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The works of the interdisciplinary artist Marei Loellmann explore the relationship between the human body and its environment. Her focus is the own body as medium and active force of this engagement. The starting point are often materials like ash and concrete, which she dissolves from their social constructions, to disrupt existing orders, and weaves them into textile works. As part of various collectives, she develops site-specific installations and performances that deal with socio-political issues of coexistence. The term "social fabric", which uses the properties of a textile to describe societal structures, characterises both aspects of my practice – loose threads unite in more or less densely woven structures whose collective elasticity and malleability are continuously tested.
Marei lives and works in Berlin. She studied fashion design and scenography at the Weißensee Kunstschule Berlin (DE) and the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam (NL). Her works (solo and collective) have been presented in various contexts in Europe, including Kunstraum Kreuzberg (2024), Volksbühne Berlin (2024), Frontviews, Berlin (2024), Galerie am Körnerpark, Berlin (2022), Copenhagen Opera Festival (2021), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2020), Arthur Boskamp Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt (2020), PAD London (2019), Steirischer Herbst, Graz (2019), Galerie Gosserez, Paris (2018), Galerie Ursula Walter, Dresden (2017), District* Schule ohne Zentrum, Berlin (2017) among others. She received grants from Berliner Senat (2024), Stiftung Kunstfonds (2023/2022), the GVL Stiftung (2022), the Elsa Neumann Scholarship of the State of Berlin (2014), the Mart Stam Prize (2012). She is currently a fellow at Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen and Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt .
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