Susanne Neubauer studied art history, film and business studies at the universities of Zurich, Berne and Munich (lic. phil./MA in 2002). In 2000 she received a one-year scholarship from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). During her university studies she worked for Kunsthaus Glarus, Kunstverein Munich and Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Munich and was an art critic for a daily newspaper in Switzerland (2001-2003). From 2002-2009 she has been a curator at the Museum of Art Lucerne and is finishing a dissertation on the re-evaluation of the object and the museum within the conflicting priorities of the documentary strategies of the 1960s and 1970s, with a special focus on the environmental work of Paul Thek (University of Zurich, Prof. Dr. P.C. Claussen and Prof. Dr. Ph. Ursprung; see exposé of the dissertation on http://www.research-projects.uzh.ch/p8269.htm). In 2005 she was lecturer at the University of Zurich and received doctorate scholarships of the Müller Meylan Foundation Basel in 2006 and 2007 and the DAAD in 2008. In conjunction with her dissertation she is running an online research and documentation project on the installations of Paul Thek at www.ptproject.net.
Her curatorial work includes 'Documentary Creations: Matthew Buckingham, Adam Chodzko, Charlotte Cullinan and Jeanine Richards artlab, Tacita Dean, Manon de Boer, Douglas Gordon, Marine Hugonnier, Hayley Newman, Charles Sandison, Mathew Sawyer' (Museum of Art Lucerne 2005), 'Paul Thek Lucerne 1973/2005' (Museum of Art Lucerne 2005, with Christoph Lichtin), 'Projection: Chan, EXPORT, Fischli/Weiss, Gander, Gillick, Graham, Knoebel, Parker, Streuli' (Museum of Art Lucerne 2006/Lentos Museum of Modern Art Linz 2007), and 'The Big Scene. Emotionality in Recent Video Art - Cao Fei, Jesper Just, Federico Lamas, Javier Pividal, Elodie Pong, Miguel Angel Rios, Aïda Ruilova' (Magazin 4, Vorarlberger Kunstverein Bregenz 2006) and co-curated 'me & more' (Museum of Art Lucerne 2003). Monographic shows include Robert Zünd (1824-1909) (Museum of Art Lucerne 2004, with Peter Fischer and Cornelia Dietschi), Anton Henning (2003), Minnette Vári (2004), Robert Estermann (2007) (all Museum of Art Lucerne), Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba (Museum of Art Lucerne 2007/Manchester Art Gallery 2008) and Anne-Mie Van Kerkhoven (in co-operation with Wiels Center for Contemporary Art Brussels). She also has organized a project with Rainer Ganahl and cabaret voltaire (Zurich 2007) and was nominator for 'Phaidon Ph. New Perspective in Photography' (London 2006) and 'Pilot:3' (London 2007). She was curator of Solo Projects at Arco Madrid in 2009, showing Athanasios Argianas, Dineo Bopape, Klodin Erb, Olivier Foulon, Ivan Grubanov, Alexander Wolff and Michael Buthe (1944-1994).
Her recent essays include "Ephemeralia. Paul Thek in Lucerne, a reconstruction", in: Paul Thek. Artist's Artist, ed. by Peter Weibel and Harald Falckenberg, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2009, and "Place reproduced. Ree Morton's Installations in Space and Image", in: Ree Morton. The Deities Must be Made to Laugh. Works 1971-1977, ed. by Sabine Folie for Generali Foundation, Wien: Generali, 2009.