Marieluisa Lenglachner (born 1990 in Oberndorf) is a Vienna-based artist and researcher. Her interdisciplinary practice explores entangled relationships between humans, more-than-human beings, and environments in a time shaped by coexistence, dependency, and mutual interconnection.

Working primarily with stone, her practice is deeply informed by geological processes and temporalities. Stones appear not as static objects but as condensed histories of movement, pressure, transformation, and duration. Through them, Lenglachner reflects on deep time, stratification, erosion, and the slow rhythms that shape landscapes far beyond human perception. Geology becomes a way of thinking, a lens through which questions of responsibility, coexistence, and continuity are reframed.

Her work unfolds as a process of ongoing, often viscous transformation rather than along fixed trajectories. Materials, textures, colours, stories, and forms are woven together to create heterogeneous modes of storytelling. Sculpture, installation, painting, photography, textile, and video intersect and inform one another. Synthetic and organic elements meet, overlap, merge, or remain in tension, forming poetic constellations that reflect on how humans shape the world while being shaped by it in return.

With a background in anthropology and photography, Lenglachner is currently studying Experimental Art in the class of Anna Jermolaewa at the University of Art and Design Linz. Her practice is grounded in a material-oriented approach that embraces openness and processuality. Many works are deliberately exposed to natural forces, allowing porosity, viscosity, and change to become integral to the work. Light, water, wind, and weather act as co-authors, altering surfaces and structures, allowing works to age, fade, or decay. This approach can be understood as an attempt to practice co-authorship with non-human agencies.

Situated within the thinking of the Chthulucene, her work opens spaces for shared learning and unlearning. Geological time and human time are brought into relation, not to be aligned or resolved, but to be held together in tension. Her works offer fewer answers than cartographies of questions: how can we learn to read the world through longer temporal scales, and how might such an expanded sense of time reshape our ethical and ecological imagination?

Marieluisa Lenglachner’s work has been shown in national and international contexts, including the KlimaBiennale Wien, Ars Electronica, Maerz Gallery, Salzamt Linz, Soho Studios Vienna, Splace Linz, and the Otto Wagner Areal. She has participated in residencies at Künstlerdorf Neumarkt an der Raab and Raw Matters Vienna, is an alumni of Arts of Change, and will join the Independent Program of the Institute of Postnatural Studies in spring 2026. Since 2023, she has also been a member of Common Ground, a collaborative art project centered on shared time, exchange, and collective making.

Her work invites us to encounter the world anew—not as a closed order, but as a living, vulnerable assemblage, open to attention, care, and imagination. What forms of perception become possible when we begin to think and act on geological timescales?
How might the world appear if we learn not to stand apart from it, but to exist with and within it?