Marie-Luise Meister is a transdisciplinary artist and writer working across installation, sound composition, sculpture, drawing, and moving image. Her practice investigates how memory moves through places and thresholds across bodies, landscapes, and temporalities and persists within mineral, hydrological, and technological infrastructures. Her work engages interstitial ecologies and material thresholds through spatial compositions, sonic writing, and sculptural and filmic processes.
In 2026, Meister received the Ramboux Art Prize. In 2025, she was nominated for the international Robert Schuman Prize and was one of the three winners of the Art & Science competition ArtmeetsH2 as part of the German Science Year 2025. Currently, she is part of Sound Arguments 2026, an artistic research program dedicated to sound practice, led by the Orpheus Instituut (BE) and the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, University of Leiden (NL).
She studied Media Art and Performative Arts at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (HGB) and at the Royal Institute of Art (KKH) in Stockholm. Her work has been presented internationally and received funding from institutions including the European Union, Goethe-Institut, Kunstfonds Bonn, the Ministry of Culture and Science NRW, and the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation. Artist residencies include China, Georgia, Italy, Russia, Sweden, and Palestine.
Her background in theater and project management informs a body-based research approach shaped by site-responsive work, collaboration, and long-term material engagement. She participates in art and science contexts, conferences, and publications connected to artistic research and sound practice. Alongside her artistic practice, she develops curatorial and editorial research frameworks. She is the founder and director of Fluid Materialities, a transnational artistic research lab and residency program dedicated to material epistemologies and more-than-human ecologies.