Mayer’s works address the intersection of art, research, architecture, display, and decor. She interweaves visual textures and surfaces immanent to the material with spatial and discursive contexts and issues relating to gender politics. She received her PhD from the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg with a thesis on this topic and has conceived stage sets and exhibition architecture for, among other projects, PostPornParlament, W139, Amsterdam, and Kampnagel, Hamburg. 2011: Livi [...]
Mayer’s works address the intersection of art, research, architecture, display, and decor. She interweaves visual textures and surfaces immanent to the material with spatial and discursive contexts and issues relating to gender politics. She received her PhD from the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg with a thesis on this topic and has conceived stage sets and exhibition architecture for, among other projects, PostPornParlament, W139, Amsterdam, and Kampnagel, Hamburg. 2011: Living Archives, a cooperative project of the Van Abbemuseum, the KUB Arena, and the Kunsthaus Bregenz. 2012: Wir sind ein Bild aus der Zukunft: Nachrichtenvon Krise, Aufstand und Ausnahmezustand, HAU 3, Berlin. Selected exhibitions: in 2010, seams and notches, Galerie RECEPTION, Berlin; in 2011, Telling Textures, Dolores, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam; Verdeckte Adressaten, Platform 3 and Weisse Rose Stiftung, Munich;Anfang gut, alles gut, KUB Arena, Kunsthaus Bregenz; so as to form surfaces, Kunstverein Düsseldorf; in 2012, Lieber Aby Warburg – was tun mit Bildern? Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen.