Luca Mercedes Braig

About

​Luca Mercedes Braig (*1999) lives and works in Stuttgart. She studies fine art at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design. In her drawings, photographs, installations, texts, and performances, Braig explores the various aspects of being a woman and sees herself as material. She deals with feminist themes, mental health, digitalization and pop culture. 

Luca Mercedes Braig

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Career
since 2024 Fine Arts at the State Academy Fine Arts Stuttgart 
​0ktober 2020 till 2024 ​Artistic teaching degree with fine arts at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and German studies at the University of Stuttgart 
Group Exhibitions
May 2024

​“KRATZ! Body Rituals, Tales and Dreams” at Projektraum AKKU Stuttgart with works by Hanna Araujo Ulmer, Luca Mercedes Braig, Milena Lorek, Suji Jung and Paula Landa                                        
​March 2024 ​“Guest at the studio of Jörg Mandernach: Luca Mercedes Braig, Fanny Dietz and Andy Dobler”, Long Night of the Museums at the Wagenhallen Stuttgart
September 2023 ​“Images for a better understanding of the world. A flood of images against the flood of images” together with Martina Müller-Kruschwitz and Michl Brenner, Shedhalle Tübingen
Solo Exhibitions
June 2024​ ​“Sag alles ab" ("Cancel everything”), Zero Arts e.V. Stuttgart
December 2023 
​"Ich bin eine einsame Insel" (“I am a lonely island”), Kunstverein Brackenheim
Collaborations
December 2024 ​Performance for “Amnesia Cruise” - A guerrilla intervention conceived at The Yes Men, Threads & Tits and Say No To LNG as part of the 24th LNG Conference Berlin
August - October 2024 ​Photographic work for the participatory space “Weimar wählt” - As part of the exhibition “Nothing is impossible” by The Yes Men, Threads & Tits and the Clean Clothes Campaign at the ACC Galerie Weimar
​October 2023 ​Part of the intervention “Utopia as Practice” in the German Pavilion of the Architecture Biennale 2023 curated by Arch+ in Venice - A workshop led by Füsun Türetken and Heba Y. Amin
January 2023 ​Performance for “Adidas Realitywear” - A guerrilla intervention conceived for The Yes Men, Threads & Tits and the Clean Clothes Campaign as part of Berlin Fashion Week
​June 2022 ​Co-organization and partial moderation of the symposium “Quantum State” - A project of the class Heba Y. Amin in collaboration with the 15th Kleinplastik Triennale Fellbach
​October 2021 - July 2022 ​Part of the interdisciplinary, student theater group DramAKA (acting, co-directing, co-organizing)
July 2021 ​Performance for Marina Abramović on “Reprogramming Levitation Module” (4 hours) at the vernissage of “Jenes Selbst / Unser Selbst” Kunsthalle Tübingen
University Political Engagement 
​since November 2024 ​Student member for the nomination procedure for the Professorship of Art Education and Aesthetics
since October 2024 Tutor of the Fachklasse Heba Y. Amin
​October 2024 - July 2025 ​Student advice to the examination board
since October 2023​ ​Student representative in the art faculty
Teaching
since September 2024​ ​Guest lecturer at the Kolping Art School Stuttgart
Other
since 2016​ ​Worked on numerous (short) film sets as a make-up artist (experience in costume design, production design, assistant director, props, extras, etc.)

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            Luca Mercedes Braig
            Mail: studio@lucamercedesbraig.de
            Instagram: luca.mercedes.braig