Susi Hinz  develops sculptural works that negotiate the body, material, technology, and environment as relational assemblages.



Hinz’s practice engages with a contemporary condition in which the boundaries between the organic and the mechanical increasingly collapse, and with an understanding of sculpture as a state that mediates between distinct ontologies.
Drawing on metamorphosis, cyborg theory, and the idea of a cybernetically entangled environment, Hinz advances a sculptural practice of open systems in which the autonomy of body and matter dissolves into evolving kinships. Material is not approached as ‘raw’ substance but as historically, politically, and technologically embodied. Organic and industrial materials are dismantled, transposed, and set into new chains of transformation. Hinz’s own corporeality forms part of the sculptural apparatus: knowledge emerges through the material enactment between body, tool, and resistant matter, oriented toward reconfiguration, intra-action, resistance, and risk.






Education


2021–2023 MA Fine Arts
Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Basel


2011-2016BA Fashion-Design
Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin

2007-2010Vocational Training as Fashion Tailor, Münchberg


Akademia


since 2025Mentoring Master of Arts Music and Scene in Transformation, HSM Basel FHNW


2023 - 2026Teaching and Head of Sewing Studio, Doing-Fashion
Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW






Residency

2022Art Space Rythmus Messy Camnbio, Basel

2020–2021 Callie’s, Berlin

Publication / Catalogue

2025
Neuf Trois Exhibitions nov2022 - may2024, pub.: Kollektiv Neuf Trois, Basel

2024 Hydrababy III, pub.: Kunstbibliothek der Stiftung Sitterwerk, St.Gallen

2022I Hear A New World!, pub.: Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW and Fondation Beyeler, Basel

2019 To Play Without Fear, Interview with OE MAGAZINE, online, unselect; Festival-Katalog, pub.: Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin

2018 Vitrine 01, pub.: Franziska Harnisch, Berlin

Kunst braucht Zeit braucht Kunst, 15 Jahre Galerie, pub.: Galerie am Leewasser & Familie Amstad, Brunnen(CH)

Artspring 2018, Festival-Katalog, pub.: Milchhof e.V., Berlin

2017 Affen, Steine, Kühlerhauben, Mart Stam Preis 2016, pub.: Mart Stam Gesellschaft, Förderverein Weißensee Kunsthochschule, Mart Stam Stiftung für Kunst + Gestaltung, Berlin
Apolda European Art&Design Award 2017, pub.: Wirtschaftsförder-Vereinigung Apolda Weimarer Land e.V., Apolda

Heute verschmelzen die Grenzen, Interview mit i-D. vice Magazine, online

2016 Flesh Bones Mind, Filmpremiere & Interview, OE Magazine, Berlin


Grants / Awards


2025Förderkoje, for the Group Project “Attacke der Retroavantgarde”
Art Award by the Friends of the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts


2024Werkbeitrag Fine Arts
Kunstkredit BS, Basel

2021Research Grant Fine Arts
Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Berlin

Grant for Digital Media
BBK Neustart Kultur, Berlin


2020Working Grant
Callie’s, Berlin

2019Mart Stam Absolventenförderung
Mart Stam Gesellschaft, Berlin

2016Mart Stam Award
Mart Stam Gesellschaft, Berlin

Nomination for European Art & Design Award 2017 Wirtschaftsförder - Vereinigung Apolda - Weimarer Land e.V., Apolda
Nomination for Bloom Award by Warsteiner, Köln

2013 Deutschlandstipendium Weißensee Kunsthochschule und Bundeshaushalt Berlin

2009 Germany’s Best Fashion Seamstress
IHK Bayreuth and Berlin