Vita
2025
_Contribution to HERZATTACKE II/2025, a literary and art magazine published since 1989 as a collector's edition, each issue featuring an original graphic and signed sheet by the invited artists, including, among others Mikos Meininger, Helge Leiberg, Michael Jastram (visual arts) and Durs Grünbein (literature)
_Solo exhibition „Neverland“ Galerie Grolman Berlin
2024
Kunsthaus Sans Titre Potsdam (with Michael Biedowicz, Detlef Birkholz, Michael Jastram, Helge Leiberg, Mikos Meininger et al.)
2023
_Focus on new serial topics:
— Dolls and animals as alter ego
— Sailing houses, the psyche as architecture
_"Puppet Garden" Galerie feinart berlin
_Solo exhibition in the atrium of Kulturhaus Schöneberg, Schöneberger Art
Since 2022 Member of Bundesverband Bildender Künstler (BBK) Berlin
2022 „Sibylline Smile“ (with C.D. Aschaffenburg) Galerie feinart berlin
2021
_„Wish Machines“ Galerie feinart berlin
_„Nevernight“ Galerie Sheriban Türkmen Berlin
_ArtExpo Zürich
2020 „Welcome to my zoo“ Galerie feinart berlin
2019
_„No bodies but minds“ Galerie feinart berlin
_Artifact Gallery New York (Monaco Yacht Show )
_„Figures as Ornaments“ Galerie feinart berlin
_USA: ArtExpo New York and SPECTRUM Miami
2018
_„UnMaking Characters“ (with Marek Benczewski and Sara Assadi) Galerie feinart berlin
_„Surreal Gardens between Baku and Berlin“ (with Gunay Shamsi) Galerie Berlin Baku and Galerie feinart berlin
2017
_3 TAGE KUNST. Messe für Gegenwartskunst | Kommunale Galerie Berlin
_„SuiSides“ Galerie feinart berlin
_„Women's Essence“ Espace Commines Paris
2016
_Artist Residence Istanbul, ART Vision Otto Nagel Gallery
_„Dramas on Canvas“ Tristan & Isolde Berlin
_Exhibition Mercedes-Benz-Center Berlin-Reinickendorf
2015-16 Teacher of fine arts, Lise-Meitner-Gymnasium Falkensee
2015
_„Wunderblöcke — sich verfertigende Gedanken“ Kulturhaus Schönwalde (Glien)
May 2015 Master's degree in philosophy
Thesis topic: "The laughing and crying Leib. On the significance of corporeality for the person in Helmuth Plessner and Hermann Schmitz"
2014-15 Drawing studies Abguss-Sammlung Antiker Plastik, Berlin-Charlottenburg
2014 „Zeit-Geister“, reading performance and solo exhibition, Lettrétage Berlin
Since 2013 freelance artist in Berlin, from 2017 until 2019 in Istanbul, with exhibitions in Potsdam, Berlin, Paris, Rom, Istanbul, New York, Miami
2013 First solo exhibitions
_„Un-Wesen: nächtliche Portraits von Leidenschaften“ Kulturhaus Babelsberg Potsdam
_„Traumgestalten“ Galerie Schneeweiß Falkensee
_Engagement with physical theatre and conflict dramaturgy, THEATER.REDUX Berlin/Falkensee
2011-15 Master studies philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin
Thematic focus:
— Theories of corporeality
— Myth/mythical consciousness, animism, the role of animals in the beliefs of indigenous peoples, cultural memory (Mircea Eliade, C.G. Jung)
— Identity and alienation (Michel Foucault)
2011-14 Project-related contracts for work in the field of phenomenology, ethics and interdisciplinary gender studies, FU Berlin
Mai 2011 Bachelor's degree in German philology and philosophy
2011 Creation of first own texts
2007-11 Bachelor studies German philology and philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin
Thematic focus: concepts of memory (Walter Benjamin, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Sigmund Freud)
2007 A-level major subject Fine Arts
1987 born in Berlin/ Staaken | self-taught artistic work from early youth onwards
Works in collections
Otto Nagel Art Collection, Privatsammler in Falkensee, Potsdam, Berlin and New Jersey
Publications
— [in process] „Maria Wirth. Wunschmaschinen 2021-2026“ with an art historical contribution by Dr. Miriam-Esther Owesle and an accompanying text by the Berlin author Lilian Noetzel
— „Maria Wirth“, in: Otto Nagel Art Collection 01, Istanbul 2019, S. 156-195
— „Figures as Ornaments. Maria Wirth", exhibition booklet, Galerie feinart berlin, Berlin 2019
— „Maria Wirth, Dramas on Canvas 2012-2017", Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-940021-81-6
Author, blogger and curator Silke Tobeler visited the exhibition "Wunschmaschinen"