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.
Meister studied Media Art and Performative Arts at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (HGB) and at the Royal Institute of Art (KKH) in Stockholm. She was nominated for the international Robert Schuman Prize 2025 and won the Art & Science competition during the German Science Year 2025. Currently, she is nominated for the Ramboux Prize 2026 and is part of Sound Arguments 2026, an advanced artistic research program led by the Orpheus Instituut (BE) and the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, University of Leiden (NL).
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. She has a background in theater and project management, with a body-based research approach, participates in art & science conferences, and contributes to related publications.
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.