Maria VMier

Maria VMier is an artist living and working in Munich and New York. Her multidisciplinary practice encompasses context-specific and collaborative work, as well as sculpture, painting and printmaking. In her works, she deals with the body and desire and the associated post-feminist, social, and political implications. Recurring motifs are the conditions of artistic labor, hospitality, care work, and community. The central site of form-finding is her ongoing “Companion” series, in which she creates large-format paintings on paper from writing movements.

Since 2013, VMier co-runs the publishing house for artists’ books Hammann von Mier-Verlag together with Stefanie Hammann, and since 2017 she has been collaborating with Leo Heinik and Jan Erbelding in the collective Ruine München. VMier was on the committee of the municipal art space FLORIDA Lothringer 13 from 2019 until 2022 and was also part of the exhibition jury of the BBK Munich and Upper Bavaria between 2017 and 2020. Her work has been shown at MoMA PS1, New York (2024), Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2024), Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2024, 2022), BOAN Art Space, Seoul (2020), Lenbachhaus, Munich (2020), Haus der Kunst, Munich (2013), among others. Her work, whether solo or in collaboration, has been honored with numerous awards, including the Kunstförderpreis für Bildende Kunst Bayern and the FLAT Prize-CRT Art Foundation in Turin.