The soul speaks in images.

My masks are such images that come both from my dreams and suddenly emerge from my subconscious; but they also originate from myths and traditions. In any case I always witness in astonishment what is being created under my own hands.

My one-year artist's travel scholarship to Indonesia in 1991 already had archetypal symbolic language as its theme, and I traced the images of the soul in Indonesian shadow theatre and other art forms. Later, the search developed into a very intense inner journey in the movement work with Suprapto Suryodarmo.

My first masks were creations of my inner judge, who has the habit of criticising, blocking and slowing down. I brought this sabotaging censor into visibility, so to speak, in order to enter into dialogue with him/her.

The masks are signposts. They refer, for example, to inner shattering, to fragmentation in a cocoon, to naivety, to the inner child, to the board of dualism in front of the (block-)head, to fear and horror, to the cracking open of the tower walls, to a great outbreak or to being a wave in the great ocean. In many cases, their emergence is an expression of a process of ideational realisation. Some, such as the metaphors of the inner judge/censor voices of Momos and Querella, continue to accompany me and I dialogue with them in Free Intuitive Movement.

My masks are markers on a very personal and yet universal scavenger hunt, to which I also like to invite others in workshops and retreats or by simply contemplating the creations.

The masks are also for sale. Please take a look at the gallery and if you are interested in purchasing a mask, please get in touch with me via the contact form.

Biography

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  • 1960 Born in Lünen, she grew up in Detmold, Germany
  • 1978 - 84 Studied English and Romanic languages and literature in Aachen, then German and artistic design to qualify as a teacher. In 1984 she did her examination thesis in art with "hair sculptures" (installations on the head with her own long hair)
  • 1986 - 91 Worked full-time at the Düsseldorf Marionette Theatre as author of various plays, dramaturge, guest performance manager, puppeteer and in painting. Guest performances in Canada, England, Poland and Japan, and later also freelance in Indonesia
  • 1991 One-year artist travel grant from the Ministry of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia for free study of archetypal symbolic language in puppet theatre and other performing arts in Indonesia
  • 1991 -92 Studied free movement, "Amerta movement" (later called “Joged Amerta”), with the Javanese movement artist Suprapto Suryodarmo.                                                                                   
  • Authorised as "Messenger Art Teacher" for Amerta Movement by Suprapto Suryodarmo.
  • 1992 Founded the dance theatre group "MIRANTI" (javanese, meaning: to serve as a tool) together with three Javanese dancers in Solo/Central Java. Experiments with intuitive movement theatre and its archetypal symbolic language
  • 1993 Tour MIRANTI to Jakarta and Bandung with "Nagasada" i.a. at the Goethe Institut Bandung and Centre Culturel Francais Bandung
  • since 1994 Living in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia
  • since then  participation in and organisation of numerous international performances in Indonesia and               Germany.     
  • Group and solo exhibitions of masks, sculptures and photographs in Indonesia and Germany. 
  • Workshops, creative retreats and retreats in intuitive movement (Miranti Movement) with performance projects in      Indonesia, Germany, Holland, Italy, Ireland and England. 
  • Numerous puppetry courses for children with performances in Indonesia, e.g. for earthquake victims in                     Klaten, Java.
  • Designer activities for stage design, interior design and architecture
  • since 2008  primarily creation of abstract masks and their exploration


A selection of recent projects:


  • 2023 Mask exhibition at IMF, International Mask Festival 2023, THE POWER OF MASK, in Rumah Kabudayaan nDalem Djojokoesoeman, Solo, Indonesia
  • Mask Performance at movement event "Srawung Rukun" in Rumah Budaya Banjarsari, Solo, Indonesia, together with MIRANTI-dancers Mamik and Daryono, masks by Susana Miranti Kroeber, music: S. Yasudah
  • 2022 TRUE COLOURS – Farbe bekennen.  International group exhibition with 8 artists at the Altes Pfandhaus Cologne, Germany
  • Performance at the vernissage TRUE COLOURS – Farbe bekennen with masks "The Wave" and "Parzival" with music by S. Yasudah
  • "Cracking fortress”, Performance with two masks to music by S. Yasudah at the event "Suprapto Suryodarmo, 1000 days and forever" at the Galeri Kecil, Cultural Center of Central Java in Solo, Indonesia
  • 2021 Award for video "You'll go places?..oh" with the BlauLAUT prize for interdisciplinary art 2021 "Solo mit Buch", awarded by KOÏNZI-DANCE e.V. Hamburg
  • 2020 Tribute to Suprapto Suryodarmo, "Dharma Sang Begawan" with 21 artists from Solo, Indonesia, at Taman Budaya Jawa Tengah, live streaming on YouTube. 
  • "You'll go places?..oh" movement chamber play with masks to music by S. Yasudah as video
  • "Dewaruci" mask performance with music by S. Yasudah at Sukuh Temple, Mount Lawu, Central Java
  • 2019 Momos and Querella, movement theatre with masks and figures with MIRANTI (Susana Miranti Kroeber, Mamik Soemaryatmi, Daryono Darmorejono, Lawu Warta, music: Yasudah S.) at World Dance Day at ISI (Indonesian Institute of the Art Surakarta).
  • Workshop Miranti Movement at "Amerta Movement in Performance" Stroud, UK
  • Solo performance "Querella" to music by S.Yasudah at "Amerta Movement in Performance, Stroud, UK
  • Solo performance "Querella" to music by S. Yasudah at ARCHEX, archaic-experimental music day in Taisersdorf, Lake Constance, Germany
  • 2018 “Momos and Querella”, solo mask and puppet performance with the musicians Carsten Bethmann and Holger Kirleis as part of the event series “Zwischen die Ohren” ("Between the Ears") in Hannover, Germany
  • 2017 Exhibition Masks at SIVA (Solo International Visual Art), joint exhibition in October at the gallery of ISI (Indonesian Institute of the Art Surakarta).
  • 2016 Exhibition photo series "Shadow Compositions Italy" in intl. Joint exhibition "Aku Yo Gestalten" at university UII Yogyakarta, Indonesia
  • 2015 Workshop in Miranti Movement at MAM (Movement Art Meeting) in Amsterdam

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