Catherine Opie / Walls, Windows and Blood

Since 2022, Winterling has served as a professor and program coor­ dinator for the master's program in medium and material-based art at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Before this, she held po­ sitions at art academies in both Trondheim, Oslo, and in Offenbach, Germany. In her own art practice, Susanne M. Winterling works across var­ ious media, including film, pho­ tography, sculpture, and perfor­ mance. Her practice emphasizes what pure information and form leave out, with a sensual approach to media and material informed by an understanding of immersion and power as energy flows. Emphasiz­ ing the enhancement of percep­ tual and critical consciousness, Winterling undertakes affective and material-based research that highlights the subjective interaction between producers, viewers, materials, and species in our ecology. She has contributed to a large number of exhibitions internationally, most recently the opening ex­ hibition EMOTIONS ARE OCEANS at RADIUS Center for Contemporary Art and Ecology and the current Postscript of Silence at the Ming Contemporary Art Museum.

Skjult tekstCatherine Opie (b. 1961, San­ dusky, Ohio) is considered one of the leading photographers of her generation. Over the past thirty years, she has created a bold­ ly original and complex body of photographic work that explores notions of communal, sexual, and cultural identity. From 2001, she worked as a tenured Professor of Photography at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and in 2019, she became the En­ dowed Chair of the Department of Art (UCLA).