Bio
Susanne Gerber is a research associate at Kunstmuseum Luzern.
Previously, she has worked as a Taxonomist and DAM Product Owner at Hauser & Wirth in Zurich for a decade, and spent the fun days of the Great Recession in London, working as a Gallery Manager and resident art nerd at Nelly Duff.
Apart from knowing how to survive on pot noodles for 3 years and where to find coins in her sofa, she also has 15 years of experience working as an arts professional in a variety of roles in both small family businesses and the blue-chip art world.
Susanne studied Classical & Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology at University of Zurich, and Art History & Criticism at University of Basel under Dr. Gottfried Boehm.
As ArtCore Projects, Susanne has been a blogger, infamous forum moderator and educator in the arts ever since 56k dial-up modems started beeping. She launched Fumetto’s blog and co/ghost blogged for a plethora of international publications that she can’t tell you about because then it wouldn’t be ghost blogging!
When she’s not looking at things too closely, she fixes injured bats, withdraws to the forest, and curates her incredibly large collection of band t-shirts that, yes, absolutely needed a spreadsheet to manage!
Post-pandemically, ArtCore Projects will be back with RL community events and online educational resources. Register now in the footer and check out our events page.
Stay tuned. Stay safe. Stay curious.
What People Are Saying
“Susanne has a wonderfully unique and incisive voice as well as journalistic rigor which is sometimes entirely lacking on art blogs. [...] She covers a lot of artists I would never have heard of elsewhere and it's not lazy writing either. It's gloriously literary and it's pretty obvious she has an encyclopaedic knowledge of art history.”
— Lindsey Carr, Artist
“Susanne is certainly the most impressive digital native I've ever met. I've been working with her on various online projects for close to two decades now. I've always found it very impressive how Susanne is not only a tech savvy expert for everything online but she's also extremely well versed in art history, visual design and literature. She is a hardworking and dedicated professional, I absolutely recommend working with her.”
— T. Delbrouck, Group Vice President at Giesecke+Devrient
“Susanne should be inscribed on the World Heritage List.”
— Nicolas Mieville, Erebos
“Victorian era delicacies slipped into a macabre sci-fi blender. Double plus good.”
— Jean Poole, Skynoise
“Susanne has been a really wonderful force in turning people onto great artwork.”
— Robert Marbury, Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists
“Hier erwartet Euch ein morbider Quell, eine skurrile Augenweide, ein chaotisches Konglomerat mit viel Humor und Selbstironie.”
— VampirGruft, Goth Culture Collective, † 2008
“Discovering Susanne’s blog gave me an incredible creative boost, I discovered so much it's somehow too much for my mind to handle. She is without doubt the most awesome online curator!”
— Mario Kaoru Mevy, Audio Visual Artist
“Susanne Gerber has profound insight into culture and history. I am continually delighted by her knowledge and abilities, and her capacity for drawing meaningful connection between seemingly unrelated objects or phenomenon. Ms. Gerber is my go-to for guidance in all matters of art and style.”
— T. Beckett, co-Executive Director at Carolina Common Enterprise
“Susanne is the coolest thing to come out of Switzerland since the Geneva Convention. And the Alps.”
— D. DeBarra, Senior Advisory Learning Solutions Manager at LRN
“A huge thanks to my wonderful friend and patron saint of awesome Susanne who saved my website from the ravaging claws of malware.”
— Alex CF, Artist
“We are practically twins.”
— Laurie Lipton, Artist
“Susanne is a walking Buñuel film.”
— Joe Berardi, Musical Artist
“I’ll always be grateful to Susanne for the wonderful community she built, and for all the incredible artists I discovered through her blog and forum. Love and respect.”
— Jessica Joslin, Artist