Cordula Ditz (born 1972 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German artist and musician, who works with painting, installation, video, collage and performance.
In her diverse body of work, Ditz puts installation, sculpture, painting, performance, sound and video on an equal footing within a common frame of reference.
In her collage-like installations she explores how cultural constructions emphasize masculine power and exclude and silence women and other marginalized groups.
To this purpose, she gathers materials she finds online and in books, magazines, and films and integrates them into paintings and videos in the form of collages or montages.
Depictions of ghostly apparitions point to Spiritualism as practiced in nineteenth-century America, where being cast in the role of the medium capable of communication with spirits helped women raise their voices and publicly address issues of contemporary social and political relevance for the first time.