Meggie Schneider, born in Cologne. Studies in philosophy and photography in Münster (Germany), photography and painting at the „Akademie voor Beeldende Kunst” in Enschede (Netherlands), and for one year guest studies at the “Université de Montréal” (Canada) in performance, installation, painting and photography. At the “Universität der Künste” in Berlin courses in experimental film design with Heinz Emigholz and Harun Farocki. Hence participation in numerous international festivals and exhibitions. From 2004-2006 she implemented the trilogy -private spaces in public spaces- with ich sitze gern, 4kitchens und hobbykeller in the Filmhaus in line with the International Film Festival Berlin (Berlinale).

Meggie Schneider lives and works in Berlin as an artist, filmmaker and freelance teacher at universities in Berlin, Braunschweig and others.


Represented by Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art e.V.,Berlin


Berlin based artist Meggie Schneider works with the concept of cinema and its conventions, but her work exceeds the confines of the literal space of cinema. This becomes most evident when the arrangement of her work requires light within the space in order to be become visible, when the projection space is no screen at all, but rather doors, elevator walls or plates on a set table. In these instances, the projection constitutes its own space. Creating points of contact that are cinematic, Schneiders work invites a new understanding of non-narrative cinema for the way it engages its spatial environment.

In her experimentation on the border of private and public she wants to produce inter-subjective encounters, through which meaning is elaborated collectively, through which our perception is widened. She positions her work in this way against the space of individual consumption.

Meggie Schneider investigates the aesthetics of everyday life and its architecture. She separates fragments of the everyday from their usual context and puts them into a new one in form of walk-in installations: Microcosm becomes a crucible, a module of culture. She uses montage not only in film,
but transfers its many options into living spaces and performs her directing in walkable architectures.

In these sometimes seemingly common and familiar living-spaces thoughts and memories are opened up, questions of home, habitat, familial and cultural ways of life are established and confronted with the now. Discourse and fresh thinking are evoked. A platform is created for exchange of knowledge, information and individual stories and experiences.