Susana Reberdito

Susana Sáez-Díez Reberdito (born 25 November 1962) is a contemporary Spanish Visual arts. Her main means of expression is through oil paintings on canvas but she has worked on sculptures, mixed media, and ceramics. In 1990 she won the international competition to paint a mural at the the Sala Griega of the Palacio de Festivales de Santander. Since 1995 Susana Reberdito has lived and worked between Spain and Germany.
Susana Reberdito was born in San Sebastián, Spain, and grew up in Plasencia and Santander, Spain, where she moved In 1974 with her family.
From 1980 to 1984 she studied drawing and painting at the studios of Xesús Vázquez and Esteban de la Foz. She began university studies in 1982 and had her first group exhibition in 1983. In 1985 she moved to Madrid to finish her major in Art history, graduating with a Licenciatura degree from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 1988.
From 1987 to 1993 attended the "Contemporary Art Workshops" at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, held among others by Juan Navarro Baldeweg (1987), José Luis Alexanco (1988), Jiří Georg Dokoupil (1989), Soledad Sevilla (1989), and Magdalena Abakanowicz (1993). In 1988-1989 she lived in Tokyo, Japan. In 1990, after winning a public contest, she painted the mural at the Sala Griega of the :es:Palacio_de_Festivales_de_Cantabria|Palacio de Festivales de Santander working closely with the architect of the building Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza. From 1990 to 1992 she lived and worked in the United States taking courses as a graduate student with Don Demouro, Ed Wilson, and Angelo Ippolito at the Binghamton University|State University of New York at Binghamton. From 1994 to 1996 she did several independent studies in printmaking with Joan Barbará at the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca.
In 2005 she lived and worked for several months at Youkobo Art Space in Tokyo, Japan. In recent years her main place of work has been in Walldorf near Heidelberg, Germany where she has a studio.
Susana Reberdito in her studio In Susana Reberdito's painting has always had a very powerful monumentality, from her dancing figures in the Greek Room of the Santander Palace of Festivals to these oceans, even in the small format series. It seems strange to call "ocean" a 30 x 32 cm piece, but in fact the monumental effect does not decrease in this small series, if anything, it is accentuated. In the series everything is concentrated in the meeting between two consistencies, the densest substance in water and the lightest and most transparent substance in the cloud. In Ocean 2, the encounter is a path between the swelling sea and the warm cloud that glides over it, a point of becoming a loving hug. Among the small oceans, perhaps the most difficult are those where the black background makes it possible to perceive the variable transparencies of the great strokes of blue, as if the summer light dissolved in the darkness of the night. But the final feeling that Reberdito's work communicates is not one of dissolution, but of fulfillment. The wave and the mountain, the sea and the cloud, the water and the painting identified in a pure vital exaltation, in a celebration of life, with an intense sensual and, at the same time, almost religious emotion.Dr. Guillermo Solana, Chief Curator Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Puerto de Santander, "Océanos, 2014
* Susana Reberdito - Del Color y la Forma, Galería Siboney, Santander, Spain. (2020)
* Susana Reberdito: Stillleben - Lautleben, Galerie 100 Kubik, Cologne, Germany. (2020)
* Meeresrauschen: Susurros del Mar. Espacio Cultural Los Arenales. Gobierno de Cantabria. Santander, Spain. (2019)
* Susana Reberdito: Malerei und Grafik, Galerie p-13, Heidelberg, Germany. (2018)
* Schau an, +punkt. Kirche INF 130, Heidelberg, Germany. (2018)
* Zwischen Küsten, Wellen und Orangen: Malerei, Städtische Galerie im Alten Spital, Bad Wimpfen, Germany. (2017)
* Eine malerische Exkursion, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis and GRN-Klinik, Weinheim, Germany. (2017)
* Del dibujo y el color, Galería Siboney, Santander, Spain. (2016)
* Stillleben, Galerie p-13, Heidelberg, Germany. (2015)
Exhibition, Susana Reberdito, Palacete Embarcadero, Santander 2014
* Océanos, Palacete del Embarcadero, Santander, Spain. (2014)
* Naranjas, Kunst für Walldorf, Galerie Alte Apotheke, Walldorf, Germany. (2013)
* Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan. (2006)
* Susana Reberdito, small Paintings, Sudo Art Museum. Tokyo, Japan. (2005)
* Océanos-Malerei. Mannheimer Kunstverein-BGN. Mannheim, Germany. (2001)
* Galería Lluc Fluxá. Palma de Mallorca, Spain. (1999)
* Galería Trazos Tres. Santander, Spain. (1993)
* Rosefsky Art Gallery. Binghamton University. Binghamton, New York, USA. (1990)
* Galería Trazos Tres. Santander, Spain. (1990) 
* Gallery Kyouni. Tokyo, Japan. (1989)
* Open Mind, Rosengarten Mannheim, invited by the Künstlerbund Rhein-Neckar, Mannheim, Germany. (2019)
* Affordable Art Fair Hamburg, Galerie p-13, Hamburg, Germany. (2019)
* das kleine FORMAT, [Kunst] PROJEKTE Monika Ruppert, Mannheim, Germany. (2019)
* Agua, [Kunst] PROJEKTE Monika Ruppert, with Kathleen Knauer, Mannheim, Germany. (2018)
* Affordable Art Fair Brussels, Galerie p-13, Brussels, Belgium. (2018)
* Erinnerung an die Zukunft: Künstler der Galerie, Galerie 100 Kubik, Cologne, Germany. (2017)
* Malas Compañías, Centro Nacional de Fotografía, Torrelavega, Spain. (2017)
* Atelier & Künstler 10, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Schloss Neckarhausen, Edingen-Neckarhausen, Germany. (2016)
* Sommergäste, Galerie Arthea, Mannheim, Germany. (2015)
* Stillleben, Galerie p-13, Heidelberg, Germany. (2014)
* Der Berg. Heidelberger Kunstverein. Heidelberg, Germany. (2002)
* Atelier und Künstler. Travelling exhibition, 13th Cultural Week, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Germany. (2002)
* Mujeres (Manifiestos de una naturaleza muy sutil). Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. (2000)
* Positionen. Galerie von Tempelhoff, Karlsruhe, Germany. (2000)
* Figuraciones de Madrid, de un lugar sin límites. Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. (2000)
* Galerie Kasten (with S. Beik). Mannheim, Germany. (1999)
* Bienal de Oviedo. Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias. Oviedo, Spain. (1998)
* Estampa ’97. Galería Carmen de la Guerra. Madrid, Spain. (1997)
* Zwei mal zwei. Galerie Kasten. Dresden, Mannheim, Germany. (1997)
* KunstHerz. Galerie Kasten. Dresden and Mannheim, Germany. (1996)
* LIV National Fine Arts Exhibition. Valdepeñas, Spain. (1993)
* Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo (MEAC). Madrid, Spain. (1992)
* University Art Museum. Binghamton University. Binghamton, New York, New York, USA. (1991)
* III Bienal de Pintura María Blanchard. Santander, Spain. (1991)
* University Art Museum. Binghamton University. Binghamton, New York. (1990)
* Mural painting on the doors of the main hall of the Festival Palace of Cantabria (:es:Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria), (Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza architect). 2,7 x 28 meters. Santander, Spain. (1990)
Susana Reberdito's work is held in various collections, both public and private, including
* Landratsamt Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Heidelberg
* Dr. Rainer Wild collection, Am Anfang war der Apfel, Heidelberg
* Calcografía Nacional (:es:Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando), Madrid
* Regierungspräsidium, Karlsruhe
* Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria
* Regional Government of Cantabria
* Coivsa Inmobiliaria, Valdepeñas
* Marcelino Botín Foundation (:es:Fundación Botín), Santander
* Kyouni Gallery, Tokyo
* The McNamara Foundation, Sydney, Australia
* Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca
* Rustol Chemicals Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
* Tadeo Tanaka, Tokyo, Japan
Category:1962 births
Category:Spanish artists
Category:Expressionism