Solveig Sarah Suess

Solveig Qu Suess is an artist and researcher working at the intersection of documentary cinema, infrastructure studies, and feminist media. Her work has been featured in art institutions and film festivals internationally, with a focus on spatial and postcolonial techno-politics. Moving between planetary systems and private archives, her work draws out deep links between technological and emotional landscapes.

Her ongoing research at NYU Shanghai extends her film project Holding Rivers, Becoming Mountains, which uses the Mekong River as a lens to examine infrastructural transformations between China and Southeast Asia. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Kunsthall Trondheim, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, HKW Berlin, and the ArtScience Museum Singapore. She has contributed writing to Duke University Press, e-flux Architecture, and Columbia Books on Architecture and the City.

Currently, she is an Artist-in-Residence and Visiting Assistant Professor at NYU Shanghai, as well as a PhD candidate in Urban Studies at the University of Basel.

Education

• PhD, Urban Studies (ongoing)
  University of Basel
• MA, Research Architecture
  Goldsmiths, University of London
• BA (Hons), Visual Communication 
  Glasgow School of Art

Selected Publications

• Suess, Solveig Qu, in conversation with Johannes Bruder. “Holding Rivers, Becoming Mountains” Real Intelligence (and Other Flows and Fictions), vol. 1 of Basel Dialogues, Christoph Merian Verlag, June 2024.
• Suess, Solveig Qu. “A Moonless Night.” Radical History Review, no. 147, Duke University Press, 2023.
• XqSu. “Overland There’s Shorter Time to Dream.” In Deserts Are Not Empty, edited by Samia Henni. Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2022.
• Bazdyrieva, Asia, and Solveig Qu Suess. “The Futures Forecast.” In New Silk Roads, E-flux Architecture, 2019.
• Suess, Solveig Qu. “Distributed Resistance.” Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image, special issue on “Becoming Environmental: Media, Logistics, and Ecological Change,” vol. 8, no. 1, 2018.