Biography
Gretta Louw is a multinational artist, writer, and curator. She received her BA with Honours from the University of Western Australia in 2002, subsequently living in Japan and New Zealand before moving to Germany in 2007. Her work has been exhibited widely in public institutions and galleries such as the Wro Art Center (PL), Honor Fraser Gallery (US), Kunstmuseum Solothurn (CH), Münchner Stadtmuseum (DE), bitforms (US), UNSW Galleries (AUS), LABoral (ESP), and Galeri Nasional Indonesia (IDN). She has received numerous awards including an Australia Council Career Development Grant (2019), a Visual Art Prize from the Cultural Department of the City of Munich (2019), the Bahnwärter Stipendium by the City of Esslingen am Neckar (2017), and the Heinrich Vetter Preis of the City of Mannheim (2014), amongst others.
Website: https://grettalouw.com/
In the collection:
- SWARM 6, 2022, Animated GIF (view artwork)
- SWARM 9, 2022, Animated GIF (view artwork)
- Ghost Organ, 2016/2023, single-channel video with sound, based on the Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello poem of the same title, MP4, 1 minute 39 seconds (view artwork)
Focus on
SWARM reflects on the biological, ecological, and psychological effects of questionable technological utopias; traversing the intermingling of digital and physical to visualise the tangled connections between the biosphere and the technosphere.— Gretta Louw.