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Gretta Louw

Gretta Louw is a multi-disciplinary artist working predominantly with digital media and networked performance, investigating cultural and psychological phenomena in relation to new technologies and the internet. In 2012 she released her first book, Controlling_Connectivity: Art, Psychology, and the Internet, followed in 2013 by Warnayaka Art Centre: Art in the Digital Desert, and in 2014 her first catalogue Works 2011-2014 / Arbeiten 2011-2014. She lives and works in Germany and Australia.

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Confronting the Contradictions of Our Tech-Obsessed Culture

by Gretta Louw October 31, 2016October 31, 2016

In her solo exhibition at Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel, Addie Wagenknecht boils down the experiences of postinternet life and then alchemizes them.

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Dismantling the Myths of Sports

by Gretta Louw August 19, 2016August 19, 2016

BERLIN — Today, more than ever, athletes are presented as role models.

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An Artist Duo’s Shocking Stop-Motion Animations and Hypnotic Installations

by Gretta Louw April 18, 2016

PERTH — The exhibition, a collaboration between Hans Berg and artist Nathalie Djurberg, has been titled Secret Garden, and naturally, given all of its enchantment and ambience, immediate associations arise to Alice and the gardens of Wonderland. But there’s a lot more going on here.

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“Your Shiny Plastic Future Is a Load of Crap”: Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke’s #Additivism

by Gretta Louw February 15, 2016February 12, 2016

Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke’s expansive project #Additivism is a call for the radical rethinking of new technologies like 3D printing, the plastification of the world, and the position of humans within it.

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Germany’s Leading Art Prize Sets a Museum in Motion

by Gretta Louw January 11, 2016January 11, 2016

BERLIN — The prestigious Preis der Nationalgalerie, considered the German equivalent of the Turner Prize, was inaugurated in 2000 and recognizes artists under the age of 40 who live and work in Germany, regardless of nationality.

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Prosthetic Devices for the Modern Psyche

by Gretta Louw November 20, 2015November 20, 2015

Susanna Hertrich is as much a designer and researcher as she is an artist; her show at Art Laboratory Berlin constructs a narrative in which human senses, instincts, and emotions are prosthetically enhanced to better suit the specific challenges of the 21st century.

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From Porn to Pizza, Some Postinternet Art Is Deeper Than It Looks

by Gretta Louw October 15, 2015October 20, 2015

BERLIN — Much has been made of the banality of the apparent thematic interests in the show: porn, pets, plants, and pizza. What seems to have been overlooked in much of the coverage of the exhibition, however, is that this ironic superficiality is just a veneer.

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Artworks that Clock Working Life

by Gretta Louw March 20, 2015March 23, 2015

BERLIN — Time & Motion: Redefining Working Life, a tightly curated exhibition currently on show at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, is small but packs a real punch.

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