one way communication is a dictate (Nam June Paik, 1974)

isn’t art a remarkable thing? (Robert Filliou, Ample Food for Stupid Thought, 1965)

Susanne Rennert, PhD, is an independent art historian, curator, and writer based in Düsseldorf. Her research focus includes Fluxus and intermedia, art of the 1950s–1970s and its interdisciplinary aspects, the Rhineland art scene after 1945 within an international framework, and contemporary art in relation to socio-political contexts.

She has collaboratively organized exhibitions for major institutions in Germany and abroad, including Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Museum Kunstpalast, Museum Fridericianum, and Artists Space, New York. With a particular commitment to archival and discovery-based research, she worked as an external art historian for Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach from 2016 to 2024, where she also facilitated the acquisition of the Andersch Collection/Archive. She is the author of the digital archive project www.museum-moenchengladbach-1967-1978.de (realized together with Susanne Titz).

Susanne Rennert has published extensively on postwar and contemporary art and was an early contributor to the scholarship on significant but then-overlooked figures in international art history, including Arthur (Addi) Køpcke, Chris Reinecke, and Jean-Pierre Wilhelm.

Most recently, she curated the exhibition “It’s really all very fluent.” Joseph Beuys & Fluxus at Museum Schloss Moyland (2025/26). Currently, she is continuing work on a book project on the life and work of René Block.