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 carriers of memory, bearing traces of 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 presece and absence, decay and renewal across geological and historical time.
Her work has been presented in diverse contexts, including at MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Galerie Bernau, BrĂĽcke 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). Marei Loellmann studied at the WeiĂźensee Academy of Art Berlin and at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. She lives and works in Berlin.Â