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critical ecologies
Susan Schuppli, Director
Centre for Research Architecture
Department of Visual Cultures
Goldsmiths University of London
United Kingdom, SE14 6NW
BIOGRAPHY
Susan Schuppli is a researcher and artist based in the UK. Her fieldwork and documentary film practice is situated at the intersections between environmental struggles, climate science, and affected communities with a contemporary focus on the cryosphere and the politics of cold. Earlier projects examined material evidence from conflict zones to nuclear disasters.
Recent films include: Moving Ice, Signals from Svalbard, Listening to Ice, Gondwana, Arctic Archipelago and Ice Cores.
Investigations span legal analysis and public advocacy as well as theoretical reflection and creative exploration in order to understand how the transformations brought about by climate change are generating new forms of evidence. Granting agency to the more-than-human as a material witness informs her efforts at expanding the fields of action and forums for justice.
Creative projects have been exhibited throughout Europe, Asia, Canada, and the US. She has published widely within the context of media and politics and is author of the book, Material Witness published by MIT Press in 2020.
Schuppli is Professor and Director of the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London where she is also an affiliate artist-researcher and Board Chair of Forensic Architecture. Previously she was Senior Research Fellow and Project Co-ordinator of Forensic Architecture. Prior to working in the UK she was an Associate Professor in visual/media arts in Canada. Schuppli received her PhD from Goldsmiths and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program after completing her MFA at the University of California San Diego. She is the recipient of the 2016 ICP Infinity Award.
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Laureates of the Right Livelihood Award, 2024
Pocast Art of Interference S2E6 | Air Conditioning
“Denaturalizing the Image: An Interview with Susan Schuppli” by L. Lee-Morrison in Machinic Visions of the Planetary, Vol. 5, 2023
Art Fictions Podcast︎︎︎
Susan Schuppli is a researcher and artist based in the UK. Her fieldwork and documentary film practice is situated at the intersections between environmental struggles, climate science, and affected communities with a contemporary focus on the cryosphere and the politics of cold. Earlier projects examined material evidence from conflict zones to nuclear disasters.
Recent films include: Moving Ice, Signals from Svalbard, Listening to Ice, Gondwana, Arctic Archipelago and Ice Cores.
Investigations span legal analysis and public advocacy as well as theoretical reflection and creative exploration in order to understand how the transformations brought about by climate change are generating new forms of evidence. Granting agency to the more-than-human as a material witness informs her efforts at expanding the fields of action and forums for justice.
Creative projects have been exhibited throughout Europe, Asia, Canada, and the US. She has published widely within the context of media and politics and is author of the book, Material Witness published by MIT Press in 2020.
Schuppli is Professor and Director of the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London where she is also an affiliate artist-researcher and Board Chair of Forensic Architecture. Previously she was Senior Research Fellow and Project Co-ordinator of Forensic Architecture. Prior to working in the UK she was an Associate Professor in visual/media arts in Canada. Schuppli received her PhD from Goldsmiths and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program after completing her MFA at the University of California San Diego. She is the recipient of the 2016 ICP Infinity Award.
Laureates of the Right Livelihood Award, 2024
Pocast Art of Interference S2E6 | Air Conditioning
“Denaturalizing the Image: An Interview with Susan Schuppli” by L. Lee-Morrison in Machinic Visions of the Planetary, Vol. 5, 2023
Art Fictions Podcast︎︎︎
EXHIBITIONS
2025
2024
2025
- Thirst: In Search of Freshwater, Wellcome Collection
- Maruki Gallery, Saitama, Japan
- Semibreve Festival, Braga, Portugal
- These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature, UQ Art Museum, Australia
2024
- Vertical Cinema, Scanorama, Lithuania
- Cut Film Festival, Focus on Schuppli’s films, Macao
- Notes on Air, SALT Gallery in Istanbul (Ice Cores screening)
- Boxen, Västernorrlands Museum
- A view from Above, Exposed, Torinto Foto Festival
- Re/sisters, FOMU, Fotomuseum Antwerp
- Mayrit Design Biennial, Madrid
- Kunsthaus Zürich
- Hamburger Kunsthalle
- Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai
- Re/sisters, Barbican, UK
- The Big Picture, Halle 14, Leipzig
- 7th Anyang Public Art Project, Korea
- Backlight Photo Festival, Tampere, Finland
- Laboral, Spain
- Dunkerque Triennale Art Industrie, France
- Beijing Biennial, China
- Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India
- Luleå Biennial, Sweden
- Videotank 26, Foreman Art Gallery, Canada
- Eternal Ice, Stiftung Kunst und Natur, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany
- Synthetic Ecology, Beijing Art and Technology Biennale, China
- The Berlin Biennale, Germany
- Homosphere, Kunsthalle, Mainz, Germany
- Ex-Post, Artspace Aotearoa, Auckland, New Zealand
- Toronto Biennial of Art, Canada
- Weather Engines, Onassis Stegi, Athens, Greece
- Open Futures: Kollektive Resonanz, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
- The Ocean, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
- Sensing Nature, Momenta Biennale de l’Image, Montreal, Canada
- Earthlings, Fotograf Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
- Im-Possible Images, Lotheringer 13 Halle, Munich, Germany
- Splitting the Atom, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
- God in Reverse, Richmond Art Gallery, Canada
- Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, , Czech Republic
- Spill, The Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
- Logistics of Sense: Investigations, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Canada
- Overtones: On How to Listen, Goethe Institute, Ramallah, Palestina
- Toronto Biennial, Canada
- Lofoten International Art Festival, Norway
- Poekhali, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
- Black Cloud, Kyiv Biennial, Ukraine
- The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
- Sensing Seas, Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver, Canada
- Eavesdropping, City Gallery Wellington / Te Wagre Toi, New Zealand
- Dangerous Liaisons: On Environmental Justice through Toxic Trades, Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
- Earth/Sky: UCSD Gallery, San Diego, USA
- This Must be True, Khoj, Delhi, India
- La Chapelle Saint-Jacques, France
- Wir Und Die Sonne, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
- The Cloud Library, Photo+Sphere, Elizabeth Holden Gallery, North Carolina, USA
- Eavesdropping, Ian Potter Museum of Art + Liquid Architecture, Melbourne, Australia
- Space of Flows: Framing an Unseen Reality, Krakow Photomonth Festival, Poland
- 74 million million million tons, SculptureCenter, Queens, New York, USA
- The Architecture of Conflict, Vi Per Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
- Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden
- Resolution is Not the Point, Photo50 London Art Fair, UK
- Clouds ⇄ Forests, Moscow Biennale, Russia
- The Image of War, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
- Ex-ante, Artspace, Auckland
- Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Belgium
- Radio Reina Sofía, Critical Spaces, Madrid, Spain
- New Literacy, Ural Industrial Biennale, Russia
- Scenographies of Power, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
- Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics, MACBA, Barcelona & MUAC, Mexico
- Material Truth, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
- Atmospheric Feedback Loops, Sonic Acts Commission, Netherlands
- Perpetual Uncertainty, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden
- Reporting from the Front, Venice Biennale / Architecture, Itay
- Sound of Sand, KARST, Plymouth, UK
- Art in the Age of…Asymmetrical Warfare, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Arquitectura Forense, Fundación Proa, Buenas Aires, Argentina
- Tape 342: A timeline of testimony, Galerie Wedding, Berlin, Germany
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The Social Factory, 10th Shanghai Biennale
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Evidence on Trial, See you in The Hague, Stroom Den Haag, Netherlandss
- Allegory of the Cave Painting, Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
- Wind Tunnel Project Artliner, UK
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Hlysnan: On the Notion & Politics of Listening, Casino Luxembourg
- Forensis, Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
- Animism, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea