Lisa Meijer

schilderen, samenwerking, interactief, fotografie, Experimenteel, Conceptueel, Communicatie, Community, Artistiek onderzoek

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Lisa Meijer is a relational and visual artist, cultural mediator, and photographer with a background in visual arts, museum studies, and cultural mediation.

Her various practices include her visual studio work, and developing tools, images and experiences that examine how collective narratives shape and transform behaviors and relationships. She has been developing works for La Cité de l’Architecture and the Pantheon in Paris, the Centre Photographique Ile de France, Depot Boijmans van Beuningen and V2_Lab for the Unstable Media. Since 2019, she has be traveling between France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, exploring how cultural mediation and performance art can generate social bonding and poly-perspective imaginaries.

In 2020, she founded IAMAIR, an art project and performance agency that represents audiences and artists for cultural institutions, creating tailored interventions designed to generate interaction with visitors. These interventions take the form of infiltrative role-play performances based on site-specific parameters, such as artworks, architecture, stakeholders, and institutional policies. Operating on the border between fiction and reality, IAMAIR seeks to break the wall between visitors and performers, between reality and performance.

Lisa's relational practice is defined through the IAMAIR concept and vision that she considers her artistic medium and research practice, at the intersection of mediation and performance art. It is intentionally anchored in the uncertainty of the responsive environment, embracing serendipity and ambiguity as tools for research, improvement, and discovery. Next to her relational work, she is also a photographer and she paints.

IAMAIR, Romy Bauer, real life avatar and performance, 2025 - In the frame of the Winter Residency at V2_Lab, together with performer Simone Schuﬀelen, we have been developing Romy Bauer, a character-performance and ongoing collaboration. With this character we are going to infiltrate cultural institutions for a defined period of time until November 2025. Created through conversations between six international artists, she reflects their collective struggles, highlighting low wages and competition in the art world. Recently relocated to Rotterdam, she seeks connections and a job while surviving on past funding, leading to a breakdown during a Healing workshop in July 2025. Her first intervention at V2’s media art café involved interacting and mingling with visitors and unexpectedly requesting the micro to ask for a job, provoking mixed reactions and awkwardness. The performance extends online, with her interventions documented on social media and her Instagram page.

**IAMAIR, Pilot Performance at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, March 2024** - A series of five performances was co-created over four months in collaboration with artists June Yu, Elisa Strinna, Thomas Meijerman, Joshua Thies, Katharina Anna Thomas, and Mar Gimeno Lumbiarres. Developed through artist sessions at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, with support from the Education Department, these performances represent a step forward in IAMAIR’s exploration of transforming relationships between artists, institutions, and audiences. This pilot project provided a unique experience for both visitors and artists, who co-created dynamic, living work within the institution’s space. It also generated valuable research material that will inform future projects. Photo by Ischa Dirkse.

**IAMAIR, Pilot Performance at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, March 2024** - Motivational Speech, fictional director performed by Annelou Bangert and co-created with Joshua Thies at Depot Boijmans van Beuningen, Museum Night 2024. Photo by Ischa Dirkse.

View of the Exhibition Cowerking at Buisness, Rotterdam Art Week 2025 — **View of the Exhibition Cowerking at Buisness, Art Rotterdam 2025** - Exhibition view with The Snake and the Afterbirth (left), mixed media, 200 × 100 cm, 2022–2024, in Cowerking, Buisness, Rotterdam Art Week 2025, a group show with Manon Malan (right), Ghislain Amar (center), Mark Hennings, Sarah Lehnerer, and Jake Caleb.

**Wonder Room, Grand Rotterdam Ateliers Weekend, Huidenclub, Rotterdam 2023** - I initiated and curated this exhibition with the challenge of bringing 13 distinct artistic personalities into the same small space to create a cohesive show. Wonder Room symbolizes not only the intersection between a living room—a space for exchange, relaxation, and conversation—and a curiosity cabinet, but also the questions and tensions that arise when a group of artists collaborates to shape an exhibition. Each artist contributed one or two pieces, and the show evolved through ongoing discussions, negotiations, and compromises. The participating artists are: Ayo, Ash Kilmartin, Daleen Bloemers, Dineke van Huizen, Giulia Cosenza, Jonas Lutz, Katharina Anna Thomas, Lisa Meijer (me), Maren Bang, Pim Top, Sari Rikken, Stook Porcelain, and the duo Supertoys Supertoys.

**Tailored concepts, 2020** - Left : User-value topography for a service media recommender system. Right : Tailored concept for a value-sensitive public service media recommender system. These experimental visualizations represent the research, as well as the results of the research that I conducted at Creating 010 (Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences) in the area of Ethics and Artificial Intelligence. My role was to find human values to integrate into the Nederlandse Publieke Omroep movie recommender system. The visualization on the left represents the values analyzed in qualitative interviews of potential users. The visualization on the right illustrates the values that emerged the most during the analysis (core user values). The diamond shape refers to the NPO logo which I use here as a conceptual boundary.

**Rendez-vous à l'oratoire** - Image : Verso of the visiting card distributed before my speech on Anne of Britany (a french queen of the Renaissance) at La Cité de l'Architecture in Paris. I consider this project as a first essay to explore the limits between fiction and reality in the discourse of a guided tour. This idea will be developed further in my next projects.

**Turnaround (flyer visual), 2018** - Installation in collaboration with Arnaud Eubelen at the Space Gallery in Liège

**Scum, Multi-media installation (visualization), Group show, Les Brasseurs, Liège 2016** - The installation explores the concept of borders and the interplay between physical and conceptual limits. In a dark room, a map-like representation of the sea stands out, symbolizing both the longing to escape and the impossibility of finding refuge elsewhere. Accompanying the visual element is the sub-aquatic sound of the 52 hertz whale, known as the loneliest whale in the ocean due to its unsuccessful attempts to communicate with other whales. Visitors play a pivotal role in the installation, as their actions can transform its aesthetics and meaning. The floor is covered with invisible firecrackers. As visitors move, the firecrackers explode, creating amplified sounds and initially deterring further exploration. However, upon realizing that the sea itself is composed of firecrackers, visitors are encouraged to step on it, challenging the installation's metaphorical boundaries and reshaping its significance.

**IM-U, 2016** - Mute book (no text), based on experiences of expectation and boredom, that visually develops a spiritual hypothesis according to which the state of contemplation is preceded by phases of waiting and boredom. The book is made up of three chapters, each represented by a pictogram. The three pictograms of each chapter form on the front cover the title of the book, the letter equivalent of which is « IM-U ».

**The unborn image, thesis, 2016** - Coming back from a trip to Eastern Europe, I realize that my analog camera was dysfunctional: after the photographic development, no image appears on the films which are transparent. Despite the absence of image, this transparent object is a photograph. What makes this non-image a photograph? And what makes this photograph an unborn image? This literature-based research (e.g. Ghost Image by Herve´ Guibert) constructs a photographic interpretation tool based on the modes of image absence that characterize the unborn image. This interpretation tool is then tested on a body of photographs which express the aesthetic of unborn.

Exhibition of a painting

Datum: 28-03-2025 t/m 30-04-2025

Locatie: Buisness

The Snake and the Afterbirth, mixed media, 200 × 100 cm, 2022–2024, Cowerking, group show with Manon Malan, Ghislain Amar, Mark Hennings, Sarah Lehnerer, and Jake Caleb at Buisness in the frame of Rotterdam Art Week 2025.

Performance

Datum: 17-02-2025 t/m 22-02-2025

Locatie: V2_Lab for the Unstable Media

In samenwerking met: Simone Schuffelen

IAMAIR x V2, Introduction to Romy Bauer, infiltration performance in the frame of the Winter Residency at V2_Lab for the Unstable Media.

Guest Speaker

Datum: 08-08-2024 t/m 08-08-2024

Locatie: Operator Radio

In samenwerking met: Sebastian Frisch & V2_Lab for the Unstable Media

Operator Radio – V2_, IAMAIR and the Open Lab with Sebastian Frisch, August 2024. Available at: https://operator-radio.com/archive/v2_-40

https://operator-radio.com/archive/v2_-40

Multidisciplinary artist and researcher

Datum: 02-05-2024 t/m 03-04-2025

Locatie: Huidenclub

Exploration of painting, image making, photography, and performance
Initiation of various activities such as the production and curation of collective exhibitions.

https://huiden.club

Director and producer

Datum: 01-12-2023 t/m 03-03-2024

Locatie: Depot Boijmans

In samenwerking met: June Yu, Elisa Strinna, Joshua Thies, Mar Gimeno Lumbiarres, Katharina Anna Thomas

Direction and production of IAMAIR's collective intervention at Boijmans van Beuningen during Museum Night.

Head of Exhibitors Relation

Datum: 01-12-2023 t/m 03-04-2025

Locatie: COLLECTIBLE fair

https://collectible.design/

Curator and producer

Datum: 10-09-2023 t/m 11-04-2025

Locatie: Huidenclub

In samenwerking met: Artists members of the Huidenclub

Wonder Room, collective exhibition at Huidenclub during Grand Ateliers Weekend Rotterdam 2023

Curator and producer

Datum: 24-09-2022 t/m 25-09-2022

Locatie: Huidenclub

In samenwerking met: Katharina Anna Thomas

Curation and Production of Bunker, a performance-exhibition at the Huidenclub during Grand Ateliers Weekend Rotterdam 2022.

Cultural mediator

Datum: 01-09-2021

Locatie: Depot Boijmans van Beuningen

Junior researcher in Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

Datum: 01-09-2019 t/m 01-09-2020

Locatie: Creating 010 - Hogeschool Rotterdam

In samenwerking met: Creating 010, NPO

Conceptualization of a movie recommender system (Value Sensitive Design) for the Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (NPO). Online workshop and conference for Communication Media and Information students (CMI): How to design an online exhibition experience?

Performance

Datum: 09-05-2018 t/m 09-05-2025

Locatie: La Cité de l'Architecture

Rendez-vous à l'Oratoire: lecture-performance on Anne of Brittany (3x) for La Cité de l’Architecture, Paris.

Interactive Sound Installation

Datum: 20-04-2018 t/m 20-04-2025

Locatie: Pantheon

In samenwerking met: Nefeli Illiopoulou

Interactive Sound Installation and Fictional Dialogue between Zola and Gambetta for Le Festival des Idées at the Pantheon, Paris.

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