ELODIE GRETHEN

Elodie Grethen (FR) lives and works as a visual artist in Vienna. She studied photography at the Friedl Kubelka School for artistic photography Vienna, completing her studies in 2018. In 2017, she published the book ‘Tokyo Stories’, which was recognized as one of Austria‘s most beautiful books of the year. In 2018, she received the ‘Photography Start-up Grant’ from the Federal Chancellery of Austria. In 2020, she was nominated for the ‘C/O Berlin Talent Award’ and in 2025, she received the Beate Sirota Gordon Award.

Since 2022, she works and teaches at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in the Department of Applied Photography and Time-Based Media. She is part of femxphotographers.org, a non-hierarchical collective of women and non-binary artists.

Her multidisciplinary practice spans photography, installation, and performance to explore the relationship between body, identity, and society. Grethen is particularly interested in how intimacy, gender, and care are negotiated across both private and public spaces—often working from within feminist contexts. Currently, she is developing a new body of work on the practices of care and the politics of affect. 

www.elodiegrethen.com