Stellar Meris (*1990, CH) is a painter and performer whose work explores queer­feminist and decolonial perspectives through storytelling, and public happenings. Based in Berlin/Basel, they are part of the somebodyies collective, creating cross­border interventions and hosting workshops.

Geboren 1990 in Basel, lebt in Basel / Berlin.

2024–2026, MA "Art in Practice", Dutch Art Institute

2016–2017, BA "Fine Arts" (exchange program), Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem

2013–2019, BA and MA "Fine Arts", University of Arts Berlin

2025, Research grant, Atelier Mondial, Basel

2024, Residency with Bar Mayer, 3 months, le ventre, Hégenheim (F)

2023, Studio scholarship, Deutsche Bank,

2022, Scholarship, Hans and Charlotte Krull-Foundation, Berlin

2022, Residency, Kloster Dornach, 2 weeks, Dornach (CH)

2022, Residency with somebodyies, CRAC Alsace, 1 week, Altkirch (F)

2020, Residency, Atelier Mondial, 9 months, Basel (CH)

2020, Nomination, Förderpreis Junge Kunst, Berlin

2020, Förderpreis Maurer-Billeter Stiftung, Olten

2019, Nominierung, Karl Hofer Stipendium, Berlin

2019, Residency, Lokalen, 1 month, Lichtenvoorde (NL)

2018, Erster Preis, Milano Mobile Film Festival, Mailand

2018, Residency with Bar Mayer, FK-Kollektiv, 1 month, Berlin­ (DE)

2016-2017, PROMOS-Stipendium, Berlin

2015, 2 Min Short Award, Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart

2024, We Remember, We Resist, Spreefeld, Berlin

2024, Now Is The Time, KASKO Basel

2023, Nothing But Blue Skies, Villa F.F., Riehen/Basel

2023, The Sun Above All, Galerie Melbye-Konan

2022, Flash Forward, Kunstraum DOCK, Basel

2022, Backup, Centre Bagatelle, Berlin

2021, Fake It Till We Make It, Anahita Contemporary, Berlin

2025, The Sea Between Us, Galerie Melbye-Konan, Hamburg (DE)

2024, Striving for Common Access, Regionale 25, Projektraum M54, Basel (CH)

2024, Uncertain Realities, Voltage, Basel (CH)

2024, Mouvement, Galerie Melbye-Konan, Hamburg (DE)

2023, Biennale für Freiburg 2, with somebody*ies, Biennale für Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau (DE)

2023, BYOB - Bring Your Own Beamer, with somebody*ies, TransBona-Halle, Basel (CH)

2022, Freie Gruppe Hochrhein, Villa Berberich, Bad Säckingen (DE)

2022, KantGarage 22, KantGarage – Stilwerk, Berlin (DE)

2022, This Is Our House, with somebody*ies, Ausstellungsraum Garage der Villa Renata, Basel (CH)

2022, Here To Stay, with somebody*ies, Städtische Galerie im Stapflehus, Weil am Rhein (DE)

2022, Sparkles of Joy, Pop-Up-Gallery, Fantastic, Basel (CH)

2022, Reset, Kommunale Galerie, Berlin (DE)

2022, Starkes Duo, Haus Kunst Mitte, Berlin (DE)

2021, S*HEROES – Die Nomadinnen Persiens, Arts of Asia & Anahita Contemporary, Berlin (DE)

2021, Walk Their Path, with somebody*ies, Stadtjubiläum, Freiburg (DE)

2021, Proximity and Distance, Kunstraum LLC, New York (US)

2020, Atelier Régional - et le monde après, with somebody*ies, Salon Mondial in the context of Regionale 21, Basel (CH)

2020, Oslo Night, with somebody*ies, Atelier Mondial, Basel (CH)

2020, A Room of Her Own 2, Anahita Contemporary, Berlin (DE)

2020, Junge Kunst Olten, Schützi, Olten (CH)

2020, Werk im Werk X, ArtSpring, Berlin (DE)

2020, Nebulous, Studio Baustelle, Berlin (DE)

2020, Körper, ORi, Berlin (DE)

2019, Meisterschüler*innen, Kunsthaus Sans Titre, Potsdam (DE)

2019, Arts & Culture meets AGS Froesch, Froesch GmbH, Grossbeeren (DE)

2019, Take Me Back, BarK Gallery, Berlin (DE)

2019, A Room of Her Own, Anahita Contemporary, Berlin (DE)

2019, Abschlussausstellung Bildende Kunst, Universität der Künste, Berlin (DE)

2018, Wihajster Freiheit Swallow, Galeria Salon Akademii, Warschau (PL)

2018, Kein Capri, Bar Babette, Berlin (DE)

2018, Where I end & You begin, with Bar Mayer, FK-Galerie, Berlin (DE)

2018, Open Doors, Duo-Show, with Bar Mayer, Voodoo55, Berlin (DE)

2018, Summer Seeds, Gate 3 Gallery, Haifa (Palestine)

2017, Trap House III, Torstrasse 111, Berlin (DE)

2016, Aurum, Lee Galerie, Berlin (DE)

2016, Berlin School of Painting, Villa Renata, Basel (CH)

2025, Can you handle this?, performance, 20 min, Centrale de Fies, hosted by Dutch Art Institute, Dro, Italy

2025, Never never again and again and again, performance, 40 min, Symposium "What Is To Be Done? Art, Academia, Activism, and Media in the Time of Genocide", Febrayer Network, Berlin

2025, Shall we laugh or shall I cry?, performance, 20 min, NIDAC, hosted by Dutch Art Institute, Nida, Lithuania

2024, Voices from Palestine: A Call for Solidarity, happening with Majed Abusalama (political activist), Mousheera Jamal (journalist), Sabreen (student/activist) and a speaker from the West Bank, Projektraum M54, Basel (CH)

2024, Now Is The Time, happening, 5 hours, with a speaker from the West Bank, KASKO, Basel (CH)

2023, Let the Rainbow Rain, happening, 120 min, with Rashad Alhindi (Palestine Speaks) and Udi Raz (Jewish Voice for Just Peace), Galerie Melbye-Konan, Hamburg (DE)

2024, From private to public, from personal to political, performance with Bar Mayer, le ventre, Hégenheim (F)

2023, Collective Transmutations, lecture performance with Krys Huba, Symposium "sichtbar machen - werden - sein", Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel (DE)

2022, Here We Are, performance with somebodyies, Stapflehus, Weil am Rhein (DE)

2022, Talking about Transmutations, lecture performance with Krys Huba, Kunstraum DOCK, Basel (CH)

2021, Some Body*ies, performance with Nika Timashkova, Anna Byskov and Apo Yasa, Humbug, Basel (CH)

The First Super, video performance with Nika Timahskova, Anna Byskov, Apo Yasa, Anahita Sadighi und Susana AbdulMajid, Anahita Contemporary, Berlin (DE)

2020, Some Body*ies, performance with Nika Timashkova, Anna Byskov and Apo Yasa, Salon Mondial, Basel (CH)

https://www.stellameris.com

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