Susanne Khalil Yusef

Susanne Khalil Yusef makes immersive colorful installations by combining a wide range of media such as ceramics, textiles, and sculpture. At first glance, Yusef’s brightly colored work seems light-hearted and playful, but if you look closer it refers to distress and dangerous situations. She raises critical questions about themes such as homeland and displacement, identity and socio-geographic power relations. The stories in her work are closely related to her own biography, such as the conflicts in her home country, Palestine.
From 2022-2024 Yusef was resident of the Rijksakademie Amsterdam.
Yusef’s work has been included in the collections of the Museum Arnhem, Amsterdam Museum, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, the Dutch Textile Museum in Tilburg, and the Province of Gelderland.