Susanne
Meier zu Eissen-Rau
Visual Artist | Rexhibit Juror | Co-Founder, Kunstraum Eckart
About Susanne
Susanne Meier zu Eissen-Rau is a visual artist whose practice focuses on painting. She studied at the Academy of Arts in Münster, Germany.

Since 1990, she has maintained an active studio and exhibition practice. Since 2024, she has also participated in art fairs, including Art MUC and Discovery Art Fair Cologne. In 2025, she traveled to Curaçao for a working visit, where she collaborated with a local gallery and worked alongside an artist based on the island.

She currently lives and works in Wuppertal, Germany, where she is a co-founder of Kunstraum Eckart, a space dedicated to art and culture.
What Lingers
Beneath the Surface
Painting, for me, is an act of listening- listening to the world and listening to the atmosphere. Kind of awareness. My work begins intuitively, often with an open and unpredictable first layer. From there, the painting develops through a continuous dialogue between gesture, material, color, and reflection. Layers are built up, erased, interrupted, and rediscovered. What disappears is never entirely gone; traces remain beneath the surface, carrying the memory of the painting’s own making.
I often paint with both hands simultaneously. This physical way of working creates a rhythm that moves between control and openness, action and response. Gestures of giving and taking, distributing and gathering become part of the process. Rather than imposing a predetermined image, I respond to what emerges on the canvas.
Color is not used symbolically. It develops through relationships—through tension, proximity, contrast, and resonance—and shapes the atmosphere and emotional pressure of each work. My paintings do not illustrate a specific narrative. They are spaces in which visible and hidden elements coexist, where movement can meet stillness and clarity can remain close to uncertainty.
I am interested in what lingers: a gesture, a perception, a memory, a trace. Painting becomes a way of paying attention to these fleeting moments and allowing them to remain unresolved.The finished work is an invitation to the viewer—to look, to sense, and perhaps to discover something that cannot be fully named.
Rexhibit & Susanne Meier
2026
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JURY
Forms of Attention
Juror
Meier zu Eissen-Rau joined the juried panel for Forms of Attention, contributing her professional perspective to the review and selection process for Rexhibit’s in-person exhibition in Shanghai.
2026
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INTERVIEW
Featured Interview
Interviewee
Rexhibit presented an in-depth conversation with Susanne examining painting as a process of listening and response. The interview traces the role of gesture, layered surfaces, color, memory, and atmosphere in a practice shaped through intuition, revision, and sustained attention.
2026
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EXHIBITION
Echoes
Bronze Award Recipient
Susanne Meier zu Eissen-Rau participated in Rexhibit’s juried group exhibition Echoes with Blue Wisteria, receiving the Bronze Award. The exhibition examined memory, repetition, and the traces that continue to resurface and shape the present.
SELECTED WORKS
Susanne
Meier zu Eissen-Rau
Visual Artist | Rexhibit Juror | Co-Founder, Kunstraum Eckart
About Susanne
Susanne Meier zu Eissen-Rau is a visual artist whose practice focuses on painting. She studied at the Academy of Arts in Münster, Germany.

Since 1990, she has maintained an active studio and exhibition practice. Since 2024, she has also participated in art fairs, including Art MUC and Discovery Art Fair Cologne. In 2025, she traveled to Curaçao for a working visit, where she collaborated with a local gallery and worked alongside an artist based on the island.

She currently lives and works in Wuppertal, Germany, where she is a co-founder of Kunstraum Eckart, a space dedicated to art and culture.
What Lingers
Beneath the Surface
Painting, for me, is an act of listening- listening to the world and listening to the atmosphere. Kind of awareness. My work begins intuitively, often with an open and unpredictable first layer. From there, the painting develops through a continuous dialogue between gesture, material, color, and reflection. Layers are built up, erased, interrupted, and rediscovered. What disappears is never entirely gone; traces remain beneath the surface, carrying the memory of the painting’s own making.
I often paint with both hands simultaneously. This physical way of working creates a rhythm that moves between control and openness, action and response. Gestures of giving and taking, distributing and gathering become part of the process. Rather than imposing a predetermined image, I respond to what emerges on the canvas.
Color is not used symbolically. It develops through relationships—through tension, proximity, contrast, and resonance—and shapes the atmosphere and emotional pressure of each work. My paintings do not illustrate a specific narrative. They are spaces in which visible and hidden elements coexist, where movement can meet stillness and clarity can remain close to uncertainty.
I am interested in what lingers: a gesture, a perception, a memory, a trace. Painting becomes a way of paying attention to these fleeting moments and allowing them to remain unresolved.The finished work is an invitation to the viewer—to look, to sense, and perhaps to discover something that cannot be fully named.
Rexhibit & Susanne Meier
2026
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JURY
Forms of Attention
Guest Juror
Meier zu Eissen-Rau joined the juried panel for Forms of Attention, contributing her professional perspective to the review and selection process for Rexhibit’s in-person exhibition in Shanghai.
2026
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INTERVIEW
Featured Interview
Interviewee
Rexhibit presented an in-depth conversation with Susanne examining painting as a process of listening and response. The interview traces the role of gesture, layered surfaces, color, memory, and atmosphere in a practice shaped through intuition, revision, and sustained attention.
2026
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EXHIBITION
Echoes
Bronze Award Recipient
Susanne Meier zu Eissen-Rau participated in Rexhibit’s juried group exhibition Echoes with Blue Wisteria, receiving the Bronze Award. The exhibition examined memory, repetition, and the traces that continue to resurface and shape the present.
Selected Works
Brooklyn, NY
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