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Cordula Ditz (born 1972 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German artist and musician, who works with painting, installation, video, collage and performance. She lives and works in Hamburg, Germany.
Work
In her diverse body of work, Ditz puts installation, sculpture, painting, performance, sound and video on an equal footing within a common frame of reference. In her collage-like installations she explores how cultural constructions emphasize masculine power and exclude and silence women and other marginalized groups. Cordula Ditz's work scrutinizes the ways in which our ideas about gender roles and identity are con-structed, reiterated, and solidifed—the media play a salient role in this process—and how they inform our conscious as well as unconscious minds. To this purpose, she gathers materials she finds online and in books, magazines, and films and integrates them into paintings and videos in the form of collages or montages. The result is a rich imagery that is open about its genesis and performative nature in order to prompt re ection? on media representation and the production of normative codifications.
Aspects of oppression, impuissance, and loss of control in various forms associated with the stereotype of the helpless woman appear side by side with historic examples of resistance. Depictions of ghostly apparitions point to Spiritualism as practiced in nineteenth-century America, where being cast in the role of the medium capable of communication with spirits helped women raise their voices and publicly address issues of contemporary social and political relevance for the first time. Her artist's book 'I don't need a cloak to become invisible' was published by Spector Books, New York in 2022.
Exhibitions
She exhibited national and international. She also received numerous acknowledgments including: The 'Zeit Stipendium' by German newspaper Die Zeit (2020) and 'German Study Centre in Venice' awarded by the German government (2017).
Since 2022, the Hamburger Kunsthalle has been exhibiting her installation "You May Not Know Him, But" about Helmuth Hübener.
= Solo exhibitions
=2016 Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, Galerie Conradi, Hamburg
2017 Don't Breathe, Cave Gallery, Detroit, USA
2017 I'm Becoming A Ghost, Galerie Conradi, Bruxelles, Belgium
2018 How to Disappear, Galerie Conradi, Hamburg
2019 Your Silence Is Very Disturbing, Galerie im Marstall, Ahrensburg
2020 You may not know him but, MIND the GAP, Bieberhaus, Hamburg
2022 I don't need a cloak to become invisible, Conradi, Hamburg
2022 The weak lips of a woman, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg
2024 They Speak to Us in Dreams, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg
= Group exhibitions
=2011 Dirty Dancing, Figge von Rosen, Cologne
2012 The Digital Uncanny, Edith Russ Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg
2015 Spectral Presences, Art Cinema OffOff, Filmfest Gent, Belgium
2019 Sanctum, Big Medium, Austin, USA
2020 HUMOR NACH #METOO - BEING LAID UP WAS NO EXCUSE FOR NOT MAKING ART, Kunstverein in Hamburg,
2021 So wie wir sind 3.0, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
2021 L’Invitation au voyage, Esther Schipper, Berlin
2022 Femme Fatale, Kunsthalle Hamburg
2022 SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING DESIRED, Kunsthalle Hamburg
References
External links
Website Cordula Ditz
Art Forum Review
Writings by Cordula Ditz in German National Library
Cordula Ditz 1972, DE, ArtFacts.Net
