https://kunstgang-augsburg.de/
2001 - 2006 University of Applied Sciences for Design, Augsburg
2004 Ecole Estienne Paris
2006 Diploma in Design/Master of Art
2006 - 2022 Art director at
KW Neun Grafikagentur, Augsburg
2022 Central St Martin, London
Since 2022 freelance graphic designer and artist
Since 2025 lecturer in Design at Augsburg University of Applied Sciences
Exhibitions: SOLO: 2017 Galerie 2 Fenster, Augsburg / 2018 Golden Glimmer Gallery, Augsburg / 2019 Altes Rathaus Hildrizhausen, Stuttgart / 2020 Werkstätte für Beschriftungen / 2021 Nodepressionroom, Munich / 2022 Open House, London (UAL) / 2022 Friedensfest Augsburg / 2023 Zirka Space, Munich / 2023 TIM Textile and Industrial Museum - solo show / 2025 "Innereien" Super+Centercourt, Munich
GROUP: 2016 Ars Dilettanti, Augsburg / 2021 Kunstgang, Augsburg / 2022 Atelier75, Augsburg / 2022 KunstwerkFestival, Gaswerk Augsburg / 2023 Kunsthalle UG, Augsburg /
2023 Voll:Kunst, Ilaly Studio, Berlin / 2024 Parkhaus der Kunst, Augsburg / 2025 Error Studio , Mexico City / 2025 Schöne Galerie "Memory" Augsburg / 2025 Transform, Augsburg
Residencys: 2022 UAL - Central St Martin, London / 2025 Error Proyecto, Mexiko-City
Curation: 2024 „Untenrum”, Kunsthalle UG Augsburg / 2025 „Tunnelblick”, Kunsthalle UG, 2025 „Memory”, Schöne Galerie, Augsburg
Awards & prizes: ROY Pop Prize 2022 & 2024), Various design prizes: Red Dot Awards, Designpreis Deutschland, Corporate Design Awards, European Design Awards, TDC Type Directors Club, If Awards, 100 Best Posters
Press: novum - world of graphic design 07.20 & 01.18, Gäubote Zeitung - Böblingen, Neue Szene Augsburg, Augsburger Allgemeine, a3 Kultur Augsburg, Voll:kunst Magazin, Almende
Mara Weyel
Grafikdesign &
Bildende Kunst
Deconstruction is her central method. Weyel dissolves anatomical certainties, alters proportions, and subverts traditional regimes of looking. Through fragmentation, reordering, and dissolution, she creates visual spaces in which identity becomes visible as a mutable process. Originating from a background in design, she extends this approach to typography and sign systems: letters and typographic forms from different cultural contexts are translated into bodily structures and painterly gestures. Corporeality thus becomes tangible within the sign itself—for example in a project developed during an artist residency in Mexico, where, starting from Mayan logograms, she explored ideograms and developed her own systems of signs. In doing so, she consciously engages with the human instinct to play and with the idea of reassembling seemingly damaged elements.
Her works in painting, installation, and sculpture combine formal precision with a palpable physical presence. The body does not appear idealized, but as a carrier of experience, memory, and social coding.
Her path into fine art is marked by a deliberate rupture. After completing a Diploma in Design / Master of Arts at Hochschule Augsburg, as well as study stays at École Estienne and the University of the Arts London, she initially worked in the field of design. Her comparatively late transition into fine art was a conscious decision in favor of conceptual openness and thematic radicality. Her design training continues to shape the analytical sharpness and structural clarity of her work, while she simultaneously questions visual systems and confronts clear design languages with radical, deliberately raw and unrestrained paintings—expressive, almost defiant in tone.
Weyel has received several awards for her work, including the Roy Pop Culture Award as well as multiple German Design Awards and European Design Awards. She presented a solo exhibition at the Textilmuseum Augsburg (TIM) and at the Supercentercourt in Munic. In addition to her artistic practice, she works as a curator, realizing exhibition projects such as “untenrum” at Kunsthalle UG. She is active in the association Schöne Felder e.V. and, since 2025, has been a lecturer in Visual Communication at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Augsburg.
Mara Weyel’s work shifts the perception of corporeality. She understands the body not as a motif, but as a site of negotiation in which societal norms are made visible and reformulated.
