Susanne Schmögner

Schmögner designed an immersive labyrinth for Luna Luna. Visitors moved through hand-painted materials forming spirals, meeting two diety-like sculptures in the middle who handed them a copy of the poem “Golden Age” by Arthur Rimbaud.

Artist

Susanne Schmögner

Attraction

Spiral-shaped labyrinth

Born

1939 Vienna, Austria

Susanne creates installations and large-scale sculptures often for outdoor and natural environments.

Apart from Luna Luna, Schmögner has collaborated with André Heller on Swarovski Crystal Worlds in Wattens, Heller’s Botanical Garden in Gardone Riviera, and Heller’s ANIMA Garden in Marrakesh.

Her works frequently draw from mystical symbols.

Susanne Schmögner, Spiral-shaped labyrinth, exhibited 1987.

Fairground view: Susanne Schmögner, Spiral-shaped labyrinth. Luna Luna, Hamburg, Germany, 1987.

Susanne Schmögner is a painter, illustrator, stage and costume designer, and makeup artist best known for her large-scale outdoor sculptures and immersive installations.

Schmögner collaborated with Heller again to create a playground of sparkling sculptures resembling genies and spirits for Swarovski Crystal Worlds in Wattens, Austria. She also created a sculpture of a creature with a pointed head peeking out from behind a cluster of plants and a kiosk-like wooden installation painted with animals and insects for Heller’s Botanical Garden in Gardone Riviera, Italy; and a series of sculptures camouflaged amidst nature for Heller’s ANIMA Garden in Marrakesh, Morocco.

Susanne Schmögner.

Susanne Schmögner, Spiral-shaped labyrinth, exhibited 1987.

For Luna Luna, Schmögner designed an immersive spiral-shaped labyrinth. The fabric forming the spiral features hand-painted sets of gridded and coiled lines, bird flocks, and flowers. At the center of the labyrinth, a black and gold deity-like sculpture and a smaller cat-like figure handed viewers a copy of French Symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud’s “Golden Age”—which speaks of the power of works of art to transcend reality.