Luiza Gottschalk

Nature and viscerality are attributions that can be seen in Luiza Gottschalk's paintings. From the forest of Serra da Mantiqueira, where she lived until she was 9 years old, she looked at the landscape in a unique way, organically portraying the atmosphere of that dense forest with fictional shades. Also interested in originality, Luiza is usually thinking and being in relation with her paintings in different ways. Trying to establish physicality and emotions to the work, using colors, scale and scents to create different and dense atmospheres.

She holds bachelor’s degrees in theater arts, from the Célia Helena Center for Arts and Education (2001), and in fine arts, from FAAP (2014). She also has a master’s degree in visual arts from FAAP (2018). Her work deals with the crossover between different artistic languages, such as painting, dance, theater and scent, where she always uses the body as a driving force. She took part in numerous group exhibitions between 2013 and 2018 and in 2016 had her first solo exhibition, Acidente, in the foyer of Estação Satyros, a prominent experimental theater space in Sao Paulo. Two further solo exhibitions in Sao Paulo followed. In February 2022 Glade, a solo exhibition curated by Denise Mattar at the National Museum of Brazil in Brasilia, opened.

Gottschalk has participated in artist residency programs at Agora Collective (Berlin, 2012), Siena Art Institute (Siena, 2016), Atelier do Centro (Sao Paulo, 2017), and ISCPNY (New York, 2020 and 2021).