Susanne Schumacher – Light & Shadow 

Kunstraum MITTE37, Burgdorf | 9 May – 31 May 2026 

With Light & Shadow, Burgdorf-based artist Susanne Schumacher presents the first exhibition of her newest works in the newly opened Kunstraum MITTE37. This presentation marks not only her debut in the space, but also a significant moment within her long-term project timepicture, an artistic investigation into the ways in which time, memory, and identity are perceived, constructed, and transformed.

Curatorial Context

For many years, Schumacher’s practice has moved fluidly between photography, Fluxus, Mail Art, and conceptual strategies. Light & Shadow extends this trajectory through a new photographic series that explores the interplay of brightness and darkness as a metaphor for the fragile balance between visibility and concealment. Her images combine documentary precision with poetic abstraction, creating visual spaces in which clarity and ambiguity coexist.

Conceptual Focus

• timepicture A continuation of a long-standing body of work that reflects on time as both a cultural construct and a deeply personal experience.

• Light & Shadow A new series of photographs that treat light and shadow not merely as physical phenomena, but as symbolic fields in which identity, resonance, and emotional presence unfold.

• Towards Collective Practices The exhibition serves as a prelude to future collaborations and group presentations, positioning MITTE37 as a platform for international artistic exchange.

Significance for Kunstraum MITTE37

The premiere of Susanne Schumacher’s work in MITTE37 underscores the programmatic direction of this emerging space: to make contemporary artistic positions with international reach visible within the local context of Burgdorf. Schumacher’s work bridges local grounding with global discourse, offering visitors a multilayered entry point into questions of identity, memory, and artistic process.

MITTE37 itself is a remarkable example of how an artistic space can grow from a personal practice into an open, collective, and precisely curated project. Rather than functioning as a traditional gallery, MITTE37 operates as a social resonating body — a place where art, everyday life, and community intersect. It is not an institution with fixed boundaries, but a space in continuous becoming, expanding with each exhibition, each conversation, each artistic gesture.

From a curatorial perspective, MITTE37 is particularly compelling in the way it deliberately blurs the lines between studio, exhibition space, and social site. Rooted in Schumacher’s artistic practice — which embraces process, transition, and the in-between — the space embodies a form of contemporary art that is dialogical, open-ended, and deeply relational.