Marei Loellmann is an artist working across textile, sculpture, and installation. Her practice explores the relationships between body, time, and landscape through processes that emerge in direct exchange with specific environments. Soil, river sediment, and ash sourced from post-industrial landscapes, are applied to fabric through slow, repetitive and durational processes of dyeing, soaking, and wrapping. Concrete surfaces are interwoven with textile elements. In her practice, Marei Loellmann understands material not only as form but as agents of memory and testimony, witnessing historical processes, ecologies of slow violence, and imprints of human labor. As porous surfaces that register traces of lived experience and environmental transformation in relation to place, her work reflects the simultaneity of decay and renewal across geological and historical time.
Her work has been presented in diverse contexts, including at MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Galerie Bernau, Brücke Museum (Berlin), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Kunstraum Kreuzberg (Berlin), Galerie im Körnerpark (Berlin), Galerie Gosserez (Paris), and as part of the Festival of Future Nows at the Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin). She has received numerous fellowships and grants, artist-in-residence fellowships at the MuseumsQuartier Vienna (2026), the Künstler*dorf Schöppingen Foundation (2024), the Berlin Senate Research Grant (2024), the Goldrausch project for women artists (2024), the Neustart Kultur grant by Stiftung Kunstfonds (2022/23), and the Elsa‑Neumann Fellowship (2014). Marei Loellmann studied at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin and at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. She lives and works in Berlin.
Contact
Studio: Flutgraben e.V., Berlin
mail(at)mareiloellmann(dot)com
please email for CV.
Marei Loellmann lives and works in Berlin. Her practice explores the relationship between land, time, and the body, working across the media of textiles, sculpture, and installation. At the core of her practice lies an understanding of land as a time-being—marked by its wounds, stratifications, and vitalities.Â
Her works emerge through processes in which materials act as agents of memory, carrying fragmented and resistant temporalities. She works with natural elements from post-industrial landscapes - soil, river sediments, and ash - that carry the traces of extractive economies, ecologies of slow violence and sedimented histories.
Through durational and repetitive processes - such as dyeing, soaking, wrapping, and weaving - her body and the materials interact. Her works take the form of layered textile surfaces, sedimented structures, handwoven elements, or sculptural assemblages. The textile becomes both a material manifestation and a metaphorical container in which loose threads form shifting social fabrics whose durability, elasticity, and mutability are continuously tested.
Her work has been presented — solo and collaboratively — in diverse contexts, including Brücke Museum, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Copenhagen Opera Festival, Galerie im Körnerpark, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Galerie Gosserez, and the Festival of Future Nows at Neue Nationalgalerie. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Berlin Senate Research Grant (2024), the Neustart Kultur grant by Stiftung Kunstfonds (2022/23), and the Elsa‑Neumann Fellowship (2014). In 2024, she was a fellow of the Goldrausch project for women artists and the Künstler*dorf Schöppingen Foundation. Marei Loellmann studied at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin in Germany and the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
Contact
Studio: Flutgraben e.V., Berlin
mail(at)mareiloellmann(dot)com
please email for CV.