V. meer aka Vera Meyer is a self-taught artist. She studied biotechnology and worked as a scientist in Berlin, London and Leiden.

Currently, she works as a professor for applied and molecular microbiology at the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin).

Prof. Vera Meyer co-edited the very first publication of the new open access publishing house of the Berlin University Alliance.

The book “Engage with Fungi” highlights networked scientific, artistic and civil society research projects in the Berlin metropolitan region in the period 2020 to 2022.

Together with her colleagues from the interdisciplinary ArtSci collective MY-CO X, Vera Meyer | V. meer explores a future social significance of fungi for the design of places and spaces.

MY-CO SPACE is a habitable fungal sculpture that was developed by the SciArt collective MY-CO X and exhibited at tinyBE, Frankfurt, Metzlerpark in 2021.

It is part of the current WeTransForm exhibition at the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn.

Vera Meyer co-edited in 2024 the final publication in a trilogy dedicated to fungi and their possibilities.

“Operate with Fungi” reports on how working with fungi can bridge divides between science, the arts, and society.

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