Mara Schwerdtfeger

At EMS 15–29 April, 2025

Mara is a composer and curator based in Eora Sydney. She plays the viola and collaborates with her laptop to create live performances and recorded pieces for film, dance, and gallery spaces. Informed by interactions and perspectives within environments, her work questions the coexistence and understanding between those who inhabit them. Her latest album At Every Corner is “a testament to her deep connection to time, place and community, as well as her skill in transforming everyday sounds into immersive auditory adventures.”

In 2019 she graduated from RMIT with a Bachelor of Design (Digital Media) and went on to attend LungA School (Seyðisfjörður, IS) in 2020. Since then she has curated three major exhibitions: Cycles (2021, Sheffer); Gathering Geographies (2022, Darren Knight Gallery); and Building the Palace (2023, Blindside). Mara is a resident on Fade Radio with her program Absorbed Terrain and works with the Powerhouse Museum as an audio producer and researcher.