Susanne Sachsse was born in East Germany and is an actor and artist. Her performance-based practice is informed by her background in theatre and her approach to working collectively. In 2001, she co-founded CHEAP, an artist collective, working primarily with Daniel Hendrickson, Marc Siegel, and Vaginal Davis. In the years since, she has worked across performance, music, film and art with a range of collaborators including Yael Bartana, Jonathan Berger, Zach Blas, Phil Collins, Bruce LaBruce, Ligia Lewis, Paul B. Preciado, and Xiu Xiu. Sachsse has performed at the Volksbühne, Berlin; HKW, Berlin; HAU, Berlin; Schaubühne, Berlin; and the Venice Biennale; among others. Sachsse is currently playing the role of Sigmund Freud at Theatre Neumarkt in Zürich in the production “50 Minutes” , written by Deborah Levy and directed by Tine Milz. Sachsse’s first solo exhibition, “I Was a Formalist Pensioner. An Antiopera” opened in 2021 at Participant Inc in New York City. In 2023 CHEAP had a major exhibition “Choose Mutation with photographs by Annette Frick” at Accelerator in Stockholm, the photo and video installation will be on view at the Gropius Bau in Berlin from March 2025 as part of the exhibition “Vaginal Davis: Fabelhaftes Produkt”.
Clare Molloy works as a moderator, curator and writer. At the Gropius Bau in Berlin, she co-curated solo shows by Zheng Bo, Wu Tsang and Lee Mingwei, and worked on exhibitions, performances and public programme projects with artists including Mariechen Danz, Vaginal Davis, Johanna Hedva and Eva Koťátková. As the Guest Curator at Vleeshal in Middelburg she curated the solo show Katie Schwab, small wares and most recently she has edited the first monograph on her work, Katie Schwab, Sample Book (Dent-De-Leone & Vleeshal, 2023). Further curatorial projects include And Now The Screen Is Struck By Lightning by Peter Cant und Krzysztof Honowski at TROPEZ, Berlin and Otobong Nkanga Comot Your Eyes Make I Borrow You Mine at KADIST, Paris. She holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Städelschule und Goethe Universität, Frankfurt.
Clare Molloy and Susanne Sachsse will be in conservation in A Talk, a Window and Sound as part of COMMONING—Collecting & Un/Learning.