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About the Swiss photographer, Batia SUTER (b. 1967)
Batia SUTER studied at the art academies of Zürich (CH) and Arnhem (NL), and was also trained at the Werkplaats Typografie. She produces monumental installations of digitally manipulated images for specific locations, and works on photo-animations, image sequences and collages, often using found historical pictures. In 2007 and 2016 she published two artist books, based on compositions of images taken from old books she has collected along the years. Her other books are evocative montages of found images exploring the diverse resonances of geological shapes and landscapes, visual surfaces and image structures. The underlying themes of her practice are the 'iconification' and 'immunogenicity' of images, and the circumstances by which they become charged with new associative values. Her work intuitively situates old images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities. By this method, and with an attuned sensitivity to hidden harmonies and expressive accidents, Batia SUTER thus generates hypnagogic spaces where pictures can communicate by their own logic, in a force field of imaginative metamorphosis.
Photo books by Batia SUTER
'Parallel Encyclopedia' (2007); 'Surface Series' (2011), 'Parallel Encyclopedia #2' (2016); 'Radial Grammar' (2018), 'Hexamiles' (2019)
Solo exhibitions (a selection)
2002 'Evergreen', Stefan Rasche, Muenster
2004: Hans-Trudel-Haus, Baden
2008 'Het torentje', Almelo
2009 'Surface Series', Culturgest, Porto; 'Wall House #2, Groningen
2014: '25x25x25', Westfälisches Landesmuseum Münster
2015: 'Sea Of Ice', KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2018: 'Radial Grammar', Le Bal; 'Sole Summary', Centre Culturel Suisse; 'Nature Grammar', SNCF Gare Montparnasse, all in Paris
2019: 'Hexamiles (Mont-Voisin)', Barrage de Mauvoisin, Museum Bagnes; 'Hexamiles (Odysee)', Schaufenster, KV München; 'Cloud Service', Printed Matter, New York
Group exhibitions (a selection)
1996-2006: 'Vervolgens', Amsterdam; 'Crossoverall', Eindhoven; 'No Content, No Show', Amsterdam; 'Biennale Gelderland', Arnhem; 'Under My Skin', Den Bosch; 'Blow Up', Arnhem; 'Speciale aanmaak', Den Bosch; 'Bountyeiland', Apeldoorn; 'Room', Utrecht; 'Hotel', Nijmegen; 'Zwitserland on the move', Rotterdam; 'Biennale Gelderland', Nijmegen; 'City Jam #2', Arnhem; 'Rotonde #3', Nijmegen; 'Roma Publications', Otterlo; 'WOMAN', Utrecht; 'Wettbewerb für bildende Kunst der Stadt Zürich'; 'R3', Hamburg; 'Mixed Pickels', Zurich; 'Auswahl 05', Aarau; 'Interval', Amsterdam; 'Circuitos-Circuits', Santiago de Chile; 'Roma Publications', Lisbon; 'Vademen', Heerlen
2007-2017: 'A Few Artists' Books, Roma Publications & Christoph Keller', Barcelona; 'Nieuwe Collectie', Lier (BE); 'Het torentje', Almelo; 'The Garden of Cyrus', Paris; 'Found, Gevonden, Trouve', Lier; 'The Order Of Things', Antwerp; 'Mimes', Athens; 'Beyond the Dust, Artist's Documents Today, Part 1', Middelburg; 'Beyond the Dust, Artist's Documents Today, Pt. 2', Milan; 'Use Me, Abuse Me', New York; 'Roma Publications @ Motto Berlin'; 'Published by: Roma Publications', Middelburg; 'Nos hicimos la ilusión de avanzar directamente', Barcelona; 'Hypothesis for an exibition', Berlin; 'Limits of an object', Geneva; 'Fantastique Elastique', Zurich; 'Voorkamer II', Liege (BE); 'Beyond the Dust, Artist's Documents Today, Pt. 3', Paris; 'Dear Aby Warburg, what can be done with images?', Siegen; 'Les Prairies', Rennes; 'Autumn of modernism', Middelburg; 'Autumn of modernism II', Cologne; 'Roma Publications 1998-2012', Bremen; 'Atlas at last', ESADHaR, Rouen; 'Provisional Space', Paris; '5 x 3', Düsseldorf; 'Dublin Doubles', Dublin; 'Au d'tour de la mer de nuages', Paris; 'Ladekastproject', Rotterdam; 'Reiner Nachtwey & Batia Suter', Bad Bentheim; 'Perspectives on Collage', London; 'Roma Publications 1998-2014', Rome; 'Vanishing Point', Milan; 'Some Things Perishable', Den Haag; 'Staged City', Amsterdam; 'Earth Effect', Reggio Emilia; 'Something Thrown in the Way of the Observer', Amsterdam; 'De Fotokopie 4th Edition', Arles; 'YES YES YES alternative press', Rome; 'Les recits de l'insu', Velizy-Villacoublay; '3500m2', Rome; 'Where the Other Rests', Arles; 'Artists' Documents: Art, Typography and Collaboration', Seoul & NY; 'For Every Purpose', NY; 'Flawa. Solo Annaquato', Rome; 'Arts & Music Festival Horst', Sint Pieters-Rode (BE); 'Les Nouveaux Encyclopèdistes', Reggio Emilia; 'Spaces without drama or surface is an illusion, but so is depth', Chicago; 'A L'Antique', Rouen
2018: 'Parallel Encyclopedia Extended', Vancouver; 'Cream Cheese & Pretty Ribbons', Vienna; 'Swiss Art Awards', Art Basel; 'Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Award', Frankfurt & London; 'Rendez-vous met Frans Hals', Haarlem; 'Some Things Hidden', Amsterdam
2019: 'The Gulf Between', Turnhout (BE); 'des attentions', Paris; 'Lost and Found', Singapore; 'Bookworks', Melbourne; 'Radial Grammar', Montreal; 'Elogi del malentes', Spain