Susan Hiller

In the 1970s, Susan Hiller was already using innovative methods to study collective experiences such as dreams or states of trance, memories and visions, later also UFO encounters and near-death experiences. With her approach based on collecting, archiving and analysing, she is a conceptual artist of the second generation.In her works, Hiller reconciles the contradictions between conceptual art and empathy, between the rational and the unconscious or even uncanny. Taking as her point of departure forgotten, overlooked or repressed phenomena in our western culture, as well as personal memories both collective and unconscious.Following the retrospective at Tate Britain (in spring 2011), From Here to Eternity at Kunsthalle Nürnberg is Susan Hiller's first major solo exhibition in Germany with a selection focussed on works made between 1987 and 2011.The show is built around four room-filling audio and video installations, and also features an early internet project Dream Screens (1996) as well as current photographs and prints from series including her 'homages' to Yves Klein and Marcel Duchamp.Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Kunsthalle Nürnberg, 10 December 2011 – 19 February 2012.