Maria VMier is an artist and publisher based in Munich, Germany. She studied painting at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Most recently, her work has been shown in solo presentations at Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2022) and BOAN Art Space, Seoul (2020). She has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Staatsförderpreis for visual arts of the State of Bavaria (2022) and the FLAT Prize–CRT Art Foundation (2017). In 2022 Maria received a post-graduate scholarship for New York by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). She is co-director of Hammann von Mier Verlag, a self-organized publishing house for artists books, founded in 2013 and since 2017 co-organizer of the nomadic artist-run space Ruine München. From 2017-20 Maria was part of the jury of exhibitions of BBK Munich and from 2019-22 curator at FLORIDA Lothringer 13, a municipal Munich art space.