About

Marie Charlotte Elsner was born in Karlsruhe. She graduated from the Max-Planck-Gymnasium in Karlsruhe in 2021 and had already taken part in numerous artistic scholarship and support programs, including the “Masterclass” at Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe and at at the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design.

When she began her Media Art studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, her initial artistic interest was rooted in creating a personal visual order, one that helped her navigate the, at first, unfamiliar structures of the art academy. Coming from a background in the independent theater scene, her early works were predominantly performative and deeply informed by personal narratives. They were carried by strong thematic questions, which she explored through her own body and lived experience.

She sought to merge analogue, often craft-based practices with strategies of media distortion, in order to connect the spheres that have accompanied her throughout her life: craftsmanship, the notion of labor, and poetry. Text frequently played a central role here, with free prose developed intuitively and translated into visual form. As her studies progressed, however, her practice shifted increasingly toward holistic, spatial concepts. The purely subjective experience moved into the background, giving way to a stronger engagement with contemporary and politically relevant events and their manifestations in entertainment and popular culture. Central to her artistic work are the questioning of binary worldviews, reflections on digital realities, and the role of social media in relation to the body. She also places particular importance on incorporating ephemeral social phenomena, such as those arising in online networks, into the artistic canon, in order to underscore the influence of these images within the context of digital politicization.These questions and reflections materialize in objects and immersive spatial installations, with a particular emphasis on 3D scanning and printing, which allow her to extend her physical surroundings into digital space.