Vita
CV Sussi Hodel
I am self-taught and trained at the School of Classical Painting and was a student of André de Maertelaere, a Belgian expressionist. I have been a freelance artist since April 2015 and successfully completed the MAS Cultural Management degree at HSLU DFK Lucerne 2023.
My works can be found in numerous corporate and private collections in Switzerland and abroad.
Born in Denmark (Jutland) in 1971, I was introduced to the world of art as a child. It took me a long time to get involved in this profession myself, with various diversions that have benefited me in my work today. My works usually attract attention, appear loud and yet are profound and often reflective, so that they involuntarily trigger something emotional.
My oil paintings are technically demanding; with palette knife, brush, loose pigments, pastels and skilfully placed accents. Years of refining the style and trying out new things, a perpetual process that only serves to stage the motif in the best possible way and to achieve a formative effect and a statement. It’s usually the people who captivate me and find their way onto my canvas. It is an urge to capture the deeper emotional expression that looks back at me and to capture it on the canvas.
I am a member of Visarte.Zentralschweiz, have exhibited on several continents and work in an interdisciplinary way.
Current Projects
Municipality of Baar
Wiesental school, Baar – Art from a demolished building A connection between history and the future.
Cultural institution
Commissioned work on a series of paintings. Publication in June 2024.
Specials
Kulturschiff MS Schwan
On 27 June 2024, I am invited as a guest on the culture ship MS Schwan.
We will stop at various stations on the beautiful Lake Zug and I will be able to talk about my relationship with the lake and my art. Last tickets still available.
Studio projects
Work group Sinner
An examination of the concept of sin and how we deal with it.
Work group “In this together”
Of emotional and existential situations in which we feel trapped.
Group of works “In us with nature
Works in which man and nature merge.
Exhibitions (selection as of 2016)
2024
Baar, Municipality of Baar, Art from demolition object
Vernissage 8 June 2024, Wiesental Schoolhouse, Baar
Zug, Lakeside Gallery, solo exhibition
Opening 13.6.2024, Da Capo, 18 – 20:30
2022
Luzern, Galerie Vitrine «DESSIN»
2021
Zug, Office for Culture, Competitive Exhibition Zug Year of Work
2020
Kornschütte Luzern, Visarte & Kunsthalle Luzern «Sketches from the Lockdown»
Unterägeri, Lakeside Gallery «Art in the window»
Prince House Gallery, Mannheim, Germany
2019
physical digital cryptical, Zug, Switzerland (Installation) Munich Art House, München, Germany
2018
Galerie Obertor, Chur, Schweiz (solo) Galerie Malte Frank, Zug, Schweiz (solo) Galerie Böhner, Mannheim, Deutschland (solo)
2017
Lakeside Gallery, Unterägeri, Switzerland
MoCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
The Brick Lane Gallery, London, GB
Artium Gallery, Miami, USA
A&D Gallery, London, GB
Camden Gallery, London, GB
Wild2, Shedhalle, Zug, Switzerland (Artworks and Video)
2016
Frauenstimmenfestival Brig, Switzerland
Colorida Art Gallery, Lissabon, Portugal
wild! In der Shedhalle, Zug, Switzerland
Publications
2022
Teufelsweib, Chris Oeuvray, Cover, 978-3-906325-74-3
2020
IM LOCKDOWN, Visarte Zentralschweiz
2018
Boesner, „100 Pictures – 100 Artists – 100 Works“, 6. Edition, 978-3-905957-05-1
2017
Sussi Hodel, „Emotions – Lips – Wild“, Publisher Dr. Malte Frank Zug, 978-3-906939-01-8 hardcover
Birgit Scholze – Keine Angst kleiner Wurm, Publisher August Maurer Frankfurt, Illustrations, 3-9801685-8-1 hardcover
