Marei Loellmann is an artist working with textile as medium and method. For Loellmann, land is a body of time, shaped by its wounds, layers, and imprints of human labour. She asks what remains in landscapes reworked by extraction, and how these remains continue to act. They often become visible only through their materiality. Gathered from specific, often post-industrial sites, these materials carry memory: traces of ecological and historical processes. In durational processes she works the materials into textile structures, bringing them close to the body. Her practice draws on craft techniques that demand physical presence, making this presence itself a form of listening to material and land. Her work makes room to understand time not as progress but as something we bear and cultivate together.
Alongside her individual practice, she collaborates with interdisciplinary collectives, developing costumes and spatial interventions for site-specific performances. She lives and works in Berlin.
Solo Exhibitions
2026Â Fluss ohne Ufer (River with no banks), Galerie Bernau
2018 Â Dis-/Jointures, Galerie Gosserez, Paris
Exhibitions (selection)
2026 Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent, CCA Andratx, Spain
2026Â Fracture, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin Â
2026Â Where Boundaries Blur, MQ Showrooms, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna Â
2025 Entangled Landscapes, Stiftung KĂĽnstlerdorf Schöppingen Â
2024Â I only work with lost and found, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin Â
2024Â Deep Shore, HAUNT / frontviews, Berlin Â
2022–23 Enter_Nature, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin (artist group traces) Â
2019Â Bezugsstoffe, DOCK20 / Kunstraum & Sammlung Hollenstein, Lustenau Â
2017–18 Remembering the Future, Galerie Ursula Walter and Altana Galerie, Dresden Â
2016Â Materialeffekte, Villa Arte e. V., Chemnitz, and Bauhaus Dessau Â
2014Â Festival of Future Nows, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Collective Projects (selection)
2024–25 Lise Gujer. Eine neue Art zu malen, BrĂĽcke-Museum, Berlin (artist group traces)Â
2023–24  Der Turm stürzt ein, Warschauer Brücke (2023), Forum Recht auf Stadt (2024),
FESTIWALLA, VolksbĂĽhne Berlin (2024) (Lauratibor Collective)Â Â
2022. Weaving Waves, Grænseløse Festival, Ebeltoft, Denmark (artist group traces) Â
2020–21 Wem gehört Lauratibor?, Copenhagen Opera Festival and Odense, Denmark;
Mariannenplatz and Reichenberger StraĂźe, Berlin (Lauratibor Collective)Â
2020 Holo Miteinander (symposium: Infrastrukturen des Zwischenmenschlichen),
Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt (artist duo Polyphrenic Creatures) Â
2020 #4Caring – The New Alphabet School, Haus der Kulturen der Welt,
Berlin (artist duo Polyphrenic Creatures) Â
2018Â Pop Intratausch, Premierentage & Vorbrenner, BRUX /
Freies Theater Innsbruck (artist duo Polyphrenic Creatures) Â
2017Â Spendatime, Q-O2, Brussels (artist duo Polyphrenic Creatures, with Caroline Profanter) Â
2017 Â Softsonic GG, district Berlin (artist duo Polyphrenic Creatures) Â
2016 Â Creatures in the Mind Nets, steirischer herbst, Graz (artist duo Polyphrenic Creatures)
Residencies / Education
2026Â Residency, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
2026Â Residency (MQ Art&Ecology), MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
2024 Residency, Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
2018Â Residency, Vorbrenner, Innsbruck
2017Â Residency, Q-O2 (workspace for experimental music and sound art), Brussels
2007–2013 Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin
2006–2007 Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam
2005–2006 Dance Intensive Programme, Tanzfabrik Berlin
Awards and Scholarships (selection)
2026Â Honorable Mention, 22nd Kunstpreis des Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin Â
2024Â Research Scholarship for Visual Arts, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social CohesionÂ
2024Â Goldrausch programme for women* artists, Berlin Â
2023Â NEUSTARTplus Scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfonds Â
2022Â NEUSTART KULTUR Scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfonds Â
2014Â Elsa Neumann Scholarship, State of Berlin Â
2012Â Mart Stam Prize, Mart Stam Society, WeiĂźensee Academy of Art Berlin