Austria-born, Bologna-based artist Greta SCHÖDL is one of the most significant visual and concrete poetry artists living in Italy today. Active from the 1960s, when the presence of female artists using text represented a minority, Schödl has spent the past six decades honing a unique visual language through a range of mythical compositions. Her work incorporates letters and symbols, obsessively repeated until rendered abstract, echoing the fervent repetition of Hanne Darboven or the symbolism of Tomaso Binga. 

Born in Hollabrunn, Austria, Greta SCHÖDL currently lives and works in Bologna, Italy. The artist’s formation took place in post-war cosmopolitan Vienna where, from 1948 to 1953, she attended the Academy of Applied Arts, before permanently moving to Italy in 1959. After ceasing her practice temporarily to raise a family, Schödl returned to making work in the mid-1960s and has since exhibited widely in institutions around the world. Her work was included in 'Materializzazione del Linguaggio', curated by Mirella Bentivoglio, in the Visual Arts and Architecture section of the Venice Biennale in 1978, and the 16th São Paolo Biennial, Brazil, in 1981.