Cologne Bonn Region
"Fill: with own imagination" (Arthur Køpcke) Susanne Rennert works as a curator and author with a research-related focus on the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Her scholarly studies comprise monographic work with a deep interest for the overlooked as well as for the social, economic and political contexts of art. In 1990, she finished her master´s thesis at Ludwig Maximilians-Universität, Munich on Jörg Immendorff´s and Chris Reinecke´s Lidl Actions (1968-1970) . In 1996 she published her dissertation on german-danish Fluxus-Artist Arthur (Addi) Køpcke (1928-1977). Currently working on: - Dieter Hülsmanns, Friedolin Reske: Ateliergespräche / Studio Interviews, Düsseldorf 1966 (with Alvermann, Beuys, Brüning, Götz, Hershon, Hoehme, Klapheck, Lueg, Piene, Polke, Richter, Rinke, Uecker, Vostell et al.), Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2017 - Die Ausstellungen und Kassettenkataloge des Städtischen Museums Mönchengladbach, 1967-1978, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach 2017 - Chris Reinecke, Zeit und Arbeit, Momente, Works 1965-2016, Galerie Beck & Eggeling, Düsseldorf, Juni/Juli 2016 Among her latest curatorial projects were: "Nam June Paik," Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf / Tate Liverpool, 2010/11 (with Sook-Kyung Lee), as well as "Living with Pop. A reproduction of Capitalist Realism. Manfred Kuttner, Konrad Lueg, Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter. With a contribution of Christopher Williams," Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 2013 and Artists Space, New York, 2014 (with E. Evers, M. Holzhey, G. Jansen, S. Kalmar, R. Birkett and Kuehn Malvezzi) and Hoehme, Polke, Reinecke, Galerie Beck & Eggeling, Düsseldorf 2015 In spring 2013 she edited the first book on Jean-Pierre Wilhelm, a pionieer on intermedia art scene: "Le hasard fait bien les choses. Jean-Pierre Wilhelm, Informel, Fluxus and Galerie 22," Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne (with S. Martin and E. Wilton).