Susan Hiller, Night Watch, 2009
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Monday 10 February 2025
Susan Hiller
‘Divided Self’ at Kunsthaus Biel, Switzerland and ‘Dedicated to the Unknown’ at Culturgest, Lisbon
Susan Hiller is featured in two new exhibitions:
Susan Hiller, Divided Self at Kunsthaus Biel, Switzerland and Susan Hiller, Dedicated to the Unknown at Culturgest, Lisbon.
PV: 15 Feb 5pm
Exhibition: 16 Feb–20 Apr 2025
Wed, Fri 12–6pm
Thu 12–8pm
Sat, Sun 11–6pm
Born in the USA, Susan Hiller (1940-2019) studied anthropology before moving to London in 1970. There she created a body of work of formal diversity, which she herself described as being at the interface between conceptual art and the paranormal. Over the course of her 50-year career, Hiller explored automatic writing, dreams, postcards, television programmes, magic, extraterrestrial encounters and other folk practices. Her way of working is guided by the search for alternatives to the supposedly objective neutrality demanded by science.
Divided Self includes Running on Empty (2017), a work made by Hiller with Matt's Gallery Director Robin Klassnik and shown as part of Ghost / TV at Matt’s Gallery in 2019.
Kunsthaus Biel Centre d'art Bienne
Seevorstadt 71
2502 Biel
Switzerland
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Susan Hiller, Dedicated to the Unknown at Culturgest, Lisbon
PV 14 Mar, 10pm
Exhibition 15 Mar–22 Jun 2025
Tue–Sat 11–6pm
Dedicated to the Unknown is the first solo exhibition by Susan Hiller since her passing in 2019. With a multimedia practice extending over five decades, Hiller’s unique body of art materialised in many forms, including experimental group investigations in the 1970s, painting, photography, sculpture, and groundbreaking audiovisual installations.
Hiller was committed to investigating our culture’s ambivalent fascination with things that lie outside the scope of normal, everyday comprehension. The selected works explore ideas considered alternative or esoteric, marginalised, or disregarded: extrasensory perception; beliefs in mystical powers; the significance of dreams; practices of automatic writing; and collective experiences of subconscious, unconscious, and paranormal activity.
Caixa Geral de Depósitos
Rua Arco do Cego, 50
1000–300 Lisbon
Portugal