Suntje Sagerer is a visual artist based in Berlin, working between the city and the rural landscape of Bad Muskau in Saxony, near the Polish border. Her multidisciplinary practice spans painting, drawing, sculpture, objects and digital image spaces. Through fragmented visual narratives and symbolic figuration, she explores themes of identity, visibility, social attribution, and contemporary femininity. Central to her work are the series Iconic Mammas and Iconic Queens, in which she examines motherhood and female identity beyond cliché — as cultural constructs shaped by power, vulnerability, memory, and representation. Her works move between intimacy and monumentality, merging influences from devotional imagery, contemporary pop culture, and social observation. Sagerer also developed the Minimal Art Gallery, an experimental exhibition format conceived as a social sculpture and alternative platform for artistic encounter, dialogue, and accessibility.

Education

2013–2015
Master Student (Meisterschülerin), Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden
Class of Prof. Christian Sery

2004–2011
Diploma of Fine Arts, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden
Class of Prof. Ralf Kerbach

2001–2004
Graphic Design, esb mediencollege gGmbH Dresden

Grants & Funding

2025
Working Grant, Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony

2023
Bias FLINTA* Project Grant, Dresden
Viegies Land Art Interventions, Project Funding – Fürst Pückler Park Branitz

2022
MAG Mobil – Artist Mobility Grant, Neustart Kultur, Stiftung Kunstfonds
MAG / Minimal Art Gallery – Gunst der Stunde, Municipal Cultural Funding, City of Dresden
“KODEKÜ – Collision of the Arts” , Art Residency, Weißwasser

2021
Artists in Bad Muskau, Rural Project Funding, Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony

2020
Working Grant (Denkzeit), Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony

2018
“Living Grand Space” Grant, City of Salzburg & periscope cultural initiative, Salzburg, Austria
Exhibition Funding, City of Dresden

2016
MAG Home, Red Base Foundation, Project Funding Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Travel Grant, Cleveland, Ohio, Zygote Press (funded by the City of Dresden and the Ohio Arts Council), USA

2015
Kulturpaten Dresden – Text Funding for the Minimal Art Gallery (Jessica Buskirk; translation: Torsten Klaus)
Artist in Residence, Künstlergut Prösitz – Working Grant, Grimma

2013
Exhibition Funding for the group exhibition Collapse, Shanghai, China

2006/07
Erasmus Grant, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain