Maria Renee Morales Garcia, artist

Maria Renee Morales Garcia (born 1997 in Guatemala City, Guatemala) is a visual artist with a main focus on multi-media installations consisting of texts, textiles and ceramic works. She studied Freie Kunst at the Kunstakademie Münster from 2016 until 2023 at Prof. Mariana Castillo Deball’s class and was a guest student at Nicoline van Harskamp’s performance class from 2020 until 2023. After finishing her studies, she did a 6 month residency scholarship at the Cité International des Arts in Paris.

Her artistic practice centers on asking (many) questions, especially those towards different forms of systematic oppression, in order to deconstruct and rebuild and reimagine. These questions are understood/informed by the work of Kimberlé Crenshaw’s lens of intersectional feminism, a critical framework in understanding that a person can be oppressed/privileged through different geographical, societal and biological factors. By looking at these intricate nuanced webs of identity, She uses a queer-feminst and decolonial viewpoint to try to critically understand her identity, as well as inviting viewer’s to critically address their own privileges and identities. Although her work can mostly be experienced visually through installations, physical connection and exchange is also crucial to her work, which is why it is often activated through performances, workshops or happenings.

In 2020 Maria Renee Morales Garcia had her first solo show, Think of Her at the Wewerka Pavillion, in Münster, followed by complexities in w(e)aves at the RADAR room of the Westfälischer Kunstverein, el sol que me vio nacer, at the Hansa12 Verein also in Münster, as well as in museum@lab collaboration between the Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr and Hochschule Ruhr West in 2025. Her work could also be viewed in several group exhibitions at museum and art spaces such as the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Köln, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Temporary Gallery in Cologne, Hase29 in Osnabrück or at the Gold + Beton in Cologne.