In her artistic works Elke Dreier investigates the role of the human body in an increasingly digitalized world. In doing so, she analyses interpersonal (nonverbal) communication and interaction in analog space. Everyday communication and movement processes are detached from their immediacy and restaged in individual videos, instructions and installations, with the interest of documenting possible shifts and simultaneously elaborating artistic options for action.

Elke Dreier is a master student of Prof. Olaf Nicolai, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Prof. Olaf Nicolai and with Prof. Nikolaus Gerhart. She received a residency stipend at the Fondazione Pastificio Cerere in Rome and was awarded, among others, the Art Prize of the City of Kempten and the Project Grant of the Karin Abt-Straubinger Foundation. Elke Dreier has been teaching as a research associate at the Chair of Art in Architecture / Technical University Munich since 2019.

Her work has been exhibited in Germany, Italy, France, Great Britain, Croatia and Iceland. 

contact: gutentag()elkedreier.de

2025 Movement (of) In-Between Forms, Kunsthalle Kempten
2024 Gaps in Motion, Kunstverein Allgemeiner Konsumverein Braunschweig
2021 Contemplation of the Forest, GIG Munich, curated by Magdalena Wiśniowska
2019 mold Karlsruhe, Ausstellung, Lecture und Talk (with Tine Voecks) in cooperation with the Kunstbüro der Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg
2018 Cold-Mixed-Perception, lecture “Visual Uncertainty and Uncertainty of Vision” and edition: Functions for Dreams mit Collection Born
2017 Karin Wimmer - Young Art Space, München
2016 Collection Born, München
2016 An Archive of Real Resemblance, Kunstraum Bogenhausen, München
2015 Timing Faced With Beat, Debütantenförderung des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Bildung und Kultus, Wissenschaft und Kunst, Galerie GEDOK, München

2022 curation and organisation symposium „Bodies Move Differently in Presence - Bodies in analog space in the age of digital communication“, at the Chair of Fine Arts, TUM School of Engineering and Design
since 2019 Research associate at the Chair of Fine Arts, Professor Tina Haase, TUM School of Engineering and Design
since 2025 Research associate at the Chair of Art in Architecture with Prof. Sophie Erlund

2020 „Visual Uncertainty and Uncertainty of Vision“, Hammann von Mier Publishing House
2015 „Various Forms Not Defined As Communication“, Gedok
 

2020 „Bedeutungsverschiebung von Körperlichkeit“ Dialog auf Distanz, Beitrag Publikation, Kunstnetzwerk des DG Kunstraum
2020 „Why don‘t we remember plants?“ porcile.org (online)
2020 „8 Fragen“, Kunstbüro der Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Akteure (online)
2019 AVISO Magazin für Kunst und Wissenschaft 4/19, „Hinter den Kulissen“
2018 InsideArt Magazin, „Beyond verbal communication: body language in the digital age“ (text by Eleonara Bruni)

Membership Münchener Secession