Svenja Kratz
Mixed Media
Maker Member
Svenja Kratz is a contemporary artist whose interdisciplinary practice bridges art, science, and technology with a strong focus on materiality and process. With a PhD in Contemporary Art and Biotechnology from QUT, she explores the intersections of life, death, and technological transformation through works that combine cell culture, sculpture, AI, and installation. Her practice foregrounds experimental making and ethical inquiry, engaging with craft traditions while integrating emerging technologies.
Kratz's work often reflects on the porous boundaries between the organic and synthetic, drawing attention to multispecies entanglements and speculative futures. Her interest in bodily material and transformation unfolds through tactile experimentation and layered processes, revealing the body as a site of imaginative potential and interconnected becoming. A 2021 ANAT Synapse recipient, she has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Powerhouse Museum Sydney and Science Gallery London. She currently lives and works in lutruwita/Tasmania.
"My practice investigates the intersections of art, science and technology, with a focus on the body, transformation and speculative futures. I work with a wide range of materials including photomedia, painting, cell cultures and biological tissue, video, AI and installation. My approach is grounded in experimentation, with ideas developing through sustained engagement with materials and processes. I am particularly interested in how making can reveal the body as a site of creative potential, where forms and meanings are constantly shifting. Influenced by feminist science studies, posthuman theory and science fiction, my work explores expanded understandings of embodiment and connection. I aim to create works that invite reflection on our entanglements with other species, systems and technologies, and how these relationships shape the ways we live and imagine the future."
Online Resources:
Website: https://www.svenjakratz.com
Instagram: @svenjakratz