Susanne S. D. Themlitz

Lisbon, 1968
Of Portuguese-German origin, Susanne Themlitz began her artistic training in 1987 with Drawing and Sculpture studies at Ar.Co. – Centre for Art and Visual Communication, in Lisbon, having completed the course in 1993. Before that, through an exchange program in 1992, she studied for a year at the Royal College of Art in London. In 1995, she completed an MFA (Meisterchüler) at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf with a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She has exhibited regularly since 1992, mainly in Portugal and Germany, and her first solo exhibition was in 1996. Susanne Themlitz’s work is characterized by interdisciplinarity, using different materials and techniques, such as sculpture, photography, drawing, painting and video. She has been awarded in all these fields. She lives and works between Lisbon and Cologne.