Solveig Qu Suess works within the fields of documentary film, art and research, and is a PhD candidate in Urban Studies at the University of Basel.  By contexts of feminist filmmaking and longer durations of collective research, her practice looks at how optical regimes reconfigure spaces and times, insides and outsides, the intimate to the universal. Her research sits on the intersections of visual ethnography, infrastructural studies, environmental humanities, post-colonial and feminist science and technology studies. She collaborates with Asia Bazdyrieva on Geocinema, where their practice has been concerned with the understanding and sensing of the earth while being on the ground, enmeshed within vastly distributed processes of image and meaning making. She is currently a Junior researcher on the SNF-funded research project the Environmental Fix at Critical Media Lab, FHNW Basel.

Solveig is postgraduate of the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths London, during which she focused on how the calculation and management of weather and environments were crucial in the formation of supply chain capitalism, with her case-study on the Belt and Road Initiative cutting across desert spaces in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Western China. Her writing has appeared in E-Flux Architecture, Synoptique Journal of Film and Moving Image, the Funambulist, Lausan and has lectured internationally including at the ICA London, HKW Berlin, Cornell University New York, Ashkal Alwan Beirut, NYU Shanghai, Sonic Acts Amsterdam, amongst others. Her past films have been screened widely, including at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Kasseler Dokfest, Images Festival Toronto, ArtScience Museum Singapore, Jameel Arts Centre Dubai, V&A London, Kyiv Biennale with her work exhibited in solo shows at Kunsthall Trondheim, and in group shows at the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, OCAT Beijing, Guangzhou Image Triennial, Gothenburg Biennale and other venues. In 2020, Geocinema was nominated for the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research. Previously, she worked as a freelance designer in many collaborative constellations, creating alternative online archival platforms, collaborative tools, exhibition designs and independent publishing projects.