Zuzanna Skiba

In 1988 Zuzanna Skiba completed her training as a cartographer in the map department of the City of Bielefeld and at City Hall and State Survey for Aerial Photography in Bad Godesberg. The focus of her training was topographic and thematic cartography, as well as terrain cartography and hachure. There she met her mentor, the painter and cartographer Werner Drimecker (1928 - 2011). From 1990 to 1995 Zuzanna Skiba studied painting under Inge Dörries-Höher and free drawing under Karl-Heinz Meyer at the FH Design in Bielefeld. She received her diploma in painting from Inge Höher on the subject of colour flow as irritation, the abandoned perspective (Farbfluß als Irritation, die aufgegebene Perspektive). She then did post-graduate studies on painting at the Academie Minerva in Groningen (Netherlands) under Johan van Oord and Jaap Berghuis. 1997-1998 she was a guest student at the Berlin University of the Arts on philosophy under Robert Kudelka on Kant's Critique of Judgement, as well as a postgraduate student in on Art in Context (Kunst im Kontext) from 2013 to 2014.

Zuzanna Zita Skiba (born 1968 in Koszalin, Poland) is a German artist. Her artistic media are primarily drawing and painting, but also photography, performance and video. She developed her own exhibition series as a curator under the theme Das verorte Verlangen_Kunst & Kartographie, as well as Hidden & Bad, Collier, tasty painting and Salon Philadelphia. Skiba is a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berufsverband Bildender Künstler*innen Berlin and the Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen. She lives and works in Berlin.

Zuzanna Skiba was born in Koszalin in Poland in 1968 as the daughter of German Ukrainians. The family moved to Germany in 1977 and settled in Bielefeld.