Hybrid Art between Analog, Digital and Artificial Intelligence
My work investigates care as a structural force — emotional, political, and systemic.
Motherhood appears not as identity, but as infrastructure.
Iconic Mammas
“Birth is the miraculous event that saves the world from ruin.” (Hannah Arendt)
The Iconic Mammas series understands motherhood as a universal force of care, love, and creation — beyond gender. Each figure emerges from a distilled form that holds protection, vulnerability, and inner focus at once. They echo the visual memory of icons while detaching it from traditional gendered narratives.
Rather than portraying individuals, they condense experiences of holding, growing, and preserving. Together, the Mammas form a quiet archive of human interconnectedness.
ICONIC MAMMAS – PUBLIC SPACE
The iconic mother figure enters the public space as a flat, industrial object
and is fixed there by means of a visible structural support. Iconic Mammas is an ongoing body of work that began as a series of drawings and paintings. The sculptural works translate these figures into public space as flat metal bodies, held by visible constructions. Motherhood is approached as a bodily, social, and political practice that sustains collective systems. The series is conceived as an open archive and is continuously expanded.
MAG MINIMAL ART GALLERY
The MAG – Minimal Art Gallery emerged in 2013 from a shifting life situation: the simultaneous demands of motherhood and the desire to continue an active artistic practice. Out of this tension, a format developed that works through density, reduction, and spatial precision. Today, the MAG brings together over 88 regional and international artists within sculptural miniature environments.
I regard each MAG as a social sculpture – a compressed network of artistic positions, materials, and perspectives. The miniature scale sharpens focus rather than limits it: it creates an intensified field in which painting, photography, video, objects, and installation enter into new spatial dialogues.
My role moves fluidly between artist, spatial architect, and curator. The MAG is less an exhibition than an ongoing process: a carefully composed resonance space that continually reshapes itself with each constellation of works – and one that persistently expands and challenges my own artistic practice.
MAG Mothers INN
GIF Vienna
MAG Reloaded
Galerie Baer Dresden
MAG Gunst der Stunde
Albertinum Museum Dresden
MAG Home
REDBASE Foundation Yogyakarta
Previously exhibited artists of MAG
Alvin Agnuba, Sophie Altmann, Marleen Andreev, Grit Aulitzky, Lisa Maria Bailer, Nadine Baldow, Klaus Beckmann, Christi Birchfield, Jan Brokof, Dominik Bucher, Stefanie Busch, Ayeleen Cocoz, Constanze Deutsch, Nicolas Dupont, Taufik Ermas, Franziska Fennert, Tony Franz, Lucie Freynhagen, Rao Fu, Dita Gambiro, Amac Garbe, Rosie Gibbens, Peter Haas, Tesa Hammerstedt-Grünberg, Sebastian Hempel, Nora Hermann, Olaf Holzapfel, Martin Honert, Tilmann Hornig, Katrin Huber, Noor Ibrahim, Maria Indriasari, Carolin Israel, Pu Jie, Thomas Judisch, Michael Klipphahn, Stephanie Klug, Ulli Klose, Angelika Korzeniowsk, Ania Kucharek, Markus Kircher, Max Kowalewski, Gregor Torsten Kozik, Stefan Krauth, Stefan Kreiger, Nadja Kurz, Alex Lebus, Jonas Lewek, Moritz Liebig, Anna Leonhardt, Frank Maibier, Simon Mann, Martin Mannig, Moe Matsuhashi, Roswitha Maul, Wilhelm Mund, Ayu Arista Murti, Nadine Baldow, Nadine Wölk, Angki Purbandono, Deni Rahman, Wolfgang Richter, Billy Rogers, Johanna Rüggen, Karina Roosvita, Ivan Sagita, Paulina Sadrak, Sophia Schama, Katarina Schrul, Thai Shani, Laksmi Shitaresmi, Sabrina Straub, Elisabeth Stumpf, Enrico Sutter, Lugas Syllabus, Tatsuma Takeda, Yini Tao, Suzanne Treister, Tromarama, Andreas Ullrich, Ruth Unger, Wayan Upadana, Robert Vanis, André Wagner, Ronald Weise, Mikka Wellner, Svenja Wichmann, Angelika Wieneroither, Rebekah Wilhelm, Silke Wobst
MAG Mothers INN: Curatorial Assistant: Janina Stach; Sculptural Model: Stephan Ruderisch
MAG Gunst der Stunde: Sculptural Model: Marten Schech; Co-Organizer: Anita Müller
MAG Home: Co-Organizer: Franziska Fennert
Suntje Sagerer
Artist & Curator
My artistic practice moves between painting, drawing, sculpture, and a curatorial approach that I consider an integral part of my work. In 2013, I developed the MAG – Minimal Art Gallery, positioning myself as one of the first artists to understand curatorship as a sculptural strategy in itself. The MAG is not a conventional exhibition but a pioneering form: a sculpture that curates, and a curatorial space that is itself sculpture.
I work on a new level as an artist, where collaboration with other artists and the integration of AI as a creative toolplay central roles. In parallel, I develop my “Iconic Mammas” in painting and drawing – powerful, reduced figures that explore motherhood, care, and responsibility in a gender-independent sense, making visible a universal, transformative position.
My work pushes boundaries: between individual and collective, sculptural object, curatorial thinking, and digital technologies, between personal experience and iconic form. In this intersection, I locate my current position as an artist – precise, independent, and pioneering.
Hybrid Paintings: Bridging Tradition with Technology
Hybrid Paintings combine traditional art techniques with modern digital technology. By merging paper sketches with digital coloring and design tools, I can experiment with diverse palettes and make creative decisions with greater flexibility. Working in layers allows for in-depth exploration and iteration, while each technique used—from the direct stroke of a pencil to innovative digital tools—enriches my artistic development. My works aim to provoke thought, evoke emotion, and invite viewers into a dialogue that goes beyond mere aesthetics, reflecting the complexity of contemporary life.
Round and Round
Homage to Frida
Black Madonna
Beach Mood
My Mission & Values
In my artistic practice, I explore contemporary social conditions through interdisciplinary and experimental approaches. My mission is to create spaces—both physical and conceptual—that challenge conventional perspectives and invite active participation. By merging analogue and digital media with DIY strategies, I aim to expand the possibilities of artistic production and foster new ways of understanding culture, society, and human experience.
Only Original Artwork
All of my works—whether drawings, mixed-media pieces, photographic constructions, sculptures or multimedia installations—are developed through original, independent artistic processes. My approach is rooted in experimentation, material sensitivity and conceptual rigor. Each work emerges from a personal artistic inquiry and stands as a unique reflection on social structures, cultural narratives, and the situations that shape contemporary life.
Use of Artifical Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence enters my practice as a tool for research, structuring, and expanding conceptual thinking—never as a replacement for artistic authorship. I integrate AI in ways that support reflection, generate new perspectives, or reorganize complex material, while the creative decisions, visual language, and final works remain firmly anchored in my own artistic agency. AI becomes part of a broader multimedia dialogue, complementing but not defining the artistic process.
Great Artists & Artwork
My work is deeply connected to a wide network of artists and collaborators who contribute to a vibrant contemporary art ecosystem. Through projects like the Minimal Art Gallery (MAG), I create platforms that support diverse artistic voices, alternative exhibition formats, and collective experimentation. I believe in fostering environments where artistic exchange, mutual support, and creative freedom can flourish—because powerful art emerges where communities and ideas intersect.
