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Marei Loellmann is a visual artist who formulates and mediates new narratives through tapestries and textile installations. Her starting point are materials that can be traced back to the human exploitation of resources, such as ash from coal mines and wood kilns, different soils and cement, which she dissolves from their social constructions, to disrupt existing orders, and weaves them into tapestries and textile installations to bring forth new narratives. A recurring thread is the attention she gives to the materials and processes she uses, how they can interact and transform into something else by giving space and incorporating chance and decay. Besides her practice as a solo artist, Marei is part of various interdisciplinary collectives. The term “social fabric,” used to describe societal structures with the properties of textiles, characterises her engagement with material and collective processes – loose threads unite in more or less densely woven structures whose permanence, elasticity, and mutability are continually 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 Galerie am Körnerpark, Berlin, DE (2022), Frontviews, Berlin, DE (2022), Copenhagen Opera Festival, DK (2021), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE (2020), Arthur Boskamp Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt (2020), PAD London, GB (2019), Steirischer Herbst, Graz, A (2019), Galerie Gosserez, Paris, FR (2018), Galerie Ursula Walter, Dresden, DE (2017), District* Schule ohne Zentrum, Berlin, DE (2017) among others. She received grants from the Stiftung Kunstfonds (2023/2022), the GVL Stiftung (2022), the Elsa Neumann Scholarship of the State of Berlin (2014), the Mart Stam Prize (2012). Marei is currently part of the postgraduate 2024 Goldrausch project for women artists and project scholarship recipient of the Kunststiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen.
Marei Loellmann is a visual artist who formulates and mediates new narratives through tapestries and textile installations. Her starting point are materials that can be traced back to the human exploitation of resources, such as ash from coal mines and wood kilns, different soils and cement, which she dissolves from their social constructions, to disrupt existing orders, and weaves them into tapestries and textile installations to bring forth new narratives. A recurring thread is the attention she gives to the materials and processes she uses, how they can interact and transform into something else by giving space and incorporating chance and decay. Besides her practice as a solo artist, Marei is part of various interdisciplinary collectives. The term “social fabric,” used to describe societal structures with the properties of textiles, characterises her engagement with material and collective processes – loose threads unite in more or less densely woven structures whose permanence, elasticity, and mutability are continually 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 Galerie am Körnerpark, Berlin, DE (2022), Frontviews, Berlin, DE (2022), Copenhagen Opera Festival, DK (2021), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE (2020), Arthur Boskamp Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt (2020), PAD London, GB (2019), Steirischer Herbst, Graz, A (2019), Galerie Gosserez, Paris, FR (2018), Galerie Ursula Walter, Dresden, DE (2017), District* Schule ohne Zentrum, Berlin, DE (2017) among others. She received grants from the Stiftung Kunstfonds (2023/2022), the GVL Stiftung (2022), the Elsa Neumann Scholarship of the State of Berlin (2014), the Mart Stam Prize (2012). Marei is currently part of the postgraduate 2024 Goldrausch project for women artists and project scholarship recipient of the Kunststiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen.