Marei Loellmann works with the textile medium, addressing the relationships between land, time, and body. Her works interweave ash, sedimented traces, hand-woven or wrapped elements, and fabrics, carrying the imprint of their social and ecological environments. Materials act as co-creators; remembering, recording, and unfolding non-linear narratives; while also appearing as a fragmented, living archive. Through time-based craft techniques and site-specific engagement, she develops performative processes in which body, matter, and site are in perpetual renegotiation of proximity and resonance, stillness and movement, ephemerality and duration. The textile becomes a material manifestation and metaphorical container, while loose threads form shifting social fabrics whose permanence, elasticity, and mutability are continuously tested.

Alongside her independent practice, she has been active in various collectives, including Turm Collective (2023–), Lauratibor (2021–2022), the duo Polyphrenic Creatures (2013–2020) and artist group traces (2022–2024).

Marei Loellmann lives and works in Berlin. She studied Fashion Design and Costume and Set Design at the Weißensee Academy of Art in Berlin and the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Her practice spans diverse formats and contexts, both as a solo artist and within collectives, and has been presented at Brücke Museum Berlin, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Haunt Berlin, Volksbühne, Galerie im Körnerpark, Copenhagen Opera Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Galerie Gosserez Paris, PAD London, and Heidelberger Kunstverein, among others. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Research and Working Grant for Visual Artists from the Berlin Senate (2024), scholarships from Stiftung Kunstfonds (2023/2022), the GVL Foundation (2022), the Elsa Neumann Scholarship of the State of Berlin (2014), and the Mart Stam Art Prize (2012). In 2024, she was a fellow at Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen and the Goldrausch Project for women* artists.