Louise Ganz Lives and works in Belo Horizonte (Brazil)

Louise Ganz - Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
Lives and works in Belo Horizonte.

She graduated in fine arts from the Guignard School and in architecture from the UFMG School of Architecture, and has a doctorate in Visual Arts from EBA-UFRJ. She has worked as an artist, researcher and painting teacher at Escola Guignard-UEMG since 2010. She coordinates the Terra Comum, Arte e Ecologia research group, and the Outdoor Painting group.

Louise carries out several works at the interface between art, nature and the city, with collective and collaborative actions (such as Lotes Vagos in 2004), spatial activations and site specifics with propositions that rethink cities and their socio-spatial relationships, she carries out trips and expeditions as an artistic project, videos and artist books, with the group thislandyourland. She participated in several institutional exhibitions during this period, with awards and mentions. From 2015 onwards, she resumed painting, her initial training, as her main practice.

She participates in group exhibitions such as: Imagined place, lived place: 80 years of Casa do Baile, at Casa do Baile, Belo Horizonte (2023); Gardening, at Sesc Parque Dom Pedro II, São Paulo (2019); Estate, at Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (2017); Ao Amor do Público I, at the Rio Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro (2016); Permanences and Destructions, in Tower H, Rio de Janeiro (2016); 11th. São Paulo Architecture Biennial, São Paulo (2016); 12th. Bienal de la Habana, Entre la Idea y la Experiencia, in the city of Havana, Cuba (2015); The Shelter and the Land, at the Rio Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro (2013); 10th. São Paulo Architecture Biennial, City: Ways of doing, ways of using, at CCSP, São Paulo (2013); Other Places, at the Pampulha Art Museum, Belo Horizonte (2012); 32nd. Panorama of Brazilian Art, Itineraries, Itinerancy, at the Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo (2011); Street Kits, at the Hélio Oiticica Art Center, Rio de Janeiro and at Banco do Nordeste do Brasil, Fortaleza (2010); Tirana International Contemporary Arts Biennial, The symbolic efficiency of the frame, at the Hotel Dajti, Tirana, Albania (2009) and Almost Líquido, at Itaú Cultural, São Paulo (2008).

Her main artistic projects were: Aã, a visual arts magazine, by Rumos Itaú Cultural, in 2023; 1a. Mostra Córregos Vivos, according to the municipal law to encourage culture in BH, in 2020; International Seminar: Common Land, Collective Properties and other Spatialities: Practices and Ideas, at BDMG, in Belo Horizonte, in 2018; Visitas project, in Belo Horizonte, by decenter cultura, in 2015; Vacant Lots: Collective Action for Experimental Urban Occupation, between 2005 and 2008, in Belo Horizonte, São Paulo and Fortaleza, among others.

Artistic residencies: Utopiana, in Geneva, Switzerland (2014) and Ja.ca: Centro de Arte e Tecnologia Jardim Canada, in Nova Lima (2012).

He has works in institutional collections such as: Natureza Morta (series Rio de Janeiro), by the duo Thislandyourland, at the Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro and Natureza Morta (series Minas e Bahia), by the duo Thislandyourland, at the Museu de Arte da Pampulha , Belo Horizonte.