Susanne Weber-Lehrfeld is a German artist. She lives in Berlin.

Susanne works in an interdisciplinary way and uses performance, video, painting, sculpture and installations to explore social conventions and the different roles women have in society. In her works Susanne playfully uses movement sequences, words and materials from everyday life and stills from her own videos. She is inspired by the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi which encourages the appreciation of the beauty of imperfection and impermanence. Susanne is interested in posing questions through her art works, performances and installations to explore the unspoken feelings, expectations and fears that emerge, not least between herself and her audience during performances.

Susanne has trained extensively in modern & contemporary dance and ballet over many decades in Berlin, Bielefeld, Detmold, Düsseldorf, Detmold and Paris. She successfully completed the two-year Eurolab Certificate Program in Basic Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies in 2015. Between 2010 and 2016 Susanne attended classes in art and art history at the University of Arts UdK Berlin, taught by Professor Ursula Ströbele and Professor Karlheinz Lüdeking Berlin, and between 2016 and 2023 at the Kunsthochschule Weissensee Berlin taught by Professor Hannes Brunner.

Susanne has performed at the Tafelhalle Nuremberg in works created by Alexandra Rauh and Gunnar Seidel and in Braunschweig for choreographer Sylvia Heyden. Her video ‘Welche Nahrung gibst Du Deiner Seele’ was awarded the third prize at the Kunstwoche Jestebug in 2006. Her works have been exhibited in Ankara, Bielefeld, Berlin, Florence, Milan, New York, Paris, Venice and Seoul.

Exhibitions

2024

“Microcosms of Wonder”, group exhibition curated by Stefania Carrozzini, Gallery Naeil, Seoul
“Microcosms of Wonder”, group exhibition curated by Stefania Carrozzini, loverso studio, Venice
“Emotional Geography”, group exhibition curated by Stefania Carrozzini, Espace Space Rielle, Paris
“Stillen”, group exhibition with Femmespheres, “Turning Point” (with Corinna Rosteck, Macha Melanie Bastide, Karinne Grenier, Lewis Jordan, Yulia Chaplina), performance with video projection, 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin
“Berlin Fragmente” (with Antemanha), performance with video projection, Primobuch Kunstraum, Berlin
“Lücken_ü—er”, group exhibition with Femmespheres, 1005 Architekten, Berlin

2023

Group exhibition with Femmespheres, “PLEASE DON’T TOUCH”, performance, Galerie Erstererster, Berlin
“Celestial Grammar”, group exhibition, Stefania Carrozzini Gallery, Venice

2022–23

“Aetas”, dance theatre by Sylvia Heyden, Braunschweig

2022

“It is what it is”, performance, Ballettschule Steglitz Hans Vogl, Berlin
“Zone di Sensibilità Immateriale”, group exhibition, MyMicroGallery, Mailand

2021

“Schrödingers Katzen”, installation, “Rote Buchstaben Teil 2”, performance, Kunsthochschule Weissensee
“Prelude-Intervention on site”, installation, “128”, performance, Kunsthochschule Weissensee, Berlin
“Skurriles Kabinett”, exhibition “Untitled (No visitors)”, Kunsthochschule Weissensee, Berlin

2020

“Suspended Oscillation” (with Belen Resnikowski), performance, Kunsthochschule Weissensee, Berlin

2019

“Ebenholz” (with Antemanha), performance, Unico! Galerie, Kaufbeuren

2018–20

“Morph”, dance theatre by A. Rauh, G. Seidel, Nuremberg

2016

“24*64” (with Lea Sumey), performance, Tanztangente, Berlin

2014

“A Quest” (with Südstern Collective), performance, 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin
“Draussen im August”, a street-improv-performance-project, Berlin

2013

“M”, performance with video projection, Tanzfabrik, Berlin

2012

“Regeneration” (with Stefan Nero), performance with video projection, 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin

2011

“Das Echo meiner Schritte”, performance with video projection, Kulturbrauerei Neukölln, Berlin

2008

“Lerne zeitig heimlich zu weinen” (with Can Fischer), performance with video projection, Theaterlabor Bielefeld
Selection of videos with stills, group exhibition, Broadway Gallery, New York

2007

group exhibition, Galleria Mentana, Florenz
“L’après midi d’un chat”, stills from the video “L’après midi d’un chat” (2005), Arte Firenze, Florenz
“Perfect little world” 1 & 2, video projection, group exhibition, Goethe Institut Ankara

2006

“Welche Nahrung gibst Du Deiner Seele”, video projection, Kunstwoche Jesteburg, awarded 3rd prize
“Baustelle”, performance with video projection, Städtische Galerie Eichenmüllerhaus, Lemgo