Bio

*1996
Mainz, DE

Luca Ganz is an artist, artistic director, theologian and yoga teacher based in Offenbach, DE.

He studied Theology in Frankfurt am Main with a special focus on questions of hermeneutics, epistemology, aesthetics and performance. During his studies he also attended seminars and lectures in the fields of literary studies, musicology, religious studies, psychoanalysis, sociology, theater studies and art history. He received a scholarship from the Evangelische Studienwerk Villigst. He worked for Ursula Roth and Stefan Alkier, among others, and published his first essays on methodological questions of semiotic exegesis and the Apocalypse of John. He is currently researching a synthesis of theological mythology and contemporary aesthetic theory.

As a freelance artist he is studying performance art and electronic media with Kerstin Cmelka and Alexander Oppermann in Offenbach am Main (MFA). His works include experimental music, sound installations, endurance performances, songs, happenings and workshops. He also works as an artistic director, organizer and communicator in the artistic field at the interface between art and society.

Prizes

2021
Essay-Prize Freunde und Förderer des Fachbereichs 06 Evangelische Theologie

Solo Shows

Aleph, Alpha, A/Aleph, Omega, O - Requiem Material 2022 (St. Michael, Frankfurt)

Group Shows

Entropie/Atopie/Learning to Count 2018 (BOK Offenbach, with Enxhi Mehmeti, Sara Moscow, e.a.)

Aus heutiger Sicht. Diskurse über Zukunft 2021 (Group Exhibition at MAK Frankfurt)

Konversion 2023  (Zollamt Studios, Offenbach with Orell Kötter, Amparo Lippek, Curated by Mara Aiko)