Marie-Luise Meister is a transdisciplinary artist and writer working across installation, sound, text, and spatial composition. Her practice engages with speculative ecologies, embodied forms of relation, and material processes through which places, landscapes, and bodies carry memory. Working closely with bodies of water, sculture, moving imgaes, sound, and situated writing, she develops installations that attend to thresholds, fractures, and resonances—where material, temporal, and more-than-human histories intersect.
Her artistic research treats water not as motif, but as method: as a medium that stores, delays, erodes, and transmits. Through site-responsive processes, Meister composes spatial situations that invite listening, proximity, and attentiveness rather than representation or narrative closure.
Alongside her artistic practice, she conceives curatorial and editorial frameworks as extended forms of research. She is the initiator and artistic director of the EU-funded artist-in-residence program and publication Fluid Materialities.
Meister studied Media Art and Performative Arts at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She is nominated for the international Robert Schuman Prize 2025 and is one of the three winning positions of an Art/Science competition within the German Science Year 2025. Her work has been supported by the European Union, Goethe-Institut, Kunstfonds Bonn, Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation, and others.