Biography

I am Susanne Witzig and was born in 1971 in the former GDR in Merseburg/Saale.  I grew up in a system that offered no place for me as a child with a special talent in the poetic and artistic field. Very early on, I had a completely different perception of color than all the other children in my environment, for example, I was never satisfied with the basic colors such as blue, red and yellow in art class. Rather, I mixed my own colors, such as pink, green or orange, and I always painted as I perceived things and not as they looked in reality. Unfortunately, my special talent was not promoted, but I was punished for bad grades when I once again missed the topic.  

At the age of 12, I was diagnosed with a chronic illness that was very much characterized by discipline, renunciation, pain and suffering. There was little space and time for emotions and things that a child or adolescent normally does. These limitations led to the fact that all emotions and talents were stifled and put me on a conventional career path. Until 2015, I led excessive functioning between file folders in an open-plan office, until I suffered a physical and mental breakdown due to serious consequences of my chronic illness and a dissociative movement disorder and have been wheelchair bound 90% ever since.

All the emotions and insights that come with this process are evident in her artworks. Abstract painting is above all an expression of her soul and is reflected in the liveliness of her paintings. For Susanne Witzig, painting what she feels is nothing more than the enthusiastic affirmation of life, which includes love as well as enthusiasm, inspiration and creativity. 

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At the age of 12, her already difficult life, which was also due to family reasons, was massively exacerbated by the diagnosis of a serious chronic illness. Not only was her illness highly stigmatized in the former GDR, this situation was actually exploited to finally re-educate her into a well-adjusted child. Her entire creative and emotional expression was silenced through manipulative psychological and physical violence. Witzig fought her way through her unpleasant childhood, spent most of her youth alone behind books and tried to move as inconspicuously as possible in society. She embarked on a conventional career path that led to a psychological and physical breakdown due to constant, excessive self-overexertion and excessive workloads. The far-reaching secondary illnesses resulting from her chronic illness in particular forced Witzig to take long, compulsory breaks and ultimately meant that she has been 90% wheelchair-bound since the end of 2015. But the recovery phases also had many positive effects, because through art therapy in various clinics she found herself and her love, painting. Painting gave her emotional release, it allowed her to let her feelings flow into her painting work, which leads to lively, abstract expressions that resonate with deep emotional authenticity.

In particular, Witzig’s style of geometric painting is unique and is characterized by the use of bright, intense, vibrant colors that illustrate the chaos and passion within her. Each canvas is a struggle, a dialogue between her inner turmoil and the peace she is trying to find. Art historian Elvira Meisel-Kemper describes her style as contemporary expressive and constructively abstract. Witzig’s painting is not just about creating art, but is a therapeutic ritual that helps her cope with the emotional and physical challenges that arise from her illness. Her geometric works thus show the background created emotionally and with passionate devotion through intuitively chosen colors. In the foreground you can often find the soft, highly sensitive core in the form of circles, curves, air bubbles, but also the hard, pragmatic dominant reality, which in the symbiosis always tries to push itself to the fore, represented in triangles, squares and lines of various thicknesses. The playful and almost unnoticed symmetry of the elements illustrates the ambivalence between what could be and what actually exists.

The great art in Witzig’s pictures lies in the back and forth between highly emotional color frenzy and cerebral expressivity and constructivity, without appearing kitschy or overloaded. Lovers of Witzig’s works of art say that you never get tired of them because their complexity touches the soul. Everything that viewers are willing to feel and experience can be found in Witzig’s works of art.

Photo by Robin Preston
Foto by Robin Preston
The energy and emotions released through painting give Witzig strength and courage. It is precisely this strength and courage that she wants to pass on to others and communicate with the world through her works of art. She wants to invite the viewers of her paintings to be emotionally nourished and delighted by her paintings and encourage them to never lose faith in themselves.

Artist Insights

For me, art is absolute freedom, I can paint anything and everyone else is free to decide whether they like it or not
What is the best picture you have ever painted in your life? “This picture doesn't exist yet!”
With my pictures I make the invisible visible. Repressed and forgotten things are given a face with a lot of space, time and color
In all my artworks you will only ever see what you are willing to see
Movement takes place in the head, not with the legs
When I paint, I don't search...I let myself be found
If I were to paint what I see, I would rather reach for my camera
I'm not afraid of failure when I paint...it only creeps up on me when people ignore my art
Colors are not just pigments...for me, colors are emotions that absolutely need a face and must be lived
I don't paint what I see, but what I feel
If you have a cat, you will never paint alone, you will always have an interested observer and, in the best case, a muse
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Exhibitions

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Thomson Gallery

01. Februar - 28. Februar 2025

Digitale Ausstellung

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Ausstellung
Susanne Witzig

01. Februar - 01. März 2025

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Dubai

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Andalukova Gallery

02. - 31. Januar 2025

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Dubai

Exhibition
Andalukova Gallery
02. - 31. Jan. 2025

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Andalukova Gallery

Abgrenzung
Acryl auf Leinwand
80 x 80 x 1,7 cm

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Andalukova Gallery

Blue Monday
Acryl auf Leinwand
80 x 80 x 1,7 cm

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Andalukova Gallery

Colorsplash
Acryl auf Leinwand
100 x 100 x 1,7 cm

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Andalukova Gallery

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Andalukova Gallery

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Andalukova Gallery

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Dubai

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Andalukova Gallery

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Palma

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Casa del arte
16. - 31. Dec. 2024

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Casa del arte
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Casa del arte

Blue Monday
Acryl auf Leinwand
80 x 80 x 1,7 cm

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Berlin

Kunstausstellung
Nicoleta Gallery
01. Nov. - 30. Nov. 2024

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Berlin

Kunstausstellung
Nicoleta Gallery
16. November 2024

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Berlin

Kunstausstellung
Nicoleta Gallery
16. November 2024

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Berlin

Kunstausstellung
Nicoleta Gallery
16. November 2024

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Berlin

Kunstausstellung
Nicoleta Gallery
16. November 2024

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Berlin

Kunstausstellung
Nicoleta Gallery
16. November 2024

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Berlin

Kunstausstellung
Nicoleta Gallery
16. November 2024

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Berlin

Mein größter Dank gilt meiner wunderbaren Ehefrau, die meine Ausstellungen überhaupt erst möglich macht und mir immer liebevoll und unterstützend zur Seite steht

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Paris

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Art Expo Paris

16. - 20. Oktober 24

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Art Expo Paris

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Art Expo Paris

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Paris

Trial by fire

Acryl auf Leinwand
80 x 80 x 1,6 cm

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"Trial by fire"
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Zug

Exhibition
Thomson Gallery

07. - 31. Okt 2024

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Thomson Gallery

07. - 31. Okt 2024
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Thomson Gallery

07. - 31. Okt 2024
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Exhibition
Thomson Gallery

07. - 31. Okt 2024
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Thompson Gallery

Sonnenflieger
60 x 80 x 1,6 cm

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Essen

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"Farbenrausch"
Hotel Franz in Essen

05. April - 28. Juni 2024

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03 - 04. April 2024

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05. April 2024

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05. April 2024

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05. April 2024

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05. April 2024

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"Farbenrausch"
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29.06.2024 ab 14:00 Uhr

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"Chaos & Symmetrie"
Raphaelsklinik Münster
18. Jan. - 16. März 2024

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"Chaos & Symmetrie"
Raphaelsklinik Münster
18. Jan. - 17. März 2024
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Vernissage 18. Januar 24

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Ausstellungsräume zur Ausstellung "Chaos & Symmetrie"

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18. Januar 2024

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18. Januar 2024

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18. Januar 2024

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18. Januar 2024

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Münstersche Zeitung 17.01.2024

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Borkener Zeitung
17. Januar 2024

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