Sandra Maier Artist & Photographer

Sandra Maier, born in 1988 in Liechtenstein, is a visual artist and photographer whose work is grounded in sociocultural research. She is the founder of Visual Biographies (Bildbiografien), her central artistic endeavor dedicated to translating profound life stories into a pure visual archive. Through this long-term series, she moves beyond traditional portraiture to create a silent, yet powerful, cultural memory that independently initiates social dialogue.

Her conceptual practice, often realized in black and white, explores the essence of the individual and investigates how identity is shaped by social systems, places, and objects. She consistently pursues the question: What remains of a person when they are removed from their context? The authentic!

Maier's international projects include works like Obsidian Observations (Armenia 2023), which examines value attribution in societies in crisis. For the Council of Europe project Being Young in Europe (2023-24), she portrayed Generation Z across four countries, intertwining the images with written realities of their lives.

Her methodological approach combines ethnographic interviews with experimental photographic techniques, resulting in works that oscillate between documentation and conceptual fiction, always with the aim of making social complexity visible.