Margarethe Drexel is best known for site-specific installations that engage with performative practices and transformative processes. Her work explores how symbolic landscapes of the past continue to have an impact in the present, become visible, and must be continuously renegotiated.
Margarethe Drexel graduated in 2016 from Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles in MFA Public Practice. Her work has been shown at: Neue Galerie, Taxispalais, Galerie Plattform 6020, Galerie A4, Innsbruck; SOMA and Biquini Wax EPS, Mexico City; Galería Valenzuela Klenner, Bogotá; Sin Espacio, Lugar a Dudas, Cali; MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, 18th Street Arts Center, Chimento Contemporary, Last Projects, MaRS – Museum as Retail Space, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles; Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Funkhaus and Uferhallen, Berlin; Folkwang Museum, Essen; Semperdepot, Flat1, Fluc and Kunstverein Extra, Vienna; House of Cyprus and Snehta, Athens; Mediterranea 18, Tirana; Caochangdi Gallery, Beijing;