Forests of Antennas, Oceans of Waves. An Exploration of Art and Theory in Electromagnetic Urban Environments conference, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, DE
Presentation, Folding Symposium: Structural Materiality in Textiles and Electromagnetics, Open lab, University of Arts Berlin, DE
2020 – 2022
Lecturer/studio head, MA Integrative Design, Institute of Integrative Design,
Academy of Art and Design Basel FHNW, CH
2019
Presentation, Zukunft der Künste, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, DE
Presentation & discussion, Stories Leading to the Future, with Hiroyuki Hattori, Tokyo Arts and Space Residency, JP
2018
Presentation & discussion, Minds, Bodies and the Machine, Mapping Festival, HEAD, Geneva, CH
Presentation & discussion, Empathy and Justice, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Art Academy Munich, DE
2017
Presentation, Rensselaer Institute, Troy, NY, US
Panel discussion, Boston Center for the Arts, US
Presentation, Haunted Technologies, Museum of Failure workshop, IXDM, Basel, CH
Talk, Ghosts in the Machine, mediating critique lecture series, IXDM, Basel, CH
Artist Talk with Martina Siegwolf, Dock, Basel, CH
Presentation, Questioning Aesthetics Symposium, Transaesthetics Foundation, Barcelona, ES
Artist Talk, Creative Hub 131/NICA Nihombashi Institute of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, JP
Presentation, Dept. of Media Studies, Humboldt University Berlin, DE
2016 – 2019
Senior Researcher, co-conducting the project Sensorium of Animals with Shintaro Miyazaki at the Critical Media Lab, Academy of Art and Design Base FHNW, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, CH
2016
Talk & panel discussion, Newnew Festival at ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE
Artist talk with Klaus D. Pohl, Schader-Founddation Gallery, Darmstadt, DE
Presentation with Desiree Förster, Metabody Symposium, Spektrum, Berlin, DE
Presentation, Poetry of the Real Symposium, FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel, CH
Presentation, Cyborg e. V., Berlin, DE
Panel discussion, Meister, Cyborg und Machine, DASA, Dortmund, DE
2015
Presentation & discussion with Enno Park, Art Laboratory Berlin, DE
Panel discussion Soft Power Blues, Villa Kamogawa, Goethe Institute Kyot, JP
2014 – 2015
Visiting Associate Professor, Intl. CODE program, Chiba University, JP
Experimental Design and Media Cultures, Academy of Art and Design Basel FHNW, CH
2013 – 2014
Visiting Professor/course leader, MAID Intl. Master in Design, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, DE
2014
Research Fellow, Critical Media Lab, Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Basel, CH
2012
Artist-in-residence, TASML Tsinghua Art & Science Media Lab, Beijing, CN
2011 – 2012
Visiting lecturer, BA Product Design: University of the Arts Berlin, DE
Visiting lecturer, BA Design, University of Applied Sciences Anhalt, Dessau, DE
2010 – 2011
Research Fellow, Design Research Lab, University of the Arts Berlin, DE
2009
Artist-in-residence, Meta Perception Research Group, The University of Tokyo, JP
Research Associate, Pervasive Interaction Lab, The Open University, Milton Keynes, GB
2007
Research Scholar, People & Practices research group, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon, US
2002 – 2006
Associate Professor of Multimedia, KHIB Bergen Academy of Art and Design, NO
SCREENINGS (SELECTION)
2019
Shorts Film Festival, Forum Cinemas, Offenburg, DE
2017
NICA Nihonbashi Institute of Contemporary Arts, Tokyo, JP
2016
Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, DE
2010
Abandon Normal Devices, Peter-Scott-Gallery, Lancaster, UK
2009
Abandon Normal Devices, FACT, Liverpool, UK
BIBLIOGRAPHY (SELECTION)
__»Hello, Robot. Design between Man and Machine«, revised exhibition catalogue, Vitra Design Museum, 2023
__Stefan Rieger, «Reduktion und Teilhabe. Kollaborationen in Mixed Societies», Matthes-Seitz, Berlin, 2022, S. 222-251.
__Stefan Rieger, Von Kindern und Kätzchen in «Das verdatete Tier. Zum Animal Turn in den Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften
», Hg. Bolinski, Ina, Rieger, Stefan, J. B. Metzeler, Stuttgart, 2019, S. 159.
__Stefan Rieger »Von Kindern und Kätzchen« in Das verdatete Tier. Zum Animal Turn in den Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften, Eds. Bolinski, Ina, Rieger, Stefan , J. B. Metzeler, Stuttgart, 2019, p. 159
__Sugimoto, K. and Tokyo Arts and Space, Tokyo Arts and Space Annual Report 2019, Shinano Publishing Press Co. Ltd., p.72, p. 100
__Claudia Mareis, »Sensations of the Ordinary. Das Bild der Dinge zwischen Geschichte und Projektion« in Objekte der
Begierde. Surrealismus und Design 1924 – heute, Vitra Design Museum, Weil, 2019, p. 303
__Kari Raivio, »Näytön paikka«, Gaudeamus, Helsinki, 2019
__Stefan Rieger, »Die Enden des Körpers. Versuch einer negativen Prothetik«, Springer VS, 2018, p. 306
__Morton, T., Copelin, S., Peyton, G ., »Hyperobjects for Artists«, Reader, Ballroom Marfa, 2018
__Boelen, Jan (compiler), »Future Thinking in Art and Design«, Z33 research, 2018
__»Hello, Robot. Design between Man and Machine«, exhibition catalogue, Vitra Design Museum, 2017
__»Kairos Castle«, exhibition catalogue, Kasteel van Gasbeek, 2017
__Lenzen, Manuela, »Sie sind unter uns« in Science Notes Magazin No.1 – Optimal, Feb. 2018, S.20
__Silvestrin, Daniela, »Susanna Hertrich – Körperfiktionen und Sinnes-Apparate«, Schader foundation magazine, vol. 05, 2016
__Davis, Heather, »Molecular Intimacy« in Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary, Lars Müller Publishers, 2016, p. 210-211
__McAlhone, B. et. al.., »A Smile in the Mind«, 2nd Edition, Phaidon London, 2016, p. 134
__Davis, Heather, »Molecular Intimacy« in Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary, Lars Müller Publishers, 2016, p. 210-211
__»Man/machine«, Form Magazin, vol. 266, July–August 2016, p. 65
__Changwon, Jo, »From Design«, g:colon Seoul, 2015, p. 68-70
__»The Art of Calendar Design«, Sandu Publishing Co., Guangzhou, 2015, p. 9
__Schwartzman, Madeline, »See yourself sensing. Redefining Human Perception«, Black Dog, London, 2011, p. 109
__Das Magazin der Kulturstiftung des Bundes, vol. 18, 2011, p. 5, p. 16
__Klanten, R., Meyer, B., »Papercraft 2. Design and Art with Paper.«, Gestalten Verlag Berlin, 2011, p. 207
__Boudier, L., »Les objets fous d’artistes«, Éditions Hoëbeke Paris, 2011, p. 84-85
__»Jetzt. Now.«, exhibition catalogue, Marta Herford & Kerber Verlag Bielefeld, 2011
__Victionary, »Save the Date«, Gingko Press Hamburg, 2011
__Schwartzman, Madeline, »See yourself sensing. Redefining Human Perception«, Black Dog, London, 2011, p. 109
__Boudier, L., »Les objets fous d’artistes«, Éditions Hoëbeke Paris, 2011, p. 84-85
__»Jetzt. Now.«, exhibition catalogue, Marta Herford & Kerber Verlag Bielefeld, 2011
__Basheer Graphic Group, »Creative Calendars«, Links Publishers, cover, 2011
__Klooster, Thorsten, »Smart Surfaces«, Birkhäuser publishers Zurich, 2010, p. 41
__Basheer Graphic Group, »Creative Calendars«, Links Intl., 2010, cover, p.196
PRINTED PRESS
__Minten, Ines, »Een uitnodiging tot traagheit«, De Standaard, 04.04.2017
__McQuaid, Kate, »I Dread to Think… examines the influence of anxiety«, The Boston Globe, 09.02.2017
__»Die Natur im digitalen Zeitalter ist im Haus der Elektronischen Künste Basel zu sehen«, Südkurier, 03.01.2017
__Anette Hoffmann, »Expeditionen ins Bekannte«, Basler Zeitung/Kultur, 10.12.2016
__»Die Aufrüstung der Menschen-Software«, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/Rhein-Main, 14.10.2016
__»Man/machine«, Form Magazin, vol. 266, July–August 2016, p. 65
__Marzalkowski, Tamara, »Prothesen als Thesen«, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 25.11.2015
__»The Meaning of Time for Us«, BQ Weekly magazine, Beijing, 20.06.2013, p. 18-20
__Spitz, René, »Stühle wollt ihr ewig leben?«, ff Fortlaufendenundfolgende, vol. Erinnerung, 2012, p. 9
__»Überraschende Perspektiven setzen Zeichen«, Kunst & Material, Ausgabe Sept./Okt. 2011, p. 49
__Monnik, »Still City Glossary«, Too Much Magazine, September 2012, p.13 & p. 24
__Péus, Camilla, »Zeigen, wie die Zeit vergeht«, Art Das Kunstmagazin, Ausgabe November, 2011, p. 108
__Das Magazin der Kulturstiftung des Bundes, vol. 18, 2011, p. 5, p. 16
__Kanai, Miki, »Berlin Trend«, BJUTSU TECHO, vol. 11-2011, p. 109
__Scheder, Beate, »Die Künstler und das liebe Vieh«, Berliner Zeitung, Feuilleton, 30.08.2011, p. 24
__Apin, Nina, »Krähen und Samenbombe«, die tageszeitung, Kultur für Berlin, 22.08.2011, p. 28
__Reichert, Kolja,, »Dein Nachbar, das Tier«, Der Tagesspiegel, 17.10.2011
__Scheder, Beate, »Die Künstler und das liebe Vieh«, Berliner Zeitung, Feuilleton, 30.08.2011, p. 24
__Apin, Nina, »Krähen und Samenbombe«, die tageszeitung, Kultur für Berlin, 22.08.2011, p. 28
__Rieder, Julia, »Kunstkopf # 74«, tip Berlin, vol. 18-11, 2011, p. 54
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__»Time Machine«, XAL Light magazine, vol. 19, 2010, p. 30
__»As Time Goes By«, Das Magazin, vol. 9/2010, p. 39
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
__Hertrich, S. and Miyazaki, S., Following The Elephant-Nosed Fish. Making Things More Complicated
As A Form Of Resistance in BIRD, New Experimental Research in Design, Birkhäuser publishers, Basel, 2018
__Hertrich, S. and Honda, A., Brighter Than A Thousand Suns: A Uniform To Detect And Display Radiation. TEI 17. New York: ACM, 2017. S. 659-663.
__Hertrich, S. Instinktprothesen und andere Apparate in Langkilde K. (ed.), «Poetry of the Real»,
Christoph Merian publishers, Basel, 2016. S. 17–24
__Hertrich, S. und Joost, G. AAA - Automated Anchoring Device. Devices That Alter Perception
in conjunction with ISMAR 2010, October 13th 2010, Seoul, South Korea.
__Hertrich, S., Hemmert F. et. al., Synthetic Empathy. Devices That Alter Perception in conjunction with ISMAR 2010,
October 13th 2010, Seoul, South Korea.
__Hertrich, S. and Reynolds, C., Prostheses for Instincts. International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2009), August 23
– September 1, 2009, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
__Hertrich, S., Fear Tuners. Devices that Alter Perception Workshop (DAP 2008) in conjunction with UbiComp 2008,
September 21st, 2008, Seoul, South Korea
__Devices That Alter Perceptions, Reader, Create Space Intl. (2011), ISBN 1463664249
EDUCATION
2008 Master of Arts (MA), Royal College of Art, London, Prof. Anthony Dunne (UK)
1999 Visiting student, Tokyo National University of the Arts, Dept. Intermedia Arts, Prof. Masaki Fujihata (JP)
1998 Diploma in Design (Dipl. Des.), Peter Behrens School of Art, Düsseldorf (DE
