Camila Mejía
camila_mejia_studio
ateliermejiawaelz
mejiawaelz.de
I am a Colombian artist whose sculptural and light-based installations explore the intersection of nature, memory, and transformation. Recently, I have been working with organic materials, such as roots, plant fibres, and living matter. My current practice focuses on processes of weaving, tending, and listening to the silent language of plants. In my most recent project, I have been learning traditional basketry techniques, integrating them into my sculptural work as gestures of care, resilience, and embodied knowledge.
I draw inspiration from my ancestors, the Tolimas and Quimbayas —sacred goldsmiths, potters, and farmers who believed that nature’s wisdom held the secrets of life and death. Their legacy fuels my passion to create work that serves as a bridge between past and future, tradition and innovation, the human and the natural.
My work is an act of re-story-ation, an effort to heal our fractured relationship with nature through storytelling. By weaving together living materials, light, and space, I seek to rekindle awareness of our profound interdependence with the natural world. The inner landscape I explore is not separate from the outer; it is shaped by it, nourished by it, and ultimately exists in service to it. Like roots and light, my work lingers in the in-between. Through light, movement, and slow material transformation, I create spaces that honour ecological diversity and the continuity of ancestral knowledge.
CV
Education
2024–Present — University of Arts Bremen, Germany
Currently studying an advanced program in Liberal Arts
2022 — University of Arts Bremen, Germany
Bachelor of Arts in Integrated Design
Scholarships
2024–2025 — ISAP Exchange Scholarship (DE–ZA), DAAD
2024 – Culture Moves Europe (DE–DK), EU Mobility Grant
Residencies
2024 — Digital Media Residency, Working LAB, Ringkøbing -Skjern, DK
2023 — Young Master Europe, Working LAB, Ringkøbing -Skjern, DK
2022 — Cinecinema Residency, Malmö, SE
Symposiums
2023 — Water Light HUB Panellist, Brixen Water Light Festival, IT
Workshops
2023 —Digital Scenography, Bremen, DE
Digital Scenography
2025 — Der Mythos des Orpheus, Stage Design & Projection, DE
2023 — Tanzbare Räume, Bremen, DE
Performances
2023 — Young Master Europe, Skjern, DK
2023 — Nature Reverie Fulldome 360°, Bochum, DE
2023 — Im Werden Fragil, Stuhr, DE
2020 — Abschluss Konzert, Bremen, DE
Festivals
2026 — Lighting Guerrilla, Ljubljana, SI (upcoming)
2025 — Planten un Lumen, Hamburg, DE (upcoming)
2024 — Media Art Days, Ringkøbing-Skjern, DK
2024 — Brixen WATERLIGHT Neustift, IT
2023 — Planten un Lumen, Hamburg, DE
2023 — Lighting Guerrilla, Ljubljana, SI
2023 — Hochkantfilmfest, Bremen, DE
2023 — Licht | Raum Festival, Bremen, DE
2022 — Ticket to Djerba, TN
2022 — Goldstücke Lichtkunst, Gelsenkirchen, DE
2022 — Young Master Program, El Kef & Tunis, TN
2021 — Hochkantfilmfest, Bremen, DE
Exhibitions
Solo
2020 — In-Between-Frames, Bremen, DE
Group
2025 — The Inbetween, Durban, ZA
2024 — Lichter der City, Bremen, DE
2022 — Something Happened, Bremen & Durban
2020 — Digital Shift, Bremen & Tunis
2020 — Summer School, Bremen (Online)
Screenings
2023 — Novembersommer, Bremen, DE
2023 — Super-8-Abend, City46, Bremen, DE
2023 — When the Sky Turns Pink, Kunsthalle Bremen, DE
2022 — Cinemacinema, City46, Bremen, DE
2022 — Trick-Gif-Film-Session, City46, Bremen, DE
Publications
2020 — What is hidden behind the mask?, Summer School Booklet
2020 — Work, work, work, Endlose Horizonte Catalogue
Documentation
2023 — Geschlossene Gesellschaft, Bremerhaven
2023 — Bunker Requiem – NO MORE WAR, Bremen
Work Experience
2023–Present — BIBA – Marketing Assistant
2022 — Xenorama – Internship (Polytope XI, Steel and Bytes, Domshof)