Image: Reinhard Voigt in "Akris. Mode. selbstverständlich", Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, 2023.
Susanne Neubauer is a curator, art historian, researcher and author. She completed her doctoral thesis on the installation work of the American artist Paul Thek in 2011. She was a curator at the Kunstmuseum Luzern (2002–2009) and has since worked as an independent curator and scholar for art academies and museums (Moderna Museet Stockholm, Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, et al). She was lecturer, fellow or visiting professor at Kingston University London (2009–2014), University of the Arts London (2012), HBK Braunschweig (2014), HGK Basel (2013–2014), Universidade de Brasília (2017–2022) and Freie Universität Berlin (2017–2019). In 2019, she was a scholarship holder for cultural criticism at the Landis & Gyr Foundation in London. Since 2019 she is collector curator of Studio Reinhard Voigt Berlin.
Susanne has also written extensivly for institutions such as The Whitney Museum of American Art New York, Texte zur Kunst, University of Chicago Press, Routledge London, ARS São Paulo, Third Text UK, Konsthistorik tidskrift, RIHA Journal, Theory, Culture and Society, Zeitschrift für Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte, Mousse Publishing, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, JRP/Ringier, Museum Ludwig Wien/mumok, Ashgate UK, Generali Foundation Wien, The MIT Press, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König Köln.
From 2019 she trained in animal shiatsu, Trust Technique mindfulness and as a somatic coach at the Somatic School in London. Today, she is known for her work in human-animal relationships as a curating gesture and teaches people how to see animals mindfully and how to change co-habitational structures in everyday life. She teaches “Learning from Animals” at Kientalerhof/Switzerland since 2023.
Recent exhibitions1, books2, articles3 and talks4 (2020–2025), projects in preparation:
1Paul Thek Environments – Film contribution by Susanne Neubauer, Paul Thek Retrospective, Kunsthaus Zürich et. al, cur. by Krist Gruijthuijsen, forthcoming.
4Tour on Lygia Clark, with Cathérine Hug, Kunsthaus Zürich, 22.1.2026
2Reinhard Voigt. Pure Pleasure, ed. by Susanne Neubauer, Köln: Verlag Walther und Franz König, 2025.
4“Horses and Therapy”, talk in conjunction to the exhibition “Horses”, Hans Erni Museum Luzern, 3.7.2025.
3“Positive Einflüsse eines achtsamkeitsbasierten Umfelds auf die Gesundheit von Tieren”, in: OM&Tiergesundheit, Nr. 117, 2025, pp. 32-36.
1Reinhard Voigt – textiles, Soy Capitan, Berlin, 26.4.-15.6.2024
1Reinhard Voigt: Pure Pleasure. Neues Museum Nürnberg, 26.10.2023–17.3.2024
3“The Need for Roots, Or Ghostwriting Paul Thek”, in: Alessandro di Pietro, Ghostwriting Paul Thek, Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2024, pp. 197-200.
3“Enlivened Pieces. Richard Tuttle at the Whitney Museum of American Art 1975″, in Object, Performance, Process: Art, Materiality, and Continuity since the 1960s, ed. Hanna Hölling, New York/Chicago: Bard Graduate Center/University of Chicago Press, 2022). Series: Cultural Histories of the Material World, pp. 218-236.
3“Aus der Peripherie geboren — Gui Bonsiepes Beitrag zu einer symbolischen Produktion von Design innerhalb des kulturpolitischen Kontexts von Salvador Allendes Chile” (mit Marcelo Mari), in Was heisst hier Haltung?, ed. Andrea Bärnreuther, Berlin: Bauhaus Archiv, 2021, pp. 263-276 (online).
3“Ludwig Grote und das Interesse Brasiliens am Bauhaus – kulturpolitische Verflechtungen und Adaptationen”, in Ludwig Grote und die Bauhaus-Idee, ed. Peter Bernhard, Torsten Blume, Leipzig: Spector Books/Dessau-Rosslau: Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, 2021, pp. 130-137.
2Sei dein Tier. Ein Handbuch zur Kommunikation, Verständigung und Achtsamkeit mit Tieren, Nordersted: BoD, 2020.