Themlitz, Susanne

Portugal, 1968

Susanne Themlitz lives and works between Lisbon and Cologne. She studied Visual Arts at Ar.Co (Lisbon) from 1987 to 1995, at the Royal College of Art (London), and at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Since the mid-1990s, Susanne Themlitz has been constructing a very particular iconographic, narrative, and fictional universe populated by fantastic organisms, beings that mix and coalesce the categories of the animal and the human. In her work, a vast repertoire of references—from literature to cinema, from children’s stories to mythology, from wonder to science fiction—fuses with a careful and ironic observation of human beings and their personality traits.