Person

Suzanne Josek ifs Filmschule

Dr. phil. Suzanne Josek

Lecturers

Art History, Köln

Vita

Born in 1969, she attended numerous stage dance seminars at the John Cranko School in Stuttgart as a teenager. 1990-97 Studied musicology, art history, archaeology, Romance studies and Slavic studies at the University of Cologne with study visits to St Petersburg and Moscow. Master's degree in The New York School: Earle Brown, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff (published by Pfau-Verlag). 2015 PhD in musicology on the complete works of Jonathan Harvey (Jonathan Harvey: ‘...towards a Pure Land’, published by Schott-Verlag).


During this time, she has been involved in numerous international projects in the artistic-performing field: dance, theatre, music, musical theatre, and in the areas of directing and dramaturgy. 2015-19 Training as a yoga teacher BDY/EYU at the Yogaforum Düsseldorf. 2019-2022 Training as a breathing and meditation teacher at Rosenwaldhof, Berlin. 

 

Studied Sanskrit at the University of Hamburg since 2022. - Since 2015 until today independent art mediator at KOLUMBA Kunstmuseum, for which she developed and realised the formats Museum im Körper (2021) and Werkmeditation (2024). 2022/23 co-development and participation in the project Beau comme un Buren mais plus loin with and for KOLUMBA as part of the project Tu peux prendre ton temps by the artist Éric Baudelaire, Paris. Author, teacher and lecturer for various institutions such as the University of Cologne, ifs Internationale
Filmschule Köln, Kolumba Kunstmuseum, WDR, Oper Köln, Kölner Philharmonie, Musikfabrik NRW, Scelsi-Festival Basel, Yogaforum Düsseldorf, Deutsches Yoga-Forum, various galleries and magazines. Focal points: Interdisciplinarity, art, aesthetics, embodiment, philosophy, spirituality.