Leire de Meer

Leire de Meer (b.1999, Madrid) is a visual artist and performer whose practice focuses on the ability that fiction has to alter materiality. Through performance, video, participatory art and the creation of artistic communities they explore questions that stem from/ to / within/ queer embodiment, monstrous bodies, and grief.

Residency dates:  1. 9. – 31. 10. 2025

RESIDENCY PROJECT

During their residency at MeetFactory, Leire will continue developing Common Body, an ongoing research project exploring how a trans common body can emerge through collective artistic practices. Rooted in questions about the material and emotional conditions that allow such a body to exist and endure, the project approaches artistic collaboration as a site of shared living, creation, and mutual affect. Leire’s methodology is embodied and situated, blurring the line between researcher and subject to embrace a deeply affective mode of inquiry.

EDUCATION 

2024 Master's Degree in History of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture. Complutense University of Madrid, Autonoma University of Madrid and Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid, Spain.

2021 Erasmus (Master in Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art). Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland.

2022 B.F.A. Faculty of Fine Arts, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

solo exhibitions 

2024 "Raising images from the ground" curated by Simon Žlahtič in the OBRAT Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia

group exhibitions 

2024    "Reconsidering Hiroshima as a Crossroads" curated by Nodoka Odawara in the SAGORI Gallery Space, Hiroshima, Japan.

2024    “Mitos, Mutaciones y Mutualismos”, selected video piece for “Clima Fitness”, curated by Maite Borjabad. Matadero Madrid, Intermediate Matadero, Madrid, Spain.

2022    "Kuma experiment vol.1" Kuma Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.

2022    "Embodied Queerness" Lapinlahden Lähde, Helsinki, Finland.

All information is valid as of 27 August, 2025