Prof. Suska Mackert creates by collecting, arranging and rearranging – in the manner of an archivist or archaeologist. As such, objects are written, drawn, photographed, measured, classified, stored, removed, replaced. She questions confirmed ideas and clichés regarding tradition, society, values, memory and everyday life. Frequently, her work focuses on jewellery and artefacts in the broadest sense. She takes apart and puts together things that do not belong together, sometimes quite literally with scissors, cutters, pinpricks, adhesive tape. Only to one day, sooner or later, or not at all, take them apart again and reassemble them afresh. Open offers.

In all its ambiguity, the interstice is an important leitmotif for her. Mackert seeks the space in between, the gap, just as it acts to compensate for the movement in material during construction. At the same time, she simulates ever-recurring themes to create complex subjects, like fugues in cantatas. Cautiously, carefully, precisely and decisively, she adds layer upon layer, unafraid of the vertigo that these repetitions evoke.

Suska Mackert studied theatre arts, philosophy and art history. She attended the School for Glass and Jewellery in Kaufbeuren-Neugablonz, studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam edelsmeden, completing her master’s degree vrije vormgeving at the Sandberg Institute. From 2010 to 2013 she was head of the department het sieraad at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, and since 2013 she is professor at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Nürnberg.

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Eine Ausstellung von Suska Mackert
March 4–April 24, 2026
Opening on Tuesday, March 3, 7 p.m., introduction by Amelie Klein
Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts