The artist Suska Mackert will be personally present in the exhibition on the following days:

Wednesday, March 4, 2026: 2–4 pm
Thursday, March 5, 2026: 11 am–4 pm
Friday, March 6, 2026: 11 am–4 pm

Suska Mackert creates by collecting, arranging, and rearranging — like an archivist or archaeologist. She inscribes objects, draws and photographs, measures, locates and preserves, sorts in and out. She questions established ideas and clichés related to tradition, society, values, memory, and everyday life. The subject of her work is often jewelry and artifacts in the broadest sense. She separates and combines what was previously unrelated, sometimes quite literally using scissors, cutters, needle stitches, or adhesive tape — only to separate and recombine it again one day, soon or perhaps much later. Open propositions.

In all its ambiguity, the joint (the fugue) is an important guiding motif in her work. Mackert seeks the in-between space, the gap — as it functions in architecture to compensate for movement within materials. At the same time, she imitates endlessly recurring themes that develop into complex subjects, much like fugues in cantatas. Carefully, attentively, precisely, and with determination, she lays down layer upon layer, unafraid of the pull that these repetitions generate.

Amelie Klein

Suska Mackert studied theatre studies, philosophy, and art history; attended the State Vocational School for Glass and Jewelry in Neugablonz; began her studies in the edelsmeden class at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam; and completed her MA (vrije vormgeving) at the Sandberg Instituut there. From 2010 to 2013 she led the het sieraad class at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Since 2013, she has been Professor of Fine Arts / Jewelry and Objects at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg.