Susanne Gottberg
Revealed By Hiding/ Kätkemällä paljastettu, 2021
Oil on canvas
126 x 180 cm / 50 x 71 in
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Susanne Gottberg
Bittersweet/ Katkeransuloista, 2020
Oil and colored pencil on wood
60 x 50 cm / 24 x 20 in
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Susanne Gottberg
The Vulnerability of The Gaze/ Katseen haavoittuvuus, 2021
Oil on canvas
80 x 110 cm / 31 x 43 in
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Susanne Gottberg
Veil / Verho, 2021
Oil on wood
145 x 130 cm / 57 x 51 in
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Susanne Gottberg
It is also about yesterday and how the past repeats itself/ Se on myös eilisestä ja miten mennyt toistaa itseänsä, 2021
Oil on Canvas
185 x 155 cm / 73 x 61 in
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Susanne Gottberg
Elijah, 2021
Oli and colored pencil on wood
122 x 81 cm / 48 x 32 in
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Susanne Gottberg
Light Seeking Light/ Valo etsii valoa, 2020
Oil and color pencil on wood
135 x 108 cm / 53 x 43 in
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Susanne Gottberg
Säiliö, 2018
Oil on Canvas
100 x 100 cm / 39.3 x 39.3 inches
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photo: Jussi Tiainen
Born in Ekenäs, Finland 1964 | Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.
The imagery in Susanne Gottberg’s paintings comprises quiet, tense moments and situations where something has just departed or will soon occur. In recent years, Gottberg has shifted from depicting nature and sceneries to interiors, examining different elements of furniture, studying fabrics and details of patterns. Gottberg challenges the viewer to experience emptiness and the expectations that come with it.
Susanne Gottberg graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1989, and held her debut exhibition in Helsinki that same year. She received the Finnish Art Society’s Ducat Prize in 1991 and was elected Young Artists of the Year in 1994. Gottberg’s works can be found in a number of major Finnish public and private collections.
Galerie Forsblom has been representing Susanne Gottberg since 1989.
Susanne Gottberg's exhibition 'The Third Factor' opens on June 1, 2019, at Kunsthalle Helsinki.
You rank among Finland’s best-known contemporary artists, and you have been enriching the Finnish art scene since 1989 with your lyrical paintings of simple subjects – objects – which your render with immaculate attention to detail. Many of your paintings in fact have the title object.
1. What is the object of your paintings and what do you wish to express through it?
"In her works, Gottberg treats the essence of painting seductively and beautifully. The objects depicted in the paintings are familiar in everyday life - drinking glasses, pleats, curtains - but the real subjects are the basic issues in painting."
Art critic Harri Mäcklin writes about Susanne Gottberg 's exhibition in Helsingin Sanomat
