03/11/2025
Fiver Löcker (b. 1963, Duisburg, Germany) () is an artist whose practice bridges memory, feminism, and the politics of representation. Through printmaking, collage, embroidery, and zine-making, she reconstructs fragments from historical archives such as cigarette albums, atlases, encyclopaedias, to exposing how images once normalised hierarchies of power. Her work asks what it means to inherit history, and how acts of making can reconfigure inherited narratives.
A lifelong traveller, peace activist, and feminist agitator, Löcker divides her time between Johannesburg and her live-aboard canal boat Hendrika in Europe. Her practice is guided by a single principle: “Every culture looks strange to someone.” Through this lens, she turns the visual residue of empire into an intimate and critical process of world-making, an invitation to look again, and remember differently. Her solo exhibition entitled “The Myth of Amnesia” will open on 8th November at 11:00am at the Rand Club.
