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.
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.