Susanne M. Winterling

Susanne M Winterling (they/them /she) works across a range of media to explore the sentient economy, cultures and transformations of elements and materialisations. Forms and materials trace species and the elements in today’s challenging geopolitical context. Winterling’s practice reflects upon political as well as aesthetic entanglements and power structures among human/ animal/ matter. She remains focused on historical feminist practices and the commons and puts spotlight on different ways of knowledge through embodiment and cosmologies. Her time-based installations critically engage the representation of reality. Prevailing modernistic concepts, power structures and hierarchical historiographies are captured and investigate often what pure information and form leaves out – including a sensual approach to media and material informed by embodiment before language and cognition and the understanding of immersion and power as energy flows.

Since 2018 the artistic research project Planetary sensing: navigation below the surface www.planetarysensing.comcircles with bioluminescence on topics of social sculpture and environmental violence as well as bio-sensing and citizen science. In collaboration with an interdisciplinary group of artists, scientists, researchers and poets. With an emphasis on enhancing our perceptual and critical consciousness, Winterling undertakes affective and material-based research that highlights interaction between materials, elements and species. As part of the collective The Kalpana the imagination has been put in the centre of speculations on the desert, deep sea and space in the wake of climate migration and as part of the collective Blockadia*Tiefsee commoning and compost circles to the ocean.
Recent research projects center on the arts of conversation and the ethics of production.

www.pandorasbox.susannewinterling.com

Networks on art and quantum physics/ethics have been established as working groups on matter, anti-matter and condensed matter https://dmamcm.susannewinterling.com/ as well as art and science collaboration on emergence.

Latest peer reviewed article on collaboration and art and science 2024: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2373566X.2025.2467669