1954 Born in Botenheim
1973 to 1981 Study at the State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart
Study of art history at the universities of Munich, Tübingen, and Stuttgart
2007 3 rd European Triennial Textile and Fibre Art, Riga, Lettland
2006 Museum MARTa, Herford "Artificialia"
2005 German Textile Museum, Krefeld
2004 Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Villa Franck, "Florales von Susanna Taras"
2003 Musee Jurassien des Arts, Moutier "Fakt and Fantasie"
2002 Kunstverein Arnsberg "Il Mio Mondo"
2001 Kunstverein Biberach "In Schnee and Eis eine Blüte"
2000 State Gallery Nordhorn, "Made for fun"
1999 Orangerie im Englischen Garten, München
1998 Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe "Skulptur Südwest"
1994 Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart "Über Skulptur"
State Gallery Stuttgart
Kunstbesitz Daimler Chrysler, Möhringen
City of Wolfsburg, Office of Culture
Museum MARTa Herford
2002 Baden-Württemberg State Prize
1997 Stipendium der Cité Internationale des Art, Paris
1993 Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation grant
1980 Young Artist‘s Prize, Galerie Alpirsbach art student competition
The color used in Susanna Taras’s work is influenced by the artist’s background in painting. Placed in the foreground, it acts as a provocative stylistic technique. Taras works wool and synthetic yarn using tufting, a decorative technique developed in 19th-century America.
The works of Susanna Taras’s lead us into a world full of exuberant forms and extreme color.
Taras creates poetic spaces of image in which art and nature, history and material, meet in many-layered ways, each increasing the other’s respective effect.
Website
www.susannataras.com
