Susanna Fritscher
Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
20 March – 14 September 2020
As part of the 10th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, museum director Emma Lavigne invited Austrian artist Susanna Fritscher to produce a new installation in the heart of Shigeru Ban’s bold museum architecture. After the success of Fritscher’s exhibition Flügel Klingen at the Biennale de Lyon in 2017 – a project co-produced by Phileas – Fritscher filled one of the galleries of the Centre Pompidou-Metz with a new project that played upon the air circulation within the building; the artist installed thousands of fine silicone threads that oscillated under the air flow and shimmered in the entering light of the gallery. This work was co-produced in collaboration with Phileas.
Susanna Fritscher was born in Vienna, Austria and lives and works in Montreuil, France. Previous solo exhibitions include the Musée des Beaux Arts in Nantes, France (2017); Frac Corse, Corté (2014); Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon, France (2014); and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2013). Her work was included in the 14th Lyon Biennale and in several group exhibitions, among them Simple formes: contemplating beauty, curated by Jean de Loisy and Nanjo Fumio, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2015); Formes Simples at Centre Pompidou Metz (2014); and Si j’avais un marteau, by the Musée des Beaux-Arts, le Hangar à Bananes, Nantes, France (2012).
