Luzie Meyer
*1990, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Biography
Through repetition and enactment, Luzie Meyer’s practice explores how subjectivity is shaped by collective habitus. Working with text, sound, video, photography, and performance, Meyer investigates how meaning and affect circulate through language and media, forming social and emotional codes.
Meyer (*1990, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. She has presented three solo exhibitions at Sweetwater, most recently in 2025. Her work was included in the 13th Berlin Biennale in 2025 and was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bremerhaven in 2022. Meyer has also been included in group exhibitions at the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, the Istituto Svizzero, the Universitäts-Galerie der Angewandten, Vienna, and the Fri Art Kunsthalle Fribourg. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Art Theory at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.
Selected Texts
Exhibitions
Artworks
Curriculum Vitae
Education
| 2016 | Meisterschüler, HfBK Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 2015 | BA, Philosophy, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 2010 | BA, European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin, Germany |
Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
| 2025 | Betrayals of the Possible, Fanta-MLN, Milan, Italy |
| Witherall, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2024 | what just Is just is, Beau Travail, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2022 | Cyclic Indirections, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany |
| Thespians’ Questions, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2021 | Lasciatemi morire, Fanta-MLN, Milan, Italy |
| The Acquisition of Language & The Language of Acquisition, Pogo Bar, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2019 | Duplicitous consent, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany |
| More than what I am providing with Friedemann Heckel, Sweetwater, Los Angeles, CA, United States | |
| 2018 | The Flute, Guest Room Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany |
| Episode IV & V Echoraum with Nora Turato, kulTURM, Ludwigshafen, Germany | |
| The Flute, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany | |
| The Flute/St. Lucy, Éclair, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2017 | Unerringly she pinned it down. She does not like to put it there., Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2026 | read to/for. I read to sense the doubling of time, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefed, Germany |
| Strukturen: Prelude, Stretcher, Basel, Switzerland | |
| 2025 | Recessment, Stretcher, Basel, Switzerland |
| Repeatedly Failing to Align with Light, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria | |
| Canon, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany | |
| 13th Berlin Biennale: passing the fugitive on, curated by Zasha Colah, Sophiensæle, Berlin, Germany | |
| Caught in a Landslide, KINDL, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2024 | Ins Dunkle schwimmen: Abysses of the Creative Imperative, Universitätsgalerie der Angewandten, Vienna, Austria |
| X, Fürstenberg Contemporary, Donaueschingen, Germany | |
| Fanta-MLN hosted by (Repertoire), Berlin, Germany | |
| Neuerwerbungen 2020–2023, n.b.k. Artothek, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany | |
| Presque Partout (Almost Everywhere), 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz, France | |
| I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it, Fanta-MLN, Milan, Italy | |
| 2023 | Postproduction, The Institute for Scene Experiments, Studiengalerie 1.357, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| From My Window, sentiment, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| Von Urinalen und Ornamenten, Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2022 | Third Eye Butterfly, curated by Cathrin Mayer, Mint, Stockholm, Sweden |
| L’arcobaleno riposa sulla strada—The rainbow rests on the road, Istituto Svizzero, Rome, Italy | |
| Hotel Hunger, La Cucina, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| Shifting Theatre: Sibyl’s Mouths, Pure Fiction, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany | |
| 2021 | Kleinanzeigen, Very Project Space, Berlin, Germany |
| A Sculpture in Search of an Author, curated by Studio for Propositional Cinema, Layr, Vienna, Austria | |
| That the Body is a Chorus, Bound to Disappear, curated by Alessia Volpe, Tarsia, Naples, Italy | |
| reconnecting.earth, curated by Bernard Vienat, Kurt Kurt, Berlin, Germany | |
| Second, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland | |
| 2020 | Icon Maintenance, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany |
| Reverie, curated by Tenzing Barshee, Efremidis Gallery, Berlin, Germany | |
| Architecture Now, Cucina, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| 2019 | Showrunners, Bel Ami, Los Angeles, CA, United States |
| Amour, TROPEZ im Sommerbad Humbolthain, Berlin, Germany | |
| Sketch II, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany | |
| What they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance., CACBM, Paris, France | |
| Terms and Conditions: A Sonata for Two Women, Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway | |
| How to Show Up?, San Serriffe, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| 2018 | Cut-Up, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany |
| Sentimental Education, Galerie Conradi, Hamburg, Germany | |
| The dead are losing or how to ruin an exhibition, Die Ruine der Franziskaner Klosterkirche, Berlin, Germany | |
| STARSHIP, Mavra, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2017 | Denying the Inflammability of the Twigs Found in the Copse This Morning, Le Bourgeois, London, United Kingdom |
| Words of Unknown Origin, Broken Dimanche, Berlin, Germany | |
| Chambers - A User’s Manual, Chapter II, Metzler Villa, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | |
| 2016 | AfterFacts, Pudding Explosion Rearticulated, Mendelssohnstraße 56, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| Le Grand Balcon: Montreal Biennale of Contemporary Art, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada | |
| Croissant, Städelschule Absolventenausstellung, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | |
| Chambers: A User’s Manual, Chapter I, Metzler Villa, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | |
| The Printed Sea, AusstellungsHalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | |
| 2015 | Aperto, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy |
Selected Film Screenings and Performances
| 2026 | Sommerfest, anorak, Berlin, Germany |
| Dissolutions, Sequence II, Kunst Raum Mitte, Berlin, Germany | |
| The eloquence of folds, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany | |
| Trauerspiel, Kunstverein für Mecklenburg und Vorpommern, Schwerin, Germany | |
| Pure Fiction, Basel, Switzerland | |
| 2025 | Mint Poetry Festival, Mint, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Personas, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Dusseldorf, Germany | |
| 2024 | Texte zum Nachdenken, Kemmler Foundation, Berlin, Germany |
| Is it cold in the Water, Creamcake @ Liquidrom, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2023 | September Sessions, IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2022 | A Trap, A Miracle, Bob Shop, Berlin, Germany |
| Cittipunkt e.V., Berlin, Germany | |
| 2021 | Lange Nacht der Kultur, Kunstmuseum Bremerhaven, Germany |
| Desire & Shock, Texte zum Nachdenken, Plymouth Rock, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland | |
| Period Piece, Kino Süd, Basel, Switzerland | |
| 2020 | Screeners (online screening), Helena Anrather, New York, NY, United States |
| Cashmere Radio, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany | |
| Contribution, The Storyteller’s Fountain by Studio for Propositional Cinema, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy | |
| Performance, OHM, Berlin, Germany | |
| 3rd Studio for Propositional Cinema Film Festival, Camden Art Centre, London, United Kingdom | |
| Radio-Aktivität, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany | |
| 2019 | Screening Program with Gärtnergasse, Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria |
| La Parole et L’Écoute, Bagnoler, Paris, France | |
| 2018 | LUX Scotland Artists’ Moving Image Festival, Tramway, Glasgow, United Kingdom |
| Pure Fyction, Université d’Été at the Kandinsky Library, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France | |
| Pure Fyction, an Un-trodyction with Pure Fyction, Ashley, Berlin, Germany | |
| Art Viewer SCREEN, The Community, Paris, France | |
| Miss Saint’s Hieroglyphic Suffering, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2017 | Laura Langer: More, Weiss Falk, Basel, Switzerland |
| Morality Plays with Pure Fyction, Swimming Pool Projects, Sofia, Bulgaria | |
| Der Tempest with Pure Fyction, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany | |
| Performance-Tag, Simultanhalle, Cologne, Germany | |
| go.East Film Festival, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany | |
| International Art Bookfair, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | |
| Bigger Human Mankind Problem, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | |
| The Balcony, Art Viewer Screen (Online) | |
| 2016 | Startpoint Prize, National Gallery of Prague Trade Fair Palace, Prague, Czechia |
| 3am Festival, Flutgraben, Berlin, Germany |
Publications and Texts
| 2024 | Tendencies [Writings 2015-2024], Fanta-MLN, Milan, Italy; Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany |
| 2023 | Sybil’s Mouths, Sternberg Press, Berlin, Germany |
| 2019 | Agathe Bauer, TIER, Berlin, Germany |
| 2018 | Starship Magazine #17, Berlin, Germany |
| Afterfacts, Goethe-University Frankfurt and Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | |
| 2017 | In relation to a spectator: by Studio for Propositional Cinema, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany |
| 2016 | Croissant, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| Good Bye Boss, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | |
| Dysfiction III, Pure Fiction, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | |
| 2015 | Women’s Art, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| Dysfiction II, Pure Fiction, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | |
| Fly in the Soup, Mousse Publishing, Milan, Italy | |
| 2013 | Dysfiction I, Pure Fiction, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 2012 | Tales from the Crypt: The Ghost Issue, Pure Fiction, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 2011 | Tales from the Crypt, Pure Fiction, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
Selected Press
| 2026 | Tabea Marschall, The Sound of Broken Eggshells: Luzie Meyer, Flash Art #355 |
| 2023 | Jennifer Teets, Luzie Meyer’s Cyclic Indirections, Topical Cream, July 11 |
| 2022 | Céline Mathieu, Luzie Meyer: a desire to aquire, to multiply oneself, Conceptual Fine Arts, October 17 |
| Luzie Meyer at Sweetwater, Art Viewer, June 22 | |
| Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Normal People, Artforum, May 5 | |
| Thespians' Questions, Artforum Must See, April 25 | |
| 2021 | Katia Porro, Luzie Meyer: Pin Up Hang Up, Frac Lorraine |
Residencies, Grants and Awards
| 2023 | Studio residency, IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Fürstenberg Contemporary Fellowship, Donaueschingen, Germany | |
| Residency, Cashmere Radio, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2022 | NEUSTART-Kultur Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany |
| 2021 | Recherchestipendium für Bildende Kunst des Landes Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| Förderstipendium der Kunststiftung NRW for Sybil’s Mouths at the Kölnischen Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany | |
| 2020 | DiGiTal Predoctoral Fellowship, KH Weißensee, Berlin, Germany |
| 2018 | Residency, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France |
| 2017 | Second Homes Residency, Parc Saint Léger, Saint Léger, France |
| Open Frame Award go.East Film Festival, Wiesbaden, Germany | |
| 2016 | Shortlist, Startpoint Prize |
| 2015 | Artist Research Laboratory, Fondazione Antonio Ratti with Yvonne Rainer, Como, Italy |
| 2014 | Special Mention, Open Frame Award go.East Film Festival, Wiesbaden, Germany |
| 2013 | Performance Award, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 2012 | Residency, ZKM Karlsruhe at Moments – A History of Performance in 10 Acts, Karlsruhe, Germany |