Marei Loellmann is an interdisciplinary artist. Working with various materials, she creates textile works in which she reflects on the relationship between people and their environment. As part of various collectives, she develops site-specific, process-based installations and performances that deal with socio-political issues of coexistence. Marei Loellmann’s works have been presented – solo and collectively – in various contexts, including at Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Haunt in Berlin, Volksbühne Berlin, Galerie im Körnerpark Berlin, Copenhagen Opera Festival and Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.
“During the residency, I began a lengthy research project for a new artistic project. In this project, I am investigating weaving as a dialogical working method, with the question of what form a conversational space can take when it is not the content but the space between the two bodies that is woven together? What possibilities are opened up by this process, in which the bodies involved are metaphorically and literally integrated and the exchange thus develops situationally? During my time in the Künstlerdorf, I dyed various yarns with elderberries. I collected the berries in the area around the foundation. Towards the end of the residency, I held a workshop entitled „weaving as a form of listening“ as part of the “Making Worlds” program in the Künstlerdorf.”