UPCOMING / NEWS
2 November 2011 - Controlling_Connectivity 10 day residential performance starts at Art Laboratory Berlin. Find out more, take part and follow the performance on Tumblr.
15 November 2011 - Group exhibition opening with Berlinimportart at FORUM Factory, Berlin. Your support for the printing of the exhibition catalogue is greatly appreciated - you can make a donation at betterplace.org.
25 November 2011 - Controlling_Connectivity exhibition opening at Art Laboratory Berlin.
ABOUT
Gretta Louw is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice seeks to explore the potential of art as a means of investigating individual, cultural and universal psychological phenomena. Often drawing on current and historical theories of psychological functioning, the artist seeks to test the boundaries and peculiarities of the human psyche and particularly its unconscious elements, plumbing the depths of her own unconscious with durational performances, formulating participatory actions replicating established tests of psychological functioning in a fine art context, comparing culturally informed differences in psychological functioning between groups, and creating installations and art objects that form a basis for self-analysis and exploration.
Louw was born in South Africa but grew up in Australia; she received an Honours Degree from the University of Western Australia in 2002, subsequently living in Japan and New Zealand before settling in Berlin. She has exhibited at a number of the German capital's premier alternative art spaces and received two recent grants from German institutions for participatory and performance art pieces. A member of the Berlin-based WerkStadt artist collective, Louw has been an artist in residence at Glasshouse in Tel Aviv and the Flux Factory in New York City in 2011.
CONTACT
gretta.elise.louw(at)gmail.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/GrettaLouw
LINKS
http://controllingconnectivity.tumblr.com/
www.artlaboratory-berlin.org
www.berlinimportart.de
www.werkstadt-berlin.com
www.fluxfactory.org/people/gretta-louw/
www.artlaboratory-berlin.org
www.aktion-kms.de/fonds/#halbtisch
www.neukoellnimport.de/Louw/
Rhizome article: Controlling_Connectivity
FACETTEN article: HALBTISCH